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good panfish bite in the Fingers until weather shut it down. Little guy in photo was tearing
them up. Also had been muskie action by couple boaters. (pic)
MERCER COUNTY
Lake Wilhelm
Vickie @ Fergie’s Bait; filed 5-8: Nothing happening at Wilhelm. Weather too rough lately.
Corey @ Wilhelm Marina; filed 5-8: We are not operating with regular hours yet. Planning reg-
ular hours by Memorial Day. We do have boats available to rent, but best to call ahead to 724-
427-7062 to make someone will be here; only takes me minutes to get to the lake from my
place.
Shenango River Lake
Rich Como (Sharpsville); filed 5-8: The fishing on Shenango the last week
of April was hot. Stripers and white bass began showing up on points
and rock shoals. Average size was very impressive. Pike continued to hit
well in shallow water. Nice size channel cats were being caught in shal-
low water. The most impressive fishing has been for crappies. Very large
black and shite crappies were being caught from shore and in boats. Av-
Julie Como erage size is best I’ve seen in years. On one trip Julie and I keep 35; each
crappie was 12 to 15 inches. The bad news – the lake is now two feet
high from all the rain. Dry weather on the way and we will be targeting walleye and stripers all
month long. White bass will be moving into the Shenango River Pymatuning Creek for their
spawn run during May, also. (More pics in livewell)
Ken Smith (Sharon); filed 5-8: I fished Shenango on Sunday. High winds and
high water and dropping water temp shut down the crappie bite for me. I
only caught 12 crappies and ‘gills, and only two of them were over my 10
inch keeper size. Good luck out there!
Kevin Austin (Shenango Valley); filed 5-8: I caught these
crappies on Shenango in 4 feet of water fishing 18 inches
deep with a red and green tube jig below a weighted
bobber. (pic)
Kevin Austin
Trout Steams
Dennis Beggs (Franklin); filed 4-23: This nice 18inch brown trout was caught
on 4-22 by KinmSlye on Cool Spring Creek in Mercer County. Slye was drift-
ing salmon eggs and salted minnows.
Kim Slye