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Woodlawn Beach Shoreline Catfish use shrimp baits at night. Cattaraugus Creek Railroad Bridges 16 foot depths have a catfish spawn run in June. Shrimp baits do a number on 3 foot cats.

I’m Don Stocum and I live outside of Watkins Glen, NY in the beautiful Fingerlakes area of upstate New York. I’m retired and love to fish/hunt. I grew up fishing Seneca lake, spending lot’s of time on several of the other lakes as well as Lake Ontario. I’ve been a member of Lake Ontario United for some time and am looking forward to connecting with members here! I’m currently planning a fishing trip to outside of Port Clinton, Ohio, my first for Lake Erie walleye’s! I’m going with a few other guys who have been fishing there for several years and I’m excited about the opportunity. Thanks for letting me join!

We have limited openings for Rewa River Fishing Trip in Guyana Rainforest South America.15 Day normal price is $4500,but would give discount to LEU members at $3500. www.guyanafishing.com Sent from my SM-S911U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

A video of a Waterspount tornado is on you tube The boaters were overcome with the flying water in the boat and visual sighting. Danger traveling in waterspouts where late summer are regular happenings.

Use your anchor and the lake currents will steady the school of perch attracted under your boat. A lot of perch will follow the underwater bottom currents emitted from the bait under your boat and perch catching boats. AS long as there are plenty of minnows under your boat then more baited hooks and lines in the water there fishing is m your productive. In Alaskan Halibut fishing a mesh bag with herring added to you anchor attracts schools of halibut to your boat. Party boats in New England use boat sides loaded with baited a3nglers lines to attract the cod and hadock to the boat especially the stern corners where the fish are fiirst finding the baited lines.

I have found many parts for my old boats in boat salvage yards. Try searching for ones in your area first, then expand the search. I live in east central Indiana and found what I needed for my boat in a salvage yard in southeast Michigan. I don't remember how I found them, but after I called them, they had what I needed at a reasonable price. we also have one in Indianapolis that I have used for parts and to sell old motors that I no longer needed, some still ran and others didn't.

What a shame these fish are no longer around. I have always heard about them but they were before my time. I remember several years ago there was a story about a guy who kept one in his freezer for like 25-30 years or so. Too bad they couldnt reverse engineer that with the DNA or something. I have caught walleyes in Quebec that had a blue hue to them and always wondered if somehow they were related but I guess the biologists squashed that idea. I have heard of blueish colored walleyes in several Canadian lakes but I dont think theres a connection unless somebody stocked blues there years ago. Too bad. I wonder if there was any in Lake Ontario? All I ever hear about is Lake Erie.

Whitefish were the main target of commercial Lake Erie fish landings. The Irish Canal builders disassmbled their wives table linens to use the fine threads to assemble the gill net meshes into a size to target the whitefish when they schooled up to spawn in late fall on hard bottom waters. The linen threads were dried up to prevent rot 0n damp threads. Large spools were wrapped up to dry in the sun and breezes, Nylon plastic threads were unavailable then. Damp nets were stored in the trays since net rot did not happen now. Trap nets were chicken wire mesh weignted with rocks to hold the bottom and the wall of meshes directed the fish into the holding traps. Today traps nets are weighted with led weights to the bottom and anchored with steel anchors to lead the fish into the trapped areas. They are used to the Barcelona shore line as unwanted or protected species can be released alive. Shallow waters in the western Lake Areas are used after the meshes are dipped in asphalt to enlarge the mesh to direct the fish to the hearts of the trap. The nets are raised over the open stern deck areas to remove the catch. Trap nets were used in Alaskan waters where a 122 pound King Salmon was taken They were held in place by lines of pilings were placed from shore lines to deeper depths where migrating salmon were traveling to spawn. Nearby canneries were placed where the salmon are cooked in steam and cans which you find on your grocers shelves and do not need refrigeration.

The disappearance of the Blue Pike from the sport fishing catches was the result of the uncontrolled numbers of smelt in Lake Erie. Stocked by the Michigan Fish Agency in a lake Michigan waters as a food source for the Lake Trout fishery. They migrated to Lake Erie and decimated most Blue Pike reproduction around the year 1955. The smelt numbers consumed all the Blue Pike until the mid 1960"s when the Ontario Fish Agency opened trawler fishery for smelt control and Lake Erie was termed a dead lake for sport fishing. The smelt were packed up in iced containers and shipped to China by Kalitta Air at Detroit 747 air freighters. Although the bass, perch and walleyes returned by the mid 1960's, the blue pike were gone forever. Nightime fishing for blue pike was from small boats equipped with a couple of Coleman white gas lanterns that attracted schools of emerald shiners around the lights. The minnows attracted the blue pike and supplied the emeralds as bait where the blues were attracted by the bait that folllowed the bait odors under the anchored boats. After dark cities of boats were offshore in 55 foot of cold waters when dozens of blue pike were taken to feed the local families. Commercial tugs were used with gill nets to harvest the Blue pike and perch. Dunkirk harbor had two hundred tugs working there then. The Erie Railroad built a line to Dunkirk to ship the catch to the East Coast Cities An ice house was constructed there to ship box cars out and local men were contracted to cut Lake Erie ice in the winter. Today the yellow Perch numbers are high enough to land several hundred perch daily but the processing of the catch is a chore at the end of the day. Packing coolers of ice to protect the perch does not happen today.