January 2019 / 2 posts found
Walleye Fishing In Lake Erie
Walleye fishing in the Central Basin of Lake Erie should continue to be exceptional for the next decade! Exceptional Walleye Hatch Recorded for Lake Erie’s Central Basin 12/19/2018 Ohio DNR in Wildlife COLUMBUS, OH – Preliminary results from the fall trawl survey in Ohio’s portion of the central basin of Lake Erie show an exceptional hatch of walleye and an average hatch of yellow perch, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The ODNR Division of Wildlife’s results from the 2018 survey indicate that young-of-the-year walleye catch rates were the highest recorded in the past 20 years of […]
Lake Erie Fishing Report
By James F. McCarty, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio – Last fall, walleye fishermen were elated to learn that the 2018 hatch in Lake Erie’s Western Basin produced the largest number of new walleyes ever recorded. Now walleye fishermen who cast their lines into the Central Basin around Cleveland have a new report to celebrate, one that says the 2018 walleye hatch rate there was the best in 20 years. Combined with the previous record-high hatch of 2003, and the productive hatches of 2014 and 2015, the Western and Central basin walleye hatch of 2018 should serve to solidify Lake […]