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The Best Rainbow Fishing Season I Remember

Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at 9:12 am  
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Rainbows and Yeck Spoons Top Off My Year

yeckspoons The Best Rainbow Fishing Season I Remember

Yeck Spoons Rule

Well I remember posting quite some time ago that it appeared the rainbow fishing was setting up very nicely out of Wheatley. I would say that is turning out to be an under-statement. I went out again Saturday and took an older friend with me in the SS Minnow.

We had another great day and rainbows were there to be taken again. We really had a lot of fun and we had 21 fish on. As with that game we lost a bunch of them but we did manage to boat 9 rainbow trout and 5 walleye and most of the fish were big. I can’t ever remember the season going on so long and so consistent.

Nothing changed with my baits. As has been the case the whole season – I could have fished my 2 favorite colors of Yeck Spoons and my custon painted color that I call RDP. Yeck spoons are simply the best. Now I just need to convince them to paint my RDP and send me some  “Black Demons” and my my lure dreams have all come true.

Young Angler “Hooked on Rainbows”

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 at 8:44 am  
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Rainbow Fishing 101
jr1 Young Angler Hooked on RainbowsI gotta send out a big congratulations to this young guy. He has been seeking advice about what gear he needs to buy and how he should tackle fishing in Lake Erie so that he could catch his first rainbow and walleyes. He broke the ice yesterday and I am real pleased for him. Congratulations Jason!!!!

 

 

jr2 Young Angler Hooked on RainbowsNOTE FROM JASON
“Hey Tom! We went out today and we were somehow able to catch two rainbow! It was pretty awesome and I’m hooked, no pun intended!.
Thanks for all your help, I pretty much owe these to you.”

Fishing Wheatley August 20 2011

Sunday, August 21st, 2011 at 2:00 pm  
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Fishing Wheatley Aug 20 2011

Well, the fishing is really hanging in there at Wheatley. Rainbow and walleye continue to be caught and should hang in until a severe weather change. My whole gang was out fishing saturday. My son Tyler had a good day and boated several rainbows and walleye. My other son Trevor had a great day as well. His trips have been limited this year but he certainly had a big day with the bows and eyes. My luck held on as has been the case this year. I limited out on rainbow and walleye and actually had to release a few bows while trying to fill my limit of eyes. My best color yesterday was the copper “Killer Bee” by Yeck Lures. It caught nearly all my fish. I can’t say enough about Yeck Lures. I could have taken 3 colors most days this year. One color that has been big is my custom painted purple/pink/white bait you will see in previous posts. The other 2 are copper variations by Yeck. There is one more color I need to get to complete the starters for me. I think the purple variation would have also caught me many fish this year and I will be adding some to my arsenal soon.

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Yeck Lures Jerry Lee

 

 

 

 

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Yeck Lures Killer Bee

 

 

 

 

Gotta Get Some of These

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Yeck Spoons Black Demon

Rainbow Trout Wheatley July 29 2011

Friday, July 29th, 2011 at 4:53 pm  
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Rainbow trout and walleye are still hitting good out of Wheatley.

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Rainbow Trout Setup

Although they seemed to have moved eastward, this fishery is great and you should get in while it lasts. It can actually end very quickly. No doubt we will get a cold, windy week later in August and that will be the signal to the fish to move on in there annual cycle. Once the water gets mixed up and temperatures start to cool in the upper layer, the fish will be gone as quick as they came.

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Trout, Walleye Spoons

This year set up right from the start for a good year and I can’t remember a better year. I have been using a very simple setup. I run two number O dipsey divers out from 60 – 80 feet of line and the dipsey setting 3 on the bottom. I think I could have held to two colours for the whole season and I would have been fine. I love that “Jerry Lee” by “Yeck Lures”. That spoon is copper with orange tape. The other colour I could not live without is my custom painted RDP as seen in the photo. This spoon has been the most consistent spoon in my box for several years. I have painted a bunch of them. Year to year we have seen Northern King watermelon, monkey puke, greasy chicken wing, and orange crush but none of those seem to go from year to year. You can see my starting line-up but in all honesty, those other baits just haven’t stayed on very long.

Go fishing for rainbow trout and walleye at Wheatley before it all ends.

Great Walleye Fishing Wheatley July 22 2011

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 at 5:47 pm  
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Walleye and Rainbow Trout Wheatley July 22 2011

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Rainbow Walleye Wheatley July 20 2011

The walleye fishing in Wheatley has been phenomenal this week. I fished Wednesday and boated 8 walleye and fished Friday. On Friday I boated an unbelievable 21 walleye and 5 rainbows and was back at the dock by noon.

The fish are real nice and a real handfull to get in the net when fishing by yourself and trying to manhandle 6-7 pound fish with one hand and net with the other hand. Video tape of some of those net jobs would be very interesting.

 

 

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Rainbow Walleye Wheatley July 22 2011

The big dipsy diver has been doing the damage at 60-70 feet out and occasionally I dropped back further. Copper spoon with orange tape, watermelon and my old favorite custom painted blue/pink/white as seen below are catching fish. I couldn’t keep the walleye off this morning to catch my rainbows.

 

Rainbow Trout Fishing Wheatley July 9 2011

Saturday, July 9th, 2011 at 7:26 pm  
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Wow – The Wheatley rainbow trout fishing

 

 

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Rainbow Trout Fishing Wheatley

is really cranking on and the fun and excitement of catching these fish is unbelievable. They are jumping out of the water and fighting like crazy. The size of some of the fish that are being caught is unbelievable. I took my little 15 foot S.S. Minnow out for the morning and caught a limit of huge rainbow trout in 50 feet of water again
The total weight of those 5 fish was BIG and they nearly filled a large cooler.

 

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Rainbow Trout Fishing Wheatley

I can only see things getting better. The weather the last week really was perfect to set the area up for a great season. The rainbow trout have come to Wheatley!!

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