One thing you can almost bank on is Lake Erie ’s water conditions changing up from one year to the next.
Which is for sure the case going into this late summer. Last year we suffered everything from hypoxic dead zones with large fish die-offs in the central basin to multiple seiches in the western basin toward the end of the year.
So far “ it ’s been a pretty normal year for central basin hypoxia,” said Travis J. Hartman, Ohio Division of Wildlife ’s Lake Erie Fisheries Program administrator, to me in an email…