Page 4 - Fishing Report | 3-28-18

Sam @ Robinson’s Bait; filed 3/26: The bays across the northern end of the lake are producing
perch and crappies in very shallow water. Our customers are reporting best success with Some-
day Isle Tackle’s Shimmerling jig head tipped with a small minnow under a bobber. We have
Someday Isle Tackle in stock. Have not heard anything about walleyes – not even at Spillway.

Jim McClave (Andover); filed 3-19: I caught my first crappie of 2018 today
while freezing my butt off standing in snow falling. It was a nice 13-inch

slab on a minnow in a northern Ohio bay. (See photo)

Pro Angler Dave Lefebre @ Erie Extreme offers this tip for anyone having
problems catching very early spring crappies: Use a very small tube or
curly-tail suspended below a small bobber. I use a very light action rod in

Jim McClave’s 1st Crappie the Defy series from 13 Fishing, but other rods work – just be sure you can
cast very light jigs with a bobber. Fish in shallow mud-bottom bays and ca-
nals with vegetation and wood cover, and fish shallower than you do any other time of the year.
Crappies are in these areas feeding on small minnows attracted by the warmer water.

Conneaut Lake

ERIE COUNTY

Presque Isle Bay
Mike @ Lake Erie Bait & Tackle; filed 3-26: This has been a very good March for perch in the
bay. Sometimes the weather has been rough, and boat anglers have not been able to get out.
Dock anglers are doing pretty well, such as a couple guys on the North Pier who caught 90

perch in 1-1/2 hours. But the large perch are coming from those in boats. Also hearing about a
number of small steelhead being taking by perch anglers. Fish are moving. And the walleye an-
glers are looking forward to this summer with high expectations. Charter boats were catching a
lot of sublegal ‘eye last summer which should be legal this year.

Erie Tributaries
Lynne @ East End Angler; filed 3-26: Considering how low and clear the
east side streams are, they are still catching a good number of steelhead

in Twenty Mile (upper and lower in stream), in Sixteen Mile below the
Water Plant and in lower Four Mile Creek. Lots of perch action in the Bay
from the docks as well as small steelheads. We have the PA Fish Commis-
sion stocking schedule on our Facebook Page. (See photo) Whitney Stewart- East End