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too shallow for fish to get in. We haven’t checked yet today, but we expect this high water will
have cut a new access route for steelhead to move into Elk. (See photo)

Rebecca @ Uncle John’s Campground; filed 11-6: Angler success this fall
has been wild! We haven’t seen this many steelhead in a long time. It has
been exciting for all our guests. We can only hope it continues. We’ve seen
a couple browns caught but steelhead numbers are out of sight. (See pho-
to and more in Livewell)

Denny Beggs (Franklin); filed 11-6: This has been a wonderful steelhead
season. Friends Kim Slye, Kory Slye and I have enjoyed great trips. We
have been fishing the lakeshore at the mouth of Trout Run using power
bait to catch our fish. Fly anglers are using sucker spawn patterns. (See Uncle John’s photo
cover shot and more photos in Livewell)

Thomas Watral (Erie); filed 10-28: Steelheads are everywhere. Baitfish are loaded in the shop
yard, and large perch are hitting at Dobbin’s Landing; many limits taken. Heard from one guy he
had fish four days in a row and had 43 pounds of perch; catching them on minnows.

MERCER COUNTY

Shenango Lake

Ken Smith (Sharon) –
- 10-27 Brother Rick in the boat with me today. Crappies were real
shallow. Got these casting a 1/16 ounce jig with a Bobby Garland
Shooter plastic body around brush in 6 feet of water. Also got some
keepers from brush in 15 feet water hang gliding Jenko Baits from Russ
Bailey.

- 10-28: Didn’t get a picture on the water, but I got some real nice
crappies from 11 to 15.5 inches today. Only fished three hours. Got
them on Bobby Garland Baby Shads and Berkley Crappie Nibbles from
shallow and deep brush. Caught at least 30 but only kept nine of the
bigger ones.
- 11-5: The crappie bite is in full swing on Shenango Lake right now.
The biggest crappies of the season are being caught. Crappies are in
shoreline blow-downs and sunken brush – in both shallow and deep

water. Being caught with both live bait and jigs. I’m using Bobby Gar-
15-inch Shenango Crappie land plastic to put fish in the boat. My buddies, the Savage brothers are
using minnows. Leo Savage caught a 15 inch white crappie on Saturday. See photos of big
crappie and some I boated same day.