4/1/15, Lake Erie, Bolles Harbor, Fishing Report

[Trophy Specialist]

After a successful shakedown cruise yesterday evening, I ran my first charter of the season today, and it was a very good one indeed taking 6 walleyes over 10 pounds, many in the 7-10 pound range and a bunch of lesser walleyes to fill the box too. Our two biggest fish were 11 pounds on this gorgeous, sunny day on the water. Some taxidermist near Kalamazoo will be happy when he gets a batch of those dandies to mount up from my customers today. We trolled with minnow imitating body baits at 1.1 - 1.2 mph today with 3/8 oz, rubber core sinkers and setbacks targeting trolling depths of 8-12 feet down over varying depths of water. The fish were scattered all over today and I marked fish over a huge area and really never found a concentration of fish with no double headers all day. It was just a steady pick from 8:00 until we pulled lines at about 2:00. The best lures today were Gray/Scale Thundersticks early and later in the trip gold/black/orange/green Thundersticks turned red hot. We trolled with six lures off Church Tackle Walleye Boards, one flat line and the eighth line off a TX-7 Stern Planer 200 feet behind the boat. That Stern Planer was the hottest setup taking a lot of the biggest fish today. I ran a Thunderstick 50' behind that TX-7. The water conditions are excellent on Erie right now and I expect great fishing for days to follow.

Capt. Mike Veine

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[KJ pluggin]

Nice job, what a bunch of hogs!

[EdB]

Great start Mike!