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pound range. And out on the South Pier, Richard Fill of Waterford had caught two nice
burbot. Seven year old Joseph Torok offered to hold the burbot.” (See photos below)

Lefebre’s January Lk Erie SMB It’s a burbot!

Dave Lefebre (Harbor Creek); filed 1/1: “The day after Christmas, I took visiting bass pro
Jacob Wheeler out on the Bay to catch perch. This was the first time he ever intentionally
went perch fishing. We got a limit of BIG ones! Most of our fish came on Rapala Jigging
Raps.” (See photos on Livewell Page)

Paul Stewart (Butler); filed 12/31: “Went perch fishing yesterday with my buddy Cliff and
his son. We started at Border Patrol Dock. It was slow so we moved to the Convention
Center Dock. I limited out and they caught a good number for being their first time
perching. Hard to believe we still had open water going into January.”

Thomas Watral (Erie); filed 12/30: “Perch fishing had been good in the Bay during late
December (see photo). But after the high winds and rain the other night, PIB is a mess.
Junk floating everywhere. Muddy water. No one doing much – catching a few perch.”

Steelhead Streams
Gary @ Poor Richards; filed 1/18: “The streams were in good shape this past weekend
and anglers did very well with a lot of average size steelheads being caught. However, the
streams are filled with flush today and with the forecast of low temps and heavy snow
for the next few days, you can forget about fishing.”

Dan @ Elk Creek Sports; filed 1/18: “With up and down conditions over past weeks,
there are fish in the streams. They were catching them over the weekend, but now the
streams are headed to freeze up. Once they freeze, it will take more than warm temps to
open them – it will take a heavy rain to melt and push the ice out.”

Rick @ Trout Run Bait; filed 1/18 “I caught steelheads on Saturday – conditions were
good. Conditions are not good today and the forecast is not encouraging. We are in the
in-between stage – steelhead streams are freezing up but PIB does not have safe ice for
fishing. With west wind, the lake shore is beat up at mouth of creeks. However, the best