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NW PA FISHING REPORT for February 17, 2016

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We answer the question “What’s biting in the lakes, streams and rivers of Crawford, Erie,
Mercer and Venango counties?”

French Creek flowing through all four counties to
Angler Al of Franklin took advantage of the early February thaw
try for walleyes in French Creek and filed this report on 2/1:
“French Creek was running a bit full and littered with limbs.
However, I managed to connect on a hungry walleye. The 24-
inch fish slammed my chartreuse floating jig head tipped with a
minnow. See photo.”

Angler Al photo

CRAWFORD COUNTY

Pymatuning Lake
Dave @ Richter’s Bait & Tackle; filed 2/14: “Do we have ice…that’s funny. Ice cover disap-

peared with warm up earlier in the month. On Thursday evening,
the main lake was wide open with rolling white caps. Thursday
night it skimmed over. We might have 1 to 1.5 inches of ice today,
the 14th, but it’s not safe. With another warm up forecast later in
the week, I just don’t see any safe ice fishing on Pymatuning for
the balance of winter. However, a few guys were catching wall-
eyes in the Shenango River below the dam during last week’s
warm spell. Bring on Spring!”

29” walleye/Richter photo

Patty @ Poff’s Place; filed 2/14: “I don’t think we have any safe ice on the north end of
Pymatuning. A couple guys were out checking it yesterday and stopped by to say the
freezing was very uneven – one spot had several inches and a few feet away it was soft
and wet. During the warm spell last week there were a few guys fishing the Linesville
Spillway but that has likely frozen-up with the cold this weekend. A warming trend is fore-
cast late next week.”