of Grove City, Brian Mailot of Columbus and Steven Smith of Johnstown. Other central Ohio finishers included Will Presley Jr. Levin weighed a three-day catch of 40 pounds, 1 ounce, while winner Steve Lee of Minneapolis totaled 42 pounds, 14 ounces. Nation regional tournament on the Mississippi River near Clinton, Iowa. Near missĮddie Levin, a Westerville resident who works in Emergency Medical Services for the Columbus Division of Fire, finished second in a field of 89 recently at a B.A.S.S. In short, a diminished bloom makes easier avoiding areas that look like pea soup and finding plenty of space on the lake to roam safely. The bloom varies in size and location throughout the summer and early fall, often due to wind.” People and pets should not swim in areas with scum. “During calm weather scums can form, which concentrate toxins at the surface. “The size of the bloom does not necessarily indicate how toxic it is,” NOAA cautioned in its forecast. So while the 2022 HAB forecast was far less than dire, Lake Erie anglers, boaters and swimmers probably shouldn’t treat blooms the way most people now treat COVID, as if no health threat exists. During the summer Toledo drew so much attention, the HAB level didn’t approach those highs.įishing: Fly Guy: How Brian Flechsig built Columbus’ Mad River Outfitters into a fishing empire The level to date topped out at 10.5 in 2015 and was 10 in 2011. Hunting: Wild turkeys have been disappearing from Ohio. Outdoors: ODNR uses electrofishing to collect data on lake fish Short of some dramatic change in what is done on the land in terms of agricultural and residential fertilizer use, intensified by expanding feedlot operations, Lake Erie’s future seems certain to have in it at least some level of HABs subject to annual ups and downs. The blue-green algae bloom had been worse in 2011 and has been worse since, causing some fishermen and other boaters to shy away during peak bloom times from water and fish acknowledged by health officials to be toxic enough to trigger illness. Shallow, warm and surrounded by agriculture and development, the lake has been on the minds of certain watchers since gaining international attention during the summer of 2014 when a harmful algae bloom (HAB) made the city water of Toledo undrinkable for a time. To HAB or HAB not seems a matter hardly debatable, at least where Lake Erie is concerned.
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