Bill Hilts Jr.

Fishing was great around Western New York until a wind event earlier in the week. We will have to wait and see what will happen to the fishing. WNY Walleye has its club tournament Friday and Saturday on Lake Erie, while on Lake Ontario, the Fall LOC Derby continues until Labor Day. The Greater Niagara Fish Odyssey concludes Sunday.

Lake Erie and tributaries

Capt. Jim Steel of Alexander said it best: You can do everything wrong in the lake and still catch fish. In the Innovative Outdoors Walleye Challenge last weekend out of Dunkirk, it was the father-son “Five Alive” team of Jesse and Dylan Nussbaum of St. Mary’s, Pa., setting the pace with a six-fish limit of walleyes weighing 38.26 pounds. Their strategy was to locate active fish around pods of bait, using forward-facin

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