Chautauqua Park

Walleye – Fair: Try along the north shore near Chautauqua Park, the east shoreline and the state marina. Look for the bite to pick up offshore near dredge cuts along the east shore and in around 8 feet of water on the west end of the lake. White Bass – Fair: Anglers are having luck fishing from shore on the east side and from the marina. Black Crappie – Fair: Catch crappie from the marina using minnows and a twister. 

Carolina-rigged lizard

Time to put the Carolina-rigged lizard to use as well as the shakey-head worm. Several bass were caught last week on top-water, and that form of fishing is as much fun as any.
Look for bass in the creeks in 10 to 20 feet of water. Crappie will spawn in 10 to 15 feet along pea-gravel banks. Throw a swimming minnow, and hold on. If you catch one crappie on a bank, work that bank because where you find one, there will be several.

Maumee River:

 The number of anglers targeting walleye on the river has dropped off, according to river watcher Joe Roecklein, who reports from his daily survey that the run appears to be winding down. He said most of the activity in recent days has been around Orleans Park, a traditional hot spot for white bass as that run overlaps with the end of the walleye run. Roecklein expects a good weather weekend will bring the white bass fishermen out in droves, and big surges of white bass should move in very soon. The white bass anglers fish spinners, twister tails, or minnows floated under a bobber. The remaining walleye anglers are taking fish with floating jigs and swirl-tail grubs fished on a Carolina rig with a ½- or 5/8-ounce sinker.

TRUMAN:

 upper 50s/low 60s, stained, about normal. Outlook: Jeff Faulkenberry’s Endless Season Guide Service reports: crappie – excellent and still on the banks, try jigs or minnows; blue cats – good and suspended in shad on channel edges, being caught on jugs too; white bass – good up the back of creeks early morning using ¼ oz white rooster tails; largemouth – still continues to be excellent on spinnerbaits and top water. Special note from Tyler: If you’re a social media user, the “Truman Lake Area Fishing” Facebook group has an engaged membership that posts regular updates throughout the week. This is a great place to find daily updates for below Truman Dam.

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Pymatuning Reservoir

 At Pymatuning Reservoir, anglers are picking up walleye toward the north end of the lake using jigs and stickbaits. In addition to the walleye, fishermen also report a few yellow perch and crappie catches around the shallow structures of the lake. For the perch and crappie, jigs tipped with minnows under a float is a productive strategy.

Ohio Steelhead Alley

: Heavy rains have the ability to trash the fishery in a hurry, but the system is usually pretty quick to heal. Once the swollen and muddy conditions subside, the action should pick right up since anglers were reporting this week that there are still strong numbers of fish in the streams. A good guide is a smart investment on your first foray into this phenomenal fishery, since the steelhead game has its own unique set of tricks and techniques.

MELVERN:

 48 degrees, visibility around 6 feet, about 1 foot low. Outlook: Melvern Lake Marina reports: crappie – poor to fair around the docks and in the crack by the heated dock using dark jigs and minnows. Numbers above 10” are increasing, best in early morning. There was increased success this week in the early morning and early afternoon at the outlet pond below the dam using minnows. Smallmouth - fair, along the shoreline and rip rap face of the dam using spoons and shallow crankbaits. Several around the docks being caught on minnows. White bass - fair lake wide on jigs and minnows; all other species – slow or no reports.

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Walleye tips

Walleyes are top-level predators, never far from a food source. Expect walleyes that live in lakes that host pelagic forage fish such as gizzard shad, alewife and emerald shiners to respond differently to their surroundings than ones where yellow perch, minnows and young sunfish supply their primary food source.

Besides food and cover, water clarity also is a variable. Walleyes have a decided sight advantage over prey species. On clear-water lakes, expect them to be most active when light levels are low, such as the twilight periods and at night. And while there is often a nighttime bite on dingy-water lakes — particularly for larger walleyes — in general turbid-water lakes provide better daytime fishing than clear ones.

Early-season strategies consider the many variables just explained. In lakes that feature submerged weeds such as mifoil, pondweed and coontail, it’s likely at least some of the walleye population will be using this cover option. Jigs tipped with ribbon leeches or half a nightcrawler are ideal for working the edges of emerging weedbeds. For extensive weed edges, pulling ’crawler harnesses behind a bottom-bouncer sinker is a good option for covering lots of water. If perch and panfish become a nuisance, switch to an artificial nightcrawler or leech.