| FISHING TRIPS 2002 |
| MAY13-15 2002-LAKE ST.CLAIR Tim, Earl Crabtree, Jimmy Seitz and I went up to LSC to check out what was biting. The lake temps were from 46 degrees in St. Anne's to 50-53 in the main lake. A few walleyes were caught in 10-11 ft of water as well as a few smallies and perch in 12 ft. Earl had a chance to put his new boat to the test. The wind was about 15-25 k on Mon. & Tues. and by Wed. it was only about 10-15. We are hoping by the time of our next trip in a few weeks that the lake temps are up in the 60's… MAY 31-JUNE 6-LAKE ST.CLAIR Tim, Craig, Ron Hedges and myself went back up to Lake St. Clair the first week of June. The water temp. was up to the low 60's and there seemed to be fish everywhere. Bass were on the beds and perch and rock bass were in about 10-11 ft. of water off of the sandbar. A few nice walleyes and pike were also landed. Dan and Tom Mader made it up for a few days also. The weather was hot the first few days and then it turned cool and rainy. JUNE 17-20-LAKE ST.CLAIR Dan, Tim, Craig, Jeff Chrowl and myself fished St. Clair for a few and caught more of the same as the previous trip. The water temps ranged from 66-70. |
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| JULY7-14 LAKE ERIE, KELLEYS ISLAND The whole Corley family made it up for a week's vacation on Kelleys Island. The girls did some bike riding, walking, reading and socializing and the guys managed to slip out fishing for 4 or 5 hours a day. Monday we fished the shoal on the northeast side of Kelleys. We only caught a few smallmouth and we couldn't keep the sheephead(drum) off our lines! Tues.-Thurs. the wind blew out of the northeast so we fished the leeward side of the island. We tried for walleye but didn't have any luck so we fished for smallmouth in close around the island. We managed to catch a few in about 10-14 ft. of water. Friday Tim, Allan and myself went back out to the northeast shoal and caught about 10 smallies up shallow on a 10-ft. hump. Alan hooked 5 nice ones. Saturday Tim and I went out to Gull Island shoal just a few miles north of Kelleys. We made a few drifts without any luck then moved to the southern end of the shoal where the depth dropped quickly from 12 to 30 feet. The current was flowing up against the steep drop and moving around the southern tip. We could see debris and trash floating around the underwater point. We named the spot "The Dumper" after 4 year old Kyle's word for dumpster (you had to be there). We drifted with tubes over the drop where the depth went 14 to 22 ft. and caught big fat smallmouth bass on every drift. We even managed to land a few doubles. All in all I guess that we boated about 20-25. We were really impressed with how fat the smallies were for their length. If we ever learn how to fish this lake we might be dangerous :) |
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