Ironhed
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The Bay is still on fire.
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Porktown
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Do the head boats get into the spring bay perch action? I don't trust my trailer to make that far of a run.
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Ironhed
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Sometimes, in late spring they do, if the Bay fishing is still good.
It's usually over by that point and the better fishing is out in the lake.
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Anybody catching steelhead or browns on purpose or by accident while wading the shoreline?
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Anyone have a current water temp for the bay and/or main lake? We’re launching for the season this coming Saturday and while it looks like it’ll be too windy for Lake Trout off North East, I’m hoping the bay will be fishable. I’d like to at least do a run down troll in PIB to make sure all the equipment is functioning properly for the year. Maybe get into some Steelhead trolling spoons and plugs or casting cranks and soft plastics near the city.
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Metal Bob
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Re: The Bay
2018/04/07 19:12:50
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☄ Helpfulby workcanwait.... 2018/04/08 10:21:17
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Ironhed
40 today.
Thank you, Ironhed.
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Re: The Bay
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☄ Helpfulby Metal Bob 2018/04/13 19:52:49
Anybody headed for the PIB or the lake Sat. (4/14) might want to check the weather forecast. My "heads up" from the weather dude says big blow to be expected. 8 to 14 footers.... yo ho blow the man down. TonightENE wind 8 to 11 kt increasing to 14 to 17 kt after midnight. A chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Waves 2 ft building to 4 ft. SaturdayENE wind 22 to 27 kt increasing to 31 to 36 kt. Winds could gust as high as 43 kt. Rain likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then rain after 11am. Waves 6 ft building to 13 ft. Saturday NightENE wind around 34 kt, with gusts as high as 42 kt. Rain, with thunderstorms also possible after 3am. Waves 12 to 13 ft. SundayE wind 29 to 34 kt decreasing to 19 to 24 kt. Winds could gust as high as 41 kt. Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Waves 12 ft subsiding to 8 ft. Sunday NightSW wind 9 to 12 kt. Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Waves 3 to 4 ft. MondayW wind 15 to 18 kt increasing to 19 to 22 kt in the afternoon. A chance of showers. Waves 3 ft building to 6 ft. Monday NightW wind around 23 kt. A chance of rain showers before 11pm, then a chance of snow showers. Waves 6 to 7 ft. TuesdayW wind 21 to 24 kt. A chance of snow showers. Waves 6 to 7 ft. Tuesday NightW wind 8 to 12 kt becoming N after midnight. Partly cloudy. Waves 4 ft subsiding to 2 ft. Click anywhere in the advisory area for a specific point forecast. umm, provided your phone or .puter is capable of finding the link and you know how to do a sight search. https://www.weather.gov/cle/
post edited by BeenThereDoneThat. - 2018/04/13 20:11:53
Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a life time. ~Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919)~  Old fisherman never die; we just smell that way. 
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Big Tuna
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The weather has been terrible this late winter/ spring. What a difference a year makes.lol I guess that's OK, still working on the 50 bags of perch from last year. Introduced a bag of 12"-14" jumbo's to the deep fryer yesterday,Cajun style. The family commented that they still taste unbelievable.
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The wind has been relentless for a couple months now, has been brutal down here in the south, I can only imagine how it's been blowing on erie
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Making the Erie surfing population happy. Those guys are nuts.
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workcanwait....
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Was up in PIB yesterday on foot checking a few things...its a miserable place at times.
Left there in afternoon thermometer said 44 degrees got home half hour later 20 miles south 73 degrees.
Buddy wanted to go out today but I wasn't up 4 that kind of torture but I do hope those that went did great you earned it...WCW
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We put in for the season this morning and conditions were awful. Howling wind and frigid air, felt like a tornado was ready to touch down any moment haha. Never even made it out to the bay and had enough trouble getting into our slip without breaking anything. Ready for next weekend, though.
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Anyone else have their boat in the water already? Looking at the weather for the rest of this week, I’m a bit concerned with my engine block freezing by the time we get up there Saturday morning. Water temp in our marina was 45° as of this past Saturday, but I’m sure it’s been/is dropping all week and air temps are predicted to dip down to 30-32° for a few hours on certain mornings. Maybe I’m just being paranoid. I can’t recall a single year we’ve been fishing up here that April has been so cold.
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workcanwait....
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Couple inches of snow today more Thursday...WCW
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Hooray... Screw off, Winter.
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If you have electric at your slip you may consider hanging a drag light under the engine cover, I don't know how cold it is supposed to be and for how long. Some folks throw an insulating blanket over the engine to help and pour some antifreeze in the bilge.
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If you have electric at your slip you may consider hanging a drag light under the engine cover, I don't know how cold it is supposed to be and for how long. Some folks throw an insulating blanket over the engine to help and pour some antifreeze in the bilge.
If I lived in the area I’d definitely have a heater in there by now. Unfortunately, I’m two hours south and won’t be up until late Friday night. The highest temp I see for this week is 40° with it being 33-38° most of the time. The freezing stretches I see are 6 hours of 31-32° Friday afternoon and 5 hours of 30-32° Saturday morning. I do have a battery charger on board that’s hooked up to shore power and produces a small amount of heat, so I’m hoping that marginally helps. In the future I’ll probably stick something that makes heat in the boat all week for the first few weeks of April. I’d probably put money on it being fine (knock on wood), but 5K for a new block isn’t in my budget right now haha.
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