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Dave Lefebre (Erie); filed 1-10: With thaw and rain coming, the ice on PIB
will be out of play for a while. But I squeezed in 40 crappies and bluegills
today, along with a handful of bass, before it ended. (See photos)

Danny Jones (Erie); filed 1-13: We caught these fish at Presque Isle Bay
back on Thursday before the Big Thaw. Total of 30 crappies and a handful
of bass on jigs tipped with maggots on Misery Bay. I also caught this steel-

head on a Steelshad blade bait in Misery. (See photos)
Lefebre’s first bass of ‘18
Jeramie Joy (Guys Mills); filed 1-13: I got this nice perch on Presque Isle
th
Bay on January 7 while ice fishing in 8 feet of water. We caught over 100
perch in three hours between three of us. We will be back! (See photo in
Livewell)

MERCER COUNTY

Lake Wilhelm
Vicki @ Fergie’s Bait; filed 1-16: There is 4 to 6 inches of ice in the center
of the lake, but most of the shoreline has weak ice due to the increased
Danny’s first crappies of ‘18
water from storm runoff. Anglers had been picking up crappies in the vi-
cinity of the Three Posts.

Shenango Lake
Ken Smith (Sharon); filed 1-14: I will not be submitting a report for Shenango due to the drastic
water level change as a result of the recent thaw and rain. I’ll have a report next month after
the lake stabilizes.

VENANGO COUNTY

Sugar Creek
Angler Al (Franklin); filed 12-23: On the First Day of Winter, I sped down to Sug-
ar Creek to see the trout might be hitting. I caught one rainbow on a #12 Price
Nymph and three others on pieces of nightcrawler. The next day, Friday the
nd
22 – my day off, buddy Stan Huefner and I fished the Cooperstown area of
Sugar Creek. During a morning shower I caught several rainbows fly fishing.

There were taking a bright orange salmon egg pattern. Stan didn’t have any
luck until the rain stopped and it warmed up. Then he caught several including
a colorful brown. He kept his limit of three trout and later told me how delicious they were!