The Wayne National Forest in Ohio has a particularly creative Christmas tree tradition: recycling local communities’ live Christmas trees to build homes for fish.
If Mother Nature cooperates with a cold stretch, there are inland waters in Ohio that ice anglers have as options. If you want to go, here are a few options.
Berea, Ohio — Dennis Knowles and his wife, Gail Grizzell, are lifetime anglers. Grizzell learned at her mother’s knee while Knowles forged his fishing skills under the tutelage of his Uncle Ulysses.
Even a smallmouth just a pound or two will bend a jigging stick in half and won’t give up after the first or second and sometimes third thumping run.
Their tenacity makes them plenty of
Ohio anglers enjoyed a brief window of ice fishing during the last week and a half of December 2022 before warmer temperatures deteriorated ice conditions around the state.
Air temperatures in Central Ohio, for example,
I learned ice fishing from old guys. I was a teen, and the old guys were in their 20s, maybe 30s. These guys, when they were younger, must have learned the trade from equally old
A look at some of the best mid-winter walleye lure options.
Late season crappies feed heavily before the ice forms. It is a common belief. I agree, the feeding activity is more robust than it was in the summer and early fall.
Mentor, Ohio — No one can question the angling bonafides of Mentor’s Bob Ashley, particularly when it comes to steelhead fishing. However, even by Ashley’s high standards, this fall has gone beyond reasonable expectations. On
