The bitterly cold weather that's hammered western Pennsylvania over the last week or two has shut down open water steelhead fishing in Lake Erie's tributary streams. Elk Creek, Walnut Creek and all of the other streams are frozen over. A few anglers have reported getting fish by dropping salted minnows and other baits into holes cut through the ice, but those have been few and far between. Most of Erie's fishing right now is being done in Presque Isle Bay, which had 12 to 14 inches of ice in places. Anglers were reporting catches of bass, bluegills, yellow perch and a few steelhead. Fishermen are being warned, though, that even with the cold temperatures, the snow covering the ice has kept it from getting really hard in some places, so use caution.
-- Bob Frye
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