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Date Fished: day after xmas Location: home Water Conditions: froze Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      12/26/2008 11:10:31 AM   Report ID: 23340 Report: hope every body had a great christmas about time for some ice have a happy new year come on april

Date Fished: tues,wend,thurs. Location: michigan waters Water Conditions: flat Posted By:  "fisherman 2" jimt7135@aol.com      11/6/2008 7:36:21 PM   Report ID: 22980 Report: fished from luna peir to e-bouy to dumping grounds to harbour light to brest bay. 6 perch, no eyes tues. 0 perch, no eyes wend. 14 nice perch thurs. (10-12") in brest bay at the last set of bouys of the rasin river. searched for 1 hour one side of bay to other, very few walleye marks. were i did mark some the weeds were too bad to troll

Date Fished: November1 Location: Vermilion Water Conditions: Calm Posted By:  "Fishawk" fishawk2@comcast.net      11/1/2008 1:15:57 PM   Report ID: 22942 Report: I will be in Vermilion from Monday the 3rd Through Thursday. I have fished out of Vermilion many time but need some fishing location when you have caught Perch or Walleye recently. Thank you for any information. I don't know for sure but may have room one or two days next week. Call or email if interested. Bob Mackie 616-490-4404 fishawk2@comcast.net

Date Fished: Location: between intake and little cedar point Water Conditions: Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      10/29/2008 9:34:33 AM   Report ID: 22914 Report: heard of good perching between little cedar point and intake 12 ft of water last weekend fish over 13 inches charter boat 49 and 53 pound catches

Date Fished: sunday Location: all over Water Conditions: nice Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      10/21/2008 3:23:26 PM   Report ID: 22831 Report: went with buddy only got 15 perch on sunday today i pulled my boat sad day but i got lots of fish in frezzer

Date Fished: 10-18,19 Location: vermillion Water Conditions: 4-7's to 1-2's Posted By:  "fisherman 2" jimt7135@aol.com      10/20/2008 5:05:30 PM   Report ID: 22824 Report: fished the 35-24 area. sat caught 13 eyes sun caught 24. spoons on jets and dipseys, few on reef runners and jets high up early rest down deep. rasberry dolphin, wonderbread, purple pooh bear, highway huckelberry. all day hard fishing their not jumping in the boat, you get little streaks going then they quit. lot of nice fish out there. our biggest was 10 1/2 but the overall size is real nice. most fish 4-7 lbs.

Date Fished: 9-11 thru9-13 Location: vermillion Water Conditions: rolling3-4 to calm Posted By:  "fisherman 2" jimt7135@aol.com      10/14/2008 8:41:43 AM   Report ID: 22765 Report: sat was a bust only 1 eye so started perchin and only got 27. sun was better we kind of figured them out got 17 eyes biggest 9 lbs. mon only 2 of us and we limted out. fish were high one day low the next. example- 50 jets out 80' ft. sat. 20 jets out 25-35' sun. 50's again mon. course all we had was 40's so we had to improvise 200ft. back mon. long way to crank them in. dipseys also caught fish mostly 80 to 110 ft.out. pack was on the 30-22 line area, we fished mon. on the 35-24 line by ourselves. lots of marks but it was slow. sat when the fish were high the charter guys wacked them pretty fast.

Date Fished: monday Location: 1 1/2 miles north of wards canal Water Conditions: 1 ft or less Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      10/13/2008 8:00:49 PM   Report ID: 22757 Report: 2 man limit 18 pounds just sat there and sorted lots of little ones 15- 1 keeper biggest 12 3/4 inches 3 over 11 and the rest were 71/2 - 10 inches 17 ft of water very clean in close hope the weather holds on. the lake was beautiful today

Date Fished: 10-11-08 Location: North of Kelly's Red Can Water Conditions: 2's & 3's Posted By:  "Eye Contact"      10/13/2008 6:05:20 PM   Report ID: 22755 Report: 9:00 to 12:15 out by the red bell bouy 47 feet of water took 40 perch 8 inches or better up to 11 inches some picking my first mate took most , last trip for the year we stold one in October .

Date Fished: 10/11/2008 Location: N. of W. Sister near Canadian border Water Conditions: 2 - 3 foot waves, 31 FOW Posted By:  "NateDOGG" natespcs@hotmail.com      10/13/2008 10:02:14 AM   Report ID: 22747 Report: Man!! -- Tons of Little guys. The next 2 - 3 yrs. should offer some excellent perch fishing once these guys get bigger. Finished with 6 man limit, 38LBS. Caught some super nice jumbos, after tons of sorting. Probably 4 or 5 to 1 caught against kept. Great day of fishing overall.

Date Fished: 5-12 Location: a-b-can Water Conditions: 2ft or less Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      10/12/2008 7:58:49 PM   Report ID: 22739 Report: went to a can got 20 perch then moved to b can finished with 4 man limit 24 pounds lots of little ones caught 400 to keep 100 buddy got 2 man limit 2 miles off of wards canal 12 pounds

Date Fished: 10-4 & 10-5 Location: nwest of westsister 31 ft of water Water Conditions: 3s to calm Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      10/6/2008 9:02:22 AM   Report ID: 22678 Report: saturday 4 guys 100 perch 3 hours sunday 4 guys 76 perch had to be back early to go to party last week of perching for me got some work to do on boat dont want to freeze going to depend on friends to take me fishing

Date Fished: 10/4/08 Location: Luna Pier Water Conditions: 1 foot or less Posted By:  "Snapshot" RVelich@aol.com      10/6/2008 7:42:24 AM   Report ID: 22677 Report: Fished straight out of Luna Pier in 12ft. of water. Two of us caught 65 perch over 7", lots of little throw backs. Just a few jumbos, one was a 12 incher. A great day on the lake. Like most everone we struggled this year. Fish never came in close like years back. Hopefully gas prices will keep going down and we can follow the walleye all over the lake next year also hope for good reports on this site. They have been few and far between. Tight lines Ya'll...........

Date Fished: 10/04/2008 Location: 4 Miles NW of W. Sister Island Water Conditions: 1 - 3 receeding to Calm Posted By:  "NateDOGG"      10/5/2008 8:11:16 PM   Report ID: 22675 Report: Started out around 8:00am out of Cooley Canal. Went out past the Crib and stopped near A Can, Camp Perry range. No luck -- Waves were choppy 3's. Fought it out to NW of W. Sister where boat traffic seemed to go. Found pack of 100 boats and some good perching. Waves dropped back to less than 1's by Noon. 2 man limit, 50 perch. There were some Jumbo's but overall they weren't the size you normally expect in October.

Date Fished: 9-20 Location: Everywhere between Islands and reefs Water Conditions: 2's to flat Posted By:  "Redneck01"      9/22/2008 1:29:53 PM   Report ID: 22510 Report: Same as Scotteye. 3 guys 41 keepers (barely keepers) 10 pounds. Tried everywhere between the islands and reefs. A lot of small perch, few medium sized, no jumbos.

Date Fished: 9-20 Location: same Water Conditions: 2 ft or less Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/22/2008 8:16:32 AM   Report ID: 22507 Report: slow day 4 guys 60 fish 14 pounds 5 hours of fishing 20-1 keepers lots of small ones about the same for everyone few people getting limits

Date Fished: tomorrow Location: Water Conditions: 2 ft or less Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/19/2008 12:53:58 PM   Report ID: 22491 Report: everybodys got shinners now tomorrow should be a great day sunny 2 ft or less

Date Fished: today the 20th Location: home Water Conditions: nice Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/19/2008 8:52:11 AM   Report ID: 22488 Report: i cant find no shinners any body know where to get them if i go 15 miles out i want a bucket of emarald shinners if possible. has anybody used the goldies do they work last time out they were very slow compared to the shinners

Date Fished: wensday Location: same area Water Conditions: rough the 1-2s Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/18/2008 11:26:38 AM   Report ID: 22482 Report: got limit 38 pounds 5 guys out north of westsister same general area 30 ft of water lots of nice fish. 6 hours of fishing lots of small ones got 11 dozen shinners 6 dozen from point place all shinners 5 at butch and dennys they were a mix when we went back in to get fish cleaned they had no minnows. got buddys fishing with me from the point they can get shinners.my share of fillets 4 pounds for frezzer but greatd day had buddys fish in close they got 3-5 fish around intake maybe its clearing up around the bay area

Date Fished: 9-17-08 Location: toledo light house Water Conditions: 1to2 ft's Posted By:  "dadyoshi" dadyoshi@msn.com      9/17/2008 9:29:41 PM   Report ID: 22477 Report: we where between the light house and turtle island eleven feet of water, the perch where on fire as fast as you get to the bottom two at a time. nice perch 8 to 13 inch three man limit 18 lbs hard to find shinners, beats running 15 miles

Date Fished: 6-6-08 Location: turn around bouy Water Conditions: 2-4s Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/12/2008 10:51:32 AM   Report ID: 22443 Report: the perch if you want a nice grade of perch are out north of turn around and we have a spot that is i5.5 miles away from the dock the perch are very nice i erased all my perch waypoints except for this one. 10 inch average buddy went out there saturday took a 4 man limit of 100 perch that come in at 49 pounds. his son got a 4 man limit that was 38 pounds on sunday the 7th.and we got a 4 man limit that weighed 39 pounds on the 5th friday. its between the turaround and west sister around 1-2 miles off the canandian line. got to split the gas it runs me around a hundred dollars to go a 30 mile round trip. but you get some nice 10-12 inch perch biggest has been 12 1/2 inches with a lot of 10 and 11s nothing under 9 inches and we still throw back a lot of small fish if they keep the nets out of the western basin and they grow up we should be in for some very good perch jerkin in the next couple years. we been catching 100 to 200 small ones 3-6 inches so you need a good bucket full of minnows.we also been catching 6 on the average small walleyes 6-8 inches so that is good for the next year the 2003 class is growing but getting old and thin from all us fisherman they say the 2008 walleye hatch was very poor but the perch hatch was decent. waiting for some nice weather and some calm seas the water is still very dirty till you get out even at 15.5 miles out the water still has a lot of algie floating on top we need some cool days to lower the water tempature. maybe it will settle down and we can spend less money on gas in the end of july we got around 600-700 perch in front off wards in 18 -22ft of water till the northeasterleys screwed it up never seen so many 85 degree days with 2-4s out of the north east

Date Fished: 9-07 Location: East of South Bass Water Conditions: 1-3 Posted By:  "Redneck01"      9/8/2008 11:55:21 AM   Report ID: 22424 Report: After the rain stopped headed east of South Bass to get out of the wind a bit. Caught a lot of small perch. Ended up with 70 keepers for the day. Tried one of my favorite perch spots on the way back in with the same results, a lot of little perch and a few keepers.

Date Fished: Location: Water Conditions: Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/4/2008 12:10:08 AM   Report ID: 22395 Report: pastor wanting gps numbers e-mail me i lost your e-mail address

Date Fished: Location: Water Conditions: Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/3/2008 7:44:55 AM   Report ID: 22392 Report: was throwing big perch back was what i ment after we got limit

Date Fished: tuesday Location: between turnaround and middle sister Water Conditions: flat Posted By:  "scotteye299" rscotfish@aol.com      9/3/2008 7:43:10 AM   Report ID: 22391 Report: 5 guys limit 36 pounds long run lots of 10-11-3/4 inch fish lots of doubles lots of small fish went through a lot of minnows best batch of fish this year caught 100 trow backs got lomit kept fishing to fun fish was throwing some big perch 4 hours of fishing with a hour of travel time friend gave me some gps numbers went to them and never moved no boats around for miles

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