Lake Erie Steel
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This last Saturday my dad and I headed up to Lake Erie to fish for some steelhead. This was the first chance since I started tying to fish as well as the first time to take my d40 out fishing. The day turned out pretty good although we didn’t catch as many steelhead as planned. I ended up catching two. The first was a twenty five incher and the second was less than that. We did get into some pretty big suckers that were running, which were pretty fun to fight. The big steelhead took a black woolybugger with a hot pink tail, which was pretty awesome since it was the first fish I caught on a fly that I tied!
Here are a few pics:
The big one.
The second smaller guy.
And I have one question that I was hoping someone here could answer. The first fish had some pretty nasty looking holes in it. The only thing we could come up with is that it was either from a lamprey or maybe from old age. Let me know what you think.
Brandon,
Those could be any of the following:
1. lamprey, maybe, but the top one isn’t real lamprey looking.
2. heron, but usually those herons don’t go after such big fish.or my guess…
3. hook scars or being caught before and mishandled.
Dave,
Your suggestion seems to make the most sense now that I think about it. I’ve been up there several times and have seen people raking a weighted treble hook through huge groups of fish. And that guy up there was certainly a grizzled vet.
It is legal to keep fish there you know. An 100% of those fish are from hatchery smolts. Not going to get into a debate here but therecis very little natural reproduction on those creeks.
Yup, I agree. I wasnt trying to start a fire around keeping or not keeping a fish. I was merely poking fun at the tacky picture of a strung up fish. I think the picture of the first steelhead I ever caught has 13-year-old me holding up the fish by the a bright yellow stringer. Nothing like having your first steelhead photo involve a bleeding fish and an ugly stringer. Not one I keep on the fridge at least.
Keep the fish, who cares. Just take the picture without the stringer first.
Thanks for sharing the report, Brandon.
Yeah, I know the stringer is pretty tacky but I wanted to get some kind of picture with it and my dad was pretty far up stream. I didn’t feel like running all the way up the stream so I strung him up and waited for him to come down and just forgot to take it out. I ended up releasing him and spent a little bit of time reviving him but he ended up swimming back out into the current perfectly fine.
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