OhioFisherman

Congrats John! I got number 4 Friday, another one without a crank. Not that it matters much to me.

http://www.truth-it.net/reagan_national_debt.html "We need another Ronald Reagan come 2012...." Say it ain`t so!

It`s all really a matter of personal preference, you don`t have to break the bank to get a decent outfit. Take a look at ebay as an alternative, an older model Shimano Curado 200-201 can be had for around 100 bucks in very good condition. It is suitable for good sized fish, if you are casting a larger bait a 5 to 1 reel might be your best bet? Slap it on a medium heavy flipping rod and you are in fairly good shape for all but the largest of pike and ski`s?

Always liked Chautauqua Lake as close as you could get to Canada with out traveling as far.

Snow? it`s all gone here in the tropics!

Your water is what we are really after! perhaps some oil sands for a beach? Canadian Bacon?

We might be OK, they are going to start installing a quarter slot in the toilet paper dispensers in public restrooms!

Dang! the plans to Americanize Canada are going well!.

I have wrestled with ladies many times, but always in the privacy of my own home, pin me baby!

Original clear blue Stren always worked for me.

Lost a cousin years ago, 12-13 year old kids riding their bikes on a frozen river, kids don`t generally think.

Steve Zacharyasz and Mike Pettry, I have known Mike Pettry since he was born, Steve fished with us in the same group. Mike has been going to the Lunge Lodge since he was a little kid, just guessing that he jumped on the chance to be a part of the ownership. Both competed in the Ohio bass tournament scene, both are top quality anglers, and not just for bass. No idea on how they are at running a camp, but both were always good people. I don`t recall ever fishing in the same boat with Steve, but with Mike. Never heard of a problem with either. Now looking at it, the young guy with the black ball cap in my avatar pic is Mike, like 1988-89.

I collected fishing reels for a long time, always used the Postal service, whether it was to Europe or Japan.

Probably 95 % of the guys I fished with in tournaments used the old green Curados. A dependable reel, easy to get parts for if you ever had a problem with one, and they last, a consideration if you don`t have sponsers giving you free reels to advertise. I still know people buying the old ones on ebay, for those reasons.

Certainly! but me and my dog both have enough sense to stay indoors near the woodburner.

Starting my day off right! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ckuXx64abc&feature=related

It`s been a while since I cleaned one but Lake Erie Steel Head? Large Emerald Shiners, small shad, small perch.

It`s always nice to look out the window and see wildlife and not animals people brought with them?

LOL solo, just guessing that Phil doesn`t hook up a minnow often? Georgian Bay? Silver shiners, Emerald shiners, smelt, shad, perch, walleye, big fish eat little fish. I have caught perch there that were spitting out craw fish, what ever looks like an easy meal?

Crank baits, chrome and black, chrome and blue, perch, just about anywhere. Tubes, green pumpkin, junebug, green pumpkin blue glitter, watermelon blue glitter, white with silver glitter, just about anywhere. Jig and pig, or plastic, black, black and blue, brown, brown and chartruse, swimming sstyle, white. Plactics worms, junebug, black, purple, watermelon blue. Spinner baits white, white and chartruse, white chartruse and blue, chartruse blue and white, black. Buzz baits, black, white, chartruse. Surface lures, black, white, silver, perch, frog.

Kind of like the cable plans that make you pay for 60 channels, and only 10-15 are fit to watch?

A large slip bobber, 4/0-6/0 hook, wire snelled, and a 1/4-3/8 ounce worm weight. The pike will clean them off the hook for you. Always check your bait fish regulations.

Limited by disability, Deg and Whopper has been it, Whopper`s friend also but I don`t believe he is a member. All great guys ti fish with though.

"Each one of these top 10 used their own pattern, on their own location, and landed their fish at different times along with different depths. What were all these fish telling the top 10 – nothing." Actually the fish may be telling them they got lucky? Even the top pros don`t win all the time.

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