{"id":174557,"date":"2018-12-28T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/?p=174557"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:14:10","slug":"2018-was-a-very-good-year-for-fishing-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/2018-was-a-very-good-year-for-fishing-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Was a Very Good Year For Fishing, Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past 12 months, representing 2018 in New York, was an above average year overall in the great outdoors. At the top of the list was the incredible walleye fishing on Lake Erie and the phenomenal salmon fishing on Lake Ontario. It appears both were record-setting, but we\u2019ll have to wait until the final results come in. There were 3 state record catches, too, for walleye, crappie and long nose gar.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Erie is riding high on several very strong year classes of walleye that include 2015 and 2016. In addition, a recent announcement from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources stated that the walleye catch rate for the agency\u2019s fall assessments of the 2018 hatch is the highest that they\u2019ve seen in the last 20 years. After a record catch rate for anglers in 2017 in New York, we\u2019re anticipating another record catch and harvest in 2018. In 2017, the catch rate was .52 fish per hour, nearly three times the 30-year average. The 2018 numbers are being worked on now.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/2018\/12\/26\/2018-was-a-very-good-year-for-fishing-outdoors\/\">Fishing The Outdoors in 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-174558 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/record-walleye-1260x800-600x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/record-walleye-1260x800-600x381.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/record-walleye-1260x800-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/record-walleye-1260x800-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/record-walleye-1260x800-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/wS6Dm201-record-walleye-1260x800.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past 12 months, representing 2018 in New York, was an above average year overall in the great outdoors. At the top of the list was the incredible walleye fishing on Lake Erie and the phenomenal salmon fishing on Lake Ontario. It appears both were record-setting, but we\u2019ll have to wait until the final results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":174558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174559,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174557\/revisions\/174559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}