Results from the 2025 Lake Erie trawl surveys revealed the walleye hatch as the sixth largest of the past 38 years, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The 2025 west zone yellow perch hatch … Continued
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s binational Lake Erie Committee (LEC), composed of fishery managers from Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario and Pennsylvania recently set total allowable catches (TACs) for 2024 of 12.858 million walleye and 6.554 million pounds of yellow … Continued
Indiana anglers are invited to participate in the 2024 Midwest Walleye Challenge. The virtual fishing tournament format allows anglers to compete for prizes while providing Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries biologists with valuable data on the state’s walleye, … Continued
Results from Lake Erie trawl surveys revealed that walleye hatches were exceptional and yellow perch hatches were below average in 2023, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Walleye fishing in Lake Erie is expected … Continued
A review of Ontario’s Lake Nipissing walleye management concluded that current practices are the best option to stabilize and recover the walleye fishery, according to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. In April 2016, the province commissioned an internationally-recognized … Continued