Lake Erie - Ohio's fishing vacation destination for trophy fishing charters

  Sport fishing

Lake Erie fishing charters

Call summer  440-997-7010 or winter 440-599-1028

 http://www.LakeErieCaptain.com                  http://www.Lake-Erie-Walleye-Fishing-Charters.com

Home | Up | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

LAKE ERIE WALLEYE TROPHY FISHING CHARTERS IN OHIO

For Ohio trophy fishing charters and news or information check with Captain Art Miller, your Lake Erie fishing guide.  Captain Art will post Lake Erie walleye fishing reports here or you can join a mailing list if you wish and have them emailed directly to you.  We are hoping for another good year on Lake Erie with plenty of legal sized walleyes and some of those trophy wall hangers to catch.   

Our privacy policy is this:  We will NEVER give out your email address to any 3rd party.  If you wish to have questions answered or news or other updates emailed you can rest assured your address will be held confidential. (You will never receive junk mail because you requested something from the Lucky Strike site)

 2009

Happy new year anglers.  I hope all of you have had an excellent holiday season and wish you a prosperous New Year with excellent health and happiness!

.......early January and we finally started to get to our real winter.  It has snowed about a foot since yesterday and they are predicting about another foot by tomorrow (January 10th)  The steelhead has been good and the fish have readily been taking fresh skein & egg sacks but.......I think we have finally seen the last of open water for awhile.  The streams are freezing more by the hour and soon there will no longer be any open water access.  Our next steelhead fishing will no doubt be drilling holes in the ice!

Anyone who has visited us during the last two years knows that the fishing has been awesome and hopefully 2009 will once again be a great fishing year.  Thank all of you for your continued patronage and I look forward to seeing everyone once again in 2009.

Our economy has certainly been in turmoil and I understand the difficulty and associated costs everyone faces when putting together your fishing charters. 

For 2009 we have chosen to keep our rates frozen.  The rates shown on this web are remaining the same as they were in 2008!!!

Good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

..........mid February and the weather just doesn't know what it wants to do.  There was a rescue of over a hundred fisherman who were on the ice on Lake Erie when a large section broke loose and floated away.  The US Coast Guard and several private air boats rescued the people then afterwards their equipment such as fishing gear and four-wheelers.  Unfortunately one person died during this ordeal.

We had been fishing through the ice in the streams for steelhead trout when the weather allowed us.  We had plenty of snow on the ground and it warmed for a few days which then broke the ice up, blew the streams out and flooded everything.  After waiting for over a week for everything to settle again we were able to get on the open water of the rivers for a few days and caught bright, fresh steelhead trout.  After those few days it got cold again and it has now frozen up the streams again & left us no access.

Well, everyday is one step  closer to spring and soon there will be some good steelhead fishing.

Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

............we're through March and into April already - wow!  The last of March ended the Grand River Tackle steelhead trout tournament.  I ended up (with ties) in tenth place.  Better than not placing at all and I hope to enjoy the banquet this Sunday - thanks Bruce and Kelly.

After the thaw the rivers and main lake around here seemed to warm faster than usual.  Most of the steelhead spawning activity in the Ashtabula River is winding down.  I see less and less fish while walking great distances.  The fishing on the big lake in the western basin is heating up.

During the annual captain's conference during March we heard good expectations for Lake Erie walleye fishing during 2009 from the ODNR   Hopefully our fishing will lead up to those expectations and bring us another banner year. 

Mark your calendars once again for May 16th - the annual Conneaut Fish and Game Club's youth trout derby.  This is a great event and it gets more popular each year.  If you know of a child who would like to fish please by all means get them to the derby.  As in the last few years Lucky Strike Sport fishing will be sponsoring the grand prize for any lucky angler who captures the fish Captain Art put in the pond.  The grand prize is an all expense paid four person perch charter!

Saturday May 16, 2009

***Grand Prize***  Catch the “lucky” steelhead trout and win an all expense 4 person fishing charter on the “LUCKY STRIKE”  charter boat……details will be posted the day of the event and you can visit the boat & captain at http://www.LakeErieCaptain.com

Saturday May 16, 2009

FREE

8am Registration

 Fishing 9am to 1pm

First 150 registered receive free rod and reel

Refreshments and bait available

FISHING OPEN TO AGES 15 YEARS AND YOUNGER

EVERYONE CATCHES FISH GUARANTEED!

All children must be accompanied by an adult

80 KEEFUS ROAD  CONNEAUT OHIO

Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

through May.........congratulations to Tyler Houser of Conneaut, OH for his winning fish in the youth trout derby at the annual Conneaut fish & Game Club event.  Tyler & a parent will be going on a steelhead trout fishing trip with Captain Art.  Tyler took the constellation prize with his winning trout which was the largest trout taken on the day of the derby.  We look forward to that stream fishing trip.

through mid June...........As far as the weather goes it has been cold for the most part with many nights dipping into the 40's.  We had freeze warnings up two weeks ago!  This cold weather has set us back a couple of weeks.  I guess the last few years have spoiled us around here as they found us on great walleye fishing with good limits coming in from the end of May. 

The fishing in Ashtabula Ohio has been slow.....(at least for the walleyes)  We are catching them but not in great numbers like you have experienced the last few years at this time.  There is a ton of bait outside of our harbor and hopefully we will be able to hold great numbers of walleye in our area as the ones migrating arrive.  Then we can deliver the excellent walleye fishing the people have come to expect!  Year in year out the visitors who arrive in Ashtabula Ohio come here for our renowned walleye charters.  Many trophies for the wall are the rule rather than the exception.  Lake Erie has a long standing reputation as the walleye capital of the world & I have dubbed our area as:  "Ashtabula Ohio fishing charters - home of legendary walleye catches" 

We have had some awesome smallmouth days with big fish and fish Ohio awards (over 20") such as the one below.  The perch fishing has been fair with no great numbers coming in but the sizes have been good.  Hopefully as the season progresses and the water and weather heats up so will the walleye fishing.

Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

through the end of June..........Finally we got on a decent walleye bite this past week.  After a long lengthy wait the weather and walleye both heated up.  We managed to pull limits on a few days & the others were in the high teens & twenty counts of fish.  On a few of the days we captured a few steelhead trout.  I hope this will continue throughout the rest of the season.  I don't expect it to be like the last few years which were just "as good as it gets" but hopefully it will be good enough to make the customers happy and uphold the fish catching and quality reputation which Ashtabula Ohio has been known for.

Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

through mid July..........For everyone expecting to come to Ashtabula for the slaughter such as you have experienced during 2006, 07 & 2008 it's just not happening.  we're back to fishing and hopefully we can uphold the reputation the area brings and make our customers happy in the process.  We have been pulling decent fish numbers on our good days but we have had to work for them.  Our perch charters have had mostly limits of fish except for the tough weather & wind change days.  It seems like everyone who has joined us have been pleased with the trip......after all the "trip" is what it's all about.  Having a great day on the water and catching some quality fish in the process.......what else could anyone ask for?  Everywhere in the world there is a cycle with sport fishing catches........it's never good always.  It cycles through good & bad, hot & cold or up and down, whatever way you wish to call it.  

Many thanks for all of those who have visited thus far and I'm looking forward to showing the rest of you who are coming an excellent day of fishing on Lake Erie. 

Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

nearing the season end, the beginning of October..............well here we are nearing the end of the season & I have hardly written any fishing news since mid-July.  Being a one man band & fishing nearly every day leaves very little time for computer work.  Most importantly I have to keep the Lucky Strike & all the gear in tip-top shape for the next daily fishing adventure.  Although our area of the lake started slow it came along like gang busters again with limit catches of awesome sized walleye & yellow perch making their way to the fish cutters.  Speaking of fish cutters my hats off to Mel & the crew at River Marine who keep customers happy with the quality fish cutting they offer.  Thanks again to everyone who has traveled to Ashtabula Ohio.  I hope we lived up to our reputation of producing quality fish catches & continue Lake Erie's reputation as being the walleye capital of the world.

Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

 mid October..............The weather has been very disappointing & we have had to cancel nearly all of our charters for the last few weeks.  When we did not have gale force blows the predictions were 4-6 footers for most of the other days.  The lake has not had a few good days to settle down.......it still looks like chocolate milk.  Our marina officially closed on the 15th of October.  The Lucky Strike is scheduled to come out of the water on the 20th.  So as I near the completion of the 2009 season I'll thank everyone who visited this year, wish you all a good winter & hopefully see you again in 2010.

As far as the stream fishing the trout are showing up.  The conditions should only get better during the next month.  For the wading fishermen.......I hope to see you for some of the silver action.

 Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

mid November........ We finally got into what I would call some Indian summer weather with temperatures rising into the upper 60's.  For the few who managed to keep their boats in the water it has rewarded them with catches of large yellow perch.  It took so long this year to wait for that news that almost every boat was out of the water and of course most all marinas were officially closed.  The steelhead trout so far have not been particularly aggressive or in any great numbers in the rivers.  I don't know whether the gale force blows on the big lake have had something to do with it or the temperatures are not right yet.  I'm sure the better steelhead fishing in the rivers is yet to come.  So as we near Thanksgiving please enjoy your times with your families and if you're traveling make it a safe journey.

Until then.........good friends, calm seas & tight lines......God bless you all and God bless America.....Captain Art

***AVAILABLE CHARTER DATES***

       If you would like to see if a certain date is available for your next

Lake Erie fishing charter call us at 440-599-1028 or

For your next sport fishing charters on Lake Erie, fishing for the elusive trophy walleye, yellow perch, small mouth bass, or steelhead trout call Captain Art at 440-997-7010 or 440-599-1028.

LUCKY STRIKE Sport fishing - Lake Erie fishing charters

202 West Main Road # 60

Conneaut, Ohio 44030

United States - fishing charter boat captains - sport fishing charters - fishing charters on Lake Erie, Ashtabula, Ohio

Visit the "LUCKY STRIKE" at the dock, lucky #7 at Kister Marina, Ashtabula, Ohio

Electronic mail:

If you would like to request general information about Lake Erie fishing charters click ask the captain

Lucky Strike........an Ashtabula Ohio Lake Erie charter boat bringing corporate, executive, business, novice and experienced anglers from all over the world an exciting fresh water fishing experience.  Ladies.....no need to let the men have all the fun.  Get your group together and let the guys play Mr. mom while you go fishing!

© 2003-2010 LUCKY STRIKE Sport fishing - Lake Erie fishing charters