Going fishing at lake erie... Perch or Walleye?

Question

We are heading up to the lake to fish and i dont exactly know what i'm doing. Is now the time of year to catch perch or Walleye up there? and any tips on what to use would be awesome!

Answer 1

The Walleye are abundant in lake Erie this time of year and July and August is a great time of year to get them.Night crawler harnesses are your best bet and you will benefit from some other species as well.Fish the harness just a bit off the bottom (to avoid gobies) while drifting or trolling,usualy at night or early morning.

Perch is an option using minnows on a perch rig.Perch love small cray fish but so do the gobies and that can get expensive if you are buying the cray fish.

Lake Erie is a bass producing machine and that might be your best bet.Jigs work well as does live bait.The most important thing is to just fish----ask the bait shop guys where to go and enjoy the day.Lake Erie is full of fish and even sheapheads are fun for the non "PRO"  

I know you will be going out of Catawba but this is what they say about my neck of the lake this week:

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/other/...

Answer 2

print this out and take it with you.

You'll be fishing from a boat, I would fish inlets and bays, out in the middle of them if you have electronics search for rock pile bottoms and use dark green, orange, brown or even chartreuse colored plactics. Medium sized 3-5 inches. Try jigs with trailors and spinner baits bouncing the bottom with them and hang on if the small mouth bass are around you just might have an awesome hot summer day on the lake. If they aren't go back and find deeper rock piles and use live leeches for the walleye, If you find a bay (and it can be really shallow like around 3-4 foot deep) hope that weeds are up near to the surface and there is a breeze caused surface ripple.... throw large fast retrieve bucktails and top water buzz baits for muskie and or even pike and throw right up into and past weeds you can see and then right when the lure hits quickly bring it up out of the weeds onto the surface and race it back to the boat (keeping it on the surface. When that first log comes out of its shaded ambush area in the weeds it will stop your heart, but don't! don't slow down the retrieve. In fact quicken it, like it's trying to get away from the fish chasing it, it will provoke the (usually violent) strike..

Answer 3

your probably going to fish for walleye. I have been fishing in canada for them and it was great. I cant remember what there called but they are like meniture surfboards with hooks at the end and the logo has a demon or devil face on it thats wat we used and it worked.

Answer 4

The walleye bite is slow this time of year, the perch should be spawned out already and off of post spawn. The previous poster is talking about demon spoons and those do not work well for walleye.