4/4/15, Lake Erie, Bolles Harbor, Fishing ReportThe awesome fishing continues...

[Trophy Specialist]

4/4/15, Lake Erie, Bolles Harbor, Fishing Report

The awesome fishing continues on Lake Erie as we took another bountiful catch of mostly trophy class walleyes today. Last year I had a unreal streak consisting of limit catches on every completed charter that went on well in to August before we came a couple fish short of a limit. This year though, I have a different streak going: Every person, on every charter, has caught at least one walleye weighing over 10 pounds. Today my customers boated five walleyes with double digit weights and a bunch more that were not to far below 10 pounds too. We got checked by the DNR today when we returned to the docks. After checking my customers fishing licenses, they opened the live well hatch and you could see the shock in their eyes when they took in the sight of a 30 gallon live well, drained of water, nearly filled to the top solid with jumbo walleyes. There was no way to count the deep pile of fish, so they made us pull them all out so they could tally them all up, which drew quite the crowd. They said that it was the most impressive walleye catch that they had ever seen. After inspecting the safety equipment on my boat and finding no violations, the very polite, professional acting, conservation officer asked me for a brochure and wished us a good day. The water changed dramatically today with the stiff west wind blowing during the night and all day too. It blew most of the stained water out into the lake and pulled in lots of clear, cool water in its' place. The water temp was still in the high 30s. We fished today long, down-wind trolling passes. I had to deploy and pull the drift socks constantly to keep the speed at 1.1to 1.3 mph, which seemed to work best for us. The walleye bite was scattered over a wide area as we really never did find a "hot spot" but had constant action all day none-the-less. Our best lure today was a Sour Grape Rouge, pulled 55' behind the boards, with a 3/8 ounce weight 6' ahead of the lure. We also did a lot of damage with gold/black/orange/green Thundersticks too 50' back. This is some of the best walleye fishing I've seen in years on Erie. The eggs were all very tight in the females today, so the spawn is still likely still weeks away, leading me to believe that this red-hot fishing is likely to continue for possibly weeks to come.

Capt. Mike Veine

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Posted By Capt. Mike Veine of Trophy Specialist Charters

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Nice work Michael. It will be awhile before I venture out. Looking forward to a friendly handshake when come back North.