Walleye Trip Turned to Perch Trip 9/5/14
by Capt Juls on 09/05/14Larry Conn and his friend Greg met me at Mazurik's this morning at 6:45, and we headed out at 7am. (The days are certainly getting shorter! Its not light out until almost 7am now...ugh). Anyway, we were going to try for walleye today, but I hadn't had any decent walleye reports to go off of and have been mostly perch fishing for the past month.We gave it a quick shot anyway and headed to the north side of Kelly's.
We trolled between the green cans at Kelly Island Shoal in 33-38 foot of water. We marked some fish that looked like they could be walleye, but there were no takers.
The ride out there this morning was pretty easy, (the winds hadn't kicked up yet), but by the time we had ended that first pass, the winds were a steady 15mph and the waves were a lot more than the "2 foot or less" that the marine forecast was calling for. I would say they were strong 2-3's with some 4's thrown in for good measure.
After deciding that the walleye bite was non-existent...I told them we were going to run back in to smaller water to do some perch fishing. At least they could get some fish in the cooler to take home.
At the ramp this morning, Bob Bell pulled up and introduced himself, he is a Facebook friend of mine, and he told me that there was a perch bite happening right outside of Mazurik's again. So, I told my guys when we decided to go perch'n that that's where we were headed, because it would be more protected and there were perch there.
There was a pack of boats off of the Lakeside pier, and I was to the west of them by myself. We didn't have a great bite going by any means, but it was enough to keep us interested. Greg managed to catch a nice fat 13 incher out of there too, which surprised the heck out of me. I'm used to seeing those piggies to the north, but not inside. woot! woot! :)
We only ended up with 25 perch for the morning. It might have been more if Larry had helped and hadn't quit fishing to lay down on the front deck for a nap..lol
That was two less hooks in the water!!
And, no, he wasn't seasick.....just tired from a late night the night before.
He and Greg grew up together, but live in different parts of the country now, so they were up late catching up with each other's lives.
They still had fun and would like to come back to Lake Erie in the spring for our fabulous walleye fishing that time of year. :)
The next trip is another perch trip with one of my regular customers, Greg Companion, and his buddy, Ben Rewa, and Ben's Dad. It's always a fun time with them.
Stay tuned...
Capt Juls
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