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NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA FISHING REPORT

Issue: January 15, 2015

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

Ice cover has arrived on NW PA lakes! I celebrate for ice fisherman, not for myself. Ice fishing – I’ve tried
it; don’t like it. Finally sold all ice gear last year. I’ll go out occasionally with others to do a story or two for
various publications. But I cannot get excited about ice fishing. I look for open water to do my winter fish-
ing. The Jan-Feb 2015 issue of the PA ANGLER & BOATER magazine
carries my article on non-ice fishing winter angling opportunities in
NW PA – mostly in the tailraces of area dams. To stay busy, I’ll join
other writers at Dave Lefebre’s Erie Ice Camp next week to shoot
photos and gather story material. And I’ll be shooting photos at
Timberland Bait’s Canadohta Ice Tournament on Feb 14 and at
Conneaut Lake on Feb 28. Before I know it, spring will be here!

Winter at Woodcock Spillway/ db photo