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slayed the walleye friday


evan9381

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was up here in the cleveland area for a family reunion, and decided to catch a charter boat. found one that was $70/person, mixed parties, minimum 4, max 6. he had 3, so with us, we had 5 people

 

by 1030, we had 1/2 our limit in the boat. BIG walleye too. one of the guys caught a fish ohio sized perch, about 13". one of the walleye (below) came in at 30", 9.55lbs. it was a beast. we had a good time, everyone limited out

 

i plan to go up again soon. captain has a thing he calls the iron man challenge, 12 hours, if you dont limit out on walleye, your next charter is free. if you do limit out and the 12hrs isnt up, he'll take you for steelhead, perch, etc and wont go in to port unless you say so or the 12 hours is up. $100/head. fuck yeah.

 

and the pic with all the fish hanging, there were like 5-6 more in the cooler, we just didnt have another board to hold them on

 

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they were using some dipsy divers straight off the boat, and some spoons off the planter boards. i think he had them down about 40'. im not sure where exactly we were at. it was about 7-8 miles off shore and we launched from lorain, and went a little west. we fished away from the rest of the pack. werent but a few boats within 2 miles of us most of the day

 

the guys number is on that board we're holding the fish up with. his name is tony sambujak (i think thats the last name). you can check http://www.reelthrillcharters.com ...he does the mixed parties wed/fri/sunday and does private charters the rest of the week. good guy though, and his 9-10 year old son who is the "first mate" is hilarious. he doesnt do much, but you'll laugh at him all day

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Holy hell that looked like a blast. I want to do a charter so bad, but it's hard to get 6 dickheads together at once for a drive to the water. Shoot me a text next time....I am game.
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i will definitely be going back up. a couple of the guys on the charter have said they'll be down for doing the 12 hour trip, and the capt only does them through july, so theres 3 of us pretty solid as of now. ive got 1 at work that i think will go

 

if you guys are serious about doing it, i'll start planning something for a day before the end of july (preferably on the weekend or a friday/monday where the lake will have less boats?) and collect $ ahead of time. the 12 hour garunteed limit trip is $600 for UP TO 6 people, so it'd be a lot better if we had 6 people at $100/head instead of 4 people at $150/head

 

but you're right putty. i've been trying to get people together to do a charter for the last 3-4 years, and everyone is always "oh yeah, i'd be down", but then nothing ever comes of it. people are too big of bitches or complain that $75-100 is too much. LOL. this was the first time i've been out on the lake since before my grandpa died 14+ years ago.

 

so i'll check with the guy at my work, email the guys up here i went out with, see what date works and post up here to see if we can get 2-3 more heads to go out

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Thanks, Evan. Me plus one for sure. What was the additional cost for having the fileted? The year i did it the cpt called someone on our way in and they met us at the dock, took our catch, fileted it all and brought it back. We went and cooked it right away at a friends that lived close. It was damn good eating.
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He can only take 6 on his boat, and I should have 4 as is, so I'll fibd out for sure and it'll be first payed as to the other 2 we can include. I'd rather collect money then we know it's paid for. They only do the 12 hour trips thru july but can do parties other times. Ill post when i get home

 

i think they'll clean the fish for $30 per person, but it didnt seem like that was one of his things...probably why it was a cheaper charter than the others i looked at.

 

but he did say he could have pointed us to a place that does it for $.60/lb, close to where we launched from. i know we probably left a lot of meat on the fish after we filleted them, and next time i'll probably just take them to the place, spend the extra $ and get good filets. we got a lot of meat, but im sure there could have been more

 

and jeff, the mayflies were fucking EVERYWHERE

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