The veteran fly guy has not had to travel far to connect with his latest quarry, the often denigrated sheepshead, or fresh water drum.
Jessica Suvak of Berea switched fly fishing gears on Lake Erie re-cently, targeting sheepshead, or freshwater drum, with a fly rod off the Cleveland shoreline. Th sheepshead being held by Suva easily quali-fied for a Fish Ohio Award.
He recently took Jessica Suvak, of Berea, fishing for drum. A founding member of the Ohio Women on the Fly group based in Columbus, Suvak and Darkes didn’t go far, targeting the waters just outside the Cleveland Harbor break wall. Casting a slow-sinking fly line and a long leader tipped with a streamer fly of Darkes’ creation, it didn’t take long to hook up with a trophy sheepshead.
Mother Nature has finally flipped the fishing switch again, with southerly winds in the weekly forecast and very moderate waves. While near shore waters will be range from muddy to dingy for a little while, the offshore waters are clearing quickly and good catches are expected throughout the weekend.
The Kelleys Island and Marblehead Lighthouse areas are still slow for yellow perch , but that might be caused by the proliferation of commercial trap nets in those areas. The walleye fishing east of Kelleys Island and off of Huron and Vermilion has been steady.Smallmouth bass and rock bass are biting in the Rocky River in the Cleveland area and the upper Vermilion River, and small tube jigs and jigs with twister tails are scoring ...
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