Winter eyes on Erie

[steelieatc]

anyone fishing for 'eyes in Erie? Wondering if they are in the shallows near Hamburg.

[aquaman]

Awesome idea steelie.Im hearing everyone rave about eyes on onieda and lake x and i know similar conditions and feeding  must occur in fall on erie.especially Hamburg and smokes.Nobody fishes it. I should be shot because its my back yard and i always have the boat put away for deer season ( I have a slight addiction to bow season)We do good in spring at night so they must return there in fall to put on the feed bag.Im in the game next fall.Winterizing waits till Dec. from now on.       

[blaque]

No answer to that, but ive been thinking about it, and .......i dunno, dont all the eastern basin erie eyes, or at least a majority of them migrate back to the west end of the lake for the end of fall/winter months.?

[JerryofWNY]

From what I've heard from speakers at the SouthTowns Walleye, there are 2 populations of walleye locally. One which migrates the lake up the American shoreline from the Western Basin in the spring and then back to the Western Basin along the Canadian shore in late fall.
The other is a local population that inhabits the eastern Basin year round.
Aquaman, I'd bet trolling the walls outside the harbor would pay off in the late fall. You'd probably hook up with an occasional muskie to boot. Waiting till after deer season to put the boat to bed is a good idea.

[steelieatc]

I might have to take a walk, a long walk, to the end of Bird Peer and check it out. I obviously love steelie fishin but I love eating the other white meat just as much. I have also caught steelies off the peer.

[hunters08]

I think the main reason some people dont do it is because the wind is usually screwing up the lake real bad in the late fall i mean like in november and its normally not fishable.