went out for some night time walleye fishing on lake Erie but couldn't get out in the open lake -my fishing partner was scared to head out in 3-5 ft waves so we stayed inside the harbor walls and tried there. didn't see any walleyes and the kid got the only bite and hooked into something huge and got spooled after a 20 minute battle-probably a monster catfish but we'll never know
the fishing was slow all night but at first light fish were jumping and feeding all over the place in the current from the thermal discharge from the power plant.
for the next few hours we caught one fish after another and ended up landing and releasing close to 100 smallmouth bass between the 3 of us.
by the time we left i could barely raise my arm-the fish put a real hurt-in on me
best smallmouth fishing ive ever experienced -had many double and triple headers.
my first of the morning
the lake calmed down for a short time in the morning and made for a beautiful
sunrise
another double header
a few more bass shots
hooked into something big -took quite a while to land this huge sheephead(freshwater drum)
no where as big but another good size sheepy
got a few of these too -looked like white bass but seemed much larger than usual
and had broken pattern on their stripes -fought as hard as the smallies did-almost
