
Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – May 9, 2025 – video
Inland waters are receding after heavy rain over the past two weeks, leading to a good bite for crappies and saugeyes. Lake Erie walleye fishing is going strong as it does most days.

Inland waters are receding after heavy rain over the past two weeks, leading to a good bite for crappies and saugeyes. Lake Erie walleye fishing is going strong as it does most days.

As the steelhead season comes to a close, many Ohio anglers across the Lake Erie tributaries put their gear away until the fall.
But, over the past few years a growing cohort of fly

The process has been a long one. John Hageman wrote an Ohio Outdoor News feature about sauger restoration back in 2012. Who knows if it was the first discussion in recent times, when Ohio Division

The seventh annual Blue Rock Big Bass Bash at Ohio’s Burr Oak Lake had a full field of 50 boats for the sixth consecutive year when the tournament took place on Sunday, April 27. A

Writers whose work appeared in Ohio Outdoor News over the past year made a nice haul in the annual Outdoor Writers of Ohio (OWO) craft improvement contest, sponsored by the Ohio Marine Trades Association.

A saltwater fishing trip off the coast of Baja in the late 1960s was a memorable one for Paul Kraus, of Maumee, Ohio.
The fishing was made memorable, in fact, because Kraus ended up

Anglers who fish the waters of 13,500-acre Grand Lake St. Marys may hook 14-inch saugeye by summer 2026 if efforts by the Ohio Division of Wildlife go as planned.
The division intends to stock

If you’re like most bass anglers, you go to the lake, tie on favorite baits and head to spots where you’ve caught them before. If that doesn’t get you many bites, you switch baits and

Will Lutes is glad he decided to go fishing on Saturday, April 12.
Really glad. That’s the day that Lutes, of Akron, landed a 9-pound, 3.5-ounce largemouth bass on Nimisila Reservoir in northeast Ohio.<br
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