OhioFisherman

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.

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.

http://fishing-app.gpsnauticalcharts.com/i-boating-fishing-web-app/fishing-marine-charts-navigation.html?title=Wollaston+boating+app#13/44.8350/-77.8400

I have probably eaten them too Doug, my grand parents lived above us in the city and they could cook anything. Not sure how much work was involved with the pigeons, they seemed like free range birds, just provide them with a safe place to sleep and breed? Downtown Cleveland seemed to have millions of them hanging around, even on public square with all the traffic and people, now they have some nests for falcons to help thin the flock? Can't picture them tasting much different than a cornish hen? chicken?

100 in the boat? My hero!

Rambo!

When we were kids my dad took us fishing for the spring sucker runs, people used to eat them too. A different era? I always wondered about the number of people on my street growing up with pigeon coops, until my dad told me they were food not pets!

I had a 20 inch largemouth, a 20 inch smallmouth, a 28 walleye, and a 41 inch pike mounted, the cost for any of them would have paid for another week of cabin rental at Pointe Au Baril in those days and some cash left over. The pike wouldn't have swam away, kept it in the livewell which was too small for it so I could get back to camp to get a picture, all the others could have been released. Stopped keeping fish after that unless they were for a meal or weigh in, didn't even like to handle them too much.

I'm a geezer, I haven't had a fish mounted in 40 years, although I support the idea of replica mounts those are still pricey. You could probably get a picture blown up and put in a frame and take your son out and get him his own good quality rod and reel for the same price.

Them guys fishing the flw on erie could have used some of those fish!

That mushroom style of jighead has been around for quite awhile, Gopher Tackle had a trademark? on the name mushroom head and were pretty aggressive about preventing others from using it as a description from what I have heard. So what's new? basically the elastec plastic, and it's another go around for them too. They were hawking them back in the 1990's because they floated and were tougher than regular soft plastics, but weren't around long because they melted other soft plastics and boxes, and I never heard anyone lamenting their passing. Always liked the Gopher Tackle jigs, they gave you a few hook options, even long shanked ones for use in bigger (longer) worms. My understanding is they are gone now, even their web domin name is for sale. https://www.lurepartsonline.com/Inhaler-Jigs https://www.lurepartsonline.com/Barbarian-Bullet-Nose-Jigs?quantity=1&custcol16=106&custcol_lead_color=101 https://www.in-fisherman.com/editorial/history-and-tour-of-gopher-tackle/153633

Just the thought of having to spend thousands to fix a brake problem seems excessive to me?

Shows some fix for brake sensors?

Very nice! I have MS, if I had thought that I would have gotten something like it I certainly would have opted to a ranch style home ( all one level ) than a 4 level split. Just something to consider? With a degenerative back condition your wife may face more problems with things like stairs? They don't get any easier with age or medical issues.

I am in Ohio, usually the only way you can get to fish a golf course pond here is to know someone very well that runs the place.

Man that looks like a lot of work!

I used to fish a lot of farm ponds on shore, I had a trash bag in my back pack as standard equipment. A deposit on cans and plastic bottles I would certainly support here.

Take a look at their mouths, not carp. http://www.invadingspecies.com/rudd/ ?

The price seems too good to be true?

A liitle bondo will fix it?