For a chance to hold a fish that has existed, according to the fossil record, virtually unchanged for approximately 200 million years, the Toledo Zoo is inviting the public to attend the fifth showing of “Sturgeon Fest.”
It has been scheduled for Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the city of Toledo, Ohio, boat launch along the banks of the Maumee River, at 2700 Broadway Street.
Within the past month, the angling community lost a couple of well-known Ohio outdoorsmen.
While each were avid and successful deer hunters too, they were both more widely known for their fishing knowledge and skills that they shared with thousands of anglers from Ohio and beyond.
“Bud” Gehring, age 82, passed away on July 30 in Port Clinton as he was about to head out for a day of yellow perch fishing on Lake Erie. Elmer Heyob, age 67, known by many statewide as “Mr. Muskie,” succumbed to cancer while in hospice care on Aug. 8.
Ohio loses a pair of fishing legends in “Bud” Gehring, Elmer Heyob Read More »
As has been reported by several charter captains, local anglers, and then experienced first-hand in mid-July by this reporter, the channel catfish population in Lake Erie has swelled to numbers too big to ignore.
While fishing between Kelleys Island and Middle Island and other prime island-area walleye waters during July, a group of six anglers landed more than 25 channel catfish while tossing mayfly rigs baited with half-pieces of nightcrawler.
Channel cats are becoming much more common catch on Lake Erie Read More »
During the annual harmful algal bloom forecast hosted by the Ohio Sea Grant’s Stone Laboratory at Put-in-Bay, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist Rick Stumpf predicted that this summer’s harmful algal bloom (HAB) on Lake Erie will be mild.
Stumpf said that the severity index value is likely to reach a value of 3.0 but could range up to 4.0-4.5 if July is particularly wet. NOAA climate forecasts currently indicate that slightly higher odds of higher-than-average rainfall is expected for western Lake Erie.
Upbeat news on Lake Erie summer algae bloom Read More »
At the July meeting of the rulemaking Ohio Wildlife Council, John Navarro, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s Aquatic Stewardship Program administrator, explained some of the methods and locations the agency is using to try to prevent what were formerly known as Asian carp from gaining access to the Great Lakes.
The silver, bighead, and black carp have been spreading within the Mississippi River drainage for decades and are poised to gain entry into the Great Lakes, threatening its $6 billion sport and commercial fishery.
For many of us, fishing for yellow perch on Lake Erie was the easiest way to fill the freezer each fall for a year’s worth of fish dinners. Beginning on Labor Day weekend, the perch fleet assembled over the flats from the Michigan shoreline to Vermilion until the end of the boating season.
Before the walleye fishing rigs began appearing in the late 1980s, most Lake Erie boats in Ohio were docked in marinas that lined the shorelines throughout this area.
Are perch in peril in parts of Lake Erie? Ohio Division of Wildlife biologists weigh in Read More »
During the early evening of June 15, several confirmed tornadoes touched down in the northwest, first near Detroit Beach in Monroe County, Mich., and then in Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Erie, Huron, Seneca, Richland, Ashland, and Wayne counties in Ohio.
Some of the largest hail seen in many years, as large as at least tennis balls, proved the intensity of the rotation of the super cell updrafts that quickly intensified after the front passed over Western Lake Erie.
Severe storm damage closes boardwalk at Ohio’s Maumee Bay State Park Read More »
On May 15, the Ohio DNR issued a public health notice for would-be visitors of Grand Lake St. Marys State Park, due to high levels of toxic algae and E. coli bacteria detected at multiple locations around this 13,500-acre body of water.
Ohio’s Grand Lake St. Marys State Park still coping with algae problem Read More »
After years of fewer people pursuing them, a very noticeable raccoon population explosion has occurred. To reduce the problems associated with having too many raccoons, many people here are now asking about having an open season on this furbearer in Ohio.
Commentary: Time is right for unrestricted raccoon season in Ohio Read More »
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