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Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 10:52:32 AM

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First, anything happening out of the "nut" as of late? I've been fishing Ohio the last couple trips, but wouldn't mind giving PA a try next trip. And haven't heard much east of the oh/pa line. I'll probably still hit it just for convenience from our new camp. I hate those launches out at Ashtabula and thats where the fish have been, go figure. Just thought I'd throw it out there to see if anyones been getting them and how deep of water? May have an open seat for tomorrow as well. Conditions look favorable.

Second, I have done a lot of steelhead fishing in the creeks over the years, but never really targeted them from our new boat yet and am excited about giving that a try this year. From what I've heard, I'm pretty well stocked with the equipment and baits I'll need. However, what are some good tactics, lures and set-ups you guys use for them and when is the general time period (theat you've found) that they start staging in any kind of numbers shallower? Thanks in advance guys...

PM if interested in tomorrow. Thanks!

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RE: Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 11:40:46 AM

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Peak in front of the tribs for the steelies seems to be from mid-October to mid-November. You are best served to try to find a "dry spell" where the fish don't have enough water flowing through the tribs to run creeks like Trout Run and Godfrey and it will discourage them from running bigger flows like the 'Nut and Elk. Many times they will "stack up" near the trib mouths, but don't think that is the only place that they are, you can find nice pods of fish scattered just about anyhwere along the west county shore. Although dry spells are nice, don't discount "green" water when you can find it a couple days after a rain, this can be HOT water too, especially later in the season as numbers of fish staging at the mouths peaks.

Make sure you have lots of orange, black, pink, chartreuse, etc. and run boards (I prefer big boards to fight the fish unimpeded, seldom will a steelie have a problem clearing a clip) to cover as much water as you can. Many times a bait run 20 to 30 feet behind the boat in the prop wash will also be a hot set up. Seems like 5 to 8 feet of water is the most consistent, but many times you will find fish as deep as 20 or so feet of water. When they are deeper, it can be a little tougher, because you will find fish from the top 5 fow to the bottom and you need to "scatter" your presentations, I find it more difficult to run spoons in the 5 to 8 fow without snagging up quite a bit, but if you find fish from 8 to 20 fow, spoons mixed in with your cranks can be VERY productive.

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RE: Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 11:57:06 AM

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Shut, I understand that night trolling out of walnut in the 70 foot range is producing well. The perching has been good in 63-65 feet just west of the nut as well. As for the steel, we got into them late September and October last year using the same spoons and harnesses we were catchin the eyes on.

Wish I had time to go tomorrow, my year may be cut short because of motor problems. Know a good IO mechanic?

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RE: Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 12:04:06 PM

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bulldog,

Where are you from? Theres a good mechanic down here in Ellwood City. They call him Hunky John...I'll PM you his contact info if your interested.

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RE: Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 12:17:42 PM

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I'm in the Clarion area, thanks for the pm, I'll call him today.

Oh, and when we got into the steel last year it was in 70 feet of water, we had a triple once with 4 guys in the boat. Ended up with a 10 year old steering while we got all three in the boat. You should have seen the trail on the GPS, lol. We also caught a big brown, he took about 30 yards of line out when he hit, exciting stuff!

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RE: Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 3:41:42 PM

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bulldog1,

I used Bayshore marine about 10 yrs ago. I was happy with the work he did. There used to be a good I/O mechanic at the Boat Store in Northeast. Not sure if they're still in business though.

What's the problem your experiencing?

Brad

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RE: Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 3:56:25 PM

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Tribs are good in the morning and eve........ at the end of the trench (THE WASH) in front of the condos. 77-75fow any time now they will stack up there and feed like crazy..Run spoons 2.5-2.9mph 45-55-65ft.down.... red and blue worked good last year.... oh and you also boat some nice eyes.. look for the (bait balls)

on your fish finder..
silvers will close

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RE: Erie eyes & steelhead inquirey - 8/20/2008 3:58:45 PM

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Walleye report for today. Northwest of bula around 03 lots of eyes still out there. Buddy of mine got one 10.2lbs

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