OhioFisherman

I was on the French River briefly for part of one day, and just a tiny portion of it. I can only imagine the time, effort, and money it would cost to chart it accurately? A man made lake has more of a chance of having accurate charts? As do lakes that have had shipping traffic?

http://top-bass.ca/ http://www.ontariobass.com/2014-hank-gibson-qualifer-results.html Good points listed, research some of your areas bass tournament results? A pattern can probably be seen there as it does here. Some lakes here are known for numbers, rarely a fish over 4 pounds though, others are known as lakes where a 4 pounder probably won't big enough. A lake's size rarely seems to have any impact on the size of bass in it, food supply is a lot more important. Some lakes, even with a lot of fishing pressure still produce consistently larger fish.

I was just going to mention the similar names? Hmmm...

Labs are better looking dogs without the doodling?

Great! All I see is buzzards, I think they come to check up on me! Is he done yet? LOL

One of my neighbors has had two of them for around ten years now, they seem like nice well behaved dogs to me, but that is all in the training? My dog only tolerates one of them, the non alpha dog, he has some issues at times with the alpha dog entering his space. Between them and their adult kids they have around 5 dogs, all seem to get along, again the training?

I never took flowers off of our tomato plants.

We have a local gravel yard that sells sand and gravel, they have a truck scale. One in your area may have one too?

Just from what I can see on a map? The river alone looks like a pretty large area to fish? I wonder what the boundaries are? From Kingston to Montreal? Has to be 100 miles?

I can't and wouldn't disagree, always had a good time there and the people were great.

Really it's just different approaches to the same problem, flukes or senkos are probably a good choice too, a friend of mine used tubes almost exclusively, back in the day a Johnson Silver minnow and pork frog was popular. LOL. I am a geezer, and almost always used mono, 17-20 pound test for the slop. You could make it float better and longer by stripping a 100 feet or so off the reel and applying dry fly dressing to it, keeps the line from sinking into the slop.

In 2013 only the top two managed to total over 80 pounds for 4 days? Yes it could happen, but 17-20 pounds a day over 4 days on one northern body of water is a darn good total, stuff happens.

http://www.basspro.com/Stanley-Jigs-Bull-Ribbit-Frog/product/10209528/ http://www.basspro.com/Mustad-Ultra-Point-Impact-Hook/product/30055/ another setup to frog fish

A 6 inch Zoom lizard rigged weedless and weightless will get a lot more hookups.

Unless the weather is really crappy the leaders shouldn't have much trouble weighing in 17-20 pounds a day there?

Look at what happened in Ohio last year. http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/03/toxic-algae-bloom-500000-without-drinking-water-ohio/

For a long time on this side of Lake Erie? all you needed was a storm wiggle wart or hot n tot, chrome and black or gold and black.

I think my old minnow fishing ultra light is an Ugly Stick, it worked well enough for them.

Glad to hear you are OK Lew! Years ago I had an experience with them, I was cutting some high weeds in a field behind my old home with a scythe, the next thing I knew I was under attack! I went running to the back of the house and turned on the garden hose and started spraying myself and the area around me to chase them away. My two older girls were young then, and thought dad was playing and came running over to play too. I chased them in the house so they wouldn't become new targets. I must have gotten stung 20-30 times, but no problems from it, I certainly don't want it to happen again though.

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Vermilion? No wonder it looked familiar! It was my favorite starting point! Pig smallies and some steelhead in the fall. Again things may have changed, western basin? Bass Charters, usually involved fishing with crawfish, a pricey item and you could spend a lot of time feeding sheephead, done it myself. Smallie fishing in Vermillion? You have to be dedicated, you might fish an area over an over for 4-5 hours and get dinks, and then have the pigs move in for 15-30 minutes of non stop action, and then disappear. Probably not what most customers on a charter are looking for? That area became known for big smallies fast, I can imagine the fishing pressure on them now, even with catch and release. Overall it's probably easier to put people on walleyes? The two main areas known for the walleye run on this side of the lake are the Sandusky river and the Maumee river, both in the western basin and both with good sized estuaries to support and protect young fish. Sandusky river is at the end of Sandusky bay, a staging area for pre spawn fish, and recovery area post spawn. It's big, and would be one of the largest inland bodies of water in Ohio if it were landlocked. It's not, a good thing, it serves as a spring breeding ground for a number of fish species, walleye, smallies, largemouth, white bass, crappie, and even an occasional Northern Pike. Right off hand I can't recall any river east of the Sandusky river that has been mentioned for a walleye run here in Ohio.

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It's pretty unusual to see people jigging for walleye on this side of the lake, although it has been a long time since I have been able to fish and that may have changed. Jigging, lift and drift for smallies? another story. Cleveland area, central basin, the water tends to be deeper than the western basin and the walleye fishing usually is for suspended fish in deeper water 20-30-40 feet down, sometimes in 50-60-70 feet of water. One of my younger brothers was a lot more into walleye fishing on Lake Erie than I was, and he told me that at times they went 10-15 miles from shore to find them. I have no idea how far Mr Simon went out from shore. It always struck me as wandering in a liquid desert dragging a lure. Downriggers, dipseys, and no scenery except waves and water. In the late fall they can catch walleye off the piers at times casting rattletrap style lures, it is rare in the summer months? Some charter captains on this side were known to move their base of operations as the summer progressed. Western - Central - Eastern, following the walleyes tendency to suspend over deeper water as the water temps rose. Casting Erie Dearies, long lining crankbaits and spoons was most common in the western basin island region, shallower water. Like with the Bay of Quinte? Some areas here are known as pig walleye heavens for the late fall feed.

LOL, thanks pal! I had to do a double take of the video to realize I was getting old and senile! There should have been more sheephead in the pics then? LOL Hope you are well! Obviously I am not! LOL

None in my area, but it looks good! Have fun!