Buying and holding a current license is just the first step for anglers of applicable age to stay legal in Ohio. The next is to fish by the rules.
The 2024-25 regulations, laid down by the Ohio Division of Wildlife, went into effect March 1. What’s legal and not can be perused electronically at the website, wildohio.gov. The electronic version mirrors a published booklet.
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Regulations cover limits in size and number for various species, including site-specific restrictions in some cases. Tackle, times and methods are subject to checks.
Not much has changed from last year, meaning anglers at Alum Creek, Buckeye, Deer Creek, Delaware, Hoover and O’Shaughnessy will still see a 30-fish limit of crappies with a minimum size of 9 inches.
As for desirable species that include catfish, saugeye, walleye, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, stripers, sunfish, trout and muskie, take a refresher look to make sure of regulatory restrictions on the water.
One change that began March 1 might help save Ohio’s few remaining native brook trout: Possession of a brookie taken from the Ashtabula, Chagrin, Grand, and Conneaut rivers and their tributaries is prohibited.
Not yet declared are the catch limits for yellow perch that go into effect May 1. Currently, the daily limit is 30 west of Huron and east of Fairport Harbor but only 10 in between. There is a map available in the regulations booklet for precise coordinates of Ohio’s three Lake Erie perch management zones.
A determination of perch limits will be made after quotas are set by a panel of biologists from the United States and Canada. The panel meets this month to decide allocations of yellow perch and walleye based on the populations of each species. Post-hatch trawl surveys suggest yellow perch are far from thriving in some sections of the lake.
The allocations for Ohio are used to set limits for the yellow perch take of recreational fishers along with commercial netters.
One distinctive walleye regulation makes dawn to dusk the legal fishing day from March 1 through April 30 to cover the spawning runs in the Maumee, Sandusky and Portage rivers. All three streams empty into Lake Erie, where night fishing for walleye is otherwise popular and commonly successful.
As for the Maumee run, a few walleye were showing up early in the week as low-water conditions continued. Rain on Tuesday and showers forecast late in the week were expected to increase the flow and bring fish.
On to Castalia
Applications for the annual lottery offering a chance to fish a half-mile section of trout-laden Cold Creek are being accepted through March 31. Applications, which cost a non-refundable $3, can be submitted through the online Ohio Wildlife Licensing System or through the HuntFish OH mobile app.
Random drawings for slots will be held in early April. Winners will be notified by email.
Fishing windows at Castalia State Fish Hatchery will open on selected dates for lottery winners from May 1 through Nov. 29. The hatchery is where rainbows are raised annually for the Lake Erie steelhead stocking program.
Lottery applications are open to participants age 16 and older who hold a valid Ohio fishing license. The permit to fish applies to the successful applicant and partners. Permits are transferable.
Open season
The Open Season Sportsman’s Expo runs Friday through next Sunday inside the Bricker Building at the Ohio Expo Center. As with its predecessors, the focus is deer. Details cab be found at openseasonsportsmansexpo.com/ohio/.
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