Braving The Weekend Wind On The Rock

[abkeenan]

Fished Fri-Sun on Lake Erie....ut hum I mean Table Rock. Wow what a blow we had down there ALLLLLLL weekend. Fished dam area all weekend. Anywho put our head down and fished with decent success.

Friday - couldn't get anything going on the war eagle blade or wart and after wasting a few hours throwing them to no avail we waved the white flag and slowed down with the shakey head paired with a 5" ozark smoke or green pumpkin YUM dinger and picked up some nice fish. A real tanker 19", 3.2lb smallie in 25fow on the end of a dock and another football 2.2lb kentucky 2 slips down on the next cast. Pretty slow friday but 4 fish and all keepers, although one SM was 16 inches and was anorexic or maybe its cause he only had one eye and can only find 1/2 the food. Skinniest bass I've ever seen.

Sat - was much better with cloud cover all day and the fish moved up shallow and wanted the McStick. Best locations were bluff walls/shelf rock banks with deep water near by on the mainlake. Had boat sitting in around 35-40 feet and throwing up to the ledges and twitching and jerking back with barely any pause, just pausing to reel up the slack. Most strikes happening when the stick was in around 15-20 fow. Nothing huge but good numbers and some keepers mixed in. Managing the boat in the gail was the handicap and had to leave some productive locations knowing fish were to be had but just couldnt do it with the waves and wind. Just too much.

Sun - didnt get a bite all day. Tried same locations with same baits and different baits at different depths.... nada. Wart, mcstick, DD22, shakeyhead....weren't havin it. Saw fish on the graph and probably should tried jigging a spoon vertical into them but was just too stubborn and I guess I paid for my thickheadedness as I didnt land a fish. No cloud cover and super warm weather screwed up our Sat pattern. Wind really limited where we could fish as fishing the wind was just not gonna happen as the trolling motor couldnt fight off the Bering Sea.

All in All had a great time and completed the grand slam landing a SM, LM and Kentucky. All fish still swimming and healthy as can be. The plus one is the fact that while all you deer hunters where out there in the woods I didn't even have to leave the boat or fire a round to tag a nice buck.

Answer to Bablers question about seeing Fish Habitat signs put up by MDC. Found one:

Same deer that was found in the water Friday afternoon and dad wanted the antlers so we went and got them before leaving today. Deer appeared to have a gut shot and died in the water at some point.

[Gone Fishing]

Nice report with some nice fish pictures to back it up.

[Spinnaker]

I was there Friday through Monday. I wonder if we passed each other. I have a red Lund. I saw maybe 4 boats the whole time I was there but I only fished the dam area to 86 bridge area. I launched Friday at the State park near the dam. I thought it was almost too windy but I got out and fished the lee side coves. I stayed 4 days and managed to catch a mix of Ks and SMs, and one big LM. 4 fish Fri., Sat and Sun and 5 today. The spinnerbait did not work for me. Most of my fish were on a jig and trailer or blue and chrome deep diver. Sunday I managed to catch my biggest LM, 22.5 inches. It was a fat healthy beauty. I saw some small fish surfacing and thought they might be white bass so I put on a half ounce Cicada and threw it in several places but no hits. I moved to a narrower part of the cove and this monster hit it about 10 feet from shore in about 10 to 12 feet deep. It was a real treat considering the windy conditions this trip. I caught a Kentucky on it as well. This is my last trip down for 2011. Hoping next year will be more typical on TRock. For those of you who will continue to get out for the rest of the year, good luck.

[Tfsh4bass]

Went down yesterday from 11-4:30 and caught a few. Decided to give the Indian Point area another try and those fish still have me confused. I managed to catch 9 on a blade (3) and jerkbait (6) but never caught 2 fish in the same area and caught fish on different stuff...cedars, hardwoods, chunk, pea gravel, point, etc. The ones I caught just hammered it but couldn't find a group of fish to really get the numbers up and burned more gas than normal running to numerous holes. Still great to be down there and good to read some reports about fish being caught.

[Spinnaker]

I wish I had your luck for numbers. The fish I managed to catch were here and there as well but I probably stayed too long in one place. The wind just knocked me down from long boat trips and fishing some of my favorite spots.

[Tfsh4bass]

I wish I had your luck for numbers. The fish I managed to catch were here and there as well but I probably stayed too long in one place. The wind just knocked me down from long boat trips and fishing some of my favorite spots.

If I would have picked up the jerkbait quicker my numbers would have been much higher but I was fooled by catching a 3lb+ brownie on my 5th cast of the day on a blade I kept throwing it until until 3pm only catching 2 more...caught 6 on a jerkbait the last hour and half. Looking back on my day I fished 22 holes just running around trying to find something and probably had a dozen other bites I didn't hook up with mostly on a blade.

[abkeenan]

I was there Friday through Monday. I wonder if we passed each other. I have a red Lund. I saw maybe 4 boats the whole time I was there but I only fished the dam area to 86 bridge area. I launched Friday at the State park near the dam. I thought it was almost too windy but I got out and fished the lee side coves. I stayed 4 days and managed to catch a mix of Ks and SMs, and one big LM. 4 fish Fri., Sat and Sun and 5 today. The spinnerbait did not work for me. Most of my fish were on a jig and trailer or blue and chrome deep diver. Sunday I managed to catch my biggest LM, 22.5 inches. It was a fat healthy beauty. I saw some small fish surfacing and thought they might be white bass so I put on a half ounce Cicada and threw it in several places but no hits. I moved to a narrower part of the cove and this monster hit it about 10 feet from shore in about 10 to 12 feet deep. It was a real treat considering the windy conditions this trip. I caught a Kentucky on it as well. This is my last trip down for 2011. Hoping next year will be more typical on TRock. For those of you who will continue to get out for the rest of the year, good luck.

I only saw a handful of boats all weekend which was GREAT. I was in a older navy with red/silver trim Nitro with 2 guys fishing out of it. (3 guys on Friday) I saw a guy trolling all over the dam area but never saw him land anything. Friday ran into a guy in a pro wrapped ranger wrapped in Luck E Strike in the back of Brushy Creek and said that he was having a heck of a time catching any sort of numbers and even worse for size. One here one there type of deal with no pattern. On Saturday I think me and a guy in a red and white basscat were on the same pattern as we always seemed to run into each other or I'd run past him seeing him fishing the same type rock ledge/bluff banks I was targeting.