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well. Fly fishermen using bugger and flashy streams getting fish, too. Small nymphs will
work but you will also be catching sucker on nymphs.

Tim @ North East Marina; filed 4/17: “Right now the fishing from boats on the lake is
non-existence due to ice cover. The marina is ice free with anglers catching some steel-
head and brown trout. Both 20 Mile and 16 Mile Creeks are producing nice catches –
seems to vary day to day. We are expecting a fantastic lake trout fishing once the ice
clears and lake temp reaches 42 degrees. We should start to see the brown trout pro-
gram on Lake Erie take off this year. We will talk to you later on some brown trout spring
tactics.”

Lake LeBoeuf
Jim Simonelli (Erie); filed 4/17: “I caught a northern pike on a
fly rod with a red/white pike fly in LeBoeuf about noon on the
17th of April.” (See photo)

MERCER COUNTY

Lake Wilhelm

Vicki @ Fergie’s Bait; filed 4/19: “Fishing has been off to slow start at Wilhelm and there
are a lot of dead gizzard shad along the shore causing a bad smell. But as the lake
warms up, the bite has improved. Anglers are catching crappies and bluegills from shore
using a small jig tipped with a maggot or minnow below a float. This approach works
whether fishing down lake near the dam or on the upper causeway in the stumps. No
word on any bass being caught and released. When walleye season opens the first week
of May, we will see many more anglers on the lake.”