Page 5 - Fishing Report 3-17-15

Sugar Lake
Bill @ Griffins Bait reports there were two ice fishing tournaments at Sugar Lake recently.
Zac Eimer won the gamefish award at the first Sugar lake event on February 21 & 22 with
a 39-5/8” northern pike. Bob Keith won the gamefish award at the second Sugar Lake
event in March with a 26” northern pike and his son Alex Keith won the panfish award
with a 9” perch. Keith’s other son Levi Keith won the walleye category at the Canadohta
Lake ice tournament back in early February with a 21-3/4 inch walleye.

ERIE COUNTY

Tributaries
Elk Creek Sports and Poor Richards are reporting similar situation: Steelhead streams are
blown out. Ice jams in the lower section of Elk and possibly other streams. When the
jams break, there may be some steelhead fishing opportunities later this week in the up-
per streams. Right now creeks are dangerously high with chunks of floating ice and de-
bris...

Presque Isle Bay
Jim @ B.A.C.: “A Canadian ice breaker arrived at the Port of Erie on Friday. Shock waves
from breaking ice have likely made the ice unsafe in the eastern half of Bay, and may im-
pact ice clear down to Head of Bay. It will not be long until open water and the spawning
perch bite in the Bay. Get your tackle ready for open water season, and see us for your
live bait needs.”

Dean Waldbaum; filed 3/13: “Boredom got the best of me so I went id fishing last week-
end for the first time since I was a kid 40 years ago. I went to Presque Isle with a couple
buddies with hope of “jumbo” perch. The ones we caught were more like “chipped
ham!” We caught around 20 small perch. A few guys were getting bigger perch and we
saw one steelhead caught. Our fish came on tiny jigs tipped with either a minnow or
grub. Beat the heck of sitting on the couch – but I cannot wait till the river comes down!”