Page 5 - Fishing Report 2-20-19

Erie Tributaries

Jeff @ Poor Richards; filed 2/19: West side creeks have some ice. Hopefully the warmer temps
and some rain this weekend will open them up. If a lot of rain, creeks may not be fishable until
Monday or Tuesday. Looking for a good spring run with fingers crossed.

Dan @ Elk Creek Sports; filed 2/19: There has been edge ice and slush in the morning making

for problems on creeks, but streams are not totally locked up. I have reports of steelhead,
browns and suckers being caught in Elk, but you got to fish what I call Winter Rules: Forget sun-
rise; instead start late morning on a sunny day after slush ice is gone. The warm up later this
week should help a lot. If not a lot of rain, then fishing should be good through the weekend.
Not a lot of snow on ground to melt and dirty up the water.

MERCER COUNTY

Lake Wilhelm
Bo @ BC Baits; filed 2/19: I talked with three guys on Wilhelm on Monday. Angler were catching
good numbers of perch and bluegill down by the dam.

Chuck Sari (Franklin); filed 2/6: My son Kevin Sari, grandsons Reece and Kelan and myself fished
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Lake Wilhelm on both Feb 2 and 3 with good results. We brought
home over 130 fish, mostly crappies, in two days. We were using Vexi-
lar sonar units and small jigs tipped with maggots. The biggest crappie
was 14 inches but we had quite a few over 12 inches. We released as
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many as we kept. A friend of mine fished Shenango Lake on Feb 3 and
had similar results; he had his limit of 20 crappies at least 9 inches in
less than an hour, and released about 30 that there were less than 9
inches. Hope the weather lets us get back out again. (See photo)

Kelan and Reece Sari

Shenango River
Randy @ Fish West PA; filed 2/19: Winter river
walleye fishing can pay off. Fishing the right days
are important. Look for warming trends now that

Spring is getting closer. Fish on! (See photos to
the right)