Steelheaders' Ball
 The annual Steeheaders' Ball is coming at you fast. The date is April 20, 2007 and will be held at the Pine Ridge Country Club. 
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OCBS 2006-2007 Spring Fly Tournament is Next
Photo by Tom Krause
  Coming up March 25, 2007 is the 2nd and final leg of the Fly Tournament. We'll see if Mother Nature helps us out on this one with good fishing conditions.

 Grand River Tackle is our tournament sponsor for this year's fly tournaments. Thank you for your generosity.

The OCBS Series and Fly tournament information can be viewed on our Tournament Page. Be sure to review the rules for each tournament.

OCBS Membership for January 2007
 Current Membership is 298
As always a  special thanks to our new members for caring enough about our steelhead to get involved and by joining OCBS to help insure our steelhead are here today and for future generations. We recognize new members by adding their names to our New Members page.  When a new member attends their first OCBS Membership Meeting we ask that you check-in with Jim Palec, Membership Chairman and/or Tom Blotzer, Vice President so they can introduce you to the attending membership.  
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 Erie Outfitters New Location

February 2007, we move to our new location on Lake Road, 400 yards east of our old location.     See Detail
 


 Grand River Tackel Big Fish Contest Leader Board

The contest ends Saturday, March 31, and the contest picnic date was changed to Sunday, April 15, 2007, it previously was schedule on Easter Sunday.

OCBS member Larry Rice is the current leader of the Grand River Big Fish Contest with 736 points squeezing  Ken Harper out of 1st place and moving Nate Willams further down the list. I'm told, Larry caught this 13# 7oz, 32 1/2" male while fishing for the first time on Rocky River. Nice hat Larry! ..... I mean Fish
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 Steelheaders News!

March 29, 2007 Eastside Membership Meeting

This month's speaker comes from Ohio and needs no introduction to Steelheaders. Come meet and listen to John Rochus proprietor of Ohio Fly Fishing Excursions. He's talk will be
“Matching the Hatch – A New Approach to Steelhead Flies.” 

After spending 60 to 70 days a year for the past nine years on the Lake Erie steelhead streams, John has witnessed that the traditionally-used steelhead flies are not nearly as effective as they once were. He has been sampling the aquatic invertebrates that are found in the Erie tributaries and will share what he has learned about them and some of the fly patterns to mimic them.  Photo
 

Ken Mantkowski Handicapped Fishing Derby

The annual Ken Mantkowski Handicapped Fishing Derby is to be held on Sat May 19, 2007, at Ledge Lake from 8:00am-1:00pm. Anyone that can help out please show up at the scheduled time. If you have never participated in this event you may find it very self-rewarding. Please plan on attending. Lunch will be provided.

Please call Mike Durkalec if you plan on helping out so that we can plan accordingly.

Mike Durkalec, M.S., Aquatic Biologist, Cleveland Metroparks
Office phone:  (440) 331-8017 Cell phone:  (216) 701-7634 

OCBS Tournament Series Spring Results and Final Results
 By far the spring leg of this tournament may have been the worst conditions ever in the history of OCBS Tournament's. There were only six contests that caught fish due to the high water conditions. Right is a photo of Rocky River a few days before tournament day. 



The Series Spring Tournament
Winners were:
  1st place: Ken Harper (left) with 2 fish at 54.50"
  2nd Place: John Rhoades with 2 fish at 54.25"
  3rd place: Tom Blotzer with 2 fish at 51.50"

The Series Over All winners were:
  1st place: Joel Rubal (left) with 4 fish at 113.50"
  2nd place: Dave Craddock with 4 fish at 112.75"
  3rd place: John Rhoades with 4 fish at 110.25"

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John Rhoades and Jeff Liskey  

 
A perfect solution when the rivers are frozen and you need to catch a few fish to get you through another work week. With your float tub fish warm water discharges. Open water on the shore line and frozen lake to the north helps to keep the rollers small and you safely riding high over the fish. Jeff is right and John below.

 

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