Lake Erie EverStart Practice, Sandusky, Ohio
Dan writes:
Weather makes all the difference here and on this, the final day of practice, we finally had nicer weather, with sunshine and light winds that allowed us to get to places we haven’t been able to before. Scott and I headed north across the lake, stopping first at Kelley Island Shoal. This is where I caught my first fish back on Saturday, and which was so popular with the local fishermen. We drifted across the top of the reef without a bite but as soon as it fell of into fifteen feet, both of us hooked up with a keeper smallmouth.
Thank goodness these fish are still here and still biting.
We headed further north, to the west side of Pelee Island, and fished a couple of hours without a bite before moving over to the east side. We both caught a keeper on the first shoal we stopped at here (Chickenolee Reef), and then continued up the east side looking for more. At the north end of the island we separated, Scott going one way and me another, and shortly afterwards I bumped into a friend who, after hearing me describe how many fish I’ve caught so far this week, threw some baits into my boat, saying “Try these, and try the shoal on that marker buoy way out there in the distance.” I did, and I caught two fish on my first drift across it, so things are starting to look a lot better for tomorrow.
That’s all I had time for today, but, weather permitting, I’m a lot more optimistic about catching fish now than I was when I went to bed last night.
Annie writes:
I got up early, took my shower and was ready to get the majority of my English paper done today. I went to the office and they had no problem with me using the computer. I figured out how to get it online, tried to do some searches, and the computer is so old, it takes longer for it to search for something than our computer does using a cell phone modem. I am not being unthankful, I plugged away at it and waited for it to find my information and I was on my way to finding something, when off in the distance, I hear this barking. YUP, that’s my dog. He does not like being left alone and the only place I can put him is the tent, so he barks until I come home. He is not allowed in the office, so there goes my research for today. Dan came home around 5:00, we had to leave here by 6:00 for the meeting. We worked on the boat and his tackle and drove out of here at 6:05. We arrived at the doors of the meeting at approximately 6:29, that was close. After the meeting we went out to eat with Dick and Lena Bowman. Dick was Dan’s practice partner for the FLW and we haven’t seen them in a while.