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In 1956 "blue pike" were the number one food fish harvest boats anchored offshore and we caught hundreds of blue pike nightly under coleman white gasoline lanterns mounted on our small outboard boats. Cities of lights from 55 foot depths were using emerald shiners attracted to the lantern lights. Bait dealers like "Norms" on Tift Street in Buffalo supplied starter bait till the emeralds appeared on the surface to feed on the food attracted by the lantern lights. Then a minnow net scooped more bait to supply the fishing. Suddenly in 1956 the blue pike populations plummented, not from overfishing but the precense of huge hoards of smelt that feasted on emeralds and small sport fish like yellow, blue pike and perch. The smelt were introduced by Michigan agencies to feed the Lake Trout commercial harvest there. In 1 fishing efforts disappeared fishing ended as Lake Erie was e 956 the small blue pike started to disappear, not drom overharvests but the ecplosion of the foreign smelt biomass. Lake Erie sport fishing efforts co;;apse since the blue pike yielded fewer but larger fish but then disappeared completely. Ontario commercial fishing fleets were lost also until they adapted trawl nets for the masses of smelt and markets in Asia to buy the smelt after 747 aircraft from Detroil began deliveries.. By the mid 1960.s yellow perch and walleyes returned. Bait dealers returned also but bait suppliers are port fish fishing .still short supplied today. Controls on the smelt foreign invaders is our present source of sport fishing success. Despite an Absence of media reports we are living with the ignorance of historical reports. Huron Ohio historical siciety and other historical teports art lost today from the media.. You Tube TV has video shows available today.

i did see that also i guess will have to wait a little while before it all melts.

Looks like the ice field blew our way on the sunset bay cam. https://lakeerienycams.com/

Smelt trawling harvest from Ontario ports such as Port Dover and Wheatley ships tons of Lake Erie smelt air freighted in iced containers to China with Kalitta Airlines 747 Freighters from Detroit Airport Detroit. That is why sport fishing for perch and walleyes has returned to Lake Erie. Not beaucratic BS about how well they manage the fishery. The smelt were the greatest predator in Lake Erie.

Ontario Sites Wind Turbines on shore sites that pay the property owner a fee for the use of the land. The Ontario Lake Erie shoreline has hundreds of wind towers along the Lake Erie shoreline. Fly to Detroit, Count Them! At night red lights are flashing along the Lake Erie shoreline. Count them from our shoreline!!

Are any of the docks in at the catt yet. Is anyone getting out for perch.

Huron, Ohio History of Commercial Fishing Story from the Huron Historical Society

YouTube TV/Search has a fishing video from Huron / Ohio on western Basin Lake Erie Commercial fishing from the last 150+ years. Thatis is why fishing in Ohio waters is Good

Hook and line perch fishing with minnows. is this show is about. Old time Ohio Ice Anglers reveal their methods on Lake Erie ice. Access with airplanes like Piper Cubs or Ford Tri Engine airships out to rented fishing shacks set up for you on hot spots, also Ford model A and model T's before snow mobiles that worked. Using rented Ice Shacks set up for you saves your time om Lake Simcoe . Erie Emerald shiners are the desired bait if you can find and keep them all winter. Ten pound walleyes are ignored, dozens 0f yellow perch by the bucket full to feed your family, friends and neighbors make you the King of your neighborhood. For the early ice off are available also on local piers, docks and shoreline spinning rods and snelled hooks and a small sinker until June water temperatures move the perh deeper out to 55 foot of water for the rest of the summer. The Woodlawn Beach Breakwater and shore fish off the slag piles produce. Windbreaker canvas set up on wooden poles make weather out on the lake habitable. New York state has dozens of inland lakes that produce perch. Personal daily angler limit daily is 50 perch per fisherman and a five gallon bucket works fine especially if ice is present. A cooler loaded with hundreds of perch is asking for a visit to a judge fifty miles away.

Sarnia, Ontario is the main diesel refueling point where almost all modern freighters like the thousand footers refuel their ships.

Ontario Peralleye gillnet fishing on Wi-Fi, tv Chch and Weck this out .WUTV? Search, Lake Erie Information on Commercial Reports

Never has this situation stopped the big Makinaw in its history. Even WW2 When wartime needed all the steel production! The north winds have jammed the Lake Erie shoreline from top to bottom to keep the ice breakers from damaging their props.

Cell phones were used to location and communications efforts. 911 is useless, maybe 716 would work . Any way Hamburg Police met up and confirmed the parties were safe ashore. Charge the batteries on all cell phones so communication with homes and police saved !.Huge ice shoves are unpassable, over ten foot high unnecessary actions and worries.2X12 planks to crossover cracks.OLd timers used , wind breakers are safer out there. Charcoal stoves helped for cooking and warm drinks. Perch were not located but travel was bad.

A new ship on the Great Lakes is for underwater construction. Sounds like footings for windmills?

LT5, USACE Nash served in Normandy invasion, shot down NAZI Focke Wolf Fighter Plane with her 50 caliber machine gun at Normandy where she tended derrick boats unloading ships on the beach. Now on public display in Oswego, NY. Worked at harbor maintenance with the Derrick Boat McCauley on the lakes and seaway until age caught up.

MAKINAW,30, MIGHTY Makinaw 83, WW2ept the steel mills supplied for war production. 48 inch ice breaker, Buoy Tender ice breakers, doing the job this year. Bramble, 180 buoy tender did the Northwest Passage, the 110 breakers, Ojibwa, Kaw escorted wartime convoys to England from Greenland, etc.,