I think there are many on here who once they caught and then ate the saugeyes theyd be wanting more. Its not an easy fish or atleast if your targeting them . there are times but for most part there the most frustrating fish to go for. People on here like you and John know how rewarding it is when you get them dialed in and come home with a limit or even a few. Caught my first ones about 17 yrs ago fishing for crappie/catfish with bass minnows. From then on have been hooked . bass catfish gills crappie can be patterned for most part. These fish dont follow the rules and plan for many skunks as your learning the ways to get them. Its all year pursuit TOO. Spring is great for spillways then once the spawn is over they feed vigorously in the lakes and that is a great time for jigs and twisters tipped with night crawler or harnesses with night crawler jigs and minnows. Summer can be harder at times but can be extremely productive trolling cranks, flicker shads and such along points and flats. Fall is one of my favorite when temps start dropping in lake and they HAMMER jerkbaits. They can hit so hard and fight better than a musky at times. Then unlike this winter when ice is thick enough you can sit in a shanty with some holes drilled and watch tip ups with minnows as you jig with vibes or rapala jiggin raps. Alot of people say fuck that ice fishing, but pulling a fat eye or any fish for that matter up thru a hole in ice with a small pole can be a heck of a way to spend a winter day. It gets addicting and once you get into that its probly one of the more expensive ways. Started out with auger and bucket, then you get a shanty where it can be 10 degree out and your warm with heater or lantern . then hand augers do the job but a gas auger is way nicer. Then once you use a vexalar fish finder that lets you know when one is by your bait youl want that or what i like is a camera with a color screen that you can see your jigs or live bait down near bottom and can see the fish come check it out, watch it for a little then inhale it and take off. Thats the way to ice fish. These fish are the most rewarding to catch in my opinion and if you like walleye youll like them. I acually prefer them to the walleye ive caught from maumme or erie. Hope info helps out anyone on here that wants to start fishing for them. Its one of the few things that odnr does that really helps out sportsman and makes for a great day on our lakes. They put an average of around 450 thousand fingerlings or more in each of the lakes they stock .and with there appitte they can be a 18 to 21 inch fish within 4 years. Hoover has been getting a double stocking the past few years of around 800plus thousand a year with walleye being reintroduced also. Thats going to make hoover one of the best real soon. Indian is stocked with around half a million on average and buckeye is second i believe. Alot of people dont realize that oshaunessy dam is stocked full and a hot spot and below its dam and griggs dam the river is loaded with them. The pics of nice stringers will be comming frequently here in spring time.
lost 2 jerks last night. Must not have been agood night. Ya Troy is the saugeye master. Fished with him few times there at alum. Full of knowledge. Threw vibes and rattle trap also last night also with no luck. Buddy has hit a few in vibes of the docks recently in last couple weeks
