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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
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