You have to wonder how a "fishery" like that, which seems so easy to police and put a stop to continues.  Write enough citations there to fix the weed problem in the lake.  Hell, write enough to double stock the entire NW zone.  Eventually people will get the message.  And good on them.

Not sticking up for anybody,this style of fishing is different to say the least. I've caught plenty in the mouth,I've also snagged plenty. There's a way to fish a blade bait and a way to intentionally snag. The wardens told me there's about 5 percent natural reproduction of eyes . Pymy is a great fishery because it's heavily stocked by both states. Stocked fingerlings work there not fry. Where there's a run of fish in any body of water,they get hit hard. Erie,steelhead,Maumee river gets torched,with eyes and then white bass. Unfortunately most fish are easier or more congregated when they spawn. This spillway thing will never get shut down,there's quite a bit of revenue generated there. Nobody  complain about ropes of spawning crappie carried out by buckets,or people pounding big gills off there beds. As sportsmen you have to make a choice, taking a few fish will not  affect the over all population,not every eye in the lake heads to the spillway. We all know this lake takes a year round pounding,it's just not a spring thing,leadcore summer trolling takes a huge number also to a small percentage of fishermen. There's an old saying 10 percent of the fishermen catch 90 percent of the fish.You can catch eyes now where water moves, the bridges on the causeway,bridge 20, at the mouth of a small stream in Ohio. The stream the runs behind the school on the propagation side is loaded. It's close now ,but when it opens in May,try drifting a creek chub to to wire. I've killed eyes there,any gravel or sandbar will yield eyes, floating  Rap11,long A bombers,Bango stick baits,jigs and twister will take fish also. Years age a white buck tail jig tipped.with a small flathead caught plenty. I  caught many limits at the Spillway on jigs,but now you can't fish that way,due to the crowd and boats. All I can say it will be over very soon,two more weeks and it's done. I prefer wading the points,and feeling the eye stop my stick bait.Good fishing to all.

I feel the same way about 25 guys who look like L L Bean or Cabelas Cover boys standing in a hole(Puddle) dangling their noodle rods at erie in hopes of catching or should I say lifting a steelhead on the bank. wont see me there either.

there's nothing sporting about snagging a fish either in a narrow wired area or a 6 inch puddle on an erie trib.

Boys calm down I'm not for this form of fishing,nor did I take anyone's post wrong. I just saying it's gotten real bad there since the internet seen. Like I said last time there for me was 2006 and 2007. There's a real problem with a few dead beat unemployment fishermen that camp out there for the season. I may get in trouble for saying that but really don t care. They have told me they get 200 plus eyes,and yes they are snaggers. After the warden watches half the night and leaves thing get ugly. I personally have never kept  a foul hooked fish. I will say this there's a grey area between wardens, one told me in the mouthful other told me on the face forward the gill covers. I fished there when the wardens are there,I prefer that,for two reasons one I've asked them if it's a good catch,two keeps.the renegades under control.  My friend never did it and wants to go out of the boat,but I keep making excuses. We went crappie and gill fishing twice in the past few days so he's happy keeping some fish. I keep telling him it's combat fishing.lol

Great pictures as usual Brock. I have watched the spillway insanity a few times it's not for me either.

Those are great ! I watched that from my porch....it was beautiful.
 

marco
hello gentleman..i am back after a rough winter.  Btdt and everyone else...I hope all is well.  boat is in shop getting a bigger motor and I am ready to fish.  great pics guys!  tight lines soon!  fyi...big tuna lives near me and that sob does know how to fish! 
 

Glad you checked in Marco.
Maybe you can negotiate a group lesson rate with big tuna??
Boat, motor and trailer ready to roll.
If this wind would quit blowing, I'd be fishing.

I spent 4 hours at snodgrass last night. Caught a 19 inch male and had another short strike. It's getting close but not quite there yet.

registered..glad you made it thru the winter ok.btdt..you have not changed..lol...motor is so I can do erie once in a while and mosquito was hot last year and I wanna try it,,,not sure why but cant wait to fish w you guys this year...did I just say that???   big tuna is awesome but if you can get him to tell you how he does it we will be best of friends!!!

RGP , just curious where is Orchard Launch ? Is it a public launch ? Never heard of it.