
Metro Area Fishing Report – July 2, 2023 – video
Find the rocks/hard bottom in the mid-depth weeds and you’ll catch fish.

Find the rocks/hard bottom in the mid-depth weeds and you’ll catch fish.

Each spring and summer, those living or visiting the Lake Erie shoreline deal with a large number of annoying “bugs.” Their nymph or larval stages are produced in staggering numbers in the fertile lake sediments

Ohio’s legion of anglers have a whole new suite of data points at their fingertips to find out where to catch fish.
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, in partnership with the Ohio DNR Division

Fishing continues to be one of the world’s great recreational pastimes. Since the formation of Catching Dreams Charters Inc. in 2015, after being recognized as an important therapy for pediatric cancer patients, the 501 (c)(3)

The Pennsylvania Game Commission could be on the verge of gaining the ability to set its own hunting license fees, similar to authority already given to the Fish & Boat Commission.
On June 21,

It was a scorchingly hot day – by noon it was nearly 100 degrees – as we dropped a relatively new lure made of zinc alloy to Champlain’s beefy lake trout. And the drop was

A spring fish kill along the Illinois banks of the Ohio River seems to have subsided, but not before alarming a number of anglers.
Thousands of dead fish floated down the Ohio back in

Lake Erie walleye fishing has generally been slow, but improving. At mid-week there was a noticeable jump in average catches out of Barcelona Harbor, with multiple boats returning with limit catches.

We’ve been finding a lot of fish, but the patterns have been back and forth. Some keys tactics are working, and finally some much-needed rain.
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