Page 9 - Mid America Boating - July 2024 issue

It’s a Shore Thing

Grant Gallagher sparkles as a By D’Arcy Patrick Egan with partner Tyler Van Brandt in 2020 in the
JULY 2024 [ MID-AMERICA BOATING ] 8
Bassmaster College Series.
He still fishes quite often with
fishing guide for his father, Gregg Big-shouldered, record- his father after getting his teach-
setting freshwater sport fish ing degree and settling in at
This father/son fishing duo set an amazing Lake Erie like feisty smallmouth bass Oak Harbor Elementary School.
are loners, making them
Lake Erie’s plentiful walleye
smallmouth bass record with a 10.15-pounder difficult to find and even and yellow perch are close to
more frustrating to hook and their Fremont home and domi-
catch. nates their angling attention. Both
Grant Gallagher, 25, of Fremont, species produce delicious fillets, and
Ohio, wanted to share solving that puzzle tournament anglers usually release the
with his father, Gregg Gallagher, while on a bass they catch.
late season Lake Erie outing. When a surprisingly nice November day in
Both are school teachers, and the best of 2022 featured unseasonably warm weather,
fishing buddies. Grant’s father taught him Grant urged his father to head north of the
over the years how to operate a Lake Erie Ohio border and target the bass waters
fishing boat and to catch a lot of walleye along Canada’s Ontario shoreline. Although
and yellow perch. The precocious young rather late in the year, the big lake waters
lad declared, at the tender age of 5, he was were relatively calm, allowing them to point
going to be his father’s fishing partner. the boat north for the comfortable long run.
“I can still remember that day,” said Grant, Grant had scouted the area in the past,
with a laugh. “I loved going walleye and and when his cutting edge Garmin Live-
yellow perch fishing with my dad. I made Scope sonar marked schools of baitfish and
sure to tag along and learn everything I a few large smallmouth bass, Grant lowered
could about fishing.” the bow-mounted electric motor. He had his
That dream was altered a bit when father cast a drop shot rig toward the big
Grant graduated from Fremont Ross High fish on his sonar screen.
School, where he was an excellent student It was the most memorable cast of his life,
and baseball star, and his dad was a busi- said his father. A big bass hit the lure before
ness teacher. Grant chose to attend Adrian it could reach the rocky lake bottom, and
College in southeast Michigan, eager to the battle was on. The powerful fish made
become a teacher like his dad. He also both anglers surmise Gregg had hooked
signed up to join the Bulldogs powerhouse a slab-sided lunker sheepshead, and they
The father-and-son fishing team of Grant and Gregg Gallagher of Fremont, Ohio bass fishing team. apprehensively waited for the big fish to
weighed the largest smallmouth bass ever caught in the Great Lakes on November Grant fit right in, touring the country with appear as Gregg kept a tight line on his prize.
3, 2022, a behemoth landed in the Ontario waters of Lake Erie. (Photo: Heidi Gallagher) the Bulldog bass team and finishing third Trophy smallmouth bass like to wage war

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