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TRIED TO GO OUT OF THE SBH TODAY FRIDAY 4 FOOTERS NEVER WENT OUT AS AS BOATS WERE COMING BACK IN SAYING IT WAS TO ROUGH!!

Nice job Rutnut.

you selling fish?

Commercial sales prices were dropped for 22 inch walleyes. Restaurants would not serve walleyes that hung over a dinner plate sided edge..

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Fished off Evangola state park yesterday ([emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]/[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]) in [emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji639]][emoji637]-[emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji639]][emoji640]’ ran dypsys at [emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] on #[emoji639] and [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]]’ on # [emoji637] setting . Worm harnesses, color scheme didn’t seem to matter, took a [emoji639] man limit in no time… Sent from my iPhone using Lake Erie United

Went out of Sturgeon Point yesterday morning.Straight out to 80 ft water,8 miles out.40 ft down with 5 ounce sinkers with harnesses at 1.5 mph.Orange blades did best.3 man limit 2 hours 17 to 22" good eaters. Sent from my SM-S911U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Yes i still have them.

Going east was the ticket for success yesterday. 18 landed from 630-830. Everything was high 20’ down over 63fow. Sticks spoons and harnesses all took fish on 2oz snap weights. Dark colors were best

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I believe I still have them I'll know tonight around 9 o'clock when I get Home

Did u sell this?

Did u sell these?

Tough bite today out of dunkirk. Went from 70-105. Not nearly as many marks as Monday or Saturday. Only caught 4. 1 really good one, 27”. All on sticks. No bites on harnesses. 3oz snap weights 85ft was best bite but it was slow going. 1.7-2.2mph. Fished 6:30-11:00am. Back to Florida for me. Tight lines all. Until next time! 🫡

Fished out of Buffalo Sunday and Monday from 11 o'clock AM till 2pm. Canadian line just passed sonic a shoal before sturgeon point. Got our 2 man limit both times fishing fishing 35 and 40 down on the riggers and 75 on our dipsies. 2.5mph. Fished only 3D worm harnesses single blade black and purple nonstop!!!!

That sounds like the key factor in this discussion... the water may be very deep but they are biting in top third of that depth. Not a huge pressure change.

Those high volume catch rate days I’m keeping 0 fish or maybe 2 or 3. The studies and general consensus is rapidly changing on deep water fishing. Depth of water isn’t necessarily a death sentence on species like walleye that will tend to suspend. Just because your fishing 185fow if the fish are only down 30-40fow the pressure change isn’t that drastic. perch caught from even as low as 30 fow seem to suffer the most from barotrauma. And deep water lakers which is wildly accepted as a fish you can target in deep water need the most time to make sure you can burp them before releasing

THEY TELL ME HOW ARE YOU CATCHING 72, 83, 40+ ,45 IN 185 FT WATER IF YOU "STOP FISHING WHEN YOU GET YOUR LIMIT". I AM CONFUSED. BY THE WAY POKING THE AIR BLADDER DOESN'T WORK MOST OF THE TIME. DO SOME RESEARCH ANY ONE WHOSE READING THIS AND YOU'LL FIND OUT THE TRUTH. MICHIGAN DEC HAD A GREAT ARTICLE LAST YEAR AND IT WAS ALL ABOUT WALLEYE, BE SAFE TIGHT LINES.

I use my best judgment while out there. I believe a lot more of the walleye caught out deep will survive. The main thing is using good judgment. Any fish that has the stomach popping out, bulging eyes. Dull gills or seems to be weak is kept. Once I’m at a limit and wouldn’t be able to keep fish that wouldn’t release I stop fishing. If I go to release one that floats up I reel in and turn around to grab it. Most of the time fish that are released can be seen on the graph shooting instantly back to depth and it’s accepted fish that can get back down to depth have high rates of survival. I’m sure some have suffered delayed mortality but once again using good judgment on what to keep and what will have a high chance of survival post release is the key. By no means am I trying to kill a bunch of fish. Also fish that seem relatively healthy but can’t get back down can be held straight up burping their air and they will shoot down instantly. Watch the graph make sure they get down. Once you’re at full limit call it quits. Be smart and use your head is how I’ve always gone about it

Not sure about barometrics but in FL where I moved to, we typically will use an air bladder poker (venting tool) to release the “bloat” when we bottom fish especially for grouper or snapper. I’m assuming the best thing to do for deeper eyes brought up with bladders out, would be a venting tool if your not keeping them. If you bring up eyes shallower than 70’ there should not be any bladders that need vented. Happy fishing. I will be out tomorrow out of Dunkirk. Last day before I go back home to FL