Port Clinton (all postings)

Thanks, We are headed out in a couple weeks. Hope to find some fish.

Hookin fishing was slow on Saturday. We picked up 3 on purple jigs. Sunday was better picked up 15 in the rain. Didn't see anyone catching anything on Saturday. Sunday for about two hours everyone around us had the nets in the water then they got lock jaw.

Ketter, How was the fishing on both days? Areas? Baits? Numbers? Thanks.

Went fishing this past weekend with A&J charters out of Port Clinton. Had a bad experience on Saturday. We booked this at the sports show in Wisconsin. Turns out he overbooked and dumped us off to a different (RETIRED GUY). I call this bait and switch. The problem was the guy we went with told us on Saturday he hasn't charted since 1990. He may have taken charters like our for spare cash at times when someone overbooks, but he doesn't advertise. He was in his late 70's or early 80's and is retired. His boat was much smaller and one of our guys had to fish out of the cabin window. This guy's electronics didn't work and we had to help find the wiring issue. The boat was put in the day before we went and wasn't ready. We were that last boat out of the harbor. The bait died before we got on the water fishing. No aeration. All of this guys rods were old and did not work right. Couldn't get the bails to close. The mono line on the rods was very old and would break with about two pounds of pressure. We had brought four rods with and if we didn't have those we would have been screwed. Bottom line is that I don't blame the guy we went with he's not set up to charter 6 guy's and he didn't over book. It was A&J that overbooked just because they wanted more profit instead of customer satisfaction. The guy from A&J did come and talk to us about it and offered a $100 discount if we booked with him again. "Really" that's about $16.50 per guy and wasn't worth the words that came out of his mouth. Bottom line is book with someone you can trust and that's not A&J. I will say that the second day (Sunday) was fine since we went with captain Mike and on the boat we expected and used gear we expected. With the money we paid we should have gotten that type of equipment on both days. Book with someone else.

Finished a charter over the weekend with Captain Dave. Did well Saturday catching multiple 18-19+in Walleye and large Drum. Sunday caught a few early before getting stuck in the storm. Lasted an hour or so, seemed to slow the bites. Overall good weekend, had a lot of fun. Definitely doing it again next year!

Just completed charter over the weekend. This was the worst experience I've ever had. Captain AJ did not put us on walleye but witnessed other charter patrons that seemed to have caught nice walleye and perch. My suggestion is to find a reputable company and book with them. Was not impressed at all.

Seems like no one is fishing out of or around Port clinton? whats the deal? Anyone fishing around the islands or Kelly's?

Was out on 1/20-1/21 off put-in-bay west side between rattle and green 30 fow 2 days 2 eyes what is going on? We did have a east wind that stunk!!!! tried pimples of all colors and jiggin raps they would come up and chace it for 10 feet then disapeer didn't talk to anyone that did any better ice is or I should saw was good at time of fishing out past green but it opened up in front of rattle

Goose

Fished the Islands May 19 to the 26th. Limited everyday. Averaged 4 pounds the entire trip. All caught on hand made crawler harness. 8 fish over 28", one 29 3/4", two 30 3/4", one 32". 5 guys, 233 walleyes in the box for 8 days of fishing, 3 wall hangers! Life is grand. Be back next year.

Had an great time out on Lake Erie with Captain Ryan with Eye Spy Charters west of Port Clinton. We ran bottom bouncers about 11 miles out with night crawlers. Limited out with 24 fish in about 3 hours of fishing in the late PM. Nice operation.

Folks - I'd like to take my two sons fishing out of Port Clinton or Toledo for walleye in May - but don't have six people for a full charter. Any suggestions on a reasonably priced charter for 3 people? Please email normanwelch@comcast.net. Thanks!

Fished 24th and 25th with A-n-J charters and limited both days, a big thanks to Moose for all his efforts to put us on fish. The weather was good and just enough wind for drifting but allot of weekend boaters would move in on the charter boats and cause us to have to move as too many boats on one spot shut the eye,s down. The best fishing was 30+ feet of water so that means a long ride. Killer rigs were most productive but we did ok on mayfly rigs also fished 8 count away from the boat as they seemed extremely boat shy.