Fishing Tiger Charters

07/11/2025

We had our two favorite little people on the boat. W e fished north of Huron for a couple hours before their attention span gave out.

Same program as before. We fished over 39-44 ft of water. Pulled spoons at 2.7mph. Stingers outperformed Scorpions. We fished 30 down. Temps are holding steady in the high 70s.

We kept 6 for a fish fry.

07/06/2025

7/5 report.
We headed North of Huron out to 42ft and set up a NE troll. We have been working this for several weeks with success. The number of sheep have been increasing as the water is warming. We had 77 degree water 30 down. The sheep are moving in and the walleye are moving east and north.

We trolled 30-35 down at 2.7 mph Fish Hawk. Scorpion spoons out fished stingers. All colors caught.

We finished with 21 keepers, but had non stop action with way too many sheep. We had 3 over 26 and the rest were nice eaters. 6 shorts and 3 white perch. Bugs are still bad.

We are for the next week.

07/02/2025

7/2 report

Not much has changed lately. We fished out of Huron working East along the 43 line. We are fishing 30-35 down trolling Scorpion and Stinger spoons. All colors are still catching. Best speed today was 2.5.

Action was non stop. We seldom got more than 4 rods into the spread with multiple doubles and triples. We had 3 shorts, one white bass, and several sheep.

Our wonderful husband and wife guests took 24 nice eaters home for their freezer.

06/30/2025

6/28, 6/29 weekend report.

We are still using the same program as the last couple weeks. We are fishing out of Huron in the upper 30s to low 40s of water. The river is still running muddy with wood now and again. Lake is clear and fish are still biting.

The biggest change for us was we lost contact with the bigger fish but we are still catching plenty of eaters.

Saturday we decided to keep only 18 to 20 inch fish and caught a limit of them in short order (about 2 hours) in the late afternoon. We were just fun fishing after that when we hit sheep. Our first real problem with them this season. I thought we could fish through them but after 7 in a row we decided to pull the spread and call it a day.

Sunday we finished with a limit of 30 but had to work much harder for them. We hit another pod of sheep but moved after we tripled on them. We had a slow spell when the bite really slowed, unusual here lately but it turned back on and we finished nice and steady. Notable we had several shorts. Others had been reporting them but it was our first time to catch more than a couple.

For those that have not been following us on Facebook, we are fishing spoons 30 to 35 down over low 40ish water out of Huron. Scorpion and Stingers primarily. Color doesn’t matter much. Best speed was 2.2 to 2.5 mph on the FishHawk.

06/27/2025

6/27 report.

I wanted to update everyone planning to fish this week and the holiday.

For the last couple weeks we have been on a fantastic bite. We have been working the area from east of Cedar Point to Lorain. I know it is a big area but there is a band of fish in the 37 to 43 foot range running the whole strip.

Catching fish isn’t the problem but dialing in a program for larger fish is the trick. We have been working a pod of larger fish the last week. The last 3 times out we have had few shorts with non stop action on 17-22 inch fish with a few bigger mixed in. Day before we had a 27 1/2 and two 26s. Sorry I can’t give up the exact location or we would be over run with boats. The best part we have the spot almost exclusively to our selves.

Our program is deeper than what others are sharing. We are running spoons exclusively. We are catching on Scorpions, Stingers, and even Stingrays. We are running all baits 30 to 35 down. Best speed for us is 2.3 mph Fish Hawk. Faster is better than slower but we were getting fowl hooks at 2.7. The bite slowed noticeably at 2.0.

Color doesn’t matter much, all are catching.

We had 80 degree surface temps coming out of the river the other day but it is holding a steady 68ish at 30 Fish Hawk.

If you don’t get out early it is 🥵. But there are less boats to contend with. It doesn’t affect bite. We have been catching at all hours of the day.

If wind lays black flies have been bad.

Good luck all and happy catching. It is fill the freezer time,

06/09/2025

Our 7 day bear hunting and fishing trip was cut short to 4 days so we decided to concentrate on bear. After all we get to fish world class Walleye all the time.

I honestly think we saw 100 Bear in those 4 days.

06/08/2025

We are back from up north and have fished a couple times to get back on the fish. We are catching from the reef complex to north of Kelly’s. The quality of fish has fallen off but the numbers of eaters are still good. We are catching quite a few shorts.

We are trolling 2.2 mph. Bandits are still producing but Michigan Stingers are catching the most. But the spoons also are catching most of our shorts. Color does not seem to matter but maybe gold seems to be a little better.

Water temps were 63-65 20 down.

As some of you are asking, I will make another post with pics from up North. I will put dead bear pics at the end, so don’t go there if it offends you.

05/16/2025

Our guest from Arkansas went home with a nice cooler of walleyes.

We went back to the same area and pattern we have been using the last couple weeks. For those who have not been following, here is what we are doing.

We are fishing west of the islands in about 24 ft of water. Water temps were 58. We trolled at 1.7 mph. Bandits port back 80 naked and flicker 11s stbd back 100 naked. Both sides caught equally.
It was a nice steady bite.

Best colors were anything with flash. Gold chrome was best.

Today’s guests canceled and we have weather coming in. So we will be off until after our planned trip way north to do some hunting and catch big Pike. There is no cell service up there but I will take pictures and post when we get cell service.

We will be back chasing Walleye in two weeks.

05/11/2025

5/10 report
Our guests from southern Ohio were supposed to fish with us tomorrow. But when I talked to them this morning to let them know the projected NE winds tomorrow would probably keep us ashore. They were already half way here and we decided to scramble and get them out this afternoon. They met us at Mazuriks at 1:00.

We ran west of the islands and set up on the marks from yesterday in 27 ft of water about 2:00. The graph showed the same big hooks so I was relieved as we wouldn’t have long to fish.

We started DHJs on the riggers, Spros Stbd back 100 naked, and Bandits port back 80. The Stbd rigger had a DHJ 12 and it was out fishing the port DHJ 14. The Spros were doing better than the Bandits, so we switched the Bandits to Flickers and they were on fire immediately. We had several doubles and triples.

We had a 27 1/2 and a thick heavy 27, as well as two 26s. They caught their 24 limit, missed a few and played catch and release for a few more . We called it quits at 6:00. It was a great day.

The surface temp was down to 55, it has been yo yoing up down after each NE blow. But the FishHawk has been showing a steady 54 down 16. Our speed was 2.0 to 2.2 on the fish Hawk down 16. The riggers were set at 16, with 30ft leads. Flickers were 80 back naked. There was no dominant color.

We will be back out Wednesday weather permitting.
We will keep you updated.

05/10/2025

May 7-9 post.
Sorry for the latepost but we wanted to get something fOr those of you fishing this weekend.

We had some great guests who joined us from different parts of Ohio. This family joins us every year to catch enough walleye for the family fish fry.

Wednesday we went 18 for 21 on mostly Bandits and Spros 80 back at 2.0 mph. We caught one PB, fish Ohio on a DHJ on the rigger down 16, 30 back,

Thursday was a blow day.

Friday we got their 18 again. The bite was hot and cold. Mostly Bandits and Spros 90 back at 2.0 to 2.2 mph.

We were fishing west of islands in 27 ft.
All were post spawn.
I’ll post another update tonight.

05/06/2025

5/5 report

We decided to fish west of the islands to cut some of the swells coming from the NE.

We spent about 2 hours video fishing. That is hunting with the electronics. We found one big school but there were too many boats in the area to maneuver on them properly. Several small pods but they weren’t quite big enough for what we were looking for. Then we found what looked just right. The fish were not grouped tightly but spread out and were up off the bottom with the big hooks we like.

We setup and made a pass and picked up 10. Turned and went only half way back for another 10. The fog was rolling in thick so we decided to pull the spread and head in. Before we could get everything in we caught 4 more. We kept 12 for the freezer.

We were in 27 foot of water and trolled 1.8 mph FishHawk hawk down 20. Surface water temps dropped from mid 50s a couple days ago to 48. The NE winds are pushing cold water in. But down 20 it is 53 degrees (FishHawk hawk).

Color of bait did not mater but they were all over the DHJs down 16 on the riggers. Followed next by Spro Mad Eye 120s. Bandits caught but not near as good as the others. Spros and Bandit best leads were back 80.

05/05/2025