Lake Erie Fishing Report - Buckets Charters

5/11/13

B3 Report:
Headed east with the large 4′-6′(occassional 7′) NW waves.
Same program as last weekend. Custom Pirate 55 & 66 spoons in green/blue/silver/gold. DW Metallic Glow Frog did some lifting too.
Surface Temp: 47
Down Temp:44-45
Bite/Kill Meter: 32/49
Largest: Aprox. 15lbs.
Speed: 2.2

(Above – Rick and Doug with 2 of the 32 LT they boated)

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Capt. Dan reports “hit or miss” king fishing on Lake Ontario. His fish have come on Spinnies/ITO Flies along with Stinger UV Green Gator/Spook spoons. 100′ – 190′ down. His team, “Limit Men” caught 2 kings, but didn’t weigh, in the Wilson Harbor Invitational this past weekend.

-Buckets Charters Fishing Team

5/4

Ran to the east and was the first boat to the “spot”.
Put out a 12-rod spread consisting of divers, riggers, 5, 7 & 10 cores.
The Plowfest began…
Custom Pirate 55 spoons 90% of the bites. Dodgers/spinnies took a few.
Quite a few doubles and triples, along with a single quad rounded out the morning.
Surface temp – 48
Down temp – 43
FOW – 45-60
Bite/Kill Meter read 32/43
Largest 22.5lbs.

(Above – 22.5lbs)

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5/5
Same area…got the entire spread out before we took the first bite.
Same spread minus the 5-colors(added 2 more 7′s).
Steady action all day long. We left em biting.(See :-X ‘s evening report)
Same surface temp but a degree warmer down – 44.
New B3 Bite/Kill Meter record…44/61!!! 2 of those were 7-8lb walleye.

(Above – Doubled up after netting one of the two walleye. This one ate a 7 core/Pirate 55.)

(Above – Custom P55 in Capt. Ken’s favorite color)

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Lake Ontario:
Capt. Dan reports good king fishing from Olcott to the Bar. 30′-190′ down.
ITO Flies and Stinger UV’s.
(Sorry for the brief report…Wilson Invitational this coming weekend.)

Capt. Dan and Capt. Charlie started off the season with a great trip on Lake Ontario out of Olcott, NY. They were joined by Gary H. and his buddies from Erie, PA.
Chartreuse sticks, cranks and Stinger spoons fished in the skinny water produced a mixed bag of brown trout, coho and steelhead.
Bite Meter-20…kill meter-13.

Team Wolfman, consisting of Capt. Ken and mate Doug(Buckets 3), Capt. Chuck and mate Paul were only able to boat 1 steelhead out of 5 total bites in Erie, PA’s EPSFA Spring Trout challenge out of Presque Isle Bay. Not enough to finish in the money.

A big congrats to B5′s mate Kurt and the rest of Team Rock Bottom…Capt. Damian, Chris, Todd and Mike for their first place finish in the EPSFA’s Spring Trout Challenge. They were able to boat 3 out of 5 bites, including a 7.5 lb brown trout, to edge out Team Heartbeat for the big check! Way to go guys!

Kurt with a nice Lake Erie BT

-Buckets Charters Fishing Team