Lake Erie Fishing Report - Western Basin

[Fishing Report]

Walleye fishing continues to be excellent with many limits being caught. Fishing has been best in Ohio waters near the Michigan border straight east of Monroe, Michigan, north of Niagara reef and “C†can of the Camp Perry firing range, and north of Kelleys Island to the Canadian border. Drifters are using mayfly rigs or worm harnesses with bottom bouncers, while trollers are using worm harnesses with in-line weights or bottom bouncers and jet or dipsy divers with spoons.

The best yellow perch fishing in the western basin has been around Lucy’s Point of Middle Bass Island, east of Kelleys Island, and southwest of Gull Island Shoal. Perch spreaders with shiners fished near the bottom produce the most fish.