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Ohio’s Outdoors Trailblazers: Fred Snyder is a jack of many trades on Lake Erie

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Fred Snyder is no stranger to many of Lake Erie’s fishermen, Great Lakes Sea Grant agents and university researchers, Ohio State University Extension staff, former students, and fellow outdoor writers.
He grew up in West Liberty near the Mad River and his father ran the popular S & S Bait and Tackle business. He spent much of his time behind the counter, tying bluegill and crappie flies, fashioning his father’s proprietary weedless nightcrawler harnesses, and serving customers.

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Ohio’s Lake Erie perch hungry for minnows; bite continues

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After a period of relative inactivity among perch fishermen, reliable reports of some limit catches being caught again began circulating in the past couple of weeks.
These came from the Toledo Lighthouse and the water intake; A Can to Niagara Reef along the Camp Perry firing range; Green and Kelleys islands; Catawba, Marblehead, and in nearshore locations off Lake Erie’s Central Basin, especially Huron to Vermilion.

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Sandusky River sturgeon release a big-time event in Ohio

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On Sept. 30, some 300-plus students from Clyde, Fremont Ross, Gibsonburg, New Riegel, Old Fort, Genoa, Port Clinton, Woodmore, Margaretta, and Zanesville high schools and Heidelberg University gathered on Ohio’s Sandusky River near Fremont to take part in the release of some 750 juvenile lake sturgeon.
Raised at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Genoa National Fish Hatchery, this marked the second year that this ancient fish species was stocked at the Darr-Root Fishing Access there.

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Lake Erie’s Western Basin walleye hatch again looks ‘exceptional’

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At the Oct. 7 Ohio Wildlife Council meeting, the members were provided with the preliminary findings of the 2026 walleye hatch as seen during the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s Sandusky Fisheries Research Station’s Western Basin young-of-year fish trawling efforts. 
Walleyes that hatch each spring normally recruit into adult catchable fish by the end of their second summer.

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What’s in a fish’s name? A lot, it turns out

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Fisheries biologists and other naturalist for centuries have subscribed to one of two camps – splitters and lumpers. It is a tug of war that has been waged for centuries.
Splitters are those who use tiny differences in fish structures to create sub-species and lumpers permit subtle variations in appearances to remain under the umbrella of a single species. Now, taxonomists, who are scientists who name, describe, and classify living or extinct organisms into categories down to the subspecies level have DNA to back up their observations.

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Ohio State researcher provides an update on imperiled Ohio fish species

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As part of Ohio State University’s Stone Laboratory summer guest lecture research brief series, Brian Zimmerman summarized some of his projects to reintroduce and expand populations of imperiled Ohio fish species.
Zimmerman works through an Ohio Division of Wildlife grant designed to restore state listed endangered, threatened, or species of special concern through an Ohio State University (OSU)/Ohio Biodiversity Conservation partnership with principal investigator Laura Pinter.

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Ohio Division of Wildlife invests in deer donation program

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With Ohio’s deer herd growing faster than hunters, coyotes, and automobiles are removing them, more nuisance complaints are being submitted to the Ohio Division of Wildlife for the agency to address.
The spread of diseases, habitat damage, and slower growth rates are also more likely to occur when animals are subjected to overcrowding. To this end, the Division of Wildlife is stepping up its efforts to encourage and assist hunters with “doe-nating” harvested deer to those in need of this valuable, nutritious, and welcomed protein via the agency’s Field-to-Food- Bank program.

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Perch anglers scarce on Lake Erie’s basins

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Beginning in April, Lake Erie’s walleye catch rates have been as good as most anglers, including charter captains, have ever seen in the Western Basin through July. Similar results have been seen all summer in the cooler waters of the Central and Eastern Basins.
As summer progressed, many anglers with plenty of walleye fillets in the freezer began to get anxious about catching some yellow perch, arguably an even more desirable fish for the table.

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