In late July, Stone Laboratory’s four Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) students made presentations at Ohio State University’s (OSU) Lake Erie campus at Put-in-Bay summarizing preliminary results of their summer research.
Justin Chaffin, research coordinator, Stone Lab and OSU’s School of Environmental and Natural Resources, served as moderator for the evening talks.
Student research hits Lake Erie’s top topics Read More »
Fish can show a wide variety of variation with their pigmentation patterns and arrays of colors. Males of some species such as darters, sunfish, minnows, and emerald bowfins display dazzling breeding colors during the spring.
Others are more temporary – such as when fish are subjected to stress or when they try to blend into their surroundings after they move into different habitat types. Yellow perch are an example of a species capable of the latter.
Ohio angler lands rare ‘blue’ perch; here’s the history behind it Read More »
On Aug. 14, members of the University of Toledo Lake Erie Center’s grass carp strike team netted a young-of-the-year sauger while electrofishing in the Maumee River.
The team was there to look for the presence of grass carp, which actively make upstream spawning runs during high stream flow events, and recognized the fish after it was dipped off the water’s surface near Orleans Park even with Audubon Island.
Sauger shows up in Ohio’s Maumee River from stocking Read More »
On Aug. 3, more than 100 participants and onlookers gathered at a groundbreaking ceremony at the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s Gary Anderson Competition Center building to mark the expansion of the footprint at Camp Perry near Port Clinton.
Facility expansion could bring big things to Ohio’s Civilian Marksmanship Program Read More »
Although I had previously used shrimp while fishing for whatever was biting during a few vacations along Florida’s Atlantic coast, it wasn’t until I went out with a few Sandusky Bay catfish guides that I saw shrimp used in freshwater.
I fished for channel catfish and bullheads for many years using nightcrawlers, garden worms, leeches, and commercial stink baits and caught plenty. It never dawned on me to “waste” shrimp by using them as catfish bait.
Trout baits for catfish? This Ohio guide shows it works Read More »
According to a citation that was issued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a pair of Henry County companies were responsible for a leak of liquid Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) fertilizer that occurred on a shared facility, spilling into the Maumee River and killing tens of thousands of fish.
A neighbor to the property says he first smelled ammonia on the evening of July 2 and nearby landowners reported the odor coming from Huston Creek and alerted the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, which closed nearby roads on July 3.
Massive fish kill hits Ohio’s Maumee River Read More »
Scientists, elected officials, media, and other interested parties converged at Ohio State University/Ohio Sea Grant’s F. T. Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay on June 25 for the 14th annual harmful algal bloom (HAB) forecast for Lake Erie.
The prediction is offered by Rick Stumpf, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Center for Coastal Ocean Science, with input from a consortium of researchers, modelers, and agency experts.
Official harmful algal bloom forecast calls for moderate bloom on Lake Erie Read More »
On Gov. Mike DeWine’s last “Fish Ohio Day” while in elected office, the weather gods saluted his devotion to Lake Erie with sunny skies, pleasant temperatures, and a light breeze.
“Walleye fishing on Lake Erie is one of the many reasons Ohio is extraordinary,” said DeWine. “Fish Ohio Day is a chance to celebrate clean water, experience Lake Erie’s incredible fishery, and strengthen partnerships that will keep our great lake healthy for generations.”
Gov. Mike DeWine sits in on his final Fish Ohio Day Read More »
As the calendar turned to July, many anglers have been anxious to see when (or if) the yellow perch, arguably the finest tasting fish in the Great Lakes, would start biting in Lake Erie’s Western Basin.
For a number of years, July and August was a great time to catch a limit of fine perch before switching to walleyes and maybe land a bonus steelhead in the lake off of Ashtabula or Conneaut in Ohio. Poor reproduction for several years in a row in the Central Basin has changed this itinerary into a fruitless exercise most days now.
Summer yellow perch fishing could be productive in Lake Erie’s Western Basin Read More »
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