OhioFisherman

https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/12414/FRANK-W-DAWSON/page/2/

https://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/2022/11/fremont-teacher-gregg-gallagher-lands-biggest-smallmouth-bass-ever-from-lake-erie.html?fbclid=IwAR0INBXGJcmvzYQmZuQrOxS3T_Kysho_iHja-zJ0hMKh_m5Qw3GD2XqIIgo

" The Ohio smallmouth record is held by Randy VanDam, who caught a 9.5-pounder out of Lake Erie in June of 1993. " LOL, after 30? years of eating gobies they are getting bigger? There may have been a chance for a 10 pound spotted bass if they had added them instead of Coho?

Bruce, just curious, emerald shiners the bait of choice?

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Morakniv/page/1BE6DCA3-B265-40EF-B2A5-1AD33804040A?ref_=ast_bln Looks like a number of choices on their amazon site.

https://www.post-gazette.com/life/outdoors/2022/10/12/fishing-tournament-cheating-scandal-anglers-charged-jacob-runyan-chase-cominski-lake-erie-walleye-trail/stories/202210120134 https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/outdoors/report-boat-trailer-cleveland-fishing-tournament-controversy-seized-investigators/95-608d1316-e605-45f9-b7f5-737c0310485c Famous to infamous over a tournament? No idea how much they enjoyed the winners circle spotlight, but playing fair prevents what they are facing now. No one to blame but themselves, they may need guards to watch their vehicles and trailers when trying to er... fun fish now? I can't picture any tournament allowing them to enter.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/10/04/gill-ty-prosecutor-meet-tuesday-with-odnr-over-fishing-tournament-controversy/

https://www.coleman.com/coolers-drinkware

I don't know of any live release walleye tournaments on Lake Erie here Rizzo, although I don't follow them closely. The dudes finished first in the Fall Brawl here last year and one of them couldn't pass the required polygraph test and they were disqualified, no evidence at that time they were cheating, but passing the test is mandatory. The guy running the tournament is a local area cop and noticed hard spots on the fish. It is the fall feed season here for the walleye and they are gorging, fish caught later in the brawl can be 2-3 pounds heavier than a fish of the same length caught early.

As I understand it these were the same guys that were leading the fall brawl tournament last year on Lake Erie and couldn't pass the lie detector test. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/fishermen-accused-of-adding-weights-to-fish-to-win-popular-lake-erie-fishing-tournament

LOL, interesting at least, we had no clue what he had hooked, and it wasn't in much of a hurry to come up and show us, never knew they got that big back then.

Over the years we caught a few of them at Pointe Au Baril, all except 1 were caught in shallow weedy areas and were 6-8 pounds. One of my buddies got 1 in 16 - 18 feet of water that was pushing 20 pounds, it was a tank!

Too many variables, what might be hot one day might be useless the next? Some days 1 bite may have been your hot lure?