Walleye fishermen still struggling on Lake Erie: NE Ohio fishing report

CLEVELAND, Ohio — After having fun with an amazing summer season of walleye fishing all alongside the Ohio shoreline of Lake Erie, anglers this week are questioning the place the entire walleye have gone.

Bob Hanko at Cranberry Creek Marina retains his Huron space store open till late October so anglers have a handy launch close to lots of the late-season scorching spots for walleye, yellow perch and smallmouth bass. On Thursday, few fishermen had been bringing dwelling even a walleye, or two, at finest.

“Lake Erie has cleaned up fairly a bit since we went by means of three days of northeast winds, which chased everybody off of Lake Erie,” Hanko mentioned. “The winds have settled lots, although we’re going through some north winds on Saturday and Sunday.”

With massive colleges of walleye anticipated emigrate again to their western Lake Erie spawning grounds beginning presently of yr, the fishing is mostly excellent, particularly trophy feminine walleyes laden with eggs. Climate is a giant consideration for chasing this fish within the late season, irrespective of whether or not anglers are trolling or casting to catch fish.

Lots of the extra accommodating constitution boats that may deal with huge waves and winds are already being put away for the winter. Small boat anglers need to be particularly cautious because the Lake Erie water temperatures start to chill down.

Steelhead trout a vibrant spot: Don Moore at Harbor Bait & Deal with on the Grand River has welcomed a bunch of steelhead trout fishermen this week, and they’re discovering success. Whereas the large trout are nonetheless slowly coming into the spawning rivers, together with the Grand River, the steelheaders are having fun with nice motion alongside the Lake Erie shoreline.

“Casting from the piers and break partitions has been excellent with Little Cleo spoons in blue and silver and gold and orange, and trolling in a small boat alongside the Lake Erie shoreline when the waters are good and calm,” mentioned Moore.

He did observe that profitable anglers targeted on fishing the primary two or three hours of the day, or the final two hours earlier than darkish.”

There have been trophy trout, with fishermen checking in a 15-pounder and a 12-pound, 10-ounce trout within the annual Harbor Bait & Deal with Steelhead Contest.

Dazzling locations for fly fishers: The Trout Membership of the Cleveland Museum of Pure Historical past is that includes a exhibiting of the Worldwide Fly Fishing Movie Pageant on Friday, Nov. 4 from 6:30-9 p.m. Sponsored by Fly Fusion journal, the sequence of quick movies includes a take a look at fly fishing locations all over the world.

This yr’s movies take fly fishermen from smallmouth bass fishing in Oregon to Farquhar Atoll within the Indian Ocean to offer a night of fly-fishing journey.

The exhibiting will happen on the Cleveland Metropark’s Emerald Necklace Marina in Rocky River Reservation, 1500 Scenic Park Dr., Lakewood. Tickets are $25 and embrace all movies, refreshments, door prizes and raffles, and a money bar. You should purchase tickets at Tickets for IF4™ – CLEVELAND, OH in Lakewood from ShowClix

Night time chunk ought to be occurring quickly: Walleye like to go to the shoreline harbors, piers and breakwalls presently of yr, feeding closely with their glorious evening imaginative and prescient. Shore anglers solid the shoreline after darkish with minnow-style diving plugs, corresponding to Smithwick Good 10s and Bandits, or vibrating rattle baits, together with the Cordell Spot and Rat-L-Entice. Darkish-colored lures are best for the faculties of feeding walleye to see after the solar goes down.