Toxic

I thouht maybe he just met the wrong girl?

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D That's bad LOL:grin::grin:

Well, whatever it is the fish are definitely scattered. A guy at work went on a charter from Geneva Friday morning and they were home by 10:30. They were in 42 FOW. My nephew's buddy limited out in 39 FOW. Sunday we didn't mark fish until we hit the high 40's to low 50's mark. We did not see the big schools like two weeks ago. And we also hit a lot of steelies Sunday. I guess that is why it is called fishing, not catching!

Last month I started putting together a fish cleaning table. A couple of you had some great comments on it. Well here are the pictures of the completed table. I was giving the stainless steel table, and faucet, by two co-workers. And my fishing buddy Murphy gave me the hose and electrical conduit. I bought the bar sink , and a outlet and weatherproof outlet cover and a 25' extension cord for the electric fillet knives. I also bought locking caster wheels for it. The caster allow me to place the table wherever I want it at. The table has a drawer to keep all the supplies we need like paper towels, zip lock bags, hand soap, knives, gloves etc. The hose under the sink allows me clean fish in the driveway and the water runs off into the yard. I put in a quick connector for the water supply hook up. There is a pull spray hose on the table to clean up afterwards. The table will also double as a picnic prep table. With the electric hook up we can plug in crock pots, electric skillets or what ever.

Another factor I did not think of was my buddy brought some of his spoons out with us. I switched all my spoons over Daiichi size 2 red treble hooks. Since I did that, I have not lost any fish. He has the original treble hooks on his gear. The majority of the fish were on his spoons that we lost. I think we lost one fish off of my stingers. Were gong back up Sat morning weather permitting. I work Friday night so I'll give you a call for a report Sat morning. Thanks.

We launched at 6:30am and went to east in the 40 FOW mark and found no significant numbers of fish. So we headed to the 60 FOW mark and searched with no luck. So we went back in to the 48-52 FOW and we started to mark fish. We set up with four dipsys at 3.5 and 1.5. Line out varied from 65-110. We caught fish at all depths. Trolling speed was 2.5mph. We used a variety of spoon colors. It seemed like perch was the best. The fish were really sporadic. One here, one there. We ended up with 6 walleyes and 4 steelhead. We lost as many fish we kept for some reason. I tried a new brand of snubbers out and I wonder if it had to do with anything. I have never lost that many fish in one day:confused:. One steelhead is wearing a nice stinger lip jewelery. Those things hit hard! Not a great day in all but it was fun.

Ray, we were going to hit your numbers but it didn't look all that great in the morining so we didn't try it out. Thanks for the tip though.

Toxic,

give me a call later Saturday evening, we'll be fishing from 1:30 until 8 or so. I'll give you some numbers to start on, and the program thats working. 440.241.2214

Sounds good, we'll do. Good luck!

Jess

Great job! The NOAA weather looks great so far, if it holds up we'll be there Sunday. My buddy went out also Sat, he didn't do as well. He only got 6 eyes pretty close to where you were.

Hopefully if the weather co-operates I'll be at Lake Erie doing some Walleye population control! LOL

My truck gets sucks gas when I tow my boat. From my door to Ashtabula, Ohio and back is 120 miles round trip is. So that gas bill is about 45 dollars. I usually put in 10 gallons in the boat, so that's another 30 dollars. Launch permit, and bait is a few more bucks. My buddy's are great when it comes to pitching in. We split it 3 ways as well.

Check eBay all kinds of stuff on there from vinyl graphics to magnetic.

WOW! Nice set up!

Thanks!

Is that your fish cleaning station at your house?

Yes it is. It is a 7' stainless steel table that I added a bar sink, faucet, and sprayer with a quick hose disconnect. I have a 10' hose connected to the drain so it's drains out and away. I am also adding power for electric knives and casters for easy moving around. And the table has a drawer so I can have all my supplies at hand.

Priority1, he is definitely hooked. He loves to get out with us.

Hey Toxic,

I fished a little out of Ashtabula Friday. Set up right out side the light houses trolled north and started marking fish right away. Caught 6 in a hurry, depth 45 foot, jet 40 back 100. Walker 82mm diver back 45-50 on a 0 setting and ran them off the boards. Storms where moving in from the west and had to head in.

Cool! I gave my numbers to two other guys and they both limited out. I cannot get out this weekend. The wife has Military. I plan on going out next Sunday. I hope that they are still there for us! Those storms were pretty intense yesterday, smart move heading in.

Has anyone noticed that since congress started voicing that they want the troops out, the insurgencies level of violence has gone up thus putting our troops in more harms way? Politics need to stay out of the military. We have learned nothing from Vietnam. God bless our troops!

My mind is my weapon. The dipsys were just tools for me to kick the walleyes butt! LOL. Dipsys outweighed my downriggers by far!

Here is the picture of my buddy's son from our first trip of the year!

Hello, My name is Toxic. A nickname I picked up during my 20 years in the in the Military. I hail from Northeast Ohio. I am an avid fisherman and hunter. I fish mostly Lake Erie. I have been hunting in several states, but mostly Ohio. And I have been teaching Hunters Education since 1989. Looking forward to learning new ideas and giving some of my experiences to others. I would like to ask a question? How do I post pictures? My profile said I cannot post attachments.

Great info, thanks toxic! We pulled fish with the divers set even shorter, 50 back on 3, and 40 on a 1 setting. Mostly copper Stingers and a couple silver. Your lucky you missed the storm it rained like crazy, one big red blob went right over Ashtabula.

We hit it just as we got on RT 11 south. It was a solid wall of water coming down. I couldn't even see that road. I am glad we left when we did. I forgot to mention I did catch 1 eye and a white bass on my downrigger set at 26'. We also lost 2 eyes at the boat on small stingers. That is when I switched over to the big stingers.

We hit Ashtabula and headed west out of the harbor for about a mile in 45 FOW. We picked up 1 eye real quick. We were using dipsys with gold stingers. We had the outside set at 3.5 at 60 and the insides at 2.5 at 55-60. Trolling speed was at 2-2.5mph. We tried using other colors, but gold was the only thing they would hit on. We ended up with 13 eyes. The smallest was 15", the majority were between 19-22". My buddy's boy caught a real nice 27.5" eyes. Wind was from the west then it switched on us from the east and that's when the fishing died. The weather held out for us until 4. We made it in just before a big storm hit on the way home.

I was doing a search for Lake Erie fishing.