Showing posts with label Lake Erie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Erie. Show all posts
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Lake Sturgeon - Those Really Big Fish Make a Comeback!

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Courtesy of Dept. of Natural Resources Having grown up fishing on Ohio's Portage River, my heart was warmed when I learned of the restoc...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Mouse Island, Lake Erie, For Sale

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Mouse Island, Lake Erie Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums This photo of Mouse Island in western Lake Erie was part of the...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Mass Baptism at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio

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 Mass Baptism at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, 1922 Ernst Niebergall Photograph Collection This photograph of the mass baptism in Lake Erie i...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The Heady Days of Lake Erie’s Middle Island

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Lake Erie's Middle Island Courtesy of Wikimedia Lake Erie’s Middle Island is Canada’ s southernmost possession, lying just south of Pel...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

The Arrow: Lake Erie's Steam Passenger Vessel

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Arrow Charles E. Frohman Collection The “Arrow” was built in 1895 by the Detroit Dry Dock Co. of Wyandotte, Michigan. She was bu...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Spring's Mayflies are a Good Sign

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Recently, some mayflies once again appeared in Lake Erie’s western basin . Sometimes called Canadian soldiers, shad flies, fish flies...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Mouse Island and the Hayes Family

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View of Mouse Island by Platt Studios Charles E. Frohman Collection Cabins ca. 1912 “ There is something romantic in that ide...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

U. S. S. CROCUS: Coast Guard Lighthouse Tender

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U. S. Coast Guard Cutter CROCUS and Her Crew date unknown Captain Frank Hamilton Photographs Charles E. Frohman Collection The Crocus ...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Punting, But Not Football

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Vernon Zenser punting a hunter and his son at Magee Marsh, Benton Twp. Ottawa County, Ohio, ca. 1944 Courtesy of Sandra L. Zenser U...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Sandusky's "Crystal Blue, Clear as Glass Ice"

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Local Ice Dealers Loading Blocks Directly from the Ice Fields Ernst Niebergall ca. 1911/1912 Charles E. Frohman Collection Sandusky...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

American Eagle to the Rescue

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While spring is coming to Northwest Ohio, it has beeen only a few weeks since the U. S. Coast Guard rescued fishermen from Lake Erie when th...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Lake Erie's Ballast Island

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The Cochran Cottage on Ballast Island, 1888 Lying a mile northeast of Put-in-Bay is Ballast, one of Lake Erie’s twenty islands. According t...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Henry Pletscher and Lake Erie's Buckeye Island

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Henry Pletscher Buckeye Island is a small outcropping of glacial rock lying on the northeast tip of South Bass Island. For Henry Pletscher ...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

Walleye - Ohio's Most Prized Game Fish

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Lake Erie Walleye (Courtesy Ohio Fish and Wildlife) On May 22nd, Port Clinton, Ohio will once again lay claim to its rightful title as the o...