Mirage,
Looks like a great day to me since i had to work !!!!
Great Job,

Ron

 

Way to go Bob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

we were out there also, from 9 till 11:30. ten white bass to every perch, so we moved in to the 33/15 and got some real nice perch, and it was 10 perch to every white bass. three perch just over 13in. done whith our limit by 2:45 great day to be on the lake.

very nice walleye that had to be fun on a perch rod.

 

Nice job on the catch.Man that water looks gross,is it stained with algae that bad now?
Looking like GSM lake.

 

Nice job on the catch.Man that water looks gross,is it stained with algae that bad now?
Looking like GSM lake.

went out of cleveland today, the algae was twice as bad than that. caught 2 white bass

it was absolutly the worse day on the lake to date

 

we were out there also, from 9 till 11:30. ten white bass to every perch, so we moved in to the 33/15 and got some real nice perch, and it was 10 perch to every white bass. three perch just over 13in. done whith our limit by 2:45 great day to be on the lake.

very nice walleye that had to be fun on a perch rod.

We only had a dozen or so white bass.

When I hooked the walleye I wasn't sure what it was. My buddy had caught a monstrous sheephead and the fish was taking my line all over the place. Because of the algae I didn't see it until it actually surfaced. Then there was the scramble for the net, Mark missed netting it on the first pass but got the job done.

 

Algae is the fodder for the forage fish. If you want good fishing, you need algae. The reports on the algae bloom are going to stir up a lot of trouble for the fishing community. We are still a lot better today than 50 years ago but crystal clear waters will not have any fish.

 

i think we were only about 50 yards to the south of you. i heard someone say walleye and told my buddy to look that way. sall the pole bent over, and someone grabed a blue net and had it and it fliped out part way up. we both at the same time said oh no, but then we saw the rod bend again and he got it the next time. glad to see the picture of it nice fish.

 

Algae is the fodder for the forage fish. If you want good fishing, you need algae. The reports on the algae bloom are going to stir up a lot of trouble for the fishing community. We are still a lot better today than 50 years ago but crystal clear waters will not have any fish.

The algae we have blooming bad right now on Erie is not the beneficial kind. Indeed, True Algae are beneficial and true algae are eaten by zooplankton, which are in turn eaten by small fish, then by larger fish, etc. True algae is the foundation of the food chain for the fisheries.

Unfortunately, what you see floating right now on top is Blue-Green algae. Blue-green algae are not true algae. Rather blue-green algae are actually photosynthetic bacteria known as cyanobacteria, which can cause illness and death in humans and animals. While blue-green algae can convert sunlight into energy, they are not an important a part of the food chain because most organisms prefer not to eat them.

The two forms of blue-green common in the blooms on Erie now are Microcystis and Anabaena. The Microsystis blooming now actually shades out and out-competes the beneficial forms of true algae, because Microcystis is more buoyant and floats - that is why you see it at the surface on calm days. Because of this, the Microcystis hinders the growth of the good stuff, and in addition can form Microsystin - the toxin which is harmful and can be toxic to humans and animals at high concentrations. Even if it doesn't form the toxin, the Microsystis out there is reducing and hindering the production of the good zooplankton which is the foundation of the fishery.

Here are a few good links to some fact sheets:

http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/eh/bluegreenalgae/understandingalgae.htm

http://www.epa.state.oh.us/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=KnmCTORnZnU=&tabid=5147

http://www.odh.ohio.gov/features/odhfeatures/algalblooms.aspx

 

LEfriend, thank you for taking the time to post that information. Interesting links. I learned a lot!