Fishing Report Mark Lorenc Charters – end of year report for 2020

October 2020 Fishing Report

We are in mid-October when I am writing this report, and I have a handful of perch charters left to go
this year fishing season.

Weather permitting, any days the winds are below 10 miles an hour, I can go fishing for perch. We have
been catching perch. The perch have been between 50 and 60 feet of water. The perch are biting pretty
aggressively, last time out I had three people in the boat with me, we had a triple and two doubles on at
once. The perch have been ranging in size between 8 to 12” long, with a few jumbos mixed in.

I have been searching for walleyes on the sonar around Buffalo this fall and not seeing many on my
Humminbird. The best fishing is off the walls at night for me this fall, when I can get out!

I will be putting my boat away the last week of October this year.

Weather permitting; I will start my fishing charters again the first week of April 2021, for perch on Lake
Erie.

April 2020 Fishing Report

My son(s) and I did real well for perch this last spring. We went out four times, and we brought in over
500 perch. I expect the same action this April for perch. The perch fishing technique is to keep moving
until you find the active perch. We use the traditional perch spreader and live bait. Move if you don’t
catch fish. If you are catching small perch move, small perch don’t swim with big perch.

May 2020 Fishing Report

My son(s) and I went fishing every weekend last May and we were catching walleyes pretty regularly in
the shallow waters off the windmills in Buffalo using both jigs and blade baits. Until the water is in the
mid 50°F it’s a jig bite for the walleyes. The nicest part of May, is that we are catching both bass and
walleyes on the shallow humps and reefs in 20 to 30 feet of water, using jigs and blade baits; pretty cool.
The last week of May I started my fishing charters for the season. I was delayed because of Covid like
everyone else this year.

Summer 2020 Fishing Report

June of this last year was a very funny month in regards to the weather. Spring (May and very early
June) was mild, not warm. June was warm. By the end of June, the air temperature was in the 90, the
water temperature warmed up very fast. We started fishing for walleyes mostly in close, less than 30

feet of water in Buffalo using worms and did real well until that we got that warm spell the last weeks of
June. That warm weather and with accompanying east winds, warmed the lake temperature up very
quickly, so the fish begin to move offshore faster than normal this summer. By the end of July, there
were no walleyes left in Buffalo area to fish for. By August, everyone, including myself, was fishing off
the Cattaraugus creek area of Lake Erie. The fishing off the Cattaraugus creek was amazing all of August
and September. It was not uncommon to get 3 man limits by eleven in the morning one day and the
very next day you can go over the same area and you wouldn’t get 10 fish all day. The fish were
scattered and would change locations from one day to the next by miles. The fish would roam from
inshore around 60 feet to the Canadian line. As the wind would shift from west to the east and back to
the west, the fish would move. It was fun trying to keep over the active fish, and a little frustrating at
times.

Bass fishing was very good all summer long this year. The bass were feeding aggressively on Gobies as
their main forage food. They will also hit crawfish on a Carolina rig in the summer. But the best is using
football jigs with green tubes and drifting for them from. Or you can use swim baits while drifting for
bass, either one will work.

Lake Trout Fishing In 2020

I had a few very successful fishing charters in August and September out of Dunkirk for lake trout and
steelheads. The fish were large and a lot of fun to catch. I do not use downriggers. I long line spoons on
the bottom anywhere from 80 to 130 feet. You hold the pole as we troll at 1.8 miles an hour. You need
to jig the spoon up and off the bottom a few feet and then back down. You will feel the lake trout (or
steelhead) hit and then it’s between a five and a 20 minute battle to get the fish into the boat.

I am taking charters booking for the 2021 fishing season, Now! Book your dates!

Tight Lines
Captain Mark