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1 hour ago, walnut109 said:

The wind cooperated for us this weekend, so my wife and I made the trip to Dunkirk.  A two day limit of 24 walleyes and a few toss backs. One fish was donated to our bartender. 17" to 25", most are 21". Over 85-95 FOW down 50 using harnesses and stickbaits.  Fished mid-day and very few guys out.

 Good work man. I like seeing that you also bleed your fish out what a difference in the fillet.!!!! 👍🏾

Just now, joe lagreca said:

Good work I'll be out there Monday morning

21 minutes ago, Erie rookie said:

Wanted to thank everyone that posts. We Have over a 4 hr drive. Went out of the catt today. Got our 3 man limit and had a blast. Fished 70’ plus. Got fish on harnesses, spoons, and sticks. Riggers down 45-65, 5 and 8 color cores and slide divers. All eater size. Any action out of Dunkirk or Barcelona 

Man what another insane trip we never sat down 2 man wrecking crew we were done in 45 minutes!!!!!!!  We had a few seventeens early on and the further towards Dunkirk we went the bigger they got. Same program as Monday maybe a little deeper on the downriggers we were parking them at 65.  Quick shout out to Tom at the hanover boat launch he does a great job keeping  everybody in line out there ! awesome time awesome facility!

Good morning it's Wednesday and I'll be back in it. Give me a shout out if anyone is out there with me today here we go again!!!!!

What an ABSOLUTE BLAST today. 18 in an hour and a half. I never sat down!!!!! 75 fow head west. Dwn rggrs 60   worm harness and stick bait. And spoons and worm harness on a dipsies were so hot  3 setting 170 feet. 2.1 miles an hour.what a blessing.

3 men limit today after abandoning our trolling program we decided to bottom bounce. we were seeing more fish close to the bottom today so as soon as we switched we started hooking them real good. same area Maybe a little further on our side this time. Our best worm harness is of course 3D worm harass gold orange Hatchet blade with RED hooks. It was an absolute battle axe today I believe I got yelled at for us getting to our limit too quick LOL they were having too much fun!!!!!!!!

I will be fishing out of Buffalo tomorrow should be at the dock at 6 AM

Yes i still have them.

3 minutes ago, joe lagreca said:

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10 hours ago, joe lagreca said:

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!!!! 

 

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2 hours ago, Thechad said:

Did u sell these?

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

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!!!! 

$75 shipped.

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3 hours ago, StarCraft 84 said:

Thank you, Joe Lagreca.  Your info put us on a 4 man limit of quality fish from 7:30-noon.  85 feet, 2.1 mph riggers at 65 and 9 & 10 color.  Sticks and harnesses did the trick. 

 I like seeing you guys picking up your speed a little more that's awesome. 👌 

2 hours ago, StarCraft 84 said:

Can you share any info as to what is working?  Any advice is greatly appreciated.  Art

 If you look back at my previous posts it explains it pretty good we really had no other change other than we didn't bother using lead core because our dipsy divers and  Down rigors were so active. The biggest advice I tell people that have not been having good luck as it also happened to me back in the day... Is pick your speed up chances and you're going too slowmost guys like to troll 1.5to 1.75 speed over ground .that is way too slow this time of yearin most cases at least that's what we experience on my boat. I'm at 2 and a 1/2 to sometimes 2.75 depending on how deep my lines are. Downloaders were at 73 and Dipti divers on a 3 setting were 220. And dipsy divers on a one setting were 175.

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Just seeing your message now man holy smokes it was insane out there today there was plenty of parking from what we hammered them in 88 same spot doing the same thing but the average fish was way way bigger this time

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3 hours ago, djp said:

Interesting for us, we fished Thursday n Friday Sept 12 n 13 out of Dunkirk in 70fow towards Catt with 2 riggers at 60 n 66 and 2 dipsys each side 190ft wire #3 setting n mag dipsy #1 setting 110. All stickbaits were run, Rogues, Bombers, n Excalibers. Thursday they wanted it fast, 2.5 to 2.8 at the ball. Friday, it had to be under 2.4mph at the ball with 2.2 best. The week before, 2.0 to 2.2mph at the ball. 

Not a lot of experience for us there as these were r first 2 trips ever but interesting seeing the wide variety of speeds they wanted...

 What type of unit are you using to measure the down speed I use a subtroll

I have only heard of the cat

5 hours ago, joe lagreca said:

 You're welcome it was awesome hooking up with you guys in the cleaning station. We went out again this morning Monday and same thing had our limit in 2 hours same program same spot.

 these were are too hot stick Baits today.

Technically we were walleye fishing this morning but we got our limit so fast we decided to fish for perch out in front in 65 feet. Only caught about 7 we didn't really spend a ton of time maybe an hour but one cool thing I noticed is that several big perch were spitting up sea fleas and I believe that's what we were seeing on our fish finders clouds of sea fleas with perch underneath them.

4 hours ago, tds840 said:

Hats off to Joe Lagreca.  After many frustrating trips with not a whole lot of success, I spoke with Joe and he gave some great tips that we were overlooking or not realizing that contributed to our failures.  I put his advice to use Sunday morning when we fished out of the Catt. and what a difference it made, we had a great day and by far, one of our most productive.  It's great to have guys like Joe on the forum who are willing to share their knowledge and help ALL of us enjoy the great fishing we have right here in our backyard.  Thanks, again Joe !  

 You're welcome it was awesome hooking up with you guys in the cleaning station. We went out again this morning Monday and same thing had our limit in 2 hours same program same spot.

1 hour ago, gbill512 said:

 Great day today!

Launched at Hanover. Harbormaster said go to 70ft and head west.

78-84ft of water in sight of Center Rd.

Fished 3 1/2 hours and got 14 walleye hookups , but only 11 in the box. Netting issue and two headshakes and spit hooks.

Downriggers 60ft with wormburners, dipseys #2 165 back with a green bomber with RedEye (Joe posted a pic last week I think). 10 colors of lead with fire tiger renosky.

Great day!!!!!

 

 what was your down speed or surface speed