OhioFisherman

Mike, if you look at the spoon before you buy them (many brands and styles) a wider thin spoon will run shallower on a retrieve than a thick narrow one. A standard dardevle is what I would call a normal thickness and width spoon. Lots of variations from there, dardevle also made some narrow ones. I have caught pike on a variety of them, a slower retrieve will let them run deeper. Some real thin ones are intended for downrigger use and I have seen people take the back treble off some deep running crankbaits, tie a leader on the eye and a spoon and troll them. Johnson silver minnow is a good one for snaking thru weedbeds, lilies. Caught some pike on little cleo`s, what is considered a steelhead lure here. Kind of like and other lure mix up the retrieve a bit and see what is working best, fast or slow, shallow or deeper. A hook like a Mr.Twister keeper hook or Mustad makes a similar one also can be used to replace the rear treble and makes for easy weedless attachment of grub or similar soft plastic.

RattleTrap? trout? no self respecting pond owner here wouldn`t start with anything but bass! LOL Probably the reason why all the state record bass for the last 40-50 years or so have come from ponds. Just to much pressure on public waters here to see a 10 pounder. I keep forgetting you don`t live in a pint sized state. TSC puts an ad out in the spring here, 6-8 inch bass like 10 bucks per. Most of the guys I know with ponds boosted the size with some caught fish, may not be legal there. Nice to stick in a few 18-20 inch fish at the start.

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Do you have TSC -Tractor Supply Stores up there? A lot of farm ponds in my area, and some farmers supply stores have a weekend or two in the early spring where the have someone come in and sell live fish for pond stocking. Here it is probably a lot more limited to the species available Bass, Bluegill, Catfish, and a couple types of minnows, but maybe others are available? Might help? http://www.polocenter.com/health/feedcaon.htm Feed stores might have a clue?

I don`t specifically target cats, incidental catches for us so we don`t invest money in gear for them. Most of the heavier bass tackle, pike tackle has worked to land them with no issues. 17-20 pound test mono, I use stren but your choice, a stiff baitcasting rod or spinning rod. Our bigger ones up north were caught while fishing for pike walleye skis with big chubs-shiners on a heavier 3/0-4/0 heavy hook but a pre snelled one with with leader because cats weren`t the target. Powerful fish, if you hook them in an area that has wood in the water you want to be able to keep the away from it. Rod my wife used, not much of a caster, and definitely not a bait caster was a heavy 6 foot ugly stick, old style diawa spinning reel, like maybe a 2600? larger than most freshwater reels, like maybe the old mitchell 302-6 size. All I used when fishing with her was my heavier bass gear, 7'6" flipping stick, 20 pound mono, rod is rated for like 3/8 to 2 ounce lures.

Never fished for Brook Trout or Lakers, a white tube or white 3 inch grub(power grub) works for steel head and smallies, walleye here on Erie in the fall, especially if the Emerald shiners are around. If I am using a white grub only two color choices for me for the jighead, white or black.

LOL April Fool ! Weather here for Tuesday is a low of 31f and a high of 32f? why bother noting the difference? Snow too. But 10 degrees warmer for Wednesday. Still way to early to count on anything as far as weather. Thought you guys didn`t put the snow blowers away until June? Doesn`t bass and muskie season not open till late June so you don`t get snowed on?

J ace, I have heard the folk versions some are done very well, Luke Kelly and the Dubliners versions come to mind. Not really big on the Thin Lizzy version, or Jerry Garcia`s. Metallica`s version is like easily listening music.

Many years ago fishing from shore in Lake Erie with a neighbor and his dad in Cleveland his dad caught a sheephead. It had a lamprey attached to it on the soft flesh under the gill plate, also seem catfish with marks on them from lamprey usually right where the head ends. We killed that one, I have no feelings of guilt over it. Never had an issue with killing a gobie, though bait would have been a better plan if legal Got to watch the history, plenty of blame to spread around on why some species are no longer common sights in the great lakes and elsewhere, most of it human activities. Dad used to tell m of sturgeon being thrown on shore and left for dead when he was young, people thought they were ugly. Commercial netters here in Ohio would never take any responsibility for diminished walleye populations. Always claimed that they weren`t taking enough to harm the population, blamed it all on pollution. But within a few years of their licenses being bought by the state and commercial walleye netting being banned Lake Erie was full of them. Also heard stories of lamprey being the cause of lake trout disappearing, but after seeing some of the fishery abuses and the blame game played who knows for sure. Still don`t like them, not a big fan of sheephead and carp either.

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My wife got a couple in the Shawanaga river off of the Georgian bay some years ago, one was aound 15 pounds one over 20. Got to believe any wide slow moving river up there could hold some, ours were incidental catches we were not really targeting them just bigger fish in general with large chubs and shiners. Caught a number of them up there over the years but those 2 were by far the biggest, most were 6-8 pounds?

Storm makes some 9 inch swim baits that are reasonably priced. http://www.landbigfish.com/tacklestore/showcase.cfm?PID=719

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Follow Terry and Snag, Depth #1 you can`t catch them if they aren`t there.

Mike I have seen some of Parry Sound from shore only in town years ago. A lot like where we went for years about 20 miles up the road Pointe Au Baril. A mix weeds, rocks, you name it. Should be flats,points, dropoffs all over the place. Never went up until June though, bass opener and after. Anything you would use for bass has a decent chance of catching pike, water is probably going to be on the cool side? Throwing spoons like a dardevle, red eye, johnson silver minnow with a pork frog on it in area were weed growth has started might be a plan, spinnerbaits ect. I have caught pike on just about everything but probably more on subsurface baits. There was a baitstore right in town years ago that sold big minnows. Don`t know if it is still there, big chub, shiner on a slip float should get some action, jig and minnow cast.

Don`t know if a 150 will fit in a cut off plastic 55 gallons drum, I test my smaller merc in one, They make muffs and earmuff looking device that clamps over the water intakes on the lower unit and a garden hose is attached, don`t ruun it without water! You will fry the impeller. Look at overall condition, carpet and seat wear, it will give you an indication of the amount of use. Boat is fiberglass and fairly heavy, make sure you have a proper tow vehicle. A good fishing platform, they don`t get blown around as boats with higher sides.

http://www.autamotors.com/Listings/details.asp?id=38337 http://london.craigslist.co.uk/boa/1079338731.html Hope the pictures help, Nitro bass boats are pretty popular here stateside, it should be a 60MPH boat, don`t know of any one that had any serious issues with theirs. A lot like buying a used car, everyone treats theirs differently.

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4/0 in a tube jig

Disabled and stuck home, computer chair is the most comfortable in the house for me. OFC is like home, a bit rowdy at times but a good group of people.

Like Raf say some of the ball bearing swivels and snaps they put on some of the pre made leaders are a bit crazy. If the leader is rated 17 pound test what the heck do I need a 200 pound test sized snap on it for? Some it is easy to take the snap and swivels off and install smaller ones, a duo lock snap and a smaller ball bearing swivel with split rings on both ends.

LOL Headhunter, look at our leadership over the last 50 years or so, is it them that kept the country going or the people working for them? Us, the people that paid the bills? Can`t have one without the other? Since we now own the auto companies perhaps we should insist our governments hire the execs from Honda-Toyota? Double their pay and it`s still a bargain? Communism? LOL we have never seen communism, just thinly veiled dictatorships called communists. The so called communist are one of our largest trading partners, guess dirt cheap labor allows for faults? they can`t be all bad? Just Cuba?

Great pictures and report Raf, nice to see JP still fishes.

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