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Went to Marina today to check on dredging progress. No dredge barge on the premises. There is a track hoe in parking lot and fresh sand on the beach side by the ramps. I assume the sand came from cleaning out the ramps because the machine couldn't reach harbor opening or docks. No access from shore to any of the docks. They are all still in the parking lot. No humans about. No empty trailers in lot. Harbor entrance still blocked by sand bar right to the surface. Lots or birds and cormorant's eating minnows in harbor on shallow side of sand bar

What kind of trolling? Down riggers, lead core, in line planer boards or dipsey divers? For example you wouldn't use in in line board rod on a down rigger. Style of trolling is much more important than brand of reel.

You will shit yourself when you see the price if you don't rent for the full season. Take an extra pair of underwear. nice harbor though.

Ask Cuomo how many boat ramps could be built for the money he gave to Elon Musk. Democrats don't give a rats ass about us gun clinging deplorables. As long as people don't vote, douch bags like Cuomo will continue to screw us.

this is 2018 not 2016, how bout deleting this old crap and getting something new on here. just saying

A ramp without a break wall is pretty useless on Lake Erie. You might be able to use it when lake is dead flat, but how often does that happen? I doubt the town of Evans will give up the Average $1000 a year they get from slip holders because they don't want to dredge out the sand bar. I was a slip holder there for about 10 years, and they dredged out the harbor every spring when I was there.

40 pound 7 strand wire for dipseys. You can also use super braid but I have better luck with wire. You need a roller rod or a twilly tip to use wire or you will kink the wire and create a weak spot. On down riggers I use 18 lb Berkley Big Game mono and a fluorocarbon leader.

Been using my Chamberlains on both Erie and Ontario all season. They are far superior to anything else I tried. I agree with Garry, they are worth the $ I haven't tried the stacker version yet.

I know. That's why I tried Sturgeon. I wasn't sure I would find a place to park my trailer at the Catt on the weekend. Lots of room in the parking lots at the point and closer to my house. Just harder to find deeper water.

I like the Okuma cold water reels. I use them for my wire dipseys on both Erie and Ontario. I bought a good still dipsey rod and installed a twilly tip. They work great on both lakes. For regular walleye rods I use Eagle claw yellow rods. They are $20 each and are great on down riggers, jets and lead. They are too fast for dipseys.

Sturgeon Point Sept 23, 2017 Fished solo today in front of Evans bar just to see if fish are there like at the Catt and they are. Boated 8 and lost 2 behind the boat. 65 to 71 feet of water. Took all off down riggers set 55 to 64 down. Also ran a wire dipsey on 2 as my 3rd rod from 120 to 165 back with spoon or harness or renoski and it never got touched all afternoon. Best lure was watermelon renoski on rigger near bottom. Marked tons of fish all day but everything I boated was 16 to 24 inches. Screen at 3:30 till 5:30 PM was constant fish, all different depths. Marked lots of bait. I was the only guy there trolling. There were 2 or 3 drifters or perch guys fishing 62 FOW but I don't know if the were catching. I think they were because they stayed there all afternoon. Met a guy in the parking lot who was tying down his boat getting ready to trailer home like me. He and his buddy had a 9 pounder and a couple of 5 pounders. He said he fished west of me in 70 FOW. They boxed out and had a better catch than me. Beauty of a day. 1 foot waves max. Nice breeze. Bunch of ankle biting flies but still awesome. Wish it was always that calm.

I had 12 lb torpedos on my big jon electrics and they were so slow on retrieve that I sold them and went to 10 pound pancakes. So if you have manuals or newer cannons, 12's will work great. If you have electric down riggers, you need to have big enough motors to lift them. Initially with my pancakes I had cables crossing a couple times due to currents. Then I bent the tails to get the pancakes to run away from the boat and problem solved but you need to make sure you attach the correct pancake to the correct down rigger. I have one painted green and one painted black so I don't mix them up. Bought mine at Cabelas. I also run a su b troll temp and speed sensor on one rigger which will increase blow back on that side and may have contributed to cables crossing.

Dubro is exactly the same as Blacks. They can't hold a candle to a Chamberlain. Yes they cost more, but ask yourself how valuable is your time. Buy one Dubro and one Chamberlain. The Dubro will soon be unused in your tackle box and you will have just wasted 1/2 the cost of your second Chamberlain. I have 2 Blacks and 3 Roemerers which I never use anymore.

Chamberlain release !!!!!!!!!

If you look at my profile picture, Ed made the Bimini extension shown on my Crestliner, including all the bows and hardware on the back. The extension zips to the back of the factory Bimini where the storm flap would attach (if I had one).

I used Ed's Marine Canvas in the past. He works out of a trailer and will come to your boat. Not sure if he is still in business but he does nice work.

Try Chamberlain releases. They have a separate adjustment for small fish and light hitting walleye, but can be set to have a heavy load to the rod. Work just as good on Lake Ontario for big hard hittin fish. I've used Roemers and Blacks in my past and Chamberlains are the best. They make a stacker version also. I have one to try but normally don't stack rods because of 3 rod limit per man. Down riggers are working great this time of year.

I didn't intend to start a pissin match with this post. I was simply providing a fishing report so people wouldn't waste time and gas fishing at wind mills and try somewhere else till someone else posts that fish are back to wind mills. I've caught tons of walleye on Erie. You just have to find them. I thought that's what this web site was for. To share info. Chill !