The walleyes spend the spring in the western basin of Lake Erie (Ohio), spawing in the rivers over there and we have to wait for the water to warm up, causing them to migrate east. Fishing has been spotty at best so far, but with the warm weather, we were hoping that a wave of fish had made it to our local waters. They did!
We got on the water a little after 6 a.m., ran down the shore so we could troll over some spots we'd marked with our GPS last summer, got the rods in the water and started catching fish by 6:30!
Running 6 rods out of a small boat with 3 guys on board was hectic enough, add in several hungry walleyes hitting at the same time, and at times it was pure chaos! We lost several fish at the boat, and after some arguing, (good thing we're good friends! haha) finally figured out the best way to get the fish to the net. After that, we didn't miss netting any and the cooler began to fill up!
By the time we decided to call it quits at the end of the day, we'd boated 11 walleyes ranging in size from 16-27" and 2-7 lbs. Only 2 fish were in the 16" - 2 lbs range, with the rest being 24"+ & 4 lbs or more.
A great day on the water with 2 good friends yielded a pile of excellent meat for the table! We can't wait to do it again!
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