You Erie people are nuts

I make a 2 and a half hour trip up there around 2 or 3 times a year and every year I realize that it's to dang cold up there. Went up today and my freaking flies and tippet froze solid, my feet went numb and the snot running down my nose froze in my mustache, it was ridiculous. You people live there, are you all nuts? Don't answer that I already know the answer.
 
On a side note, fished 16 and 20, nothing at 16 and landed one with a few more hook ups at 20. 

Winter in Erie
Where the gentle breezes blow
75 knots
and 30 below.

Beads never freeze lol :p

Worlds greatest winter freshwater more better fishery.

Who you callin crazy??? What does my mental state have anything to do with living in Kentucky? Like I said before, Ashtabula is the best place to live on the planet.
 
BH

Hey there is worse places to live...like Siberia!

http://forums.fishusa.com/Message/13948-YINZ-MIGHT-BE-FROM-ERIEZ-IF/
 
theres some good stuff here...
we're lake effect loonies

Just don't mention where you caught fish and everybody is cool (lol) You wanna be really brutalized and still catch fish travel further north...you wont run into as many whiners that's for sure....I cant believe this **** still continues..

I know where you're comin from Adam. It is certainly desirable to fish when it's warmer, the fish are concentrated and still dumb, and they fight much harder.
But winter steelheading brings less crowds, beautiful sights and something to do besides sitting inside (I don't hunt). So frozen toes here I come!

Im jealous of you retired guys that put enough time in that your bodies adjust.  Ive still gotta put my time into working!  But hey, yinz guys have earned it, so more power to ya.  I was out at 645am this morning before work fishing, and by 8am when i got back to my car, toes were already freezing up!    

fisherofmen376
I know where you're comin from Adam. It is certainly desirable to fish when it's warmer, the fish are concentrated and still dumb, and they fight much harder.
But winter steelheading brings less crowds, beautiful sights and something to do besides sitting inside (I don't hunt). So frozen toes here I come!

 
Have at it man.  I just feel It's better to start in August and be done In November.  It's just not that fun to me to catch winter boots anymore.

Yinz rang?

It is OFFICIAL " Erie , Pa. is the snowiest city in the U.S. !!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Fish 5000 I still love that hot babe's beautiful****!  If I had her as a fishing partner and part of the terms of the agreement was we had to fish in Erie in the cold Id be there everyday!!!
 
Honestly though the cold don't scare me to much, but the road conditions paticularly the unexpected  black ice does.  Last year in January 2013 I was heading up to Erie, it was spitting a little the roads looked fine, a guy flashed me his beams, I hit my brakes and was 360ing across the 4 lanes.  I did not hit a thing,  I went a 1/4 mile further and it was all pure ice.  I turned around and headed for home riding on the berm/highway and flashed cars to warn them, a lady heading the opposite direction hit her brakes and came across 4 lanes and totaled my vehicle, front bags and side bags popped over 75 accidents occured in under that 45 minute period.  I don't blame the person who hit me it is a total 0 control situation, and that's why we have insurance.  There is never such a scary feeling as having 0 control and with black ice you have 0!!!  Everyone was rolling along fine doing 50 to 60 and all of a sudden all hell is breaking loose.
 
I still love steel fishing but it makes me a little more paranoid of the road conditions. 
 
I also need to go back to steelhead fishing 101, as I have never sucked so badly at catching steel as this season.  1 fish out of 4, 5 hr trips ( thats round trip).  I keep telling myself its because I am fishing so high up on the tribs  or its not ideal conditions.  I find myself coming home and rereading sections of John Nagy's steelhead guide to flyfishing for steelhead.  Some years your a hero and other years a zero!