Jimdski

Turbulent sediment loaded storm waters will always fill an area on a Point of the lake with sediments in the calmer water inside the marina. Fixing the breakwater is like peeing up a drain pipe, a waste of time and money. The Ontario Crystal Beach Marina is an effective construction that could be located at Woodlawn Beach State Park. Closer to the local population users.

The State of New York has the numbers of trailer boats yet is unresponsive to the situations. New Lake Erie State operated boat launches could have been installed at the new Dona street road on Smoke Creek in Lackawanna. Woodlawn Beach State Park was used for years and blocked off to boating access. Eighteen Mile Creek had a Marina years ago and abandoned by state inaction. Buffalo Beach Park in Angola should have a ramp but now no action by local officials. Evangola State Park had plans for a marina and they are piled up in the office somewhere. Cattaraugus Creek can not handle weekend crowds and the NS and CSX trains now are miles long with heavy delays. Again long distance round drive trips for vehicles and their boats ruin weekend family use trips. The sales taxes and registration fees are used elsewhere in the state. Lake Erie is the greatest food fish producing water in the world and properly unused by local and visiting users. Dunkirk and Barcelona are two to three hour round trips for municipal residents. Come on Albany, get moving on this most productive use of local water resources.

Perch success is the ability to attract and keep under your boat a school of perch. If your screen shows them, anchor up the wind and current to hold your boat over the school on the screen. If you see a boat catching perch, move over nearby. If he feels you are crowding him, tell him to leave if he wants. He is fortunate as the more bait nearby holds a perch school in the area. When setting your perch lines, the more hooks, 15 hooks per line is legal, and minnows will keep the perch nearby and if you have two other anglers set up this results in a school of perch of about over near ninety minnows with their odors attracting more perch to your area. The most productive hook is your bottom hook near you weight. The minnow in the mud is more productive since the perch do not have to expend more energy to catch the fleeing minnows. I have taken coolers of perch this way. This time of year with falling surface water temperatures the perch schools will be inside 65 foot of water with 55 foot a good searching place. Lake Erie is like a river with bottom currents flowing and east winds will have the current flowing southwest. Jim Drozdowski Sr.

When you pick out Center Road on the hillside, it runs rom shoreside to the Ridge Top, you are in a good area to start

Not marking fish could mean the fish are suspended and they flee from the boat as it passes over them.

Thank you.

Snap weights instead of leadcore speed up your fishin time.

The lack of smelt in the lake is causing walleyes to feed upon perch that hold close to the bottom. Bottom bouncing is becoming more effective than lead core lines and side planers that target suspended walleyes.

Smelt seem to be lacking in the innards of walleyes. What have you seem?

55 to 65 foot of water showed walleyes at that depth now with the 70 degree surface water temperatures.

A drain box on the side of the boat is used by commercial trollers to handle their fish. More important is a bag of ice that will safely preserve the fish for your family.

Stickbaits on sideplaners with snap weights over 55+ feet of water out to the Canadian line and West is a good place to start. Mayflies are hatching now and walleyes feed on them as they leave the surface

Walleyes at night in shallow water have produced with stick baits and long lines.