CLEVELAND, Ohio – Noted local fly fisherman Jerry Darkes of Strongsville will be running the Fly Fair sale and fly fishing clinics on Saturday. Featured on stage will be international fly fishing expert and travel agent Angela Foster of Harbor Town Fly fishing.
Members of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Trout Club will be helping with the Fly Sale from 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday at the Old Farm Field Shelter off SOM Center Road in Cleveland Metroparks North Chagrin Reservation in Willoughby Hills. The fly fishing club promises a wealth of pre-owned gear for sale from a host of top fly fishing companies. In the mix will be single-hand, switch and two-hand fly fishing gear for everything from panfish to steelhead trout.
A talented fly fisher, Foster is on stage at 2:30-4 p.m. with a clinic on Intermediate/Advanced Casting and will headline a presentation, Adventures in Paradise, about fly fishing travel from 6-8 p.m. at Merwin’s Wharf, 17598 Merwin Ave., Cleveland.
Reservations are needed for the Merwin’s Wharf event at www.cmnh.org/troutclub). Casting classes are close to being filled.
Runyan, Cominsky dominate LEWT season: The Lake Erie Walleye Trail has been a a fun tournament competition for Jack Runyan of Cleveland and his partner, Chase Cominsky of Hermitage, Pa. The young anglers won the regular season finale at Geneva State Park on Saturday, Sept. 3 with a limit of five walleye weighing 37.82 pounds, a 7.5-pound average.
Wrapping up the year will be the LEWT Championship on Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at Gordon Park in Cleveland.
The Geneva win was an unprecedented third LEWT victory in a row for Runyan and Cominsky, and they split $4,460. Eric and Randy Still were second with 32.63 pounds, followed but Steve Hendricks and Bryan Ulmer, 31.47 pounds.
Team Fowler won the Open Division with 33.62 pounds. The Kayak Division was captured by Nate Leaders with 12.74 pounds.
Fisheries experts want your perch carcasses: Fisheries managers with the Ohio Division of Wildlife want Lake Erie fishermen to save up their yellow perch for a study. But not the tasty fillets. Researchers want the carcasses with spine, head, and tail still intact.
The carcasses will be measured and the otolith bones from the heads will determine annual growth patterns. The perch need to be from the Central Basin, caught between Huron and Conneaut, to help figure out why the schools of perch have severely slumped and their spawning seasons have been a bust.
The carcasses should be frozen and with a report on the general location and depth where they were caught. They can be dropped off on weekdays at the Fairport Fish Research Station between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
If 20 or more carcasses are available they can arrange pick up. For Cleveland area anglers, the Cleveland Metroparks’ fishery expert Mike Durkalec is able to accept carcasses for the researchers. Send a note to: md@clevelandmetroparks.com
Fisheries experts want your perch carcasses: Fisheries managers with the Ohio Division of Wildlife watch Lake Erie fishermen to cough up their yellow perch for a study. But not the tasty fillets. They want the carcasses with spine, head, and tail still intact.
The carcasses will be measured and the otolith bones from the heads will determine annual growth patterns. The perch need to be from the Central Basin, between Huron and Conneaut, to help figure out why the schools of perch have severely slumped and their spawning seasons have been a bust.
The carcasses should be frozen and a report on the general location and depth where they were caught. They can be dropped off on weekdays at the Fairport Fish Research Station between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
If 20 or more carcasses are available they can arrange pick up. For Cleveland area anglers, the Cleveland Metroparks’ fishery expert Mike Durkalec is able to accept carcasses for the researchers. Send a note to: md@clevelandmetroparks.com
Brook trout making a comeback: As trout hatcheries produce lots of rainbow trout and steelhead trout for stocking in many Ohio streams and lakes, the once-beloved brook trout has been making a slow comeback. The brookies have been showing up in Northern Ohio streams, but the only catchable brook trout in the Buckeye State are those released by trout hatcheries.
The hatchery movement in America was conceived in 1853, when Theodatus Garlick and Professor H. A. Ackley successfully fertilized the eggs of brook trout in a crude hatchery on a small spring near Cleveland. Around the same time, concerns over the substantial decline of several species of fish began to garner public attention. Among the causes for the decline were pollution, soil erosion, the construction of dams and mills along waterways and the destruction of natural habitats.
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