Way out on lake erie

[Fishmaster]

Yesterday Lefty, Fishlips and I hit Lake Erie for a little perch fishing. The ride out was rough to say the least. Took 45 min to get to our first spot. We dropped our buckshots tipped with minnows we were onto fish. Deadsticking worked as well wit standout hooks .

Spent the entire day out there. It was so beautiful we were sitting there in our sweat shirts. Came back with 60 perch all a good size.

Fished 47 feet of water in the morning and the fishing was slow, we moved out to deeper water later in the day 54feet and we were marking non stop all day. It was hard to get the fish to bite.

A few smelt around and the fish were hitting really light.

[gone_fishin]

that ice looks UGLY! nice feed of perch though!

[Ramble]

That looks like it was a great day! Some of those perch where hawgs....did you put the tape measure on any of them??

 

-R-

[Sinker]

Thats some crazy ice!! How thick was it?

 

Beauty perch man!! Awesome stuff!!

 

Sinker

[BillM]

That ice looks scary.

[Fishmaster]

Never measured any fish but a few were into the 13 to 15 "range..and just got finished eating them YUMMY ...ice is 6 to 12" and 3 to 4 ft thick in 90% of the area we were in its all shove ice that washes to the East end of Lake Erie pretty much every year ..Me & Fishlips spend alote of time on the ice during the winter months and don't fear to much ..guess once you have went through the ice a few times the fear kinda leaves your soul ...

Edited March 5, 2008 by Fishmaster

[Roy]

3 to 4 feet thick eh? Wow.

[Fishmaster]

Yes Roy in spots you can't even get through with the auger ..we take a paddle with us just to push some of the shove ice outa the way so we can get the lines down the hole ..

[Mike the Pike]

Wow rough looking ice .How did you get through the must of needed extentions.

 

Now Paul take a look at that wind wall.A really long Tarpis Maximus