RD9

We took 2nd and the 1st place Calcutta money. Fished west of Catt off center road ran 3 7 colors and 3 8 colors with husky jerks on 7. Rynowsky on 8 color. Only caught 6 walleye we could wiegh. We caught around 70 walleye plus Friday and Saturday. 50 to 60 ft with walleye coming off bottom in 75 degree water. Crazy amounts of a sheep some which were giants. 

I also hate the rod weight classification best to shop in person and get a good idea of feel. The 8’3” rod you referenced is a good all around rod. I run a mix of different rods for different applications. I like the Daiwa Great Lakes series. 8 ft medium action is a good rod for all applications beside dipsey. 

Lot of good options, but Dances with With Charters catches em good. Fishing out of Dunkirk gives you the option of also catching various species of trout. PM me if interested. 

So I noticed this year that when cleaning walleye and lakers out deep say July till October the fish had lots of smelt in them. I remember catching a lake trout with giant smelt in them. There where many more emeralds in Dunkirk harbor this fall then years past. Did two limits of perch out of Dunkirk this fall and they are packed with gobies. Also our early summer in tight walleye are packed with gobies. I just believe yes there is a baitfish problem but I also believe our bait is more bottom oriented because of water clarity. 

Capt. Ron

14 hours ago, ws6rufus said:

I agree 100%. We all share the same passion and any help we can provide to each other should be done.  There are RECORD amounts of walleye in the lake, we should help each other!  

Hey guys I report pretty regularly on my face book page Dances With Fish, Dunkirk NY and occasionally on here. My opinion is that you guys are fishing east of Dunkirk to Buffalo are just in a less productive area. Fairly simple. No secret. Launching out of Barcelona, Dunkirk, NE Pa it would increase your catches dramatically. I would suggest that the Catt is the best location for Perch and one of the least productive ports on Erie for eyes the months of May and June. Now later in the year that is not the case. For the month of May or June it’s just how I see it. If I believed differently my boat would be there, which is way closer to my house. 

6 hours ago, Ten Percent said:

Hey RD... what do you like to pull on the 2 & 3 color lead cores in the spring?

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Rynowsky and husky jerks

2 and 3 color lead core directly off spawning structure in 25 to 30 ft of water during the day time. 

Bills hooks has chatter sticks in Dunkirk 

Thanks but they just ain’t the same. 

I know it’s a long shot but I’d pay well if anyone has any of these 7ft rods. 

Thanks

Ron

Fire Tiger rynowsky. Clear pink rynowsky. Three inch black and silver chatters. 

Fishing is stupid hot out deep off Dunkirk 100 ft out. 

I love them all. I had a great experience at the 444 in port colbourne. Well run tourney and lots of fun. Plus the fishing is different then I’m used to and I got to learn a lot. 

Sunset is cool because of the money and venue. Tourney got big fast. Don is working on making improvements on various things for next year. 

Rob Ray tourney have a good payout little more relaxed but a lot of fun. 

Jim and Diane on the Innovative Outdoors Tourney Run a great tourney and it’s got bigger every year. Payouts are good and they are on the ball. 

I fish the Con Club and it’s a great run tourney. I just don’t prefer a big fish format. (Or maybe I’m bitter because we led for two days and blew it on day three for a third place finish)

I’ll be honest I really miss the two day 5 or 6 fish tourney.  So much strategy after day one and putting together a 6 fish box two days in a row is hard.  

Ron

Guys you are lucky this isnt a beauty contest. Look 👀 at them legs. 

Yes I did get my money.  Hope you guys get it worked out. 

Most if not all have lie detector test at the end. It is not as simple as you would think and different tourney have different rules.  Mostly to do with how you treat you’re fish after being caught. 

Trust me that the lie detector is no joke. Very exstensive and done by a guy whom has done them for the FBI. If you don’t pay attention at the captains meeting and completely understand the rules I’m sure you could get disqualified without intentionally cheating.  

In the Sunset bay shootout it is a dry box tourney so if you put your fish in a live well with water you would fail lie dector and get disqualified. Other tourney have a lie dector but have different rules. 

No need to do all the inspections of fish if you have a legitimate lie dector which most of the big paying tournament do on east end. 

Ron, Dances w Fish

I did third place overall...

Dances with Fish. 

Well to each there own. I’ll take my wire divers down 65 to 70 ft over a 100 ft.

Our wire rods on Erie our preform our braid divers. 

They are always there. You should probably be outside perch nets this time of year. 

There’s Walleye everywhere. You don’t even have to be any good at it anymore. 

Weather been in general spectacular this year. 

Also I doubt there is any natural reproduction of salmon on Erie. Tributaries are two warm. That’s a stocked fish from somewhere on Erie. A few years ago guys caught all sorts of pink salmon out of Erie pa. I personally have a hard time believing they swam all the way from Huron or that king navigated the lock system. 

It’s like the Fishers in WNY.  Just started showing up.  I have a hard time believing they traveled from the Adirondack or the pa mountains to make a family in Forestville Ny.  Just my opinion  

Positive it’s a king. I got in an argument with a DEC person whom kept telling me that I had a lake trout but it was a 14lb Erie brown about two years ago. Problem is looking in a book gives you different perspective then how they look in Lake Erie. The mouth is black and it’s a king. 

Caught a coho two years ago. Very few salmon not stocked not even sure were they come from.