SHENANGO RIVER LAKE 2018

 

 
 
                                            

Tamarack lake is empty?

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If you do the math yesterdays 7+ was a typo. Should of been 5.25

It had 3 to 5 inches of water on top yesterday. Good news is with the water temp being so low it should help save the ice through the warm spell. Once it drops ill be back out. Had almost 11 inches friday night.

Im debating on making an after work night time trip. Crappie have to get the midnight munchies too right!?

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I see according to PFC info on stocking that Shenango Lake received "ZERO" Walleye stocking in 2017 and Lake Wilhelm also got ZERO ! Shenango lake got 38k Walleye fingerlings in 2016 and only 1,800 fingerlings in 2015. Only 40K Walleye fingerlings in 3 years total ! What a joke for a lake that size.
 
Just a small example for comparing against Pymatuning who receives 5,875,000 fry and 147,000 fingerling total just last year only.  
 
Not knocking Pymy, but fishing for Walleye in Wilhelm or Shenango is about a waste of time. The sad thing is Pymy Walleye fishing stunk as bad as those two also last year !
 
The new Inland Walleye stocking program is nothing but major stocking cut back in all local lakes other than Pymy. I dare any biologist or Pa. Fish Commissioner to prove me wrong ! 
 
Shenango River hasn't received a Walleye stocking since 2007 and is never getting another ever again. Now the Trout stocking has also been halted there too.....
 How sad that is for future kids fishing.... a nice river close to neighborhoods and towns with barely no fish to catch. 

I think Ohio does stock Pymy but finding numbers has eluded me so far. I was trying to find out their numbers for Mosquito Lake also but just haven't been lucky. Maybe someone can find info and share .

Shenango is finally approaching 'normal winter pool' but as of yesterday, all seven sluice gates remained opened at 2.5 feet.   Hopefully the gates will soon close, except those needed to maintain a normal flow, and the lake will refreeze with the coming cold weather allowing for some great fishing through the ice.    

Yea I have no idea why Ohio doesn't post stocking numbers on their lakes or rivers. At least it gives sportsmen an idea how their license dollars are being spent or invested. I'll give Pa. that much they do post all numbers by county and years.....very transparent ...the way it should be publicly.
 
Hope you find & share some info soon BTDT.....

 I agree they allow that Pymy Walleye snagging fiasco to go on every spring season for weeks at the Spillway Outflow, especially after dark ! You would think by now someone in the local Pymy Fish Commission would temporarily shut it down during the spawn to stop that abuse. They choose to turn their heads and allow it to continue year after year. Sure they fine and catch a few but once those Fish Cops are gone look out ...it' rake and take !
 
They worry about limiting Crappie on size and numbers, but they let that circus continue without so much as trying to protect those spawning Walleye all bunched up in that outflow!
 
Funny how they observe everybody using Sonars , Cicadas , and Blade lures all vertical jigging aggressively and hardly a person using live bait or floating stick baits and think that's normal fishing !  Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know and observe snagging at it's finest....or lowest !