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So it was a slower day today on Lake Erie so I decided to go searching for some prime locations maybe later in the year or now and I stumbled across some interesting finds.  My first year in a boat so I’m new to all of this but let me lay this out.  Please bare with me and help if you can.  So I head out from the harbor which starts around 3-5 FOW , I get past the break walls and head towards a beach where I have caught some bass before on a friends boat.  I come to the area and see this amazing chunk rock! It actually looks like concrete on the bottom sitting in around 7-10 FOW (Lake Erie is crystal clear right now and can see about 15-20 feet down) but I’m sitting in this 7-10 foot range and can see bass and fish swimming around, it was this huge area that almost

looks as if they tried to put concrete in the water at some point so I try throwing a jerkbait , crankbait and swimbait but no luck.. I notice some bass boats way further off in the distance and wonder what they are doing out there.  So I start heading out and that way.. when the chunk rock and concrete end it drops to about 20 feet of water.. all of a sudden I get to where these boats are like 1/4 mile off shore and it all of a sudden goes from 20 feet back to like 7-8 feet of water .. again it looks like chunk rock , like a huge rock reef or concrete. Like giant planes came in and set blocks down in the water haha , you could see bass and other fish swimming around. Again I threw some Jerkbaits, swimbaits and cranks to get down but had no luck.. I tried to fish the edges and drop offs but again no luck. I’m new to this type of fishing so what am I doing wrong or how would you approach this? Would the bass hold to these locations after spawn? Or fall? I marked a lot of areas to come back to. It’s hard to describe what I saw and couldn’t really get pictures but it was interesting to see how it went from so deep to shallow as can be so far out. 

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20 hours ago, Ksam1234 said:

So it was a slower day today on Lake Erie so I decided to go searching for some prime locations maybe later in the year or now and I stumbled across some interesting finds.  My first year in a boat so I’m new to all of this but let me lay this out.  Please bare with me and help if you can.  So I head out from the harbor which starts around 3-5 FOW , I get past the break walls and head towards a beach where I have caught some bass before on a friends boat.  I come to the area and see this amazing chunk rock! It actually looks like concrete on the bottom sitting in around 7-10 FOW (Lake Erie is crystal clear right now and can see about 15-20 feet down) but I’m sitting in this 7-10 foot range and can see bass and fish swimming around, it was this huge area that almost

looks as if they tried to put concrete in the water at some point so I try throwing a jerkbait , crankbait and swimbait but no luck.. I notice some bass boats way further off in the distance and wonder what they are doing out there.  So I start heading out and that way.. when the chunk rock and concrete end it drops to about 20 feet of water.. all of a sudden I get to where these boats are like 1/4 mile off shore and it all of a sudden goes from 20 feet back to like 7-8 feet of water .. again it looks like chunk rock , like a huge rock reef or concrete. Like giant planes came in and set blocks down in the water haha , you could see bass and other fish swimming around. Again I threw some Jerkbaits, swimbaits and cranks to get down but had no luck.. I tried to fish the edges and drop offs but again no luck. I’m new to this type of fishing so what am I doing wrong or how would you approach this? Would the bass hold to these locations after spawn? Or fall? I marked a lot of areas to come back to. It’s hard to describe what I saw and couldn’t really get pictures but it was interesting to see how it went from so deep to shallow as can be so far out. 

Ned rig or a Tube either t-rigged or a Tube jig.  drag or hop  them on the bottom. Green pumpkin is a good knock off of a gobey.  since it’s in Lake Erie you could use a tube jig and not have to worry much about hang ups. I’d start with 1/4 oz weight. If they want to hit it on the fall you could use less weight.  Deeper than that I’d go 3/8.  Once you get passed 14 ft I’d use 1/2 

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