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The report I saw said 1 to 3. Sorry maybe I was looking at the wrong one. I always check NWS Ripley to Buffalo. I tried to attach a screenshot but it said "this community does not support a file if this type". Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Looks like it's still slow. More work around the house I guess. Waves 1 to 3 for Saturday too which means 2 to 6 in reality. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

The water temp in Lake Erie warms up quick. In summer, we see 74 degrees from top clear down to 90-100 FOW off Catt creek. I think the Steelheads find some cooler water somewhere, but I have no idea where. That may explain it. Same thing goes for Lake Trout, which like cold water too. They tend to be off Northeast PA to Dunkirk, as I understand it. For walleye, you could go in front of the windmills, in the main lake, and probably have better luck than in the river.

I thought I would start a Topic, place for us to post any Catt Creek reports for 2020. Hopefully, this year will be as good as the last two. Good luck to all.

Thanks I've seen a place that was selling perch rigs using trout-like mayfly nymphs. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I guess not, everyone uses minnows. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I just got warrior spoons at the Niagara falls fishing Expo. Flutter spoons, and little warriors. Hopefully they will produce. Great guy. Paint is guaranteed, if it comes off, you get a free spoon. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Thanks that about what I use. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

How much line out from the rigger release? Thanks. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I thought the 45# 300 Copper got down to 80 feet? Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Joe I have the Windy App. I didn't check what it said for yesterday, Everytime I use it there are 3 banners for my saved spits and only one is visible, the other two are always hidden behind the first. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

September 8, 2019. NOAA missed the forecast again,which is no surprise. They said one foot or less, and it was 3 foot rollers with a frequency that made fishing uncomfortable an difficult for tending lines, and keeping a somewhat smooth troll. We had a bad day, compared to many. We motored out to where I left off thursday, 70-75 FOW, and found some fish. We decided to try bottom bouncing with crawler harnesses, because my father in law just came back from 8 days in canada and they catch tons of walleyes with jigs up there, rod in hand. After half and hour with no bites, we started trolling. The fish did seem scattered as I found most of the times I have been out this summer. I trolled through my marks on thursday in 75 FOw, out to 80 and back, and we did see a fair number of walleyes at 60 feet down whwre the water temp was 71 versus 72 on surface, as I recall. Only caught 3, and decided to call it a day because my father in law could not even stand up in the boat with his bad knees. Caught One on a rigger at 65 (spoon), one on a 200 copper (stickbait tipped with crawler), one on a diver (crawler harness- round blade this time) . Oh, had another hit on the diver and lost the entire setup, black chinook diver too, my last one. Wire just broke. I think we were running our divers too high for most of the time we fished, and I usually experiment more, but for some reason I didn't today and it hurt us. I ran them around 145-160 most of the time. Mistake. I sometimes let out line until they hit bottom and then crank in a little but I didn't do that today. I didn't even try leadcore because I did not think it would get down with as rough as it was and the boat moving up and down and sideways 3 to 4 feet in every directions. Thursday leadcore did not work for me, which is unusual because I usually have real good luck with it. I didn't want a copper leadcore tangle with the waves today so I left the leadcore stowed. Someone mentioned it was a weird day with the wind, waves and current direction, and I agree. It seemed for us a southwesterly troll was smoothest. I did not use hunt mode with my itroll today because with the current,wind and waves it would be too hard to program in the right settings. I tried to maintain my speed from 1.6 to 2.3. I will be back out there Saturday waves permitting. Moral of my story-lesson learned for today was, try everything and see what works.

Good tip. I always just let out enough backer to get all the leadcore in the water. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I use my salmon wire line dipsey rods. I've used slide divers, Chinook divers, and luhr Jensen dipsey divers. Nothing really works well as far as detecting hits, I think the walleyes just swim along with the lure. I do set drag as light as possible and use that as an aid. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I knew I should have broken out my 300 copper I use for salmon yesterday. Walleye were down 60 to 70 and 10 color lead couldn't reach them. Sent from my moto z3 using Lake Erie United Mobile App