Lake Effect

Let’s visit the bustling Erie-Ottawa International Airport in Port Clinton and chat with Kara Clifford, chief pilot and director of training at Griffing Flying Service. We’ll also talk to her father-in-law Tom Griffing...

For decades Mona Rutger has operated Back to the Wild in Castalia, a few miles from Sandusky Bay. She and her dedicated staff at the wildlife rehabilitation center have taken in and released thousands of animals...

Catawba Island resident Cathy Coffman has turned her hobby, scouring beaches for old glass, into a long-time business on Kelleys Island. She uses beach glass and stones of various geological origins from island beaches...

While most people think of taxi cabs as a big city thing, on Lake Erie’s Kelleys Island, taxi cabs are the only thing for folks who don’t drive or have had a few adult beverages. The ins-and-outs of this family-run...

Kenny Kreutzfeld began working on vintage wood boats when he was a kid. And now more than 50 years later he’s still at it, operating K & M Restorations in Marblehead. From turn-of-the-century boats to more “modern”...

Alberto Rey fled Cuba with his parents as a child. More recently he retired as a distinguished professor from SUNY –Fredonia. The painter, Orvis-endorsed fly fishing guide and conservationist talks art, kids, water and...

Let’s visit with long-time Kelleys Island resident Vicki Finnegan and Ploy, one of her many “adopted” grandchildren. Ploy (Wassana Prommanat) is one of many international students who visit and work on the island and in...

Dick Carstensen is one of thousands of landowners nationwide who participates in one of several programs that pays for or shares the cost of improving or restoring wetlands or creating new wetlands in critical areas...

Kimberly Kaufman, executive director of Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Oak Harbor talks conservation, birds and the Biggest Week in American Birding, which takes place in early May. Each year tens of thousands of...

Mike Ferner and Susan Carter have been tireless advocates for Lake Erie during the last decade. Their organization (formerly Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie) is not afraid of controversy and welcomes media coverage on...

Retired educator Sue Hartman has been tending to the Marblehead Lighthouse for years. As a member of the Marblehead Lighthouse Historical Society, she’s involved in day-to-day operations at the Marblehead Lighthouse...

At the Castalia Fish Hatchery, ODNR employees are tasked with producing about a half million rainbow trout and steelhead each year. Superintendent Andy Jarrett supervises the operation and talks about the ins and outs...

On Lake Erie’s Western Basin, East Harbor is hands-down the most popular and consistent ice fishing spot. During years when the lake doesn’t provide fishable ice, East Harbor always presents itself as the go-to place...

Let’s meet Michigan resident and charter captain Lance Valentine, who walked out of his banking job without notice more than two decades ago to become a “fishing educator.” Huh? We’ll talk fishing in general, safety and...

Dave Barus talks about promoting fishing and the outdoors at the eastern end of Lake Erie, in Chautauqua County, New York. In addition he talks conservation, massive muskies, and all things Lake Erie and tributaries.