Living in Erie, Pa., we sometimes forget to go exploring in our own town. I’m trying to remember, because we have a fantastic free adventure always nearby.I took Daisy and my camera to Lawrence Park, Pa. Sunday, January 29, while the sun was shining. I…

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This week’s Erie-area fishing report from Randy Leighton, deputy waterways conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: The unusually mild winter continues for the area as it has in many areas. Little to no ice has left anglers with a wealth of other opportunities, from steelheading the tribs to shore fishing the lake, [...]

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This photograph was taken Sunday, January 29 at 1 p.m. along the shores of Lake Erie in Lawrence Park, Pa.This mild winter has not allowed the bay or lake to freeze, nor ice dunes to form. The waves are still crashing and causing more erosion on the be…

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The Allegheny National Fish Hatchery in Warren County is once again raising lake trout after a hiatus of more than six years. All fish at the hatchery in 2005 were destroyed when lake trout and brook trout tested positive for infectious pancreatic necrosis, a highly contagious and incurable virus that can affect trout and salmon [...]

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This’ll get you yearning for the balmier days of spring.
Backwoods Angler TV filmed a show on Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay in 2011. Here’s a clip from that show:

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The Washington Post’s Impulsive Traveler came to Erie this month to explore ice dunes and art. Read the entire article, written by Robin Soslow. The author writes about exploring our beautiful Presque Isle State Park to spot ice dunes (which I’m not su…

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This week’s Erie-area fishing report from Randy Leighton, deputy waterways conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: Heavy rains Tuesday sent the Erie tribs into blowout mode with with conditions high and muddy. The week’s forecasts seem to indicate that these levels should subside and again creating good to excellent conditions. Anglers had been having fair [...]

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This week’s Erie-area fishing report from Randy Leighton, deputy waterways conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: Off-and-on rain Monday and an all-day soaker Tuesday brought the the Lake Erie tributary levels up to fast and muddy conditions There is  rain and possible snow in the forecast which may help to which may spawn additional [...]

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This week’s Erie-area fishing report from Randy Leighton, deputy waterways conservation officers for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: The  rains from last week raised the trib levels and brought a significant number of steelhead in. However, as dry as conditions have been, it didn’t take long for water levels to drop back to near [...]

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Erie-ites, what’s the oldest building in the City of Erie?Dickson Tavern is located at the corner of 2nd and French Streets in downtown Erie. The three-story, Federal and Greek Revival-style building was constructed in 1815 by William Himrod and owned …

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This week’s Erie-area fishing report from Randy Leighton, deputy waterways conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: A dry spell has left the area tribs very low and very clear in all areas with some areas less than ankle deep. As such there is very little flow, making drift fishing difficult. Steelhead angling [...]

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This week’s Erie-area fishing report from Randy Leighton, deputy waterways conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: Significant rainfall over the past week has kept the tribs high and flowing with  muddy conditions at times. The days of steady rain this past weekend had the tribs high and flowing hard, but not blown out, with [...]

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One of the scariest haunted “house” experiences I remember as a child is back…Guys and ghouls are invited to a night of fright aboard Erie’s Flagship Niagaraaaaaaah! Ghosts Afloat will transform Erie’s treasure into a haunted ship when ghosts fro…

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This week’s Erie-area fishing report from Randy Leighton, deputy waterways conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: September and early October often present a variety of  of opportunities for area anglers and this year is no exception. Earlier this week temperatures soared into the 80s, slowing the steelhead migration but at the same time allowing [...]

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This is not an optical illusion.

East End Angler owner Kirk Rudzinski landed this 15-pound steelhead while fishing on Lake Erie in 105 feet of water off North East Marina. It took a Nuclear Purple Stinger Spoon off the downrigger.
The steelhead was 29…

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Celena Sidun, of Erie, reeled in a once-in-a-lifetime brown trout from Lake Erie near the mouth of Twenty Mile Creek. And, believe it or not, it was the first trout she’s ever caught. The 15.25-pound trout was 30 inches long and had a 21-inch girth. Sidun caught it casting a one-eighth ounce Blue and Chrome [...]

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Tonight was a great summer-fall transition evening – cool, breezy and pleasant. The fluffy clouds appeared, but the skies were bright and blue.Kaela started with some images of bridges and waterfalls near her home.  Here is a great early image:We …

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Tonight was Caitlin’s evening for senior pictures. We started in the studio and captured several nice images there. Here’s a great casual image on one of our interesting backgrounds:Then we headed outdoors for a fine summer evening of photography.Here’…

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Jordyn came over tonight and we worked with her on her senior portraits. We captured some great indoor images, including this one with her dog Josie:Josie was a very good dog, and had a wonderful night as we headed outdoors for some more images wi…

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Sugar and spice and everything nice. Or, sugar and fat and everything like that.

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Don’t worry about hazardous waste traversing the great lakes. Accidents never happen.

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Anyone attend the Parade of Sail?

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Block parties… your opinions?

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License to Drive… it’s more than a movie.

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Anyone remember Ray Ferrito?

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The (Not LeBron) James Gang

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Get a whiff of this.

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They’re doing it all over the place…. From Hollywood, California to Hamilton, Ontario / from Saskatchewan to Scotland. So, hey, why not Erie?

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Ladies and gentlemen… Erie’s new industry…

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Service to Detroit, Philadelphia, or Cleveland. Period.

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