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Three Days of Fishing! Get the Labor Day Fishing Report

Plan on spending the long weekend on the lake? Find out the hot spots first.

Happy Labor Day Weekend! Three days of fishing!Avon Lake is a prime town to , cast a line and get ready to tell your tale about the one that got away. Check this week's holiday weekend fishing report before you head out on the lake. Information courtesy of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Daily bag limit

  • The daily bag limit for Lake Erie walleye is 6 fish. 
  • The minimum size limit for walleye is 15 inches.
  • The daily bag limit for yellow perch is 30 fish per angler on all Ohio waters of Lake Erie. 
  • The steelhead daily bag limit is 5 fish per angler through August 31 and then reduces to 2 fish per angler beginning September 1.  The minimum size limit for steelhead is 12 inches. 
  • The Lake Erie black bass (largemouth and smallmouth) daily bag limit is 5 fish with a minimum size limit of 14 inches

Western Basin

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Walleye fishing slowed in the past week. Some reports came from the reef complex, from the turnaround buoy of the Toledo shipping channel to West Sister Island, NW of Gull Island Shoal, and N of Kelleys Island. Fish have been caught by trolling with divers and spoons, and also on inline weights with worm harnesses. Fish can also be caught by casting mayfly rigs or drifting with bottom bouncers and worm harnesses.

Yellow perch fishing continues to be good in the western basin. The best areas have been W of West Sister Island around the gravel pit, around “B” can of the Camp Perry firing range, west of Niagara Reef, SW of South Bass Island, between Kelleys Island and South Bass Island, north of North Bass Island and north of Lucy’s Point. Anglers are using spreaders with shiners fished near the bottom.

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Good catches of largemouth bass are still available around the harbors and near shore areas from Catawba to Marblehead. Smallmouth bass have been caught around South Bass Island and Middle Bass Island.


Central Basin
 
Very good walleye fishing has been reported 70-72’ NE of Ashtabula and 70-72’ north of Conneaut.  Anglers are using wire line, Dipsy Divers with red, gold, silver, black, copper and purple spoons and stick baits.  Fair fishing has been reported around the Sandbar near Vermilion and Lorain. Spoons and harnesses produce best.

Yellow perch fishing has been fair off of the condos between Vermilion and Beaver Creek. Excellent fishing has been reported 44-48’ of N-NE of Gordon Park, 42-48’ NW of Chagrin River, 44-50’ NW of Fairport and 42-50' N-NW of Ashtabula.  Perch spreaders with shiners fished on the bottom produces the most fish.  Anglers have been using golden shiners when emerald shiners are not available. Shore fishing off the Mentor Headlands break wall and Fairport Pier has been spotty.  Mornings and evenings have been best. 

Anglers are catching white bass off the Eastlake CEI break wall and Mentor Headlands break wall. Anglers are using agitators with white jigs and twister tails. Mornings and evenings are the best times. For boat anglers, look for gulls feeding on schools of shiners at the surface. The white bass will be below the shiners.

Anglers are catching channel catfish off the Mentor Headlands break wall at night using night crawlers. Fish are also being caught along the Grand River at the St Clair St bridge.

The water temperature is 71 degrees off of Toledo and 73 degrees off of Cleveland according to the near shore marine forecast.

Anglers are encouraged to always wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device while boating.

 
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