Living in the Chrome Dome

Who on here would actually like to call the south shore of Lake Erie their home because of the steelhead fishery.

I have for many yrs. I will for many more.
 
Dont think I could ever leave because of all the different species of fish and fishing there is here. Steelhead is just one part of the equation.
 
Erie fishing to me is FREE therapy and a way for me to regain my sanity and cleanse  my soul. 
 
I have to add that I dont necessarily need to catch fish all the time. Its just about getting out there and fishing. Catching is a bonus ( but I usually never have a problem catching fish )

i live 3 hours south and i probably spend more time there then most of the residents. the wife and i would drive up for the nite just to watch it snow 12" , or to watch a band at 1 of the bars. ive made the trip many many times my self and slept in the car where ever i could. i now have a camp in pine lane and get there every chance i get. i also now have a little baby that doesnt let me get up there as much, but i am there any chance i get. my little buddy (baby) has been to the lake at the mouth of elk watching me rip some steel when he was 5 month old. he sat on the shore a smiled the whole time.

yeah...pittsburg smells great, the traffic is easy, and the clubs are awesome....dont even get me started on the fishing....
 
but the last time I found a reason to go there was 1902. It may have changed since then.
 
PS....ALL the fish are here...world class duud.
 
Dont even ask about the hunting....theres slightly less game than fish....it sux too.

If there were jobs in Erie within my profession, I would move back today....If you are an avid fisherman and love the outdoors, there is no other place like good old Erie PA...just thinking about it makes me miss it. 

Mr.Slickfish

yeah...pittsburg smells great, the traffic is easy, and the clubs are awesome....dont even get me started on the fishing....

but the last time I found a reason to go there was 1902. It may have changed since then.

PS....ALL the fish are here...world class duud.

Dont even ask about the hunting....theres slightly less game than fish....it sux too.

 
Yer not a greybeard...yet...dUUd!
 
True, Picksburg's not exactly a big beautiful garden, but I love it for it's rough edges.
 
Also, there's plenty of fish and game to be had around the city...just gonna know where to look. 

Worlds greatest fishery in the world

Take January-March off of the calander and sprinkle in an economy, and it would be an ideal town.  That said, if you add jobs, you add people and polution ect. and basically make it Cleveland...  To me, it's a great place to visit how it is. 
 
If I was from there with family around, and able to make a career, I'd probably never leave.  Family is why I am where I am, and probably why many are where they are.  I moved away for a while, but made my way home.  My job allows me move anywhere in the NE/Mid Atlantic that I want, so could move to Erie if I wanted.  But our folks are in their glory years, and their grandkids are their #1 joy.  I have a few cousins that have moved away, and their parents are a wreck, seeing our kids more than their own grandkids, not that Erie is terribly far, but not sure they'd be at soccer games or just meeting up for dinner, ect.  I even stuck to the South Hills to make things easier, rather than the North Hills where I wanted to move, so I would be closer to Arthur, Pymie and Erie.  To me, that is true conservative family values.

I live close (bout an hr).  I love the weather for ice fishing (fingers crossed) and for steelheading.  If I lived any closer I would get much less work done tho ;)

I would move, not if the steel was the only reason though... Perch, eyes, carp, cats, gar, bass, northerns and waterfoul would be ahead of steel... just sayin'

bulldog1

Perch, eyes, carp, cats, gar, bass, northerns and waterfoul would be ahead of steel... just sayin'

 
Werd...it's pretty far down my list of "things to do" in Erie

I rarely see other anglers....but i've nitched out my own hiding spots.

jimmytwotime 

pittsburgh is a giant human dumpster, the reason no one fishes there is the fishin' stinks, thats why erie is such a wonderland to the burghers. end of story 

 
People like you are one of the biggest reasons I enjoy fishing in SWPA so much. 
 

BloodyHand

Cold, you gettin soft? Never took you for a fair weather fisherperson.

BH

 
I can and have fished in all sorts of weather, but unless a buddy or three wants to get out in the dead of winter, I have ways I'd much rather spend those short winter days than balls deep in an ice floe.  Soft?  Lazy?  Not dedicated? *shrug* If that's what you want to call it, I won't lose sleep over it.   Especially over the past few years, outside of Erie, once DST ends, my fishing goes way down, which goes along with a few other changes that mark the short days and cold weather.  I hate to complain about fishing, but while I enjoy getting out and fishing on a June evening, even if I don't catch anything, if I spend a cold Saturday in January in the water and don't catch many/any, it feels more like a wasted day and wasted effort than anything remotely positive, making it an overall negative experience, and when fishing becomes a negative experience, I stop doing it.   It always picks up again in the spring.
 
If you're talking about my reasons for not wanting to live in Erie, though, the fishing is low on that list, the winters slightly higher, the town itself near the top.  Nothin' at all against the people, who have, by and large, been great, from the good friends I've made, right down to the random passerby, but it has never ever struck me as the sort of place I'd like to live for any extended period of time.  If work sent me up for a few months or even a few years to drink beer, so be it, and I'd make the most of it.  But as soon as the assignment was over, I'd be happy to get out and head back this way...and after that much Erie fishing, I'd probably not even get an Erie stamp for a few years.
 
Just different tastes in surroundings.

If I wasn't required to live on site....I'd be rural fer sure.