OhioFisherman

Mine was always stored inside my garage or barn. I had a wheel on the trailer stand, I took a few short pieces of 2x6 made a hole in one with a large hole saw and screwed them together. The hole held the wheel from rolling and gave me extra height to make sure all the water was drained, if any out of the boat. Mine was a deep v and just cranking up the stand wouldn`t get it all.

Old is new? Just seems like a name change to me. Flutter spoons like the one in one of the previous posters picture are used a lot on the Great Lakes, a very thin piece of metal, like a 32nd of an inch? No weight to them, usually fished on downriggers or perhaps dipsy divers? I have also seen guys take the rear treble off a deep diving crank bait add a leader and one. The flutter spoons in the video? a different animal, the technique is not new though. Sounds like what van dam was doing when he got his big smallie on a crocodile? spoon on Lake Erie. It has been done for a long time and is an effective way to catch deep fish at times. A lot of lures can be used, a Hopkins shorty and lures of that style and blade baits like a silver buddy, heddon sonar and such. A jigging Rapala usually used for ice fishing will also work in the spring, summer, fall for fish in deep water. You can stop right on top of them and let the Rapala swim in circles with a darting action on the lift and a flutter on the drop. I have even caught catfish and crappie in the summer on the Rapala. Just a lot of ways to fish different lures, the best way is the one that works that day.

Like Roy mentioned, probably walleye. A friend used to do it on vacations at Felon Falls, a movement of walleye around a dam I believe at night.

Agreed stupid, but it`s funny management never seems to put cameras on what they do for lunch? A drunk or drugged captain can steer the ship off course?

Johnny, winter is a good time to join a club. The one I fished with for a long time usually had a meeting in January or February to decide and vote on choices for tournaments. It is nice to have some input on them, I never really cared what lake the tournament was held on, but traveling distance was an issue. I never had a desire to drive 150-200 miles to the site of a one day tournament, drive 3 hours, fish for 8 or 9 and drive home? Safety first? it makes for a long day. I just felt those were better options for two day events, something you could combine into a long weekend or perhaps a weeks vacation with the family if the locations permitted it. None of my kids ever really got the fishing bug, but a cabin, house, or trailer by the beach and they were ready to go! A number of guys in the club would make it a family deal, so the wives and kids had things to do while the guys fished. If the lake is new territory to you? you can get some tips practice fishing with other members.

Caught a steel head one fall and thought it was full of eggs, nope, when I cleaned it like 22 3-5 inch shiners, shad, perch in it.

I used to do some business with a guy that fished Kentucky Lake and Dale Hollow, I bought small hair jigs off of him that he used for smallies. Bass are bass, some times the approach to fishing for them is different, google floatnfly, shakey head worm, a couple of popular methods in that area. You do have to find fish to catch them though?

The glass on the bulbs may be hot after a drive, contact will cold water can crack them. A lot of water proof lights aren`t really.

Brings back memories, stayed there many times.

I have never been there myself, my dad and brother were, but years ago. It is a very big lake, a lot of creek arm coves and deep, the shoreline can just drop away in areas. It is a TVA lake, Tennessee Valley Authority, a power and flood control lake, a dammed and flooded valley. Largemouth, Smallmouth, and spotted bass I think, also 1+ crappie are fairly common.

I don`t own one myself Raf, my daughter has a late model Ford explorer with a v-6 engine, like an 08 or 09. U-haul wouldn`t rent her a 6x12 enclosed tandem axle trailer to move with.

Dated by our tackle experiences? It just come down to the fact that in my youth most people were fishing with some Mitchell spinning reel or some Abu bait caster. They were just considered to be the best by most people. My brother Mike liked the Cardinal 3 & 4 reels also, I used Diawas for quite a while. Really though most of my fishing was geared to Bass or larger species and most of the time near cover so bait caster were just some thing I was more comfortable using. In the later 90`s I did start using some older Abu semi-closed face reels for bass. If I had tried one in the time they were in production I would have gone to them sooner. They cast light lures with heavy line well, and are easy to use, I have never had a birds nest on any of them. It just boils down to you are going to pick up what you are most comfortable using first?

With all that said? I think the cheap reels of today are much, much better then the cheap reels of yesterday(in regards to performance, but not sure about durability). Those 15 buck made in france Mitchell 300c`s seemed like a bargain? I don`t notice enough casting difference in any to make all that much difference. The smoothness is nice on the newer reels, the drags are probably better. I don`t like synthetic frame reels, unless they are dirt cheap. Spinning reels for me are usually light line, open water reels.

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That is a strong argument for name brand popular reels, the parts will be around longer if you need them.

You could try calling the Lunge Lodge? ask for Mike Pettry he was always a straight up guy, as I understand it him and another guy that we fished with bought the place. Now that I think of it that is part of his head in my avatar, like 22 years ago.

Always tried to schedule a trip up north for late September colder weather shorter periods of day light started something, for walleye too, they moved into areas you didn`t see them in mid summer.

Can`t really tell by the picture alone, but the style to me would indicate 1930`s or earlier.

I was for 30+ years, but retired 7 years ago, and also only here in the states. Laws and things may be different now or different to an extent there. My watch came off the last day I worked and haven`t had one on since, and I haven`t kept up with the latest regs.

Room and board for a little labor isn`t a bad deal. Did they get to sample the bait?

I don`t think Babe Winkleman was at fault, I grew up in Cleveland 3 miles from the lake and used to see them as a kid. Really a lot of causes for it, people build fish ponds in flood prone area, and the first flood gives them a chance to wander. In this area everything drains into Lake Erie, but people releasing pet gold fish into rivers and streams also. My brother also used them as bait in the 70`s? he said smallies thought they were candy. A bit pricey as a bait supply unless you raise them yourself? Ohio`s fishing regs could be deemed as confusing? "Fish caught by legal angling methods (such as bluegills caught by hook and line) may be used for bait." which may be misleading? other species are not excluded? such as goldfish or gobies? could you argue an undersized walleye or bass caught by legal angling means? "It is unlawful to use fish species that are not already established in Ohio waters." There is clear evidence that gobies and goldfish are presently established? and what penalties did the perpetrators of that face? Actually one of my first experiences fish was in the old Ohio barge canal for goldfish, like in the later 50`s? and it emptied into Lake Erie.

I used to see them in Lake Erie, but never that size 3-5 pounds? and never any small ones, they stick out like a sore thumb and get eaten quickly. In ponds that I have seen them in that also had bass? They almost never ventured out of very shallow water.

used a round tooth pick for years with the lead slip sinkers, jam it in and break it off. Seems the holes might be bigger on the tungsten ones? Didn`t use the tungsten ones much, sort of a life time supply of lead ones. you can also use a hitch hiker? need a different style of hook though, mustad 91768?

actually this fish came on an inflated worm, early spring cold water, from a farm pond. The fish weren`t taking lures, my brother had brought along some crawlers and was fishing for the huge bluegill in the pond. I put on a slip bobber set so the weight would drag the bottom, tied on about an 18 mono leader and a #6 eagle claw hook. Hooked the crawler once through the nose, shot some air into it to keep it off the bottom. A cold breezy day, I didn`t see a hit, the bobber just stopped drifting, it was enough for me to decide on a hook set. as I recall 19 inch 4# 15 ounces, actually had it weighed at the corner store by mom`s house. 30 years ago? they still looked big then. It went into mom`s goldfish pond, lasted all year but the winter freeze was too much for it. One of the last fish I had mounted. Lindy made the worm blowers, maybe some other outfits too? It does help keep the bait out of junk and visible.

Early morning I like to run a surface lure near shore, buzzbait, jitterbug, pop r, torpedo, frog. If they are missing it or I am fairly confident fish are in the area? a texas rigged worm, lizard, tube, usually Junebug for a color choice to start. In an area with little or no weeds or other junk I will fish them on a jig head with the hook exposed. Boat docks, wood in the water, even parked pontoon boats that don`t look they have been moved in a while get a few extra tosses. I will mix the weights up, a slow fall or a faster fall, just to see if it makes a difference. I also may pitch a jig and pig to the same spots, talk to me fishy? today`s choice from the menu is? Not much I wouldn`t throw at them, crank baits, blade baits, spinner baits, all sorts and sizes of soft plastics, in all different water depths until I found some thing that worked. A minnow style bait like a Rapala on a flat with a pause and twitch, a heavy jig and worm, jig and pig punched through the weeds. A lot of choices, just figure out quickly the best one for the day. A cold front and I down size and slow down, more pitches to the same spots, they may not be as eager to strike or chase, accuracy, get it close to cover.