Mixed Creel Is the Way to Go in the Heart of Summer Follow the Fish White Bass by STEVE POLLICK and on the Huron Municipal BLADE OUTDOORS EDITOR Pier, Added Bury
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+ SECTION C, PAGE 6 w THE BLADE: TOLEDO, OHIO t FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2005 + Mixed creel is the way to go in the heart of summer Follow the Fish White bass By STEVE POLLICK and on the Huron municipal BLADE OUTDOORS EDITOR pier, added Bury. Pointe Mouillee Monroe ummertime — and the Bank or shoreline fisher- Brest Bay i n living may be easy. But men also can take yellow perch i s R a the fishing sure isn’t. off the old Sandusky Bay i R Toledo Beach S v e r Nonetheless clever, diehard Bridge, fishing minnows off the Luna Pier anglers across the region are bottom. West Sister Island finding ways to catch some- Goedde said that channel Michigan Lake N.W. Ohio Maumee Bay thing, even when the heat is catfish are active all over, in La Su An Lake Erie Put-in-Bay Park cranked up to cranky levels. streams, upground reservoirs, Metzger Marsh Toledo South Bass “It’s too darn hot! It’s terri- and such in-stream impound- 80 90 Kelleys ble!” agreed Brian Bury, a state ments as Pleasant Hill and Island wildlife officer assigned to San- Charles Mill reservoirs near i v e r 80 R Port Clinton Dempsey- dusky County. An avid fisher- Mansfield. 90 Sandusky Access Sandusky Bay man, however, Bury tried cast- Roger Murray, of Tiffin, e R i v e r e Battery Park Hot spots m e g Sandusky u t a Huron Pier ing a small spinner in the would second Goedde’s motion a r City M o r e P Sandusky River below the Bal- on catfish. He and three other v Ballville Dam i lville Dam at Fremont one anglers made a great summer r R e v 75 i n morning last weekend. day of it Monday, fishing live A o r R r e u u v In an hour he had taken minnows under bobbers in g y i k H l R white perch, white bass, deep pools on the Sandusky a s i u n z d o bluegill, smallmouth bass, River below Tiffin. “Each of us e i n l Veterans i channel catfish, and crappie. caught at least 10, 15 fish,” R a i v Memorial Reservoir S m e r “There are carp down there by Murray said. r e V the hundreds,” Bury added. Others in the crew, some of Willard Reservoir Had he been targeting those whom waded in shorts and v e r Findlay Nos. 1&2 B l i a n R Reservoirs Port Clinton angler bottom-feeding bulldogs, Bury sneakers instead of bank fish- c h a r d likely would have baited up ing, included Tim Riley, of 23 Travis Hartman with nightcrawlers or corn. Bettsville, John Keros, of Tole- 75 with a 43-inch The point is, a mixed bag of do, and Bob Brater, of Findlay. Clear Fork River muskellunge that fish can be taken right now if The men also took some he trolled up on you’ll settle for something chunky smallmouth bass on Clear Fork Lake St. Clair near other than trophy largemouth the minnows, releasing them Charles Mill Pleasant Hill the head of the bass and 25-inch walleye. and the larger catfish. Some of N Reservoir Bury noted, for example, the smaller cats went into a 71 Detroit River that white bass are in heavy at cooler. Channel catfish Butler last weekend. the sand docks on the San- Keros brought doughballs dusky just below downtown for carp, as a last resort, but the the past few years up there,” walleye willing to hook up with been good along the Toledo Fremont, with anglers doing cats and bass kept the fisher- said Hartman. It’s called “turbo nightcrawlers on weight-for- Ship Channel, from the Harbor very well on minnows fished men busy. “That’s as basic as it skunk.” ward spinners and Weapons, or Light to the “new structure,” under bobbers near the waste- gets,” said Murray about their Then there’s Alexander, of hybrid mayfly rigs. the navigation platform along treatment plant discharge. fishing expedition. They ended Toledo, who often fishes for First place went to the team the outer channel. The wildlife “I’m not sure what’s going the day with a catfish fry at Toledoan angler Greg bass in a private lake in of Craig Adams on Goose, with division also recommends on there for this time of year,” Riley’s, stopping on the way Alexander with a Lenawee Lenawee County, Michigan. 10 fish at 19.1 pounds, followed northwest of Kelleys Island, said Larry Goedde, fish man- home to pick up some potato County five-pounder. Recently he found a trophy 23- by the team of Jerry Meyers Sr., between Ballast and Middle agement supervisor for Ohio salad and some fermented incher weighing five pounds. on Water Witch at 18.52 Bass islands, south of B-Can off Wildlife District 2. White bass malt beverages. dumping grounds on [Lake] St. “I caught it on a Denny pounds, and the team of Paul Camp Perry, and from Lakeside run the rivers in May, with And just so you do not Clair, east of the shipping Brauer Ratlin Jig with a pork Pacholski on Erie Hopper at to Kelleys Island. some returns in the fall, but think that no bragging-size fish channel, to the Detroit River trailer. I caught it in six feet of 15.44 pounds. Last and not least, the this heart-of-summer run is a are being caught in this heat, head — without a hit. Next we water, and in the weeds. When Tournament teams were Northwestern Ohio Bassmas- mystery. Whatever the reason, Greg Alexander and Travis ran back to our casting spots in the water gets hot I move to scattered in finding fish, said ters and the Metroparks are the fish at Fremont are keeping Hartman have a couple of the river and tried trolling just deeper water and look for logs Rick Ferguson, at Al Szuch Live sponsoring a free kids fishing some fishermen occupied. short stories, and photos, to off of them, again without a hit. and weedy edges.” Bait. At least some of the 2003 derby for ages 14 and under on White bass also are being indicate otherwise. Finally we ran back out to the Alexander also likes to fish fish, however, are reaching the Sunday at Mallard Lake in Oak taken at the mouth of the Hartman, of Port Clinton, lake and trolled just west of the Lake Hudson, east of Hudson, legal keeper length of 15 inch- Openings Preserve Metropark. Portage River, and so are went muskellunge fishing Sat- shipping channel headed back Mich., in Lenawee County. He es, he added. Registration begins at 9 sheepshead, or freshwater urday and ended up catching toward the Detroit River.” says he has found some big The Ohio Division of a.m. with fishing to begin at 10 drum, said Goedde. The Port and releasing “a nice 43-incher, That’s when the muskie bass there as well. Wildlife is reporting that the a.m., followed by lunch. Young Clinton municipal pier is the but far from a trophy.” And it jumped all over a Drifter Tackle Last and not least, the 21 best walleye prospects have anglers must be accompanied place to try if you do not have a didn’t come easy. Jointed Muskie-Stalker in five-angler teams in the West been around A-Can off the by adults. boat. White bass also are being “After casting for three black, with a green stripe on Sister Charter Boat Associa- Camp Perry firing range and Contact Steve Pollick at: taken at the entrance to East hours without seeing a fish, we the back and belly. “That has tion’s tournament Sunday around West Sister Island. 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