OhioFisherman

I can just hear the folks in the house and senate now, we don't need no gun control! but more taxpayer funded security for us is on the way! I think they sent the senate home, so they could crawl into taxpayer funded shelters. LOL

It was a good year for them here too, a decent spring with enough rain so the breeding areas didn't dry up with the tadpoles still swimming in them. As a kid I remember a small shallow pool in a field next to my uncle's home in the country. It wasn't more than a foot deep but held water in the spring as long as there was a decent amount of rain. It was always full of tadpoles and newts in the spring, in dry years full of tadpole and newt spots in the dry ground by June.

http://www.easygps.com/gps-receivers/Lowrance-LCX-16-CI.asp It might help?

Yep

It was like 92 degrees here yesterday, Friday's high is supposed to be 60 degrees, that might signal them to really start the fall feed.

I have never been in that area, but the area of the Georgian Bay I fished the fall the bite for 40+ inch northerns seemed to be fairly time specific for us. You could catch smaller ones at anytime, but the big fish bite seemed to be limited to around 3 - 4 pm until dark.

I always lipped them, LOL I even tried it one time on a muskie.

http://www.19actionnews.com/story/23294768/strongsville-company-to-pay-more-than-330000-in-fish-kill-case Kind of sick what ends up in our drinking water? Rocky River runs right into Lake Erie on the western edge of Cleveland. It is or was also one of the rivers used for trout stocking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Na9-jV_OJI

I had the benefit of an experienced fishing family and word of mouth thru membership in bass clubs, what works well and doesn't in hard baits got around.

Dang that is a good looking boat!

No, it isn't considered drug paraphernalia, although one might wonder why a dirty syringe in a tackle box might be considered so?

Just a note, here in the states the laws and legalities of having a syringe in your possession with out a prescription vary widely from state to state. The lindy ones were cheap and hard to beat.

Any lure or bait except surface lures that you would use for smallmouth bass will work for sheephead. It's been my experience that they like the same habitat. Riprap along a shore line seems to attract them, the like crawfish as much as smallies do.

Great! Just a tip,if you know someone that does window replacements see if they can get you a couple of old window weights. They are made of cast iron and cylindrical in shape and can slow down a drift on a windy day. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p3872.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0&_nkw=Cast+iron+window+sash+weights&_sacat=0&_from=R40

You can't catch them at night if you aren't out there trying to? A lot may have to do with the body of water and area of it you are fishing? I have caught them on Lake Erie at night trolling deep diving crank baits the same way you would during the day. I have caught them on weedy inland lakes flipping docks and other shore line areas at night on a jig and pig. I have caught them trolling floating rapalas along a rocky shoreline up north at night. I never got one though sitting in the cabin waiting for daylight.

Here in Ohio a check engine light on is a fail, they won't even bother until it is repaired.

That's just wrong! LOL

How is Simcoe's smelt population? From reading the article Landlocks seem to center on them for food?

Congrats Roy! Glad I am not that old yet!

You can use any style of worm weight with a rubber peg, if the weight gets snagged steady pressure on it should pull the line out from the peg. It's simple to improvise? Scraps of solid copper ground grounding wire can have an end easily flattened and a small hole drill in it and pegged. A decent set of side cutting pliers allows you to adjust the length and weight?

If you can't find commercially made slip floats any craft shop usually has smooth finished Styrofoam eggs or ball that can easily be turned into a float large enough for very large minnows or suckers, and even perch where legal. You can fish a slip float deeper than 10 - 15 feet, suckers as bait tend to seek out the bottom, to small a float and they will keep it buried. Chubs and other minnows tend to wander various deeps, a small weight is usually needed to keep them in the desired depth range. A bait fish in distress attracts attention of predators, some times it's nice to kick back and let them do the work.

I recall one trip to Pointe Au Baril, some guys were leaving when we arrived and they showed us the fish they were taking home. One was a 19 - 20 inch largemouth and from the gill plates back it was slashed to hell. Dude what happened to that one, a huge muskie grabbed it, it didn't let go until it got close to the boat.

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Heat and water temp reduces the amount of oxygen in the water, game fish tend to suffer before rough fish - panfish.