OhioFisherman

https://www.mikesreelrepair.com/shimano-stradic-2500fh-schematic/

Usually good schematics

https://www.mikesreelrepair.com/content/schematics/Shimano_stradic_2500fh.pdf

I see only two springs listed in the parts for that reel, 7467 looks like the one to me,

Good looking fish, that size are always fun to catch!

Nice fish! Georgian Bay has plenty of places for them to grow.

Usually I get meat from a small grocery chain south of me, they ordinarily have an 8 - 9 page sales ad, last week it was 1 page.

1.) China had a hog problem before covid started

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/business/china-pork-swine-fever-pigs/index.html

pork prices shot up here

2.) Not sure how much of your meat - poultry - veggies are imported from the states, but a number of big meat processing plants here have been shut down due to large numbers of their workers with covid, more grocery prices rising.

3.) Hog farmers, and i would assume other types are talking about having to euthanize their stock, can't get them processed and can't afford to go on feeding them?

4.) Labor, plant a crop that might end up rotting in the field? an expensive waste of time? The US and Canada both rely on large amounts of cheap foreign labor for farm work.

A lot of boats? had problems with the wood in the transom rotting out? A lot harder to notice on a glass boat than an aluminum boat? From a liability standpoint giving insurance to an older sight unseen boat might open the  insurance company to more battles? The need for speed? There wasn't as many boats that came close to the speed of today's boats when I was young and who knows how good they are maintained? Lots things can go wrong, and the price to fix them or replace them keeps climbing?

Heddon River Runt, Black Shore Minnow I believe midget? I also seem to recall they were made in wood and then plastic. Heddon Sonar for the metal blade bait, those are still sold today, although the color choices are probably different. I don't believe either is really worth any serious cash, but I could be wrong. Ebay is a decent reference place to see what some of these old lures go for.

https://realfishing.com/all-about-lake-trout/

" Lake trout spawn in the autumn, between September and December, in water between 48ºF and 57ºF. They prefer to spawn over large areas of lakes with boulder or rubble bottoms but they are also known to occasionally spawn in rivers. The eggs fall into cracks and crevices where they will remain for between four and five-months before hatching in March or April. "

Not something I was aware of, 4 = 5 months for their eggs to hatch? Makes those eggs more of a target if dropped where gobies thrive?

One of my friends went to the Lunge Lodge every year, late 1980's we drove up from Pointe Au Baril to visit and fish with them for a day. We followed them around, because of the rocks, and caught bass, basically all we fished for.

His son and another guy from our bass group here end up buying the lodge some years ago, they sold it a couple of years ago. They had an annual bass tournament for guests every September? from what I could see from following their facebook site the big bass was usually in the 4-6 pound range, and it could be either species.

On 6/14/2020 at 7:14 PM, cisco said:

Hard to say what amount and impact of the amount of 'runoff/silt' is on lakers. As long as a fertilized egg gets oxygen should be good to go. To have all midlake spawning shoals covered by suffocating silt seems a bit far fetched. Some should still be producing lakers. Don't see that though. However a new species such as goby eating small stuff on shoals is something more feasible IMHO. That's why some have been pushing MNHR to properly investigate rather than a tagging study which does not address the spawning habitat issue whatsoever. Perhaps even Goby traps set at spawning shoals can restore spawning success to an acceptable level if this is the case.   

Just my thinking that goby traps will catch a lot more than gobies? It may give them a way to compare the number of small fish species though?

A lot of people from this side of the lake make the run over to PeLee island, any rocky protected from pounding waves.

It was in the low 90's here Tuesday and Wednesday, and struggled to get out of the 60's for the weekend.

19 hours ago, Hack_Fisherman said:

 When I stayed at halfway Lake provincial park north of Sudbury, I noticed quite a few small lakes he close to the road. Some of them had what appeared to be access points. There was also a guy camping on one of them.

 There was enough water to explore at the park so I didn’t venture out to any of them. But I always wonder if there’s s plethora of bucket mouths in the lily pads, or if these mini lakes/large ponds are too small to hold a population of nice fish

We went to Pointe Au Baril for 25 years or so, the liquor store or beer store at one time had like an 8+ plus largemouth hanging on their wall at one time that was caught at one of those nearby back lakes. We thought a couple of times about wandering around and trying some of them but gaining access seemed like a hassle and not knowing the area we had no idea what was private property and the dangers involved, a lot of bears back then and rattlesnakes.

It doesn't take a very big pond or lake to hold some quality size bass, fishing pressure and food supply have a lot to do with it, but some just seem to grow decent size bass in spite of that.

Might be your best bet? I am guessing most in a boat graveyard might already be broken?

I got caught in that one, on the way to see the 4th of July fireworks. 4 people killed at the shoreline park site of the fireworks display.

23 hours ago, misfish said:

Looks like white fish bait to me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,🤣

LOL, since they are already in Lake Erie? why not as a legal bait?

As i have read in their native range gobies feed on zebra a quagga mussels, http://www.invadingspecies.com/round-goby/

" Benefit(s): The only benefit attributed to the round goby is that it is a voracious consumer of another significant Great Lakes invader, the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha).  In one laboratory study (Ghedotti, et al,1995), round gobies of average (80 - 110 mm) length were able to consume zebra mussels 100 - 120mm in size and ate an average of 36 zebra mussels per day.  Gobies also seemed to show a significant preference for zebra mussels over native clams and snails when presented with varying distributions of clumped and unclumped prey over different substrates. However, because gobies do not have a swim bladder and are negatively buoyant, prey attached to an aquarium wall just 20cm off the bottom appeared safe from round gobies. "  

   http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Neogobius_melanostomus.html

Fish eat fish? I am guessing big perch, crappie, or whatever will eat smaller gobies?

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Coregonus_clupeaformis/

Evidently whitefish spawn shallow? Not real sure what would be to deep for a gobie?

I have caught carp on tubes fishing for bass, just image how many fish eggs a 20+ pound carp can suck in? but they start off small to, and may be food for other species?

roughly 8 pounds a gallon for water, a ten gallon livewell that would be a small one will change the weight balance quickly.

25 hp? might not need a windshield?

I wish, probably could have fished a couple tournaments here already.

What is the difference between AGM and Gel batteries?

I used interstate or  nautilus on mine, a 12 volt trolling motor, no issues with either brand, but I replaced them every 4 years or so.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/06/10/sanduskys-historic-state-theatre-demolished-during-wicked-storm/

I slept thru it? Sandusky is 50 or so miles west of me, but this storm seemed to do most of it's damage along the lakefront.

41 minutes ago, AKRISONER said:

i cant count the number of times Pike have tboned small smallmouth and walleye on me lol.

One time while jiggin walleye my buddy hooked into a perch and purposely fought it for a long time just to see if a pike would hit it and then it actually happened. The funniest bit was the timing...the MNR literally pulled up on him as it happened ahhaha. There was no problem but it was hilarious because you cant legally use perch as bait.

Well it's been 30 years or more since I have been up to PAB, i know the laws on Perch for bait have changed, they used to be legal up to the first dam = barrier. It was common to see people using them, we could also set our own minnow trap and use nets to catch them.

Caught a lot of fish 99.9 % pike on perch, I do recall catching a 6-8 pound bowfin on one there. My buddy always went with our family up there, he caught like 5 pike in a row slow rolling a perch, LOL it was slowing rolling in the water on his retrieve, didn't matter to the pike though, none were very big 4=6 pounds maybe.

Had tough bite trips up there, live bait saved trips at least from being blanked, other trips it wasn't needed much.

A blast from the past, same time period for me, I may have used them before him, I still have some around here somewhere. Had very good days throwing them at the pointe.

7 hours ago, misfish said:

Have caught lakers with perch in their bellies and gullets. They do not seem to mind them, why would a musky? Maybe they are pussy cats after all . LOL

Brian, I caught a Steelhead with a small perch in it's belly om Erie, the other 20+ fish it had eaten were Emerald Shiners and Shad, not saying it can't happen, just better choices? I have used small bluegill = sunfish for bait here, almost any type of minnow will get hit a lot quicker though. I saw a 20ish inch bass at PAB one time that a muskie had grabbed while the guy was bringing it in, torn up from the gills back, a very big ski?

3 hours ago, AKRISONER said:

Happens every year, the spawn does a number on panfish. Why the die off is so noticeable on those lakes is because the size of the panfish is substantial while the number of predators that eat them is low. The population and size of panfish in the tri lakes is absurd. There’s not many lakes with such an insane average size almost anywhere. You don’t see it as much in lakes with pike because they clean most of those up for you. I’ve always said that it’s a shame that the bass genetics in those lakes doesn’t allow for too many sunfish/bluegill eaters to exist. The biomass is there but the bass just aren’t big enough to be constantly chomping on those 8 inch dinner plate sunfish. 
 

it’s actually always shocked me that the musky don’t get even bigger chomping on them but I’m pretty certain 1. Sunfish aren’t as fatty as whitefish etc. and 2. I think they might be hard for muskys to hunt because they are fast and agile.

Those fish with sharp spines on their fins are a challenge for other fish to eat and the shape of a bluegill over that of a perch makes it more of a problem. I have found fish struggling with a perch or bluegill stuck in their throats by those spiny fins.