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FISHING REPORT
9-2-07-My son Dillon arrived home Friday night in advance of his deployment to Iraq. Max and Mary Ann were kind enough to take Dillon and his fiancé, Rosie out for a tour of Lake Erie. Tried perching for a little while with limited success. Took to trolling for the last two hours of the day and hooked up with at least 20 Walleye. I had trouble manning the net and only 14 made it into the cooler. Hot spoons were anything blue/pink. Blue Moon, Boys and Girl, and Black Ashes. At the very end, Bad Boy's Money and Green Mile started to heat up. Dillon and Rosie with a couple of Eye's and another beautiful Lake Erie sunset. Thanks once again to Max and Mary Ann for giving the soldier and his gal a memory to take with him to the Middle East.
8/29/07-Another field trip aboard the Maxedout found the Eye's eager as they've been all year. Setup with some dark patterns with the early start and full moon and were in to em instantly. Mary Ann stuck first with Spank Me, her favorite spoon and one she named personally. It continued to go through the full morning. On another rod was the Green Mile and that spoon was as hot as any we've run or tested all season. We end up running it on three rods, Spank Me on two, and a variety on the last rod. But Green Mile would not stay in the water and took the bonus Steelhead as well. Kong took a couple as well before we traded it out to test something else. In 2.5 hours of trolling, we hooked up with 25 Eyes and the one Steelie. Running the darker shades in the early A.M is something to remember. Stopped and perched for a while and brought home about 40. It was so hot and with no breeze whatsoever, we called it a day quite early. Great time and very successful run with the newer patterns. Thanks Max and Mary Ann.
Sorry for the lack of updates this year. Been very, very busy thanks to all you good folks. Happy to report, it hasn't all been work either with plenty of fishing mixed in. Mostly with my best friends Max and Mary Ann, but also with Larry Woods aboard the Bad Boy and Al Larsen on Legasea with great success by all. Had the occasion to deckhand for both Captains this year. Larry has had a very fine season so far mostly trolling, but this past Sunday, 8/26/07, did a full crew limit of perch for his customers. Al caters more to drifters and has enjoyed a lot favorable drifting weather and very hungry walleye out at the Lorain Sandbar. Look either of them up for your charters this year and you won't be sorry. Larry has added a center console to his lineup to run two man charters and will be more than happy to take you out for the Hawgs later this fall, day or night as they move in close to feast. Last trip out for me was also Sunday, a couple hour stint with Max and his oldest son, Max. Three easy limits with some very healthy fish. Most of the year we've worked fairly close to Vermilion in 40-42 foot of water as most everyone seems to run past these fish that stayed in close just for us it seems to allow us to test a variety of new spoon patterns. Sunday, we were again in 42 foot of water to produce this nice string. One of many, beautiful days this year thanks to Max and Mary Ann. Good friends, a cooler full of fish, beautiful sunset behind you and a full moon ahead of you. Can't hardly beat that anywhere on earth. But we'll try!
Mosquito Lake, Ohio
On Monday, 5/8/06, my wife allowed my son to play hooky and we were able to get out to Mosquito. We didn't arrive until 10:00 a.m. and fished only until about 3:30p.m. Was near 65 degrees, with on and off SE wind of about 15 knots. We fished the North end, south of the causeway so had a bumpy day, much to Seth's delight each time we picked up the drift and ran into the wind and waves. We end up with a mixed bag of about 30 fish including Walleye, Crappie, Bluegill, White Bass and Catfish. Five Walleye all came on harnesses, silver shad pattern. The rest of the bag came on white, chartreuse or pink jigs tipped with a minnow as we drifted both shores about one mile south of the causeway from 15 foot of water back into about 10 feet. One catfish of about 12 inches came home for our small pond out back and end up a fine meal for a Raccoon Monday night. Here's a few shots of our day, a real joy it was to be out with one of my sons.
VERMILION, OHIO
BAD BOY CHARTERS
The Pete's had the pleasure of fishing with Captain Larry Woods aboard Bad Boy Charters out of the Vermilion River on 7/01/06. My son Lars and his wife Sarah were home on leave and they, Mrs. Pete and our youngest Seth made the trip. We filled a cooler full of fish and had a great time. The skipper was hard working and never sat down until the ride in. He was even running a few Ole Pete's spoons and we all got to catch a fish or two on one of our own. Thanks Larry for a great day. Here's a few shots of the gang and a sample of the catch.
VERMILION, OHIO
MAXED OUT ENTERPRISES
My 10 year old son and I had the opportunity to fish with Max this past Sunday, 7/30/06 aboard his boat. Started at first light out of the Vermilion River. Can't tell you any numbers, but I know we started north from the river. Big help, I know, but I was rigging poles and Max was the skipper. Each must have his place. Max had us on fish most of the day. White Bass were plentiful as were sub-legal walleye. Max had my son reeling in something the whole time. He was so beat up that he fell asleep on the way in, slept walk to the truck, and to the couch when we got home and I woke him up hours later for the pictures. It shows don't it? Anyway, we were off the lake my noon having hooked up with more than enough Walleye to make three limits. Largest fish was 25" and Caleb is holding it along with one of it's tasty cousins. That largest fish came after Max made a move to an area that Bad Boy suggested after his crew boated the 30.5"/10.5# hawg shown below. Bad Boy beat us to the docks with his crews limits and some real hogs. When Bad Boy speaks, people need to listen! Thanks Max and thanks Bad Boy for the advice. Spoons we ran that day were Exxon Valdez, Black Eyes, Wonderbread, Green Puke, Kevorkian, some Max factored Dead Ravens...more to come on those as well as a line of Maxed Out spoons, a work in progress.
Point Breeze, NY, Lake and Stream
The Four Young Pete's (Year's Ago Now)
January 1971-Rainbow Trout taken from Lake Mead, Nevada by Young, Ole Pete trolling Flatfish on 10 colors of leadcore.
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