Lake Erie Walleye Trip

[Tom Dietz]

I took my boys, John and Matthew on a great walleye charter thanks to Larry Carr of Navionics yesterday. It was the boy's first ever trip to Lake Erie and the weather was perfect, overcast with a two foot chop. We went out with Osprey Charters with Captain "Buffalo" Don Lowther out of Port Clinton, Ohio. We boated twenty-seven nice walleyes up to twenty-five inches for a total weight of sixty pounds. One of the highlights of the day was yours truly catching a walleye on a Figure 8 at boatside in thirty feet of water!!! I have three witnesses, and it was amazing! It followed my crawler harness to the boat then swam off, and I immediately dropped my rod tip deep and made one L-turn and it hit so hard that it ripped off drag!!! It was a nice twenty-three inch walleye. Our charter captain said he never saw anything like it and it was all over the radio all morning with the other charter boats! I guess the old "musky instincts" took over when I saw the hot walleye follow up. Pretty cool!!

The boys had the time of their lives and we all caught a bunch of nice fish! Thanks again, Larry!!!!!!