L Erie tribs steelie fishing

[NateD]

I agree, it definitely is very addicting! Thought I would post the update regarding steelhead here from the State of the Lake meeting. Although our steelhead fishing remains the envy of much of the country, there has been a notable drop (which many of us have witnessed) over the last few years. The DEC thinks it is due to lamprey predation, which also has impacted burbot and whitefish populations. Despite all the recent treatments of lamprey nests in local streams (which have been successful on those streams) the lamprey population overall is still up and may be coming in from other locations further up the lake which hopefully may be addressed in coming years.

The good news on the walleye end, however, is that the 2010 year class appears to have been particularly successful, almost on par with the monster hatch of 2003.

[bailey]

Streams a little high yesterday so launched out of the catt it was a little rough not bad. Capt joe had to be playing with video camera at his beach house as we were at the mouth. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGSM...e_gdata_player

[joes spot]

cool !!!!! did you guys catch anything

[captainjoe]

It wasn't me Bailey. How did you do? It was pretty windy.

[copo427ss]

I have noticed the decline of steelies as well. Streams that used to be packed with them now only have a few. I think pa and Ohio cut back on there stocking as well. Pa was bitching a few years ago that alot of their stocked fish end up in our streams.

[bailey]

You gotta watch attached video to my last post.

[SteelEyes]

I have noticed the decline of steelies as well. Streams that used to be packed with them now only have a few. I think pa and Ohio cut back on there stocking as well. Pa was bitching a few years ago that alot of their stocked fish end up in our streams.

You can find the steelhead stocking levels for Erie on page 2 of the linked doc. 2012 was 2% higher than 2011, but still 2% lower than the average.
http://www.glfc.org/lakecom/lec/CWTG...exesum2013.pdf

[captainjoe]

Bailey - I must have shown that video a dozen times and everyone loved it. It gets better every time I watch it.

[lineman49]

Streams a little high yesterday so launched out of the catt it was a little rough not bad. Capt joe had to be playing with video camera at his beach house as we were at the mouth. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGSM...e_gdata_player

I don't know if I would toss my cookies or crap my pants!!

[smikac32]

Anybody been getting any trout? I caught a little stocker like 4 inches at 18 mile.