Today walleye biologists estimate the population of 2-year-olds and older fish at around 116 million. To sweeten the pie the forecast for 2021 is an amazing 151 million.
In recent years, the walleye population on Lake Erie – the western basin in particular – has grown by leaps and bounds each year, to the point where it’s almost unimaginable that the resulting walleye
Many waiting until dark to catch fish.
Anglers reporting limits of “yellow gold” in Erie’s Western Basin.
It was no surprise that Bassmaster magazine recently named Lake Erie third in its rankings of the country’s Best Bass Fisheries of the Decade. Only California’s Clear Lake and Alabama’s Lake Guntersville were said to
The drop-off this year is expected because of a decrease in spring rainfall from 2019.
Father, son apparently drowned while fishing the lake.
Erie’s walleye numbers, something like 116 million, are at or near all-time highs, and the basin’s famous – or infamous – mayfly hatch has not yet begun in earnest.
Charters allowed to resume business operations on May 12.
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