Perch Slowly Moving Through Channel.

Sunday was beautiful with highs in the upper 70's.  I spent most of the day sitting on the North Pier fishing.  The bite was slow and the round gobies are plentiful.  I caught one nice perch in the neighborhood of 10 inches.  A fisherman next to me caught 4 nice perch, one of which was a huge 14 inches.  The jumbo's are returning but slowly.  The next few weeks should be much better fishing.

Steelhead fishing is good in the streams with a fair number of fish in the streams.  Right now, water levels are pretty low.  After the next rain the fishing will be fantastic.  I bet there are large schools of steelies waiting to run up the streams.  Good luck fishing!

Perch Fishing Improves Off of Local Piers.

This past week I have been scouting the piers and looking to see what the fisherman are catching. Quite a few perch are now being caught, many are small but there are jumbos mixed in. Steelhead are now in all of the local streams in large numbers. Out at Walnut Creek this past week there were an estimated 1200 fish from near the mouth up to the hole just above the first bridge. Fisherman are catching quite a few steelhead with those using lighter lines faring the best in clear water conditions. Steelhead fishing around Erie will continue to be very good to excellent from now until the end of April unless the streams become frozen later on. Happy Fishin'

2009-2011 Lake Erie Steelhead Run Outlook

Around Erie Pennsylvania there will be very large steelhead runs making this area one of the top destinations for steelhead trout fisherman in 2009 thru 2011. Pennsylvania's Fish Commission releases approximately one million (that number is correct!) steelhead smolts annually into Lake Erie. Many of these fish venture out into the depths of Lake Erie and become very large and then return to local streams.

Most fisherman not familiar with the Erie area fish just a couple of the many streams that harbor steelhead in the fall, winter, and spring months. For your information I have included a very good link for you steelheaders to browse through. It shows our local steelhead streams and here it is: http://www.fish.state.pa.us/steelhead.htm

The date today is September 28 2009. The past couple days we have received quite a bit of rain that increased stream levels. The steelhead that have been staging the past couple weeks are now most likely moving up the streams and fishing for them will greatly improve over the next few days. Remember to pick up all of your trash as a lot of our fishing is on private lands. May your lines be tight and your hooks be happy!