Anything that’s silver and blue or rainbow works really, really well,” he said about lure colors to catch springtime walleye.įor his minnow imitation lures in the summer months, he suggests chartreuse and orange, gold and purple, and white and orange combinations. The walleye “just sit outside the streams and wait. The young steelhead trout, known as smolts, leave the creeks and provide an easy meal for the predator fish. In the spring, these fish come into the shoreline where the steelhead tributaries flow into the lake. Last year, his biggest walleye was 10.25 pounds. ![]() Over the years, he has netted several large fish that weighed 13.5 pounds. The past five or six years they had a tremendous spawn, and “there’s just gazillions of walleye out here come June and July," he said. He considers any fish over 2 feet long to be a really nice fish, and it seems each's year class of fish are getting bigger. ![]() The fish we caught were 18-25 inches long, the average size catch for this waterway. Walleye need to be 15 inches to keep, but that’s not a problem for Lake Erie. It didn’t take too long before someone was shouting: “Fish on!” Walleyes put up a nice fight swimming from about 50 feet down. We slowly trolled the lake using minnow replica crankbaits and nightcrawler worm harnesses. A combination Lake Erie/trout permit allows for the catch of a hefty steelhead or brown trout. His service provides the fishing poles, boat and other gear, so guests only need to provide a Pennsylvania fishing license with the Lake Erie permit. He’s one of many charter services in the area. ![]() Eshbaugh, 55, of Cochranton, Crawford County, operates Dutch Fork Fishing Charters and is a partner and co-owner of Tudor Hook-n-Nook at Elk Creek Sports.
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