Walleye, Small Mouth Bass, Perch, Large Mouth Bass, Gobie, Lamprey

For Largemouth Bass in particular, their sense of smell is highly developed. In fact the commercialization of million dollar Bass fishing tournaments has led to leading scientific breakthroughs in the understanding of how well Largemouth Bass can smell and sense chemicals in the water and how they react to these smells. I don't normally fish for these on a charter but on the rare occasion I do. A lot depends on the weather and where I'm fishing on the lake.

Stacey King hones in on the great largemouth action to be found in Lake Erie.
Length: 9 minutes 11 seconds

by Mike Bleech

The sea lamprey is a predatory fish that attaches to a  host fish and feeds on the blood and body fluids. A single sea lamprey kills 40 or more pounds of fish in its life as a parasite. It is native to the Atlantic Ocean and existed throughout the St.

It may sound like an oxymoron to some. Lake Erie is where you go to do battle with brown bass, not green ones, right? The answer is both yes and no – while there is no doubt that a five pound smallmouth clamping down on a tube, stripping off 50 yards of drag, and then launching itself maniacally through the surface of Lake Erie’s clear waters four feet into the air will make the hair on the back of the neck of even the most seasoned bass angler stand on end, their underfished largemouth cousins may also deserve a slice of your angling time. Here’s why…