Page 4 - Fishing Report - 02-17-2015

ERIE COUNTY

Tributaries
Jeff @ Poor Richard’s Bait Shop; filed 2/16: “A few anglers are ice fishing for steelhead at the mouths of
Elk and in Walnut Creek Marina. An occasional small fresh steelhead is caught, and sometimes it’s a
dark fish that has been in for some time. They are catching them on jigs tipped with a minnow, wax
worm or grub.”

Presque Isle Bay
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RJ Graham (Tionesta); filed 2/16: “I went up to PIB on Saturday the 14 . We got some ‘gills and perch,
but the bite was slow and the wind was high. After our ice hut sailed across the bay when we walked
out of it, we decided to call it a day.”

Thomas Watral (Erie)
- Filed 1/23: “Ice thickness 5 to 8 inches. Hot spot for perch is straight out of Chestnut Street
Ramp in mid-section of Bay. Best set-up is Subiki Rig with minnows on 6 to 8-pound test line.
Perch are running 9 to 14 inches.
- Filed 1/24: “Got a picture of red fox today by the ship yard; I gave the fox one of my fish. The ice
is 10 inches thick. We only managed 10 perch all about 9 inches – slow day.
- Filed 2/2: “The ice is anywhere from 7 to 12 inches thick. Perch fishing has been picking up early
in the mornings. Hot spot is the middle of the Bay. Crappies are being caught in the Stink Hole;
best baits are ice jigs tipped with maggots under a bobber. Some steelhead reported at Four
Mile Creek and Walnut Creek on single eggs and roe.”
- Filed 2/9: “Down to Dobbins Landing to ice fish for perch. Lot of anglers out but hardly anyone
catching decent perch. I managed a limit of perch - barely 9 inches long. On Subiki Rigs tipped
with minnows. I’ve been told the fishing is slow in Misery Bay.”
- File 2/12: “I went out on the Bay today and tried six different areas. Every place was slow. Hard-
ly any hits. No one I talked to was doing any good. Even talked to a man that has been out on
the ice every day since it froze; he said he only limited out one time. Certainly not as good as
last year.”

MERCER COUNTY

Shenango River Lake
Chuck Sari (Franklin); filed 2/15: “I fished Shenango Lake yesterday with Kevin and Reece. We fished the
Swim Beach area. We brought home 60 nice crappies – all caught on small jigs tipped with maggots.
There were three other guys fishing near us; they had about 30 crappies and bluegills. We fished until
noon and then the wind go too bad; it literally blew us off the ice.

Ken Smith (Sharon)…
- Filed 2/7: “On February 6, I fished Shenango Lake’s Golden Run area for panfish with a couple of
buddies. Our group drilled lots of holes searching for fish. After drilling about 40 holes and
checking depths from 4 feet to 9 feet, we found some brush in 8 feet near the channel. The
crappies were stacked there. We caught well over 150 fish between three of us; most of the fish