Erie Gold Fishing Adventures

05/31/2026

05/30/2026

great 3 boat trip this morning thank you Erie Gold Fishing Adventuresand 419 Lake Erie Sportfishing for the xtra boats was a great day!!! back out this afternoon should be epic!!!

05/27/2026

Eric Hirzel Sr. is at Erie Gold Fishing Adventures, Marblehead, OH

We were back in action with fellow Northwood Ranger alum Paul Patronik and his crew. They made short work of it and we had our 30 fish by 9:30 this morning.

Bill Lewis Fishing PWC Lites with 2 oz 55' back behind the Off Shore Tackle Company boards was money! Speed was 2.1 mph.
We also caught 9 on an original Rat-L-Trap behind a Big Fish Tuff Tackle Co. Tru Trip 50s 25' back.

12/04/2025

Follow up on the video from our hunt earlier.

It took some coaxing to get Kelly to go tonight because of the cold and wind but she finally agreed. Good thing....

Today was our last chance to get venison in our freezer for the year. My busy fall fishing schedule kept us out of the woods and we had a lot of anxiety because we love our deer meat. Schedules are full until we leave for Bahamas so this was it.

We had a heck of a show starting around 4:30 with bucks and does. The 2nd buck that came into range was very lucky because we were ready to break our own rule of not shooting bucks younger than 5½ and at 3½ we had visions of vacuum sealed meat!

We had eyes on some other deer a couple hundred yds away when I spotted a really wide buck that was on our target list. Kelly decided to let it play out and give the 3½ yr old a pass.

With 10 minutes left, he finally got hung up at 147 yds the edge of our field but was background with brush and beans. Kelly could not see him well enough to be comfortable with the shot so she told me to take him.

After I shot the 2 doe ran towards us and stopped at 90 yds with snow in the background and made a perfect shot!

God Blessed us with an incredible hunt and a pile of home grown venison. Kelly's doe was mature and juicy and my buck was as big as they come. A magnificent buck for sure that was 24" outside. Easily the most impressive buck I've been part of.

God is good!