Can anyone recommend a place to stay in/near Sandusky, OH that is clean and it is easy to charge bass boat batteries. My son is graduating from college in early May and he wants to go fish Lake Erie for SM as a present. I have found hotels and cabins and am not sure which to do. We are going for a week 5/22/16. Thanks for any help.

East harbor state park.

Electric sites are less than $30 a night, great place with a campers only boat launch into the harbor. This puts you directly south of the islands and great may fishing smallies around the islands, or largemouth in the harbors if it is too rough.

Thanks for the reply. I do not have a camper. I am more interested in a hotel or cottage. Does Sandusky Bay have SM early in the year or the Huron river. I have had success on east Lake Ontario in these type of areas.

Just bring a tent!

If you just google sandusky ohio hotels; you can find stuff within a reasonable drive.

April/May you can definitely catch smallmouth in the bay, but you still will be catching a mixed bag with plenty of largemouth. The later in the spring and into summer, the less smallmouth. The frequency of large smallmouth is much lower in the bay than on the main lake.

I would use the Bay as a back up if at all possible when it's too rough, if you can get out on the main lake, do it.

If you don't have "spots" to fish on erie, I certainly recommend fishing the islands (bass islands, kelley's, mouse, rattlesnake, green) on the main lake. You can fish immediately around them in 5ft to 30ft water and do pretty well just junk fishing. But if you go out of huron/vermilion/lorain, its gonna be a crap shoot unless you happen to run over some humps/piles if you don't have coordinates for spots.

I would also suggest looking at lodging in the Port Clinton area.

I have never had good luck in Sandusky Bay for either SMB or LMB.  

If the main lake is too rough I would suggest going into East Harbor.  The LMB fishing is really good in there.  Lots of weed beds, boat docks, and in the summer some huge lilypad areas.