OhioFisherman

3 hours ago, ch312 said:

 

It seems the Grand is still a relatively low pressure steelhead river despite a good number of fish running all the way up to Paris. I've found a few dead chinook salmon in Brantford over the years too. 

Many people who have fished the river their entire lives have no idea either fish run up the Grand. 

Plenty of browns too if you know where to fish...

ch, there is a Grand River here too, about 40 miles east of Cleveland,  and that article was referring to the one here.

Brian, labor day was the 3rd rainiest day on record here and the temps  have been dropping pretty quickly since, some of our rivers are known for the fall steelhead runs. Not a lot of available trout fishing here, those are a big deal?

Swim Whizzes? over sized flatfish? I grew up as the walleye fishing here on Erie was fading fast, but looking back at lures I saw the old blue pike and walleye guys had it their tackle boxes here? Flat fish and Benos were probably near the top of the list.

https://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/2020/09/walleye-surveys-show-another-banner-year-for-lake-erie-northeast-ohio-fishing-report-for-the-weekend-of-sept-18-20.html?fbclid=IwAR0rN0tLc8S1Cb_UQvOhD9n78OyNtnwC9HUAAzhcTJ7tdr2_38wRJN8nba0

It may help take some pressure off of your inland lakes?

https://www.wired2fish.com/author/tim-allard/

A sun roof might help getting the water out?

Not much of a fan of this year either.

I-X Center to permanently close after 35 years due to coronavirus pandemic

That is certainly not going to make things and easier for camps to book trips in this area.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/09/15/caught-camera-man-sleeping-by-pool-startled-awake-by-curious-bear/

https://www.anglersatlas.com/place/121111/silent-lake

I guess you can view a map - depth chart if you join?

Those are like a texas rig worm weight, just no taper to them, I do think the tapered ones hang up more.

Do you mean like these Brian?

https://www.jannsnetcraft.com/fishing-sinkers/345490.aspx

2 hours ago, AKRISONER said:

that release was cringeworthy, why the heck didnt the guy tail it longer? He then comments "im surprised it survived"

 

anyways not to thread hijack...sorry ahaha

I would take note of what you see in that video, those guys are targeting an area near a major overpass, time to hop on google maps and use streetview to figure out the area they are fishing.

 

LOL, I hooked a 40+ pitching a jig and pig along the bridge bases, it came right out of the water and my partner was hollering you got a big ski! not for long dude 10#.

I have fished it before, but not for 17 years or so, it did seem to have a healthy muskie population back then and some one in our bass club usually hooked on in every tournament trip there. North end of the lake is deeper overall than the south end, using the I-86 bridge as the center point, but ski's seem to be on both ends and the middle.

13 hours ago, PUMP KNOWS said:

I don’t think they’re stocking this colour at my local fishing stores 

https://naturalsports.ca/products/acme-little-cleo-casting-spoon?variant=23360987955258

http://hooklineandsinker.ca/acme-cleo/

No idea on what is local for you pump, i wonder how much of an affect this covid deal has had on lure mfgs? Some brands may disappear?

https://www.acmetackle.com/products/little-cleo?variant=31342904148054 

looks like they are still made in that color.

nice fish, great pics! what the heck is a flicker bait?

10 hours ago, Snidley said:

Sail was selling Kwikie Extremes and Hot Shots for $1.99 for almost all of '18 and '19. There might be a few still in those dump bins of $5.99 or $2.99 lures I seem to remember Fire Plugs too. For sure Joc at Angling OUTFITTERS in Woodstock has a wack of Flatfish, Kwickfish, Hot shots and I'd bet Tadpolies too. He wants big $$$ for everything there but he has the selection (on just about everything) and if you chat him up and buy in multiples you will find everything there is negotiable. 

Another great lure  type from the past is the Wiggle wart (BradsWigglers and Wordens Fat Fish are similar styles) Wee Wart, Steelie Wart and one of my all time favorites, Flat Warts. Like Hot Shots salmonoids hammer them really hard (I believe the vibration/noise makes them mad). Bagley used to make the killer Diving B Flat II. It's a balsa bait with a lexan lip at an extreme angle that makes the lure "thump" in the water very similar to the vibration of the larger Kwikfish. I've had the fish hammer it to the point  that all that the comes back is the lexan lip  You probably can't find them anywhere except ebay but you can get a similar effect by gently heating the lexan lip of a Rapala Shad Rap (the balsa one) and bending the lip to an extreme angle. Carefull with the heating part, the lexan bends easily with just a little heating and you don't want to weaken the lexan itself.

One last thing for those that don't know it, if you are in or near Woodstock Ontario do yourself a favor and drop in to Angling Outfitters. It is by far the best tackle shop in Ontario . It really qualifies as a tourist attraction for men, in my opinion.

I may have caught more fish on those pre rapala wiggle warts than the rest of my crankbaits combined, they were killer lures for me.

https://discounttackle.com/products/river2sea-s-waver-120 

not exactly the same design, but the same future issue possible with finding a replacement tail? I have caught a lot of fish on lipless crankbaits just never saw a need for one with a soft tail, and even with the hard bait ones on any given day one by one mfg might work better than one by a different mfg. Jigs and worms!

I used those to hold down tarps over my firewood.

17 hours ago, kickingfrog said:

Irish with some genuine Helin flatfishes. There was a long period of time in my youth where all I needed was a frog pattern flatfish to catch all the bass, walleye and pike on Nipissing.

When we first started going to PAB years ago Flatfish were a great pike lure, like u-20 and m-2? Even bps and other stores here in the states seem to have a very limited selection.

1 hour ago, akaShag said:

Sounds like you and I had similar experiences with them..............😉

Doug

LOL, Doug, fortunately that was an experience I managed to miss! Looking at some of the pricey hard baits with soft plastic tails like the s waver just makes me wonder? They aren't much good without the tail? and only the mfg has the tails?

Just my take on that lure? a soft tail lip less crank bait, in waters with a lot of toothy fish that could be an issue.

It's not just lodges or up north, I would certainly imagine places like Niagara Falls are also getting hit? Even stateside, airlines? How do you open a movie theater and only allow 15% capacity?

@OhioFisherman , do you by any chance know where/how they source those maps? most of it looks correct with the exception of the 30' trough in the northern west bay. From my recollection its a fairly consistent 20' flat that gets to 7-10' with dense weeds. Told there are largies there if you dink and dunk the mats...

Jug, exactly? no. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/bathymetry/

https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/how-are-bathymetric-maps-made

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/navigation/making-nautical-charts.html

Just from past experience, some lakes produce numbers, some lakes size, some are capable of either or none. I wouldn't invest a lot of time  and effort in a lake that wasn't offering something of interest? You have a heck of a lot more lakes than we have here.