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Fishing Tiger Charters, Lakeside Marblehead, OH (2025)

11/09/2024

11/7 report

This was day two for our guest looking to stalk his freezer. Yesterday we had 18 nice eaters but today the weather was looking sporty with North winds and rollers coming into Huron.

We pounded North into the waves until we got out to 45ft, then turned - set out our spread and road the swells back to the river. Fortunately it only took one pass to get him another boat limit of 18. Fish were bigger today.

We had 4 on at once and 3 another time. We got them all in both times and no tangles. The 4 fish big was a 27 1/2. Before someone complains about the small one - it was 17 inches. It just looks small next to the big fish.

No shorts, 8 whites ( one was 18 3/4 inches), one big sheep.

Water temps were 59. Our speed was all over due to the swells. 1.6 to 2.6 mph. All speeds and colors caught. Best color was red headed wonder-bread. Scorpion spoons were our best producers 30 to 35 down again. Flicker shad caught well but not as good as the spoons.

It was crappy weather but good fishing and great company.

Bad news, we lost a fish hawk probe. It has a breakaway in case the ball snags but I guess it failed or we snagged the probe itself. 😢

We will be in until the weather settles.

11/07/2024

11/6 report

Our guest today was not in the Brawl or Slam and just wanted eaters for the freezer.

We trolled between Vermilion and Lorain over 35 to 39 feet for a boat limit of 18 eaters running 16 to 18 inches. Best speed was 2.6 mph fish hawk and water temp was 59.

Half a dozen whites and one farm animal. Only one short.

Everything came on scorpion spoons in dark colors. NASCAR was the best color and we pulled 3 of them.

The bite was fast and steady. We never did get a full spread out.

11/03/2024

11/2 report

Our guests came up from South Ohio and were scheduled for 2 days. They were supposed to meet at Huron at 10:00 but we did not get out the river until 11:00.

We fished North of Huron for 3 hours and they wanted to call it quits. We had 22 keeper eyes with the largest 26 inches.

The best bite was in 42 ft of water trolling East at 2.2 mph. Water temp on Fish Hawk was 58 at 30 down.

Bandits and scorpion spoons both produced. Bandits best leads were 80 to 100 back. Spoons were 35 down. All colors caught but blue chrome and purple pink were best.

They were schedule for today but decided not to fish. We had to reschedule our monday and Tuesday trips due to wind and hope to get out Wednesday.

Good luck to all, we hope you catch a big one.

10/21/2024

We know information gets scarce during the brawl, but we always try to help when we can.

Our guests from S. Ohio came up and we met at Huron. We headed NE out of the river and started marking nicely at 39 ft. I turned North and the marks dried up quickly. So I hooked around and we set up to work East along the 39 contour. We started catching imediately, with the first fish a fat 27 3/4 inch eye. This was our guests first walleye. She definitely started off right. Oh so close to a Fish Ohio.

We ran Bandits port and spoons Stbd. Both caught equally. Bandits were 60,80,100, and 120. Spoons were down 30. Best Bandit colors were Taco Salad, Fruit Dot, and Sun Spot. Scorpion spoons out fished Stingers so we switched to all scorpions. We caught on every color we pulled.

Surface temps started in mid 50s but warmed to a high of 62. Fish hawk 30 down read a constant 61 degrees all day. We trolled from 1.7 to 2.0 mph fish hawk, East and West along the 39 contour. We caught 35 keepers and kept 24. Smallest eye was 17 inches but most were in the 20s. We had 2 sheep, 3 whites and 2 shorts.

The Bandits did better at 1.7 but the spoons did better at 2.0.

09/23/2024

Sunday 9/22 report.

Our guests were going to do a one day turn from southern Ohio. They drove up 4 hours to meet us at Huron at 10:00am and were driving home after fishing.

We headed NE out of Huron to the mid 40s depths we had been catching. We started marking good about 42 ft. But we kept going, I wanted to see how big the school was. They were steady until about 50 ft when they played out. We turned to work back through them and headed back to the dock.

It only took one pass to load the boat and get them home before dark. Hopefully this is the start of the Fall bite.

We trolled Scorpion spoons Stbd and on riggers, and Bandits Port at 2.2 mph FishHawk. We had a pretty good current as GPS was reading 2.8 mph at times when FishHawk was as low as 2.0. Temps are starting to stratify. We only had 1.5 degree difference from top to bottom.

This was the first trip since since June that the Bandits held their own against the Spoons. Top Bandit colors in order was Confusion, Green Clown, and Carrot Top. Spoons were dark purples, pinks, orange, and NASCAR, all spoon colors caught. Bandits caught all our bigs and we had several.

This was one of our guests first trip to the Big E for Walleye. I kept telling him it is not always like this. He had a monster eye 29 1/2 inches that went 9lbs 14 ozs on the boat scale. And also 2 others over 26 and 3 20 inch eaters. All in 3 hours.

We had multiple doubles and triples. Once we had 4 on the floor and 2 more on. I don’t think we ever got a full spread out.

NOTE: Bandits were best at 100 back, but we were marking significantly deeper. They were coming up engulfing them. Several bigs had the entire Bandit down their throat, all 3 hooks. Several eater were spitting up half digested shad.

We have this week scheduled off as October is going to be busy.

09/14/2024

9/11 and 9/12 report.

This was day 3 and 4 of fishing for these gentlemen. The walleye bite was tough but they were tougher.

We once again fished NE out of Huron. But now we had a NE wind. It wasn’t hard but it doesn’t take much to build rollers as the day progresses. We went out to 50 ft of water before the rollers built and worked back with the waves.

There are plenty of marks holding to the bottom, but only occasionally coming up to feed. It very much resembled a full moon bite, getting good near evening. The moon isn’t full but it has been bright.

We fished a variety of baits from crawlers slow to Bandits. Neither producing well. Scorpion spoons produced best at 2.2-2.3 mph down 35. Temps on the surface was 76, but 71 down 35.

We had many shorts and white perch but only one sheep. Most keeper eyes were quality eaters but we had a few mid 20’s.

The bite was not what we hoped for, but we sent these fine gentleman back to S Ohio and Florida with a nice mess of fillets.

We had 4 more bonus yellow Perch and another first. We had one Perch on two spoons at the same time. Must have been a hungry bu**er, hitting two spoons at 2.3 mph.

It was a blow day today and we are scheduled off next week.

09/11/2024

9/9 and 9/10 report.

One of our guests was from S Ohio and the other from Florida. They arrived Monday the 9th but it was a blow day. So they got some rest.

On Tuesday the 10th we launched out of Huron and marked allot of fish off Cranberry Creek in 37 ft. We set up and worked them but were catching shorts. So we pulled the spread and headed north. We set back up in 55 ft with good marks. The bite was there but really slow. So we moved again into 42-44 ft and found a nice active pod.

The program was scorpion spoons Stbd., Stingers on the riggers, and Bandits Port. We trolled at 2.3 mph, fish hawk. Best colors were pink purple and orange. We missed one and caught one on an orange crush Bandit that went 26 inches. The rest came on spoons. We had 3 in the mid 20s, the rest were eaters. We had several shorts and white perch. Surface temp was 75 and 35 down 71.

We had 3 bonus yellow perch.

09/07/2024

9/4 and 9/5 report
It was the Good, Bad, and the Ugly.

The good; was it was two days fishing with two of the best guys we have had the pleasure of having on the boat.

Jim and Josh came over from Indiana. Jim has been trying to to put together a trip sense last year. The weather kept causing us to reschedule. They arrived Wednesday afternoon.

The bad; they wanted to start Perch fishing. Now that is Capt. Christy’s favorite, but we have had mixed luck this season. Well the Perch fishing was terrible. We only caught 18 perch that afternoon. I told them we were on a consistent Walleye bite, so we opted to chase Walleye Thursday. We went out late morning and ran to where we have been catching. To make a long story short, there were plenty of marks, but we only boated 5 eyes before they had to head for home.

The ugly; I don’t want to talk about it. But this was a very humbling trip!

We have two old friends scheduled all next week for walleye. I am hoping for redemption, lol.

09/02/2024

8/31 and 9/1 report.

We had 3 local guys scheduled for Sunday when a past guest from Michigan contacted us and wanted to take the family fishing Sunday, his birthday. So the local guys were gracious and switched days and fished Saturday.

We fished Saturday out of Lorain and worked 35 to 45 ft of water. Same program that has been working for over a month. We trolled scorpion spoons down 32-37 at 2.7 mph. All colors caught but dark was best. For their graciousness they went home with 30, 17-20 inch Walleye. We had non stop action and stayed out longer for some catch and release fun. We had no sheep but about a dozen whites and 3 shorts.

Sunday we went out of Huron, our preferred ramp. We headed NE toward Vermillion. We set out the same program as the day before. The bite started a little slow but started to heat up nicely when the seasick monster 🤢 struck. As anyone who has been seasick knows it is miserable and once set in the only relief is dry land. We called it quits with 7 nice eater eyes, a big sheep and a handful of whites. We did have a first, a guest brought in an eye and white both on the same spoon. We have caught two fish on crank baits before, but this is the first time on a spoon. I didn’t think it was possible, but she did it, hurray.

08/28/2024

8/27

Sorry no fish pics this time but a nice Huron lighthouse one. And we wanted to post a few tips for those with smaller boats who can’t run out to the deep.

We were contacted by some guests from down south who had brought their boat up, but were having trouble getting on walleye. In 3 days they had only caught 3 eyes. They ask us if we would show them our technique.

We got a late start out of Huron and had to cut things short just to be safe with storms headed our way. But we did send them home with a nice mess of eaters and some tricks to help them when they fish their boat next. They were very nice and so appreciative.

Since they have a smaller boat we wanted to show them what they could do safely and still catch. We started working the 37-40 line just east of Cranberry. We trolled east at 2.3 to 2.5 .

We trolled spoons and worm harnesses. The pick started slow but steadily got better the further east we went. I was concerned about trash fish, but surprisingly we had few. We stayed with the dark colors that have been working for us. Scorpion spoons and double willow harnesses worked best.

We showed them several techniques to get their baits down 35ft. They had been fishing too high.

They also learned to always monitor the weather and to run for shelter before the storm gets to you. We were hammering the eyes with doubles and triples when I called it. I could tell they were disappointed. By the time we got to the river it was starting to white cap. It made believers of them.

08/25/2024

8/24 report
Our guests for today had to cancel last minute. They were super nice about it and told us to keep the deposit and sent a nice tip for our trouble.

Capt. Christy and I decided to fish anyway and go check out some new water. We made a long run east of the weather buoy. It really paid off.

We trolled 40 down over 50ft of water at 2.5 to 2.7 mph. We caught most fish on naked spoons but Christy caught a couple big ones pulling meat on worm burners and harnesses. But the majority came on spoons, both scorpion and stinger sizes. Best colors were purple/pink, purple/black, then whites.

No sheep, 3 white perch, 1 white bass. We had 2 fish Ohios, 4 over 26. We released all the big one but two that were hooked deep and bleeding. We kept 12 for the freezer and I think we released about 10 keepers.

As a bonus we caught 3 ring perch. One was 14 inches and another 13. Capt Christy was more excited about the Perch than the big eyes, lol.

I love it when I hear, we need a bigger cooler.

08/14/2024

8/12 report.

Our guest from Kentucky arrived right on time ready to experience their first Lake Erie walleye trip. They were a great crew, with a laid back wonderful attitude. I knew we would have fun when she asked seriously, do you think I will catch a fish? I think I said, you will catch a limit! So the pressure was on, lol.

It was bumpy early but calmed down through the day.

We decided to fish deeper after the blow. We moved NE out of Huron. As expected the fish had scattered from before the storms. But there was a nice band of marks stretching from 47ft to 50 ft.

We set up fishing down 35 to 40 ft. At 2.2mph. The surface had cooled to 76 degrees and it was 75 30 down.

We fought the weeds that had been torn loose by the storms all day. We had to constantly check and clean baits. Spoons in scorpion size in dark colors produced steadily if you could keep the grass off. Blacks were best, black purple, chicken wing, nascar, etc.

They caught their limit and some of ours too.

08/06/2024

We followed the SW swells out of Huron to 47ft and set up over some nice deep marks. We trolled spoons and worm burners 35 to 40 down at 2.3 mph. Darker colors did best. Chromes were getting hit by white bass so we traded them for black and purple to go along with dark green and orange. Both Stinger and Scorpion sizes produced.

We were picking up a nice eater grade of eyes with a large cat and sheep thrown in for excitement.

Then the Lake Erie seasick monster attacked a guest, so we called it quit early and headed in.

It looks like a big blow is coming in so the next few trips will have to be rescheduled.

07/29/2024

7/28 report

This will be the last report for a few days. We have a guest booked for the entire week. He wants to lean our technique and also wants to target over 20 inch fish. He has prepaid for the week with no refunds for weather. He also wants help setting up his boat if any blow days. Should be fun.

The difficulty is he is adamant, no pictures and no reports of our exploits. So we will be offline this week.

Capt. Christy and I went out Sunday to get back on our big fish game and prepare for our guest coming in Monday. We stayed working 44ft but moved significantly farther off shore. We dialed in the bigger fish 37 to 39 down over 44 to 47 ft of water.

We had to change up our previous program. We trolled 2.3 to 2.6 mph. These fish wanted Michigan Stinger sized spoons, not scorpions. Also gold backed spoons out performed the copper we had been using.

We had close to 40 keepers. Big fish was a Fish Ohio just over 28. It had been awhile since our last FO. We had 3 over 26. We had 3 shorts and 3 16 inchers, everything else was high teens or better. We released everything but a hand full that were hooked to deep to release. Good news was only 3 white perch, 5 white bass, and 2 sheep. FYI, blue chrome caught the whites so we took them off. Best colors were dark green and orange, basically a perch pattern and NASCAR. Like I said gold was the big winner.

If you have been following us, you know we donate free trips occasionally to support good causes. We have husband and wife auction winners scheduled for the 5th. So we will for sure be able to update you then.

07/21/2024

Our guests today were 3 life long buddies from NW Ohio. They had perch fished with us before but this was our first walleye trip together.

We headed N out of Huron to the 43 ft water we had consistently been easily catching at. We didn’t have 3 rods out when we picked up a chunky 17 incher. I thought, here we go. Wrong! The white perch moved in and were all over us. We had good marks so I thought we could troll through them. Wrong again! After 30 whites and only two keeper eyes we pulled the spread and headed out deeper.

We had almost constant action but had to work hard to get them their limit of eyes. Besides the whites we had allot of shorts. It was a pleasure fishing with them.

Water surface temp was 80 but the FishHawk temp 35 down was 75.

We trolled scorpion and stinger spoons down 35-39 at 2.2 to 2.7 mph. Best colors again were copper with chartreuse or orange. But every thing we pulled caught fish.

07/19/2024

7/17 report. Nothing new going on out there. We have been working the 42/43 line for the last month. Everywhere from Cedar Point to Vermillion has been producing. The larger fish are more East but there are still plenty of good eaters west of Huron.

Our program has been constant. We are trolling Scorpion or similar sized spoons 35 down. From 1.8 up to 2.4 mph. This trip they wanted it a little slower 1.8 to 2.0. We have been fishing nascar or other orange/green on copper. This was the first trip that we had a better bite on copper with some chartreuse.

Our guests were a nice couple from southern Ohio. We sent them home with 24 nice eaters and a smile on their face.

We did get checked by the wildlife officer at the Huron ramp. He was very professional and friendly as he checked our licenses and counted our fish. He didn’t have to measure as all were 18 plus. He even helped unload the fish from the boat and posed for a picture with the guests.

I’m off until Saturday.

07/13/2024

7/12 report.
Our guests from Thursday pushed to today for better weather. It was mostly cloudy and light winds, just a nice Walleye chop.

We picked them up on Kelly’s and they had a friend with them that wanted to fish also.

We have been fishing of Vermilion but worked East of Kelly’s over an area we had been catching earlier. There are still plenty of good eater size Walleye out there, but smaller than the Vermilion fish.

We trolled Scorpion spoons and burners down 32 to 37 feet over 43 foot of water at 2.2 to 2.5 mph. NASCAR was the best color followed by a purple black.

They went back to the island with a nice limit of eyes and one bonus perch. We had 4 shorts and two white bass.

We did notice the bite was much faster when the sun popped out, with multiple doubles.

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