Lake Erie a ROCKIN and a ROLLIN.
Apr 28, 2018 13:42:41 GMT -5
Woody Williams, greghopper, and 1 more like this
Post by featherduster on Apr 28, 2018 13:42:41 GMT -5
I was scheduled to fish the third week of April with my friend and his brother in law on Erie for week 1 of the 2 weeks he rented a condo for.
Looking at the horrible extended weather forecast I bowed out two days before we were to leave because I didn't want to sit around staring at a rough lake when I could be home doing other things, besides I was going to cut my trip short anyways for youth turkey season.
I gave him my share of the $ and wished him good luck.
On the Saturday before they got there the Port Clinton area got hit with record rain fall and record waves causing a lot of flooding damage and it messed the lake up big time.
My friend didn't get out to fish until Thursday evening for the first time, they did good jigging and then on Friday and Saturday they caught their limits both jigging and trolling.
As it turns out one of the 2 guys that was supposed to fish this week had to cancel at the last min so I decided to go Thursday morning and it was perfect weather. The trolling bite was hot both thursday and friday and we were done in under 3 hours each day with some sorting to upgrade our fish size.
Today was a WHOLE different story, last night the wind switched from the south to the north and it rained.
The wind was kicking up with 3 foot plus waves that swamped a boat at the entrance to our harbor blocking it for a time till it washed up on the rocks. There were first responders on the scene and it appeared all were rescued but the boat was almost completely under water.
We motored out and within seconds realized this was NOT a good idea so we retreated and called it a day arriving home early.
We will be returning in a few weeks and by that time the Walleyes should be spreading out and off of the spawning grounds making for even better fishing.
Looking at the horrible extended weather forecast I bowed out two days before we were to leave because I didn't want to sit around staring at a rough lake when I could be home doing other things, besides I was going to cut my trip short anyways for youth turkey season.
I gave him my share of the $ and wished him good luck.
On the Saturday before they got there the Port Clinton area got hit with record rain fall and record waves causing a lot of flooding damage and it messed the lake up big time.
My friend didn't get out to fish until Thursday evening for the first time, they did good jigging and then on Friday and Saturday they caught their limits both jigging and trolling.
As it turns out one of the 2 guys that was supposed to fish this week had to cancel at the last min so I decided to go Thursday morning and it was perfect weather. The trolling bite was hot both thursday and friday and we were done in under 3 hours each day with some sorting to upgrade our fish size.
Today was a WHOLE different story, last night the wind switched from the south to the north and it rained.
The wind was kicking up with 3 foot plus waves that swamped a boat at the entrance to our harbor blocking it for a time till it washed up on the rocks. There were first responders on the scene and it appeared all were rescued but the boat was almost completely under water.
We motored out and within seconds realized this was NOT a good idea so we retreated and called it a day arriving home early.
We will be returning in a few weeks and by that time the Walleyes should be spreading out and off of the spawning grounds making for even better fishing.
