
Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – August 1, 2024 – video
Lake Erie is on fire for both walleyes and yellow perch, though the rest of the state’s lakes are a bit sluggish in the heat of the summer.

Lake Erie is on fire for both walleyes and yellow perch, though the rest of the state’s lakes are a bit sluggish in the heat of the summer.

Lake Loramie is steeped in Ohio history. More than 200 years ago, it was a lone trading outpost and named for an early fur trader, Pierre Loramie.
The lake, which was completed in 1840,

Eric Weimer, fishery biologist supervisor at the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife’s Sandusky Research Station, was recently named Fisheries Biologist of the Year for 2024 by the Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

There is a stretch of more than 50 miles of the St. Lawrence River (Thousand Islands) in New York, as well as eastern Lake Ontario, that constantly produces chunky, hard-fighting smallmouth bass. It’s this reputation

New regulations governing certain fishing tournaments in Ohio may be on the horizon if the Ohio Division of Wildlife gets its way.
Division of Wildlife Inland Fisheries Administrator Rich Zweifel told state wildlife council

The Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife said that the fishing boat seized from Chase Cominsky, 37, of Hermitage, Pa., was sold through an online auction on July 23.
Cominsky and Jacob Runyan, 44,

The black, soft-plastic frog with its pair of sensually undulating rubber legs almost made it safely across a gap in the long-leaf pondweed.
Had the fishing lure completed its journey across the interlocking spatterdock

During late May and through pretty much all of June, bass-fishing action can be expected from dark to dark. As the middle of the summer settles in, that all seems to change.
While there

Hot weather has both anglers and fish alike sluggish in the heat. As a result, the bite has been a tough one in Ohio waters.
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