February 07, 2016

Open water fishing

Open water fishing can still be excellent

Dick Martin, Columnist 1:04 p.m. EST February 7, 2016





It may be the dead of winter, but that doesn't mean there's no longer open water fishing to be had, and some of that fishing can be excellent.

Lake Erie steelhead streams are iffy sometimes because with occasional long spells of bitter weather they're likely to be frozen half (or clear) over sometimes, and trout streams like the Clear Fork likely have the same problem. But fishing below the lake dams for saugeye will soon be humming along, and an anglers chances of filling a stringer are good if he or she knows what they're doing.

When will it start? As soon as we have a few good rains or some serious snow melt that will fill our lakes and reservoirs enough to require releasing water.
 


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