Walleye Fall Brawl Grows Into Lake Erie Derby
The Walleye Fall Brawl, started seven years ago by Frank Murphy as a friendly wager, has grown to Lake Erie's largest fishing derby with 3 704 entries. The event runs from 12 01 a m today to 8 a m Sunday Dec 3 with a Warrior 193 boat as top prize and a 17 and under kids division.
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Lake Erie
Murphy
Frank Murphy
Erie
St. Vladimir's Grand Hall
Parma
Lake ErieFishingDerby.com
Gmail
Lake Erie Fishing Report Highlights Walleye and Perch Activity
Water temperatures 64 to 67 degrees off Toledo to Cleveland. Walleye best near Niagara Reef and Kelleys Island areas with casting mayfly rigs or trolling crankbaits divers and spoons. Yellow perch active near Maumee Bay lighthouse Camp Perry range Rattlesnake Island and bases west of Catawba. Smallmouth bass reported near Kelleys and South Bass reefs with tube jigs or drop shot rigs. Steelhead trout being taken near Fairport Harbor Conneaut break walls. see central basin walleye for details.
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Niagara Reef
Kelleys Island Shoal
Kelleys Island
Maumee Bay
Camp Perry
Rattlesnake Island
Catawba
Ballast Island
Lucy's Point
Middle Bass Island
South Bass Island
Walleye
Huron
Cranberry Creek Marina
Edgewater Park
Gordon Park
Fairport Harbor
Ashtabula
Conneaut
Cleveland
Fairport
Central Basin
Sophie the Brittany Pointing Woodcock in Northeastern Minnesota
Esko Minnesota hunters Phil and Nathan Johnson hunt with Sophie a Brittany with a beeper collar. Sophie locates woodcock and grouse in October near Duluth. She has two metal plates and 13 screws in her left front leg from an old injury but remains a reliable hunting partner.
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Island Lake
Minn
Phil Johnson
Brittany's
Sophie
Brittany
Johnson
Esko
Nathan Johnson
Nathan
Duluth
Clifford
Minnesota
Johnsons
Aspen
Phil
Ohio Wildlife Council approves rule changes on fish limits and endangered species
The Ohio Wildlife Council approved changes to sport fishing bag and size limits for lakes including Pymatuning, Lake Snowden, and Hoover Reservoir, exempting certain striped bass, redefining elk as a game quadruped, and adding the rusty patched bumble bee to the endangered list. Also renamed Kindt's cave isopod.
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Columbus
Ohio Wildlife Council
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
ODNR
Pymatuning Lake
Pennsylvania
Lake Snowden
Hoover Reservoir
Odnr Division of Wildlife
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Brad Zahar
Lake Erie Fishing Report
Toledo
Middleburg
Milan
UU LI
Canton
TOSS
RUGER
Hts
Sam Cook
Duluth News Tribune
TNL
Mike Bushey
Island Lake, Minn
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