Indian Lake-Ohio- On Fire!!!!!
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I've been busy hammering the saugeye at Indian the lat 5+ week. Many limits this week and they're now getting bigger. 6 saugeye that went 19"-22.5" and 1 of the finest 2 man limits that I have seen. Threw back lots of legal 15"-16"ers all week long.
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12 years ago
Still killing the saugeye at Indian. Easy pickins this season.They moved on me but I found them friday night 1/2 mile from the previous hot zone.Went alone yesterday and limit'd out by 9 a.m. Pretty slow with only 6 hits but didn't lose any.All avg 16"-17" and on the skinny side. Tood dad out this morning to that exact waypoint and nothing.This waypoint is named after my guest vernon from friday night. Gameplan was to hammer that waypoint at 5:45 a.m. Trolled all around there for 30 mins and nothing.Then trolled on up to the previous hot zone and pulled a nice 19" on our only planerboard with a bandit 100 series orange crush.
This weekend is the 1st time trying the deeper Bomber B04's. Since my B02's are getting scarce,a buddy of mine has been doing pretty good on them so I decided to risk the slightly deeper model in these snag infested 6' water.
I can only get 10 yards released,but they are hammering all our side rods and really tearing up when running 65' behind the propwash.Extra drag with the bigger lips are turning on the saugeye. Got a couple 3 each of sunrise craw,okie craw,and nestrobber 04 craws from basspro and they all caught saugeye.I've got many colors of 02 bombers as well as 100 series of bandits that have never touched a fish and these new ones are all performing. I haven't gotten to test them on the planerboards.I'll probably have to run 7 yards out behind the boards.The 04's down the middle propwash are working so well this weekend,I didn't even bother launching the other big board.
The okie craw on my main siderod hit major paydirt.Most of the big ones hit it. Lost a lot of fish,threw back a few small dinks and culled 2 keepers.
Hot time was 9 a.m. and most of the bigguns came in the 45 min span.
Full moon is near and I'm expecting to break my boat record of 17 tomorrow with 3 of us and running 5 rods in these snag infested waters.Lost 2 baits today,but found 1 of them later on floating in that area. Losing 20+ baits per season is no biggie when running planerboards in snag infested 6' water.
This weekend is the 1st time trying the deeper Bomber B04's. Since my B02's are getting scarce,a buddy of mine has been doing pretty good on them so I decided to risk the slightly deeper model in these snag infested 6' water.
I can only get 10 yards released,but they are hammering all our side rods and really tearing up when running 65' behind the propwash.Extra drag with the bigger lips are turning on the saugeye. Got a couple 3 each of sunrise craw,okie craw,and nestrobber 04 craws from basspro and they all caught saugeye.I've got many colors of 02 bombers as well as 100 series of bandits that have never touched a fish and these new ones are all performing. I haven't gotten to test them on the planerboards.I'll probably have to run 7 yards out behind the boards.The 04's down the middle propwash are working so well this weekend,I didn't even bother launching the other big board.
The okie craw on my main siderod hit major paydirt.Most of the big ones hit it. Lost a lot of fish,threw back a few small dinks and culled 2 keepers.
Hot time was 9 a.m. and most of the bigguns came in the 45 min span.
Full moon is near and I'm expecting to break my boat record of 17 tomorrow with 3 of us and running 5 rods in these snag infested waters.Lost 2 baits today,but found 1 of them later on floating in that area. Losing 20+ baits per season is no biggie when running planerboards in snag infested 6' water.
Had 2 trips yesterday so had to conseverve my limit in the a.m. to 4 and we caught 12 but threw back 2 keepers. 2 of them were fish ohio's at over 21",couple 19's.
Fished P.M. and we finished our 3 man limit of the day with 8 and culled out a lot of saugeye. Another 21" fish ohio,20",4 19",and puny ones of 17.75" and 16" that we couldn't cull.
1st 4 eyes were 19"-21" then came the dinks.
The a.m. pics didn't turn out.
Got 3 of us this morning,full moon baby!!!
Fished P.M. and we finished our 3 man limit of the day with 8 and culled out a lot of saugeye. Another 21" fish ohio,20",4 19",and puny ones of 17.75" and 16" that we couldn't cull.
1st 4 eyes were 19"-21" then came the dinks.
The a.m. pics didn't turn out.Got 3 of us this morning,full moon baby!!!
I usually deepfry those saugeye in my bass pro propane fryer with a batter of beer and drake's fry krisp. It's been so scorching hot here that I pan fried the last 2 batches.
Secret to deep frying fish:Don't use the basket.Individually put those fillets in the hot grease slowly and try to keep them from hitting the metal and each other.A larger turkey fryer would be even better.
Get some standing wire racks.After taking the cooked filets out of the fryer,place them on that wire rack to drain out. They will be extra crispy. Placing them on paper towells will make them soggy.They're even great as leftovers a couple days later and don't smell up the area when reheating them. I get many compliments when I take leftover fried fish into work and no complaints about stinking up the break room, LOL!
I found a bag of saugeye from 2010 in the freezer and they still tasted great.If you love walleye,you'll love saugeye.
There's last night's haul in 3' waves and 90 degree water temp.
Secret to deep frying fish:Don't use the basket.Individually put those fillets in the hot grease slowly and try to keep them from hitting the metal and each other.A larger turkey fryer would be even better.
Get some standing wire racks.After taking the cooked filets out of the fryer,place them on that wire rack to drain out. They will be extra crispy. Placing them on paper towells will make them soggy.They're even great as leftovers a couple days later and don't smell up the area when reheating them. I get many compliments when I take leftover fried fish into work and no complaints about stinking up the break room, LOL!
I found a bag of saugeye from 2010 in the freezer and they still tasted great.If you love walleye,you'll love saugeye.
There's last night's haul in 3' waves and 90 degree water temp.
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