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Cleveland is a good, old fishing town. Its anglers are being rewarded this weekend for enduring a long, cold winter with a combination of balmy weather and rivers filled with silvery, hard-fighting steelhead trout.
Anglers from elsewhere may find it difficult to believe that an industrial city might be a fine place to go fishing, but there's plenty of evidence. The steelhead trout fishing in the rivers during the cold-water season is world class, especially the readily-accessible Rocky River, a tremendous place in the Cleveland metroparks for fishermen of every stripe to cast a line.
The broad waters of Lake Erie give up jumbo yellow perch and trophy walleye from early spring through late fall. Cleveland Harbor is a top location for largemouth, smallmouth and chunky rock bass. Cleveland has hosted national bass and walleye tournaments, with excellent results.
Sitting on the bank of the Rocky River on Friday morning, watching a dozen anglers wade the clearing waters and cast for steelhead trout, the fishing was relatively slow. Catches were much better at the crack of dawn. One angler lamented that perhaps he shouldn't have dawdled over breakfast.
By 10 am, when this photo was taken from our deck, many fisherman and woman had caught dozens of walleye. A grey day with one real sprinkle, chilly out on the lake, although the catching made for having a great time. The weather cleared by 5 pm and we are hoping for good weather tomorrow.
We have about 30 guests in right now, most of them fishing in about 16 feet of water off of Pine Point , a hot spring fishing spot. Other places producing fish are around Goose Island and the Hardwoods of Leech Lake. Using a shiner and jig or lindy rig drifting and trolling. Pretty calm winds tucked in behind Pine Point on west side of Trader’s Bay.
Steve, my husband and the dock boys pictured here, clean all of our guests fish and package them for travel if you prefer. Leave the fish cleaning to us, Steve is a licensed fish packer and is proud of his no bone walleye filets and Y boned northern pike.
Guests today said each boat was keeping about 50% of what they caught. Many boats catching 25 or more walleye. Jumbo perch and northerns were seen in the live well today along with the many walleye.
We have openings this coming week. Our rate is $40 a person per night with a minimum of four guests. Our covered protected harbor fee is $25 a day. We (I should say Steve) will launch your boat, store your trailer, clean the fish, gas the boat and trailer it out for you before you depart. Can’t beat that with a stick.
Okay, it is getting late (for me) and I am getting punchy, time to sign off and I will post more photos tomorrow.
- Jul 08, 2010
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