Lake Erie Tanker Brown...

[Storm Warning II]

Well, while were debating heading North to Olcott, we stopped short thinking that there was no way the reports we had heard about Kings in 20 fow of water off Olcott were correct (BOY DID WE BLOW THAT DECISION!)

We did some mud hen fishing around the PA / NY line and the last fish of the day was a little different from the 8 - 15 lb greasers we had been catching...

14 lb 4 oz Lake Erie Brown

[PolarBear]

nice

[jayjay]

Sweet fish ...especially for Erie

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[Gill-T]

The Catt. gets stocked pretty heavy with Browns. I often catch them jig fishing during the May trophy smallmouth season. NONE THAT BIG! Nice brown.

[vintage terror]

great fish

erie may become a great brown trout fishery with the new Pa stocking.

alot were caught in the trubs this year as well.

[Tim Bromund]

I think that is a really underutilized fishery. They are out there and nobody targets them. DEC test nettings have consistently found large schools of brownies on Brocton Shoal in the summer, but everyone on erie goes out deeper and targets the tasty boots instead.

Erie has always produced decent sized browns, back in the 80's it was not at all unusual to hear of 15-20+ lb browns coming out of Dunkirk harbor in the winter. I think Erie is really good brown trout habitat and a super fishery could be developed with a little effort.

Tim