Fishing

Shrinking Winter Update: Researching ice coverage, documenting Great Lakes life

Shrinking Winter Update: Researching ice coverage, documenting Great Lakes life

Shrinking Winter Update: Researching ice coverage, documenting Great Lakes life

In “Shrinking Winter,” scientists work to understand the causes and potential effects of less ice cover on the Great Lakes, a documentary photographer and three longtime ice anglers reflect on changes to the winter fishing season, and a competitive speed skater reflects on the joys of “wild ice.”

This episode originally aired in February and was one of the team’s favorites this year, so we brought it back around for the holiday season with updates.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

Ballville Dam Removal: History, trends and impacts

Ballville Dam Removal: History, trends and impacts

Ballville Dam Removal: History, trends and impacts

For more than a century, a dam divided the upstream Sandusky River from Lake Erie. People got power, but fish were prevented from reaching native spawning grounds.

Then, four years ago, the dam came down, like hundreds around the Great Lakes region. It had been replaced as a power source years earlier, and environmentalists argued to restore the river’s natural course.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

Weighted Walleye: The fallout of the Lake Erie fishing tournament

Weighted Walleye: The fallout of the Lake Erie fishing tournament

Weighted Walleye: The fallout of the Lake Erie fishing tournament

A fishing tournament weigh-in in Cleveland last month, an event most often attended by anglers, family, friends and passersby, sent the Lake Erie walleye scene into worldwide news after several videos went viral.

They appeared to show two consistently winning tournament anglers get caught cheating red-handed after 10 lead weights, tipping the scales at about 7 pounds, were removed from their five walleye at the final 2022 event for the Lake Erie Walleye Trail.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

How Fishtown is Preserving Michigan’s Fading Fishing Heritage

How Fishtown is Preserving Michigan’s Fading Fishing Heritage

Saved from recent high-water levels that threatened its very foundation, Fishtown in Leland, one of Northern Michigan’s most iconic tourist attractions is working to help with a save of its own: preserving the state’s fading commercial fishing heritage. Read the full story by Traverse Magazine.  Read the full story

Authorities probing report of scandal at fishing tournament

Authorities probing report of scandal at fishing tournament

Authorities probing report of scandal at fishing tournament

By Mark Gillispie, Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) — The county prosecutor’s office in Cleveland has opened an investigation into an apparent cheating scandal during a lucrative walleye fishing tournament on Lake Erie last week.

A video posted to Twitter shows Jason Fischer, tournament director for the Lake Erie Walleye Trail, cutting open the winning catch of five walleye on Friday and finding lead weights and prepared fish filets inside them.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

New prints up for grabs in support of Kincardine hospital

Kincardine’s hospital auxiliary is auctioning off a new print set at Sobey’s entitled “Triple Summer Coastal” by Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis.  This limited edition piece features three different prints — Fishing Vessels; Smiths Cove, Digby County; and Peggy’s Cove.  The print displayed at the Kincardine Hospital is entitled “Shimmering Water” by Group of […]

Setting Lake Erie limits

Setting Lake Erie limits

Setting Lake Erie limits

The total allowable catch (TAC) for yellow perch and walleye went up this year in Lake Erie. The raise is indicative of booming walleye population in recent years as well as a healthy perch population in most areas of the lake.

The walleye TAC rose 18% from 12.28 million fish in 2021 to 14.53 million this year, with yellow perch rising 15% from 6.23 million pounds last year to 7.18 million pounds this year.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.

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