We arrived at the Colonial motel for our 7th year on Tues April 12 just like in '10. Wed started cold with rain. Finally stopped about 3 pm so we fished till 7:30ish. WT was in high 30s.....NO HITS...2 guys at motel who have been coming for 10 years fished ALL day Wed IN THE RAIN....NO FISH...OK maybe we were getting a little worried !!!!!..Thurs April 14 was cloudy but light wind...fished ALL day...ran all our areas from NE Marina to PI....I caught a 5# lake trout on Silver Buddy...go figure....my buddy never had a hit and I had NO smallmouth hits....only saw fish on the HDS a couple of places...maybe they were lake trout..LOL....not sure where Dwight found the blue sky.....in '10 we had 108 with 10 >5# and 4 >6# in first 4 days.......Fri started with E wind +20k and rain......Sat W wind gusting over 50mph with rain...Sun more of the same and went to NE Marina hill to ck mud line....what mud line??..it was over the horizon!!!!!!!!....Ckd 14 day weather on Mon morning...basically more of the same.....FWIW the jet stream was basically blowing straight from Oregon to NY....ck it now....TX to PA with some southerly winds.....800 miles later I was back in GA and REALLY DEPRESSED and counting the days till 2012.......guess with 6 great years out of 7 we shouldn't complain.....BUT WE ARE.......

milepost43

I feel your pain. It has been the worst chance to fish lake erie this april I have ever seen. Very nasty conditions. But on the bright side when we do have a good day I hope we clean up. The smallies most definately have not seen any pressure yet.. Maybe they are as confused as I am regarding a spring pattern.