Lake Erie walleye report, July 19, 2008

The vast expanses of open water in the Western basin of Lake Erie, along with the dense population of emerald shiners and yellow perch... are tailored forage for walleyes. This helps to explain why the walleye fishing in the waters near the Canadian border in Lake Erie, has been good.

On Saturday, I had the opportunity to fish with Brandon Seifert, his father Ray, along with other family members from the Valparaiso, IN area, for the elusive Lake Erie walleye. I believe these were some of Wallin's cousins :)

I met them for breakfast at a local diner, had a hearty homemade meal and then headed to the marina to pursue the toothy ones. We left the dock around 7:30 and headed 14 miles out to the deep water, not far from the Canadian line and Middle Sister Island. Within minutes, we boated a 25 inch walleye, that weighed 5 1/2 pounds. We continued to "pick away at 'em."

After several hours, I moved the boat 1/2 mile and saw a large number of marks on the Lowrance fish finder. We casted for about 10 minutes and captured one walleye. I asked Brandon if he would try a different blade, so we tried a copper blade on his "weapon". Within minutes...bam, bam, bam...he boated 3 quick ones! So I switched everyone on the boat over to copper. In 30 minutes we boated 16 walleye, with 2 triples and 3 - doubles! The smallest fish in the pod was 20 inches.We ended the day with 37 nice walleye and a very fun day on the open water of Lake Erie. They weighed 82 pounds at the bait shop. Afterwards, we had a fish fry at the house and I have to tell you that Brandon is an awesome cook. That was the best walleye and hush puppies I've had in 10 years. Thanks Brandon and Ray!

The Seifert family enjoyed a fun day of walleye fishing on Lake Erie and we were glad they joined us aboard Erie Quest Charters.