Elma resident Tom Slawatcki, center, with teammates Jim Dolly, left, and son Ben, have been among teams to win cash at the Lake Erie Con Club Derby in Dunkirk, which is under new management this year.

Unfavorable weather conditions throughout May, including strong winds and murky water, delayed the start of the 2025 Lake Erie fishing season. Despite the late start, fishing proved successful in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The spring fishing weather has been unpredictable as usual on Lake Erie, but that hasn’t thwarted crowds of tournament anglers, charter captains and every day fishermen from ...

Walleye, like this one Dan Stefanich caught, are abundant in Lake Erie. Lake Erie is called the Walleye Capital of the World. The 2025 fishing season is set to showcase why. According to the Ohio ...

Rippin Walleye Charter, based out of Sheffield Lake, set sail at the beginning of 2025. Captain Jack Winters brought the charter to Lake Erie after moving from Colorado. “Jack has 25 years of ...

We're out on Lake Erie trolling for walleye. We're trolling at about 2 Mph, using sp Viper Spoons, baited with nightcrawler ...

DUNKIRK – The walleye around here tend to stick around, spending their whole lives on the eastern side of Lake Erie. The walleye from Ohio? They're roamers. They'll show up on the Buffalo side of the ...

Hello folks, this week we're trolling along the bottom of Lake Erie, rigged up with a selection of SP2 Viper Spoons, baited up with live nightcrawler worms. We're using a heavy 9oz cattail sinker to ...

Lake Erie walleye fishing is excellent with high catch rates and a large population. Anglers are favoring walleye fishing due to its success, leading to reduced pressure on yellow perch. The walleye ...

The Lake Erie Walleye Trail kicked off the spring fishing season around the Western Basin last Saturday, and plenty of trophy fish made it to the weigh-in scales at Magee East Marina near Port Clinton ...

Fish are doubtlessly feeling about now whatever fish feel when the urge to spawn kicks in. In but a little while – if not today or yesterday – female and male will be heeding an ancient directive by ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO)—The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife’s law enforcement officers closed two cases in which 10 Lake Erie anglers unlawfully took more than the ...