It's the heart of winter, and icy conditions have frozen part of the coast of Lake Erie, but over the weekend, a puzzling frozen phenomenon was seen slamming into the coastline. A wave hit Fort Erie fishing guide Denis Kreze while he was recording a video on the icy shores of Lake Erie on Feb. 18, 2024. He admitted he "took a major ice bath" from the wave and that his clothes were frozen by the time he returned to his truck. Kreze's camera had captured a rare frozen phenomenon known as ice balls
Fishermen are slowly starting to see the area as a haven for browns, undoubtedly because of more consistent brown trout stockings in the Niagara River the past decade or more.
While fishing for steelhead, brown trout, lake trout, bass, and walleye has been good, late December weather patterns are making for challenging conditions.
CTVNews.ca has compiled photos capturing the massive snowfall that walloped Buffalo, N.Y. and Ontario’s Niagara region, as a dangerous lake-effect snowstorm travels across.