New York Fishing Report – January 26-February 2, 2024
Site Staff
January 31, 2024
Look for some fresh steelhead coming up on this high-water event here.
Lake Erie
Lake Erie walleye hatch again is a good one in Western, Central basins
John Hageman
December 29, 2023
After waiting an extra agonizing three months again for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to share its sampling data with their Ohio counterparts, the Ohio Division of Wildlife issued a press release on Dec.
Ohio DNR, University of Toledo take on H2Ohio project to help protect Lake Erie
DNR Report
December 4, 2023
As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative, the Ohio DNR (ODNR) and the University of Toledo held a groundbreaking ceremony recently for a new project to restore wetland and stream channels. The University of
Year’s final algae bloom assessment on Western Basin of Lake Erie rated as moderately severe
John Hageman
November 21, 2023
The algal forecast is primarily based upon spring Maumee River Dissolved Reactive Phosphorous (DRP) loading calculations and flow readings through the end of June.
Ohio Insider: It appears 2023 walleye hatch on Lake Erie was again superb
Mike Moore
October 24, 2023
By all accounts, it appears that the 2023 spring walleye hatch on Lake Erie was again superb.
Of course, the official report won’t come out until December when all of the interagency data comes
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s nutrient reduction approved
John Hageman
October 5, 2023
Despite concerns from water quality watchdogs that say Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Maumee Watershed nutrient total daily maximum load (TMDL) does not address the causes of Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms (HABs), the U.S. Environmental
Spoon-fed walleyes keep Erie anglers on their toes
Bob Gwizdz
August 1, 2023
“I would say that 80 to 90 percent of my walleye fishing is on spoons,” Hegedus told me recently while we were catching them in about 25 feet of water.
Upbeat news on Lake Erie summer algae bloom
John Hageman
July 17, 2023
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
Ohio Insider: Research looks at potential relationship between antibiotics and algae blooms in Lake Erie
Mike Moore
June 6, 2023
About 1.2 million killograms of antibiotics are produced for U.S. agriculture purposes each and every year. And, up to 90% of those drugs can be excreted without being metabolized by livestock. In the environment, those
