Anyone fishing the Lake?

Anybody fishing the lake yet for perch or lakers? Thinking of giving it a try next week .

jimmytwotime

give it a shot and then let us know how you did.

Duud...do you go out of your way to be a wanker, or is it just a natural thing?
 
citycop, I was going to chase some lakers this weekend, but I now have family obligations that have killed those plans.  If I make it out, I'll shoot you a PM and let you know how I did.

I was planning on getting out for lakers this weekend too, but those waves fri/sat are not looking too good. If things calm down for sunday I may still try to get out, if I do I will let you know whats going on out there.

Bogeyjoker

jimmytwotime

give it a shot and then let us know how you did.

Duud...do you go out of your way to be a wanker, or is it just a natural thing?

citycop, I was going to chase some lakers this weekend, but I now have family obligations that have killed those plans.  If I make it out, I'll shoot you a PM and let you know how I did.

 
Thanks,

Lakers.........
 
Never been fishin for them. Do you guys C&R or do you eat a few??

C&R, what he said...

If your gonna eat one, eat a small fish maybe 8lbs and under. The smaller the better.
The big fish are super old and chaulk full of carcinogens from bottom dwelling. ..

Never even tried eating one....  It is kind of nice getting home and not having a cooler of fish to clean.....lol

yea stick to eating the perch & eyes, only if your starving eat a laker, but I toss'em back.
Buddies been crushing the perch in the bay. A lot of 13-14 inchers, females of course. He did have a day where his limit were all makes from 9-11". But the guys I know have limited out every trip in bout 2 hours but a few days they had to sit.

Wally cat
Run spoons right on the bottom, and sometimes suspended. The marks on your graph will tell you where to put those spoons. Fish around the northeast mountain. Sometimes they are on top of the mountain, sometimes they are inside or outside of it. I like to start with my riggers bouncing off the bottom and some dipsys about 10' off the bottom. It can change day to day so you need to experiment until you get a solid program together. I will be out the next few weekends. If you decide to give it a try shoot me a pm.

Had my drag zinged plenty of times in a certain river that falls down a cliff aprox 180' in the early 90s ( Fall oct. nov ) . You could stand on a rock about the size of a house and straight down about 20 -30 feet of crystal clear water there would be hundreds of them. What a run down the rapids to a back swirl where you could turn them and work them into shore. When you would get a king on you were in for a real treat. Never kept a laker just a quick release and back upstream for more. I would say that is the the best adrenalin packed fishing I have ever done.

We got a few but we were not targeting them. We were specifically chasing steelhead and browns.

2 other boats were. They said they got skunked. Down speed was the key yesterday.

This is the PA consumption advisory for Erie.

Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant

 

 Lake Erie

White perch, White bass, Lake whitefish, Carp under 20”, Freshwater drum

(Erie Co.) Open waters Walleye, Coho salmon*, Steelhead* (Rainbow trout), Smallmouth bass,   

Lake trout under 30”  1 meal a month-PCB

 Lake Trout over 30”. Do Not- Eat PCB

absolutely nothing, but I guess it's somewhat relevant because earlier in the thread they were talking about potentially keeping a laker.