Posts Tagged ‘walleye’
GOTL Walleye Open — Big Fish Friday
Jump in to Geneva-on-the-Lake’s first big walleye tournament. The Big Fish Friday has a $20 entry, with the winner taking call. The Walleye Open Saturday has a $200 entry, with an expected top prize of $10,000. (Based on a 100-boat field.) The contest weighs the top five fish from each team, which can have one…
Read MoreWine and Walleye Festival
Located on the shore of Lake Erie and nestled along the Ashtabula River is a quaint street known for its famous bascule lift bridge, historic harbor port, turn of the century architecture, first class dining and shopping. Bridge Street in the Historic Ashtabula Harbor is known as a premier summer destination in Northeastern Ohio and…
Read MoreHooks for Hunger walleye tournament
Avon Lake-area fishermen partnered with the Avon Lake Parks and Recreation Department to create this tournament to benefit Community Resource Services, a nonprofit that provides basic needs assistance and individualized resource and referral services for Avon and Avon Lake families. There’s a 50-team limit for the tournament. Teams may consist of as many fishermen as…
Read MoreFall Brawl founder Frank Murphy explains Lake Erie walleye tournaments: Erie Interviews
Meet Frank Murphy, who runs the Fall Brawl walleye derby on Lake Erie each year. From now until December, you can find a fishing tournament every month, with prizes ranging from several hundred dollars to a tricked-out boat worth more than $100,000. The tournaments – which generally award prizes for the five biggest fish caught…
Read MoreLake Erie walleye fishing in 2018 promises to be spectacular
Welcome to the new good old days of walleye fishing on Lake Erie. Most of the 2015 walleye hatch – one of the largest ever in Lake Erie – is now big enough to keep, under Ohio law. And the excitement is justified. “It’s going to be one of the best walleye seasons we’ve had…
Read MoreWho won the 2017 Lake Erie Fall Brawl?
The 2017 Lake Erie Fall Brawl results are in. And, pending polygraph exams, Matthew Branigan is taking top honors with his nearly 15-pound walleye. See the video of brawlers out on Friday in the Cleveland harbor. Branigan’s 14.97-pound catch is the largest caught in the seven years of the brawl. “That’s probably going to be…
Read MoreLorain man catches record, 27-pound lake trout in Fall Brawl
Jim Beres was fishing for walleye, trying to win a boat in the Lake Erie Fall Brawl. He caught Ohio’s record-biggest lake trout instead. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is headed to Sheffield Lake today, to examine the trout and verify the new record, at 26.63 pounds and 38 inches. “We didn’t even know…
Read MoreDecember, and the Cleveland harbor is full of boats
With less than two days left of the seventh annual Lake Erie Walleye Fall Brawl, anglers crammed the Cleveland harbor, hoping to catch a big one. Matthew Branigan hooked a 14.97-pound walleye Friday morning, the biggest ever in the competition. But that doesn’t mean the contest is over. Fishermen came out on a sunny afternoon,…
Read MoreNear end of Lake Erie Fall Brawl, Strongsville man catches 15-pound walleye
Matthew Branigan took the whole week off to fish for walleye, in the last week of the Lake Erie Fall Brawl contest. And this morning his time paid off, when he caught a nearly 15-pound walleye, one of the largest ever caught in Ohio waters. “We knew it was a big fish for sure,” said…
Read MoreWhat’s biting? Everything, in the best fall fishing season in recent memory
How’s the fishing on Lake Erie this fall? The best in recent memory. Lots of steelhead have been caught along the lakefront and in local rivers, said Cleveland Metroparks aquatic biologist Mike Durkalec. And the lake has a great there mix of trophy walleye from a record 2003 spawn, complemented by two years in a…
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