J. Sparrow

Another good day yesterday out of SP. Pretty much the same stuff as Friday, except we took fewer fish up high on the lead cores. 18 fish by 9:45. All fish but one on harnesses. Pink was good, as was gold........

Today's fishing out of SP was very good. I don't think we ever saw 60 fow. We spent most of our time in 55 - 58 fow.  The workhorses today were watermellon harnesses on divers, out 150.  but we also got fish on 4 and 5 color cores with sticks..... and harnesses on the riggers also took a few. We wound up with 12 fish, and 2 more that were released when clearing lines....... We never caught a sheepie or a silver bass..... all walleyes....... biggest fish was 24". At times, the screen was insane with fish. We got our 12th right around 9AM...... Silly Good Fishing. 

I do use sliders, but exclusively for Trout and Salmon on Ontario. Walleyes are notoriously boat shy, and I don't think many walleyes would take a bait that close to the boat. For T&S, I run roughly 8' leads and always run spoons, never stick baits. A stick bait would have a tendency to dive down the main line depending on the size of the bill on the stick, unless you fix the slider to the main with a rubber band or other device. 

I went out of the Catt today with my wife........ we wound up with 20 perch and 5 walleye. We fished for perch until about 10:30, and then hunted walleyes until about 2. Walleyes came on 4 color, 5 color, rigger(45) and wire diver(95)....... mostly harnesses, but one on a stickbait. East in 65 fow showed the best picture. Seemed like the active fish were up high, but we charted fish on the bottom too.Really nice day.

14 hours ago, jimmac said:

 Hopefully this warmer weather sticks and we get into the good July bite.

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When this bite turns on, the fishing is going to be insane.

Nice report rufus......... thanks

We fished for walleyes between SP and the Catt from about noon to 4 and wound up with 3 walleyes( 8, 4, 3 lb.)...... all on harnesses. 60ish FOW, 1.4 - 1.8 mph at the ball....... 2 on the riggers at 40 - 55, and one on the diver out 130...........

I think we could have had a better box, but we wasted the morning looking for some active perch..... we found them, but they didn't want goldies..... wish we would have had some emeralds. 

7 hours ago, Stillwater said:

Just an fyi... I had a number of long white tape worms coming out of one of the eyes that I filleted.

I've seen them since the late 80's......... nothing new, and nothing to worry about.

Anyone ever do well fishing the Lower for perch? Suggestions?

Heading over from Rochester tomorrow to fish for perch. Any advice or recent reports would be appreciated. 

My experience is that it depends on where you're fishing(how far off shore) and the time of year, but in general S, SE, ESE wind will be the most favorable for lake conditions, but they're not always conducive to the best fishing. The lake shoreline is oriented roughly SW - NE, so any wind with a W component will build. 

48 minutes ago, mr 580 said:

I like to run double divers per side so I run a 10’ and 8’ on each side.  Having 2’ shorter rod on inside seems to work well.  For brand lots of choices- Okuma, Shinano, Eagle Claw, Daiwa.  Just get a dipsey specific model. Rod brand seems to be a personal preference for most guys.

What settings do you use on the diver when running 2 per side?

http://www.glfc.org/2019-lake-committee-videos.php

lots of very good stuff here............

Not barotrauma info, but good stuff.

Cheeze....... I have been running Garmin units and don't have any data on their customer service. Seems I never need it.

Thanks Mr.

We recently caught some perch in a lake Ontario bay in 50 FOW at 40F. When small ones are released, you can see them (on the graph) go straight to the bottom. They never appear back on the surface over the course of the 2 hours that we are there. So I don't know if they live 5 minutes, or 5 hours, or a normal lifetime, and I was wondering if there was any data out there at colder temps. Perhaps temp has no effect, perhaps it does. Very few of these "cold water caught" fish suffer from bleeding gills, that I see on perch harvested from similar depths at warmer temperatures, and that also may or may not be temperature related. 

The intent of my original post was not to complain about the behavior of anglers, or solicit those types of comments. Please open another thread for that.

I'm interested in data concerning the release of perch and the effects of barotrauma on perch caught in deep water, and the effects of temperature on their survival. 

you da man ceesco.......

The flyer mentioned a "barotrauma on perch" discussion. 

TL356, were there any memorable points made in that presentation?  Specifically, I'm interested in the barotrauma impact on perch, with respect to water temperature.  Do they have a better chance of surviving if caught in cold (<45F) water or through the ice?

Thanks.

I'd seen a flyer for a "State of the Lake" type meeting that was to be held at the Southtowns Walleye Association Club House last night.......... 

The meeting location was too far to travel, but I'd be interested in reading the information if anyone has a link to the presentations, or has a name at the New York Sea Grant to contact to get the presentation info......

Anybody go the the meeting? Any big "take aways" from the meeting?

Welcome PC! I also grew up in Erie........ Lower West Side, and live in the Rochester area now. Erie's a great fishery!

Welcome aboard Booner............... Great site, we just need things to thaw out a little.

5 hours ago, jimski2 said:

Boats stored in marinas will be endangered.

 

Boats everywhere will be "endangered"  today.............. I'm just hoping no trees fall on my boat! Or my house, but that's an afterthought......

you might try spraying skunk cover scent on it.......... There's a chance it'll smell better!

56 minutes ago, wallychaser said:

Do yourself a favor and book a learning charter with Captain Jim of Ultimate Adventure Sportfishing. He'll show you how it's done 

very good advice.............