OhioFisherman

CK truck? actually I believe the Safari-Astro shared the same platform as the S-10 pickup.

George W. Perry, a 19-year old farm boy, caught what was to become America's most famous fish. The twenty-two pound four ounce largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) exceeded the existing record by more than two pounds and has retained the world record for more than fifty years. Perry and his friend, J. E. Page, were fishing in Montgomery Lake, a slough off the Ocmulgee River, not for trophies but to bring food to the table during those days of the great depression. The fish was caught on a Creek Chub Perch Scale Wigglefish, Perry's only lure, and was 32 1/2 inches in length and 28 1/2 inches in girth.

Always used 17-20# mono, it worked for me and I saw no reason to change.

I had an 89, 95, and 2000, never had any problems pulling my 17 foot aluminum boat, but I am guessing the weight was under 1500 pounds. I also used them on short trips 20-30 miles to the sawmills in the area pulling my tandem axle utility trailer to pick up green slab wood. The trailer would hold 1 1/4 full cord of wood, it wasn`t something I would have been comfortable doing with those vans for a greater distance. The weight of the trailer and wood put it right around maximum capacity, and you could tell. All flat roads in my area.

Tiller? console? yomamma!

I think as you get more experienced at night fishing you will find that some lakes have almost no night bite at all on surface lures. I went to a lake in New York once a year for years, it was maybe 600-800 acres and unlimited horsepower. It was a very busy body of water, there could be water skiers and jet skiers on the water at first light. I caught fish on surface lures during the daylight hours, at night forget them, that lake also had limited numbers of pike and skis. You would think a lake like that where you were the only boat on the water after dark would have a good surface lure bite? Never caught a fish on a surface lure at night, jig and pig or plastic worm worked very well, and I threw like a dozen different surface lures trying to get fish on them. The bass club I fished with for years had tournaments on a river here, in around ten years of fishing tournaments there I never saw anyone using a surface lure, day or night, it had been tried to death and never worked, you go with what will catch fish! There it was soft plastics, jig and pig, spinnerbait and occasionally a crankbait.

It never hurts to have a top water lure, frog, buzzbait, popper, on a rod ready to throw. Generally early morning, evening, night, but the fish will give you a much better idea. I fished a lot at night, the thinking is a noisy surface lure? I caught far more bass on other lures at night, they have no problem finding a 4 inch ringworm or 1/8th ounce jig and pig in the dark.

I worked with a couple of guys that took the garlic pills, for health reasons? On a hot summer day they would reek when they walked by.

It`s summer time, the spawn is over, so now it`s all about food and cover. They don`t get big chasing food, they get big parking themselves next to a good food supply. It`s no where near as simple as water temperature alone, and you folks up north get a couple of extra wild cards thrown in, pike and skis, they make bass a food supply. Logically? Early morning start at the shore line, on a lot of lakes it`s the boating, fishing, swimming season. Increased activity levels on the water in warm weather during the day can make some night feeders, they may hang around the shallows until activity there increases. Move deeper as the day progresses, water depth provides a source of cover, limited perhaps but more options for them to use to get away. I have caught largemouth and smallies schooled together in deep water (20 feet), up north or here. LOL, but on the Georgian in mid to late September? It makes me think available food was more of an issue than water temp? KVD might be able to think like a fish? but even he doesn`t win all the time. It`s a mental exercise that can drive you nuts if you`re not catching them? as long as it`s still fun trying?

The only thing that keeps little goldfish from surviving? the majority of them get eaten! Pretty hard for them to survive when they are waving them bright colors in a predators face? I saw them all the time in Lake Erie, but only ones too big for most other fish to eat. A lot of people put them in fish ponds here, the spring rains wash out the ponds and it all flows into Lake Erie around here. Like mentioned, all they are is carp, and I have seem carp at Pointe Au Baril, the cold most of us see won`t stop them.

LOL Lew, were the heck are those Canadian cold fronts when we could use one? They are calling for temps to hit 96 here today, could break the record of 97, and a heat index of 105-115. Cleveland got like 3 inches of rain the other day, Akron almost 6 inches, and I didn`t get enough to leave a puddle on my patio. As wet as the spring was by me it sure dried out in a hurry.

That is sort of a complete shock, Kasich is usually a tool for big business, a former Wall Street banker. Although passing that bill might have cost him the top 1/3 of the state at election time? Hmmm... He didn`t win last time by much.

I believe so, dude that ran one of the bait stores in Pointe Au Baril would also try putting some of them in with our bait years ago. They didn`t look like anything I saw here so I told him no, he said they were moon eyes.

Comfortable using rods from 6 foot to 7' 6" like a flipping stick, never had any problems to speak of feeling hits on mono. I carried a mix of rods and lengths, basically because I didn`t fall for the sales hype that you had to carry a 150+ dollar rod to catch fish. I used to use a Penn 109-209 on a solid glass 5 1/2 foot rod with the action of a broomstick back in the day and cast pike and muskie lures all day. Anything these days is lighter? I never judged a rod by price or weight, action and feel was the way to go. Like Garry mentioned I like a little softer action for crankbaits, but I would doctor them up anyway. Different brand of hooks, a size larger at times.

Actually Cudz I have used leaders, and not just to prevent bite offs. Braided nylon and Dacron were used a lot when I was young, a mono leader to reduce visibility also. Also used blood and uni knots, no issues with them slipping or going through the guides. For me the jury is still out on line visibility, if the bite was tough I would go through the motions, lighter line, floro, but didn`t see a significant difference in the number of bites. Like mentioned, I used braided nylon and dacron with and with out mono leader, black, multi color camo, golded stren, original trilene, green , clear blue. Sort of like lures to me? Pretty colors to catch fishermen?

Stren almost exclusively, no leaders for bass fishing, true, not necessary, but in lakes with ski`s and pike? figure on losing some lures to them.

No personal horror stories, the only incident? Going to Lake Chautauqua in New York for a bass tournament, my boat, my friends pickup. I let him hook it up, error. We drove 164 miles or so, going down a hill along side the lake? The trailer came off the ball and bumped the back of the bumper, he didn`t have it connected right. I usually crank it down on the ball, lock it and crank it up to put some pressure on the lock,to make sure it is locked down, he didn`t. Lucky, just a scratch on the bumper though. A buddy had his nitro come off the trailer on I-90 coming home from Findlay lake in New York. Another had two flats coming home from the French River. Another had his trailer hit a guard rail when a wheel bearing froze. Went to a lake here in Ohio, a friends boat and truck, once he got the boat (Glass bass boat) off the trailer? The back two cross members on the trailer had broken welds. He had to hurry to get repairs done before his trip to the French River the next weekend. A couple of dad`s friends back in the day, smoking and throwing the butts out the window on their way to Ontario. They made it to New York before the boat caught fire. Luckily they got the trailer unhooked from the car in time, a wood boat, burnt!

Batteries create hydrogen when charging, it can explode with a spark.

A white swimming jig with a white pork grub or 3 inch twister tail can also be deadly when baitfish can be seen in the weeds.

Try reaching across the boat while you are sitting in the drivers seat and grabbing the dock while trying to control the boat?

I have no idea how things work up there, here companies send you to the company doctor, and since they are working for them? Their main concern seems to be reducing employer costs. When I injured my back at work in 94 I was told it was muscle strain, after I took the x-rays that had been taken at the company`s clinic to a doctor selected by me? A herniated disc was clearly visible.

I always thought a tutu was involved?

Just so you know, they taste just like chicken!

It`s funny how that Strawberry color works up north, very odd t see that color on sale here. Back in the day on the G/B a strawberry heddon vamp (wood) worked well for everything.

A worm weight and rubber peg works also, never lost a regular dropshot weight by it accidentally sliding off, but I used them on 8# test line. Flea market around the corner from me sold worm weights at times for 25 cents a package, way cheaper than you see drop shot weights for.