OhioFisherman

I think they are calling for a low of 33 degrees here tonight in tropical Medina. It was mostly a dreary day here, wet, windy, cold.

I used one on my boat with a 35 hp merc for 20+ years, no issues.

http://www.homedepot.com/s/plumbing+snake?NCNI-5 You can get a fairly cheap plumbing snake from home depot or lowes, if you're a home owner it's not a bad tool to have around. I have a toilet snake, a hand crank one that has around 25 foot of cable, and one that is around 50 feet that is also hand crank. A toilet snake usually has rubber or plastic on part of the cable to protect the finish on the toilet, but they aren't very long, maybe 4 feet?

I guess there are options other than the wax ring?

We used to have electric only tournaments here on some of the smaller water supply reservoirs, gas motors weren't allowed to be used on them. Some guys had 19 foot Nitros and Tritons, but the lakes were usually under 60 acres and a 4 hour tournament. We also have some bigger water supply reservoirs that are 800-1000 acres and electric motors only, those generally don't even allow a gas motor on the boat. I have seen guys run two electric motors and have 6 batteries in their boat, but 16-17 foot boat was usually the max on them. We also have a number of limited horsepower lakes here, 10-20 Hp, it not about how fast you can go? It's about how many you can catch?

I was too young and missed the heydays of Blue Pike and Walleye fishing on Lake Erie, lights are legal at night here. It was common to see all kinds of boats on Lake Erie at night with a Coleman lantern in an oarlock brackets shining into the water when people were fishing for White Bass. The light would attract the emerald shiners and the White Bass would follow. Just about any ramp on Lake Erie here has lights around them, and there always seems to be shiners there too, the fish adapt to it. There were always bait fish around the dock lights at camps we stayed at up north, and always something bigger lurking around looking for an easy meal.

There are advantages to spring crappie fishing, the spawn, it concentrates them in the spawning areas which tend to be the same yearly. The fall bite is feed related find the concentrations of bait fish and you might find the crappie. " Be forewarned that using artificial lights to attract fish is prohibited according to the Ontario fishing regulations. " That was the same when I was a kid fishing up there, but you can make use of street or dock lights that are in place and attract the bait fish, they aren't your lights?

Dang! It's a lunker!

My washing machine went a couple of months ago, a Maytag that had been repaired once already and was a least 10 years old. After looking around on line, and some sticker shock? I went with a Hotpoint from Home Depot too, it had been a while since I heard that brand name. It's simple and non digital, the price was right, and the costs to repair it if it needs them will probably be lower too.

LOL, one day I went smallie fishing with my son in law and buddy. My son in law got a carp around 25 pounds, I got one around 35, and my buddy got one around 50-60 pounds, all on tubes with Aberdeen hook inserts and 8# test line. It's easier in a boat, you just follow them until they wear out. I won't talk about my luck with Muskie, lipping them is a bad plan though. LOL

Nice!

I have no idea if they are good hooks or bad, never used them. Light wire hooks to me are small fish or I don't care hooks, if I get the fish in the boat or not? I don't care! A couple of the biggest bass I have ever had a hook in were on light wire hooks, they were a compromise. I was fishing with live chubs, big ones, which are sort of hard to find here for sale, you usually have to find them and catch them yourself. Fishing in a turnpike pond years ago, very clear water for here, and sort of barren, very limited weeds and not much else in the water except for a couple of half submerged cement truck tires that floated around. Not a numbers lake for bass, unless you were content catching 1 - 1 1/2 pound fish, but it had some resident pigs, you had to wait them out though. Definitely not a lure lake, day or night, there was no effective lure bite. So a 6-8 inch chub on a slip float, light line, only 14# test and a 4/0 Aberdeen hook to allow the chub to stay alive and active longer. You might only get one hit all day, but usually it was a good 20 inch fish. So after waiting most of the day? I get my hit, now those Aberdeen hooks had worked OK in the past, but this wasn't a 5 pound bass, it was a lot bigger, just guessing 7-9 pounds. Where does he go? Towards one of the truck tires floating in the water, and the Aberdeen hook just straightened out from me trying to stop him. My brother lost a pig there too, the same way, with an Aberdeen hook, it also headed for a truck tire, his swam right threw it and keep going. I kept using Aberdeen hooks, a different brand, and for different circumstances. Even for jig hooks some Aberdeen hooks are better than others.

Nice but like mentioned water on the lens distracts from viewing, better tunes?

Over the years I saw a lot of guys do different things with tubes, yes on the ear plugs, a lot of factories I went into for deliveries and pickups had a dispenser at the door. Fish oil capsules inserted in them, sardine, anchovy oil put on the plug and inserted, or pam cooking spray with garlic sprayed on them. Also saw the alka seltzer.

I always though fishing with a slip bobber and a big minnow was a relaxing way to fish, just sit back and let the bait do the work of finding the fish. [/url] Slip float walleye, from the G/B.

Your dog was really expecting a Walleye dinner! LOL

Ohio has it's advantages, if you hit something in the water here it's usually mud or wood. LOL

Spinner baits, whether in line or safety pin style seem to be designed to imitate bait fish. This time of year Steelhead and other species seem to be gourging on them, they might hit anything that resembles a bait fish? I have caught them on tubes, small crankbaits, and jig and grubs, in Lake Erie and it's tribs in the fall fishing for smallies. My biggest walleye came on a safety pin style spinner bait on the georgian bay, the very next cast I caught a 12 - 13 inch Crappie on the same lure, they are versatile lures.

LOL, I still have my tin cans and a thousand feet of string in case I have a problem with the cell phone when the kids aren't around.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/24/technology/mobile/apple-ios-8-issues/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/24/technology/security/bash-bug/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5 Not sure if any of this is related.

Think of how many lower units electric bow mounts have saved!

I haven't been there since 1989, I can only imagine what it looks like now? In 25 years or so I only made it out as far a Table Rock a few times, and that was with another boat along in case of problems. There were plenty of fish closer! also plenty of rocks! Never had much of a problem with them, going slow doesn't bother me.

If I was looking? It certainly wouldn't be for a Tracker.

After years of trips to Point Au Baril and seeing motors in the shop there lined up for work on lower units? Canadian waters never struck me as a place to rush around.