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
Come join us on Bridge Street, the street awarded as America’s Main Street winner for 2018 as we celebrate our 10th Annual Wine and Walleye Festival. Over 12 of the Grand River Valley’s best wineries will be on hand as well as a street fair, fireworks, live music, and sailing tours aboard the 1893 Lettie…
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 More13 pound walleye wins Lake Erie FishCrazy Derby
Jeff Lunsford caught a 13-pound, 4-ounce walleye on Saturday, the last morning of the Fish Crazy Derby, with his fishing buddy Mark Carr. The partners are splitting their first place prize, a $40,000 Starweld Fusion Pro 20 boat. Lunsford, 56, of Galion, has been fishing most of his life, but until about five years ago…
Read More8-year-old leads Fish Crazy walleye derby, with $40,000 boat prize
Eight-year-old Reese Lecon is winning the spring Fish Crazy Walleye Derby, with a 12-pound, 3-ounce whopper. And if he can keep his lead for another 11 days, he’ll win a $40,000 2018 Fusion Pro 20 DC boat. “He tells everybody that he’ll have a boat that’s nicer than his dad’s,” said his mom, Jaclyn…
Read MoreLake Erie fish report May 11, 2018
Weather is warming up, and the boat launch ramps are in the water at the Cleveland Metroparks. In the Metroparks’ weekly fish report, aquatic biologist Mike Durkalec said smallmouth bass are now swimming in the Rocky, Chagrin and Cuyahoga rivers. Note: you can’t keep smallmouth/largemouth bass caught in Lake Erie or the Rocky River north of…
Read MoreLake Erie fishing report May 4
The weather is good, and the fish are biting. Plus, it’s free fishing weekend in Ohio! Where to try to catch a fish? Lake Erie marina and harbor areas offer chances to catch walleye, steelhead trout, northern pike, panfish, and largemouth and smallmoth bass in spring, according to Cleveland Metroparks aquatic biologist Mike Durkalec. Main and…
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…
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