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Lake Ashtabula Fishing Reports

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Lake Ashtabula - Monday, August 16, 2010
By: on 08/16/2010 08:27 AM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Went out on saturday for about an hour.  Just drifted with bottom bouncers and caught 10 fish.  We caught 2 small walley, 4 small perch, 1 small smallmouth, 2 silver bass and 1 bullhead.  We dont have a trolling motor and our boat will only troll down to 2.3 mph so we just drifted.  Wish we would have had a drift sock because in those waves we would actually get up to 2mph drifting.  Maybe someday will get a better fishing boat.
Lake Ashtabula - Saturday, August 7, 2010
By: on 08/09/2010 5:21 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |

The Dogg Dayz of summer….. calm water and hot temps makes for long days of fishing…water temps above 80 deg.


Pulling cranks is effective the smallies and northerns love them and their fun to catch Firetiger or anything with red on it seems to be the best.


The walleyes have been between 14-18 FOW on cranks…if your pulling spinners or lindy’s you’re better off going in to 20-25 FOW and working your way up. With the calm winds jigging has worked on channel edges too.


I have to report a first this weekend in a day and half of fishing the green monster I did not catch 1 bullhead…shocking I am %100 sure this was a fluke and I expect to get back into the bullhead population Wednesday.

Lake Ashtabula - Friday, July 30, 2010
By: on 07/30/2010 4:54 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
We are thinking of goin out fishing this weekend. How is casting cranks working
Lake Ashtabula - Sunday, July 25, 2010
By: on 07/25/2010 7:00 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Fished Ashtabula on Saturday from 3PM to 8:30PM and had another good day.  We fished Sundstroms area again and caught mainly perch.  The perch were mostly bigger, right around 10-11" with an occasional little one.  Caught one loner white bass that went a little over 3lbs...biggest I've ever caught of those in Ashtabula.  Did get 2 walleyes in the mix 15" and 17".  We did catch a lot of bullheads this time but for every 2-3 bullheads we got a nice perch.  The perch and the two walleyes were caught right along a weedline in about 12 FOW.  We were using crawlers on a floating jig head for the majority of the fish caught.  The lake was also very green.  Good luck guys and gals!   
Lake Ashtabula - Saturday, July 24, 2010
By: on 07/24/2010 10:25 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
we fished this afternoon trolling with spinners and leeches and also pulled cranks.We managed about 3or 4 walleyes none were really big and also a perch and a nice silver bass and a smallmouth. the 2 bass were on cranks walleyes like leeches and surprisingly only caught 2 bullheads.
Lake Ashtabula - Saturday, July 17, 2010
By: on 07/17/2010 11:17 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Fished around Sundstroms (sp) this evening for about 3 hours and got into some really nice perch and a lot of them.  Caught well over 30 and kept 12 over 10 inches for the fry pan.  Very good to see.  They liked crawlers on a floating jig head, white in color.  Also got in on the evening white bass...almost one every cast for 45 minutes before dark...spinners of all colors were what we were using.  Fished 12-16 FOW.  Now the amazing part...only managed about 15 bullheads.  Good luck! 
Lake Ashtabula - Wednesday, June 23, 2010
By: on 06/23/2010 11:20 AM | Add Comment | Post New Report |







Ok, it’s that time of year again…time for the semi-quarter annual Ole Ashtabula fishing report.


Two words…White Bass…or WaBass (as the locals say) are in plenty and can be a lot of fun to catch …just bring lots of bait as they are even more skilled a thief then the crafty perch.


WaBass are found in just about any depth range however the most common are out in the flats around 15-18 FOW and they’ll hit anything that moves.


Northern’s seem to be a bit more active this year than the last few nothing with great size 2-4 lbs but still fun to catch.


THE PERCH ARE BACK !!! the perch bite is the best it’s been in recent years…it’s still nowhere close to the glory days 10-15 years ago but they are making a comeback. The lack of ice-fishing pressure is my theory but who cares anytime you can bring home 6-10 perch that go 10+ inches and that be a darn good meal.


On to the ‘eyes….the walleye bite has been pretty typical very hit and miss there are a lot of little ones being caught of course now with the lifted size restriction some of those 13inchers make good eaters. With the water temps over 70 pulling cranks should be your best option, channel edges and weed lines seem to be producing the occasional 2-4 pounder. If you are jiggin’ or drifting work the outside of the WaBass schools it seems there are a few eyes feeding in with them.


…and now the part you’ve all been waiting for…How’s the Bullhead bite ??? Frick’in phenomenal !!! Seriously if you’re fishing Ashtabula and aren’t catching Bullhead’s your doing something right!


So get out on the water, have fun and ….  FISH ON !!!


…I almost forgot if you happen to be north of the crossing around old 26…feed Bruce…thanks.


Lake Ashtabula - Sunday, June 20, 2010
By: on 06/20/2010 10:50 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
fished a few hours on sunday night caught a nice perch off the dock before i went out on a boat caugt another nice perch out along the weeds and had one get off right at the surface.
Lake Ashtabula - Monday, May 31, 2010
By: on 06/01/2010 12:58 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Fished south of the crossing yesterday.  First the bad news, the bullheads have turned on!  Caught maybe 20 medium and big bullheads.  Yuck.  Now the good news, caught 1 decent walleye not 5 minutes on the water.  Thought, this is going to be a good day.  Then the bullheads kicked in.  Caught the occasional perch and no more walleyes.  Throw in 20 or so white bass and you have a busy day, just not the fish we wanted.  Worked lindy's, jigs and cranks.  Lindy's and minnows worked best.  Heard others using crawlers but we didn't have any. 
Lake Ashtabula - Monday, May 31, 2010
By: on 06/01/2010 10:03 AM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Fished North of Sibley stayed in the channel looking for walleyes. No sucess at all. Pulled cranks and tried bottom bouncing with minnows.
Lake Ashtabula - Sunday, May 23, 2010
By: on 05/29/2010 10:38 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Fished Ashtabula last weekend and had lots of fun.  Bounced around to a few different spots.  Marked lots of fish in deeper water but could not get them to bite.  Finally started drifting a channel edge with lindy rigs and got into the perch and white bass.  Scratched 1 keeper walleye that was 18".  Couple others that were small,  Kept 25 decent perch and a couple nice size white bass.  Good catch and had steady action.  Minnows were the key and caught most fish on the top edge of the channel.  Great day on the water.  Good luck.
Lake Ashtabula - Tuesday, May 25, 2010
By: on 05/25/2010 7:18 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
i have not even been there yet this year. sometime this weekend maybe, my dad has been out a couple times not much to talk about though
Lake Ashtabula - Monday, May 24, 2010
By: on 05/24/2010 1:05 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Ok...has anyone been out on Ashtabula yet? I plann on hitting it hard for memorial day weekend. I fugure the water temps should be around 60 maybe? the eyes shoud start biting after all these systems roll through...did any one get out last week?

Koze did you get back out?
Lake Ashtabula - Saturday, May 15, 2010
By: on 05/17/2010 7:26 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
Launched at Bayshore on Saturday night. The water was really rough, so we didn't travel far. Tried slow trolling the eastern shoreline north of Bayshore with jigs and live bait rigs tipped with minnows and didn't get a bite. Caught some bullheads off of the docks the next morning.

Hopefully others did better than us and that the upcoming warmer weather will turn things on. I would like to try it again this coming weekend, but will be hoping to hear some better reports during the week.
 

Is anyone else having any luck on the old Bula lately?
Lake Ashtabula - Tuesday, May 11, 2010
By: on 05/11/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment | Post New Report |
WELL WE WENT OUT ON SATURDAY DIDNT CATCH ANY EYES BUT DID CATCH SOME NICE SMALLIES ALONG SHORE IN BETWEEN 6-10FT OF WATER ON 1/8 OUNCE JIGS TIP WITH MINN  WITH THE DRIFTING WITH THE SOCK OUT...3RD TRIP AND FINALY FOUND FISH!!!!!! AND HAVE A GOOG CLUE WHERE THE EYES ARE........
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