Page 6 - Fishing Report 5-20-15

ERIE COUNTY
Presque Isle Bay

Destin DeMarion photo Destin DeMarion photo Paul Stewart photo

Jim @ Lake Erie Bait & Tackle (formerly B.A.C.); filed 5/18: “It is smallmouth crazy up
here right now in the Bay! Customers have been catching gills on the North Pier, and
pike in Misery Bay. And after a long absence from the Bay, I’ve heard a couple anglers
say they are catching a few muskies once again.”

Paul Stewart (Butler); filed 5/17: “Yesterday was tough fishing for perch in the Bay right
after the cold front, but I got a PIB Smallie!”

Mike Martin (Cochranton); filed 5/16: “I was joined by John and Alex Wilpula on a trip to
PIB today. We landed 7 smallmouth bass and 3 largemouth bass. All fish came on soft
plastics in shallow water.”

Thomas Watral (Erie); filed 5/16: “Fishing is pretty good in Presque Isle right now. An-
glers are catching nice 10 to 14 inch perch from Liberty Park to Border Patrol Pier. Creeks
still have lots of stocked trout in them; hotspots have been Four Mile, Severn Mile and
Twenty Mile. Best trout baits being minnows and larval grubs; best lures are the Mud-
dler Minnow Joe Fly. Anglers have been catching walleye by the mouths of tribs on Ra-
pala Minnows and Bomber Long As. As a reminder, the South Pier is undergoing repairs
and will be closed until July 2015.”

Destin DeMarion (Grove City); filed 5/14: “The weather was too perfect not to go fishing
on Monday the 11th, so I hooked the boat up and went to PIB. I arrived in the late morn-
ing for the impromptu trip to find many other anglers had the same idea. With air tem-
perature into the 80s and the recent warm spell, the water temp was in the upper 60s –

having jumped 20 degrees in matter of only a couple weeks. I fished some deeper areas,
catching a few smallmouths but nothing exciting. So I headed to shallow water. In no

time that proved the right move. Tons (did you weigh them all? - editor) of smallmouths