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The Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, led by Jill Crossman, has established buoys in Lake Erie to measure nutrient levels and report them back via cellular network. It's a first for the Great Lakes.

 

"The buoys are equipped with real-time sensors, so it takes the data and analyzes it and pings the data back," said Crossman. "I can text the buoys and ask them how they're doing or what the phosphorous concentration is right now."

 

The buoys are based at Sturgeon Creek in Leamington, Ont. and along the shoreline of Pigeon Bay in Lake Erie. They will stay in place until early November and will then be moved to a different tributary to collect more data. 

Real-time data monitoring buoys a first for Great Lakes

On 7/18/2020 at 6:48 PM, ws6rufus said:

If the Research Buoy is in Canada, I need a Lowrance.

Im pretty sure we were in the US.

I had never seen it before. Big square yellow contraption covered with solar panels with weather vanes on each corner. Probably atleast 10ft square.

I should have taken a photo.  

Anybody else seen it?

The weather buoy is almost 10 feet tall, is in 88.5 feet of water. It's location is 42.740 N 79.290 W (42°44'24" N 79°17'24" W) and looks similar to the photo I've posted. Load the lat and long I've posted in Google Maps, it will show its exact location to the border.

The commercial fishing boats monitor channels 6 and 8 when laying nets.

I was just advised via Facebook walleye group that the yellow jerry can is marking a wreck.

You are welcome, braided line is best for jigging.

I used to do a lot of jigging. I prefer using Gulp Alive minnows because they don't get caught up in the weeds like twister tails do. I would go out in the evening or early morning on the lee side of a breakwater. Slowly lower your jig into the holes in the weed bed until you reach bottom. Then raise it a few inches and move it slowly up and down. If there is a walleye or bass in the vicinity, they will hit the jig immediately. Then move to the next hole, there is no need to stay in a hole in the weed bed more than fifteen seconds.

Gobee Golight         

I have the above. I use it when travelling at night, it will light up a marker buoy from a considerable distance. I once came across a couple of teenagers making out in a paddle boat. They assumed no one would see them if they went out a couple of hundred feet in the river after midnight. Had I not had this light, I may have run them over. This light remotely scans up and down and can be turned to light up the boat's interior. 

I was out for a couple of hours south of Port Colborne, caught 3, lost 2. Seventy feet of water, 40 feet down with riggers and crawler harnesses.

When I joined the Navy in 1965 we were taught drown-proofing, how to survive on the water without a lifejacket. The following is a video that explains how easy it is to do. It could save your life.

Navy Skills for Life – Water Survival Training – Clothing Inflation

When out again for a couple of hours the following last night and caught 5 more using the same technique.

Left Port Colborne (directly across the lake from Silver Creek) at 4 pm, fished 45 feet down in 75 fow +/- and limited out by 7 pm. All fish were caught fluttering on downriggers using purple and watermelon crawler harnesses.

Left the dock at 6 pm, returned at 8:30, all I caught were too sheepheads.

Port Colborne Weather Buoy

This website has webcams listed for all the great lakes.

http://www.lakerart.com/links.htm

There is still too much ice on Lake Erie, the only ramp I've used is the one at Port Colborne, it can handly 4 boats at a time, two launching and two returning. It also has a large parking lot.

I had a place on Rice Lake for 17 years, sold it 3 years ago and started fishing Erie. Stick around, you'll learn a lot just reading the posts, many members run charter boats and know what they're talking about. I usually use worm harnesses, I've copied the patterns and blades many members post photo of with success. Port Maitland is one of the best places to fish on the north side of eastern Lake Erie. I keep my boat at Sugarloaf Marina in Port Colborne, I live in Fonthill, it's easier to drive to the marina, park my car get in my boat and go fishing, than hitch it to my car, drive 21 kilometers to the boat launch etc. etc. etc. The downside my boat is a mess when I take it out of the water in October.

I fish out of Port Colborne, both Port Dover and Port Maitland are excellent areas for walleye. One of the best features of this forum is that when you ask a question you always get a reply from knowledgeable fishermen. There is no such thing as a stupid question. I started using Chamberlain releases based on the recommendations of several members and never regretted it. 

I switched to Chamberlain last year, I've never regretted it.

Nice boat, well looked after.

I'm waiting for Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday before ordering anything. It clearly states on their website they ship to Canada.

I was chosen for the Lake Erie United Giveaway this month, thank you.

The weather buoy 45142 is reporting the waves of 12.5 feet high.
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I only started fishing Lake Erie using a downrigger last summer. I use a Chamberlain Release set up so the smallest walleye would set it off. I have caught quite a few walleye by releasing my crawler harness from the cannonball and slowly retrieving it, stopping for 5 or 6 seconds and then continuing while my boat is travelling at 1.8 mph. Yesterday I took my neighbor fishing for several hours and were successful using this technique. I usually run my crawler harness 50 - 75 feet behind the cannonball. Has anyone else tried this?

Looks like you have one salmon in that bunch.