Hit Arthur today in the tub.  Lets talk about that "road" to the old 528 launch... guessing they bought that from Bosnia after the war.  Jesus.  Got minnows at the shop on 422 by the fairgrounds.  $3 per dozen and the guy must have gone to seine them fresh because it took him 15 minutes to get 6 dozen.  He wasnt a minnow counter... there was lots of bait.  Which would have been great if my aerator batteries hadn't died.  SIGH.  Got back in the truck and realized I didn't bring the plug.  Went back in, bought a boat plug hoping it would fit.  Didn't.  Went to leave (tried that plug at the launch) and got 100 yards up the bombed out road when I thought... I wonder if that plug is in my dry box?  It was!  Trip saved.  (because the drain is 1" pvc and that boat plug wasn't close to big enough)
 
The weeds are crazy thick in that spot and you have to go through them to get to the lake.  I let the gusting, crazy, all four direction wind blow me through them, then motored over to some logs.  Picked up a few nice crappy, 'bout 1 per snag.  Found a downed tree and pulled one or two off it but left a bunch of gear behind.  Had to run because my wife double booked the truck.  Got out of there around 3pm with a half dozen crappies, a bucket of dead minnows, and two sunburnt knees.  
 
Heading to Pymie tomorrow!  

 My son & his buddy went out after the rain the other day...
 

Experienced both ends of the eye fishing spectrum this weekend. Fished most of the day Saturday at Arthur caught stripers, large mouths, catfish, crappie and a boatload of perch but no eyes. Did see bout a dozen caught around me. Decided to drive to Erie to fish the big lake today. First rod fired off before I could run it down the planner board line and the action was steady for a couple hours filling a four man limit. Enjoy fishing the smaller lakes, but it's going to be hard to pass up easy pickings like that.

What's up with the guys swimming back and forth across the lake early morning on Arthur? Last two weekends I was there I have seen it.

Dude I saw a carp breach Sunday that looked like an orca.  Those things are pigs.  
 
We considered Friday night over Saturday, but those wipers can be jerks this time of year and not come out until mid morning.  Ain't nobody got the time to unhook yellow bullheads all night just to catch a couple wipers.  

The wipers "spawn" at this time of the year as well.  At least go through the motions.  I have seen a bunch of carp out in the open water flopping around midday.  If you noticed that splashing at night, they could have been wipers.  They don't seem to have anything else in mind, besides spawning when it happens.  Have had some really slow nights in the past, and was told that was likely the culprit.  That doesn't explain the alewives though.  Usually when the wipers are doing their thing, the large mouths and small mouths seem to take advantage of the unattended buffet.

Anybody happen to find a fishing license at 422 launch area since Saturday? I can't believe that after all these years of fishing I finally lost it for the first time.

I emailed the park but haven't heard back yet.

The river jumped 2' so we went to Moraine Friday night.  Alewives were around but the there wasn't a lot of hybrid activity like other nights when I was there.  I was away from the crowd, so maybe they were doing better.  Got one 25" hybrid and a nice largemouth on alewives.

I was happy with it.  Only have a trolling motor on a 20' wellcraft so when we quit around 2:00 I put out live bait on planer boards to slow troll back to the ramp. Only reason I got the striper is because a boat pulled in ahead of us so I decided to circle the cove.  That was when he hit.  Probably around 3AM.
 

YES BRO
 

Went out saturday morning and got a few eyes. Lost probably double what we caught. They were biting real soft. Went back out in the evening and proceded to catch none. Probably hooked close to ten but they would all pull the hook within a few seconds. Never encountered such a subtle bite. Then to top it off, finally got an upper twenties eye to the boat right after dark and it broke my harness and swam away. 😂

I'll be on the water early. Hoping to catch a walleye
 
 
 
 
 
 Yea...that didn't happen. Stupid Fish!

We cleaned a larger walleye from lake Erie last week, and found a 7" white bass in its stomach, we had another (30") take a 6" blue gill being used for catfish bait on the river... so I would bet alewife would be a good choice if you can figure out a good rigging for them. 

Agree with Sam, anything in that lake that can fit them in their mouths will eat them.  I have caught a few walleye on them, as well as others that I fish with.  Probably 10:1 wiper eating your alewife first though, during the night bite.  Same thing with the standard go to wiper plugs.  If you can get them during the day, or have a nice tank to keep them alive, you could probably trick a walleye during other times of the day.  If you could get it past everything else that wants to eat it...  I think most walleye guys that know how to fish Arthur (I am far from one), have it narrowed down, what they use down to more of a 1:1 wiper/walleye bait.  Maybe even better ratio.  Those wipers, when hungry, will eat whatever fits in their mouths, so I doubt there is anything that catches walleye on that lake that doesn't catch wipers.