OUR BOAT
Our boat is a 26' 2004, Pacific, powered by a new four stroke
250 Honda out board. This boat is made near Seatle Washington,
it is a comercial grade boat for use in all types of comercial
applications including life/rescue, police work, comercial
fishing, and chartering. This boat has lots of fishing room,
and a standup pilot house style cabin that can seat
four customers comfortably. It has some of the best electronics
on board, color fishfinder, color chart plotter by Raymarine,
and a new marine radio with all the modern functions. Because
of room constraints customers will have to use a portapotty.
All fishing equipment is newer and of good quality, and kept
in good working order. The boats semi-deep V-hull design
takes Lake Erie's famous rough water conditions very well.
The boat has all required Coast Guard equipment onboard and
is fully insured for comercial use. For added safety the
boat is inspected every season.
REPORT FROM BP COMPANY PUBLICATION
A BP TOLEDO FISH TALE
It was an A+ day on Lake Erie for four of our A zone employees.
Ron Iler “FCC-1 operator”, Tom Nafziger “Unsat
operator”, Gary Mercer and Mark
Miller “A-zone Extra Boards” they got together
and hired Captain Gary Leach also an FCC-1 operator for a day
of walleye fishing on Lake Erie. The day was perfect, the sky
was overcast and there was a brisk south west wind which gave
the lake a 2 to 3 foot chop which is ideal for drift fishing
for walleye.
The boat left the dock which is located
on Cooley canal at about 7:30 pm. It was a comfortable ride
on Captain Gary’s new 26 foot Pacific fishing boat out
to the area he wanted to try for walleye. Once the Captain
got to the spot he started scanning the area for fish on his
fish finder. Finally some fish were located and the captain
set the boat up for a drift. Fishing rods were handed out to
the guys that didn’t have their own and each guy
selected a lure from the captain’s abundant supply, two
guys ended up using weapons with copper colored blades and
two guys used weight forward sure shad lures in chartreuse.
The captain also set out four bottom bouncer rigs spread out
in rod holders around the boat.
Two guys got keeper size walleye right off the bat but then it slowed down.
By the end of the first drift the cooler had just four walleyes in it. They
were also catching some white perch and shepshead and quite a few undersize
walleye which have to be 15 inches to be legal in Ohio. On the next drift the
captain decided to go up a little further on the drift because they caught
fish right away on the first drift. He also decided to put out a drift
sock to slow down the boats drift speed, this helps to keep the boat over the
fish longer. What an improvement on that drift the guys boxed 9 more keepers
and the following drift produced 11 more and one more drift gave up
the rest for their limit of 30 nice walleye.
After the short ride back to the dock the guys cleaned their own fish at a
table set up just for
cleaning fish. All the guys really enjoyed the day of fishing
on Lake Erie and couldn’t wait to get home with all of
that good tasting walleye.
By the way I don’t know if it’s true or not but
I heard a nasty rumor that the Extra board guys beat out the
experienced operators.
Good fishing
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Captain
Gary has been a licensed charter boat
captain and guide for 8 years. He grew up fishing
Lake Erie with his dad and then on his own for 30+ years.
He lives very close to his boat dock so if he's not working
a charter he's usually on the lake fun fishing. That
helps him keep up with daily movements
of the fish. He also has a lot of great contacts with other
guides and friends that are avid Lake Erie fishermen who
share fishing information so he will always be prepared
with the latest information on where the fish are biting.