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NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA FISHING REPORT

Published by Blackwolfe Communications LLC Issue: October 12, 2016

The NW PA Fishing Report provides timely angling information for Crawford, Erie, Mercer
and Venango Counties – covering all species and all waters open to the public. The fishing
comments and photos are offered by regional tackle shops and area anglers, compiled
and published twice a month. The NW PA Fishing Report is based on experiences, obser-
vations and opinions of individual contributors; information sources are considered relia-
ble but comments are not independently verified. In providing information or pictures,
you are agreeing to your comments being edited, and posted to websites and distributed
electronically.

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The Landing Net by Darl Black

Don’t give up the landing net! The latter part of October and first couple weeks of Novem-
ber is a time of prime bites. The cooldown of area waters is now under way. Many inland
lakes are reporting temperatures around 60 de-
grees. Increased feeding by bass, walleyes, crappies,
pike and muskies will pick up as water temperatures
fall through the 50s. Steelheads are posed to move
up tributaries in mass if there is enough rain to in-
crease stream flow. Right now some of the best
steelie fishing is along Lake Erie shoreline near tribu-
tary mouths. GO FISH!