Jimdski

Local water temperatures are walleye right now for near shore fishing in the eastern basin area.

Sandbar was not exposed but depth situation was muddied from the blow this week. The parking lot is being repaved now. Old Lake Shore Road is closed from Sturgeon Point Road 1.6 miles East, best enter from Route 5 at Sturgeon Point Road.

Another PA bait and tackle Store is "Big Bear" with bait and gear.

Erie Pennsylvania perch fishermen in Lake Erie and Put in Bay harbor do well with plastic jigs instead of minnows. These jigs are available at "Big Bear" and Fish USA tackle stores.

One hundred yards of lead core line with long mono leaders to your lures waste a lot of fishing time as you reel in four rods out from your boat. Snap weights get your lures to a good depth without having to reel back all your lines. Forty yards of line in front of your lures is plenty of time saved with a quick release snap weight. They do not sink your boards too deep as you will find so more walleyes will taken faster to their suspended depths where you will find te right weight on your snap weight and distance from your board. Unless you have a "Greenhorn" to reel the lines in, you will produce more fish after finding the distances that work.

The failure to have state action is from not having political power as a member there. Aother failure is not having an alliance with regular boating members who are not contest fishing members. Many boat fishing operators do not join or resent having the cash fishing interests in charge .

Albany politicians forget about about local residents unless they can bleed local revenues to Albany.

A lot of local workers are employed building windmills on shore here. Landowners receive revenue from onshore windmills . Offshore windmills create nonaccess to boaters. Repairs and maintenance costs are extreme with off shore  windmills.

Lake Freighters are now receiving summons for discharging oil contaminant bilge water.

Game Wardens are enforcing emerald shiner regulations. Sourced from a store tagged minnow source with no gobies or undesirables present. You may spend some time visiting a local judge to answer your summons.

Pennsylvania Perch anglers have good success using French Creek plastic jigs. Check out "You Tube Perch Shows"

For large perch catches "French Creek" plastic jig lures are available. On "You Tube" there are Pennsylvania anglers shoes using plastic igs to produce good catches using plastic jigs. Avoid NY law enforcement for using illegal unprocessed emerald shiners for fishing in Lake Erie.

Another good catch of perch came in this week, a gang of other boats moved in close by to catch some. Golden Shiners from Millers did the trick.

There are a lot of boating users are not fishermen. They do not contribute action but take up space for launches and parking. They use the lake for swimming, sunning, diving or just traveling around for recreation. Visiting restaurants, dinner and just escaping hot summer days. They need to be organized to have an effect on our Governor, Senators, Assembly Persons. Also the restaurant busunesses should be involved. The fishing contests are not enough to attract them. Speak this up.

With all the sales taxes, fuel taxes, registration fees paid by boaters, the "rinky dinky town of Evans". That is where our money goes anyway. should turn over operation to the state Parks or County parks.

Sturgeon Point Boat Ramp, One trailer, small boat out today Sand Bar is open at the end, small boat out. A large tire dump truck is parked doing nothing, but no excavator to load the truck is on site.

18 mile Creek Bridge parking lot, today 4 cars parked there. Water was clear and running.

Now the State can construct a Boat launch and Marina at Woodlawn Beach State Park. It would be more efficient to Erie County Southtown residents and close to popular walleye and perch fishing. Using the State Park Site is a necessary improvement to Lake Erie access. Previously Woodlawn Beach was used for small boat launching and now there is almont a mile 0f unused area . Come on now and start urging for public access to the lakefront area that is an abandoned state site. From the already built Woodlawn Breakwater to the Woodlawn Beach State Park is inaccessable to New Yorks residents and out of state tourists. We spent billions of State funds for Niagara Falls State Parks but nothing for local residents.

Lightning strikes at three thousand degree heat will burn the insulation off the generators and wiring. Living on the lake shore for thirty years now I have watched thousands of lightning strikes for years now. Who will pay for the repairs on the water sites.  At least landside installations are accessible for repairs and ther are hundreds of empty hilltops available with high winds.

Mid May dredging of the sand bars shows the incompetence of our tax spenders, it is five months too late this year.

Selling your fish is not a sin after you pay the State for a commercial Fishing license. Native Americans can fish with nets all year long, They never sold off their water rights.

 Boxed out with walleyes  in Ohio now.

Check this out, three anglers, nine lines out, side planers, snap weights stick baits and planer boards, Huron, Ohio, my old lighthouse station

Eight to twelve inch perch are easier to scale and process for meals at home. Smaller walleyes of 15 to 22 inches long are easier to scale and process. Larger older walleyes are more likely to contain dangerous chemicals that are a hazard to your family

Is it better for USA residents to catch their own fish or have Ontario Commercial Fishermen supplying them here?