Maynard.G.Crabs 149 chubs, Dive? I'm calling you this winter when I need something to put under my tip-ups. Knowing how intensely you study fish, I might be opening a Pandora's Box, but here goes: those mufflehead midges are Chironomidae. I want a full paper, by tomorrow noon.

Yeah they're pretty fun using a glass ultralight spinning rod and 3wt fly rod, "Pittsburgh Brookies" as far as I'm concerned haha. I've caught a few over the 10" mark including a 14.25" Chub a while back and those things fought better than any stocked Trout could hope to.

So those are Chironomids, I've heard of those before but never thought Erie had them. It's more annoying just to clean them off the floor of the boat than it is having them on you! Seems like they just hop on to you/your stuff/your boat and die. Oh jeez not another paper, I just finished a couple! Welllll, not much I can tell you about midges aside from being open water spawning insects whose larva rises from the bottom of the water column, and they're great fish food! Ask me about some obscure species of fish in the lake like Trout-Perch or Burbot and I'll rant for days!

How long do the smallies stay in the bay heard the water up so might need to run a yak or belly boat

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Maynard.G.Crabs  149 chubs, Dive? I'm calling you this winter when I need something to put under my tip-ups.  

Catching Chubs ? How does one go from big Erie fish to catching Creek Chubs (bait ) ? ...lolWhen we were kids those Creek Chubs were a nuisance in our Trout Steams in Summer...stole all our worms before Trout could grab them! Do they still croak when you hold em , like Catfish ? Next thing you be telling me how many Emeralds you caught on midges !....lol Nice pics Dan ! 

If it has a mouth and gills it's fair game for me!

Everything is bait, it's all subjective, Chubs catch Walleye and Walleye make nice Flathead bait! And I guess you could use Flatheads as bait for Sharks or what have you lol. Not a nuisance to me, I might be the only person to be fishing for these guys then catch a stocked Rainbow in the same stream and start swearing because I didn't know how the invasive 'Bow ended up in this feeder creek (bucket biologist(s) I'd guess!).

Yeah they like to burp and belch at you when unhooking them haha. If I could, for once in my life, figure out how to post pictures on here I'd show you a few, nuptial males are as good looking as any Trout.

I'll call you out on that last part, Memorial Day 2016 I managed to fair hook an Emerald on a little Kastmaster in North East Marina. And back in 2013-2014, the "glory days" of shallow water White Bass and Drum fishing, we used to catch tons of Spottail Shiners on worms from our pier on the main lake as bycatch. Oh yeah, and they're not in the minnow family, but this past Feburary I got into a really solid Gizzard Shad bite in the shallows in PIB fishing for Steelhead, landed 40 something of them in the 2-14" range on nymphs and zebra MIDGES.

Maynard.G.Crabs
Big or small, the Divemaster catches 'em all.

Yes sir. Any size, any species, if it puts a bend in the rod I love to catch it! Not to say I don't have slightly prefered species, but I enjoy all of them.

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Good stuff John! I was fishing yest and noticed the same thing, never had a helicopter come that close before it was awesome but knowing why they were there really wasn't. Hopefully they find her. Prayers

Re the missing person-her husband is now charged with homicide. Went out on the boat together Saturday night and only he came back. They caught him in a lie when they got video surveillance. The truth will always find you out.
http://triblive.com/state...overboard-in-lake-erie

Still some hungry smallies in the shallows. Largemouth galore. Pike harder to find, but gar are filling in nicely.
 
Cottonwood fuzzies and midges are gone. Mosquitoes getting worse, as are dudes rollerblading in speedos.
 

 

 

 
 
Still haven't found the missing woman. Alleged murderer is her husband, Christopher Leclair, who used to run Leclair Point bait shop over by Rum Runners. He owns the Doris M, a historic (1947) fishing tug that he and his wife were using for commercial fishing.
Coast Guard estimates they spent over $600,000 in the search effort resulting from his phony report. That doesn't include all the local fire departments, etc.  

Thanks, Brock! Hope the stripers are cooperating for you.
 
Leclair did take his wife out on the lake, but it was on Saturday, the day before he made the false report. Came back to the marina alone Sat. evening, then went out alone again on Sunday. Police have been using the GPS on his boat, as well as cell phone data, to pinpoint where he went on Saturday. Dive teams and a copter (yesterday) are searching those areas. And yes, the cameras were key. The port authority just recently upgraded their surveillance system, and it's already paying off.