OhioFisherman

LOL me too and shortly after I posted about not being able to log on early am.

I can tell cause people stopped being nice and are whining at me again smile.gif LOL Rick! My line is watch what you say or I will fall on you.

LOL TJ ROY! Ya made it all the way to 160 by the end of high school and 18 yoa, beer legal got me to 235 in 6 months.

Dang a pike as long as the rod! Maybe I should have used shorter rods! Pike handle cold water pretty well and spawn early. I don`t ice fish but would be looking at deep edges near shallow spawning areas? Deep can be relative term, 6-8 feet of water with 3 or 4 close by? Blade baits like a heddon sonar, silver buddy, jigging rapala that swims in a circle? Live bait set up? my favorite was a worm sinker on the line( for chubs, big minnows) a good quality barrel swivel and a 12 -18 inch leader on the swivel. I varied the weight of the worm sinker to try and keep the bait down at the level I wanted it to be at. A big chub could still bring it up but wouldn`t stay up. Big bait big fish, can`t picture using a 6-8 inch chub or shiner on that rod though. Again not an ice angler.

Post count? No idea what mine is and why would I care? 5 bass is a limit here the only count that matters, and I have been short for too long! Feed the family, buy and stay at OFC advertisers.

LOL Rick, I remember 148, think I was in 7th grade. Seeing that weight again would be a real bad sign for me. Glad you are OK!

Pickup a book called Chapmans? navigation and start reading. Your the skipper and responsible for people`s lives out there, for pay, a little different than fishing with the friends. LOL I thought about it once myself, the idea of fishing for walleye day after day on Erie just didn`t strike the right bell for me. Plus I am not down with keeping fish enough to run a business that might require it .

Rick, hope your doing well! What you said! Just as long as the magic box on my desk gets me where I want to go!

Hi Lew! No never any problem with anything else unless there is a storm, just OFC late at night or early am, and as you can see the pros handled it! Open water and muskie season here!

Dang! Now I can take out the coffee IV? LOL not that it helped. Welcome home kids!

I would put my money into a quality reel every time, spinning reels are less costly for the most part than casting reels. A Shimano Sahara is a decent reel, a 1000 series reel is a panfish reel for bass and walleye I would get a 2500-3000 series. I personally am not much of a fan of light line angling unless it is for panfish or bait. For bass or walleye I want at least 8# test preferably 10#. Light line may be fine in open water, but the longer you play with the fish the more stressed it is.

from like 1:59 am till about 3:30 it wasn`t happening again, then I gave up.

all in all i`m just another brick in thw wall

I have used AVG since Rick (BigFish) mentioned it here, no problems and not a resource hog like Norton was.

Irregular shoreline in a lot of places so experience with them helps. A south, south west, southeast, wind(offshore) on this side of lake erie usually means you will be ok as long as you stay near shore, say a mile some times two unless it is really blowing hard from those directions. The reverse may be true on your side. A south, southwest wind that is fairly strong will actually push water out of some of the shallower bays on this side of lake erie. like east and west harbor. Not as critical here for us as they have mostly mud bottoms, certainly not good to hit the bottom but far less serious than if it is made of 1000 foot rocks like some of your waters. Be aware when you go to the ramp, look at dock pilings shore line water marks and try to get an idea if the water level has dropped. Falling water levels can have a serious effect on fishing, in one of our tournaments on a back bay of lake erie (east harbor) falling water conditions meant no fish, for any one involved. Rising water level open new feeding areas to the fish so it is usually better. 25 years of going to Pointe Au Baril, Georgian Bay, very sheltered water unless you venture out to the main part of the bay so location can be a key. I have had bigger boats and smaller one, it`s hard to beat good judgment. Rough waters can make boat control and safety an issue.

Great catch! My dad used to fish for them on lake erie in the winter, I was too young to remember seeing any. He claimed they were excellent eating.

Andre, either something is wrong internally with that reel or it is not correctly adjusted. I have used those and was still using similar Shimano reels when my fishing days slowed. No problems casting a 1/4 ounce lure 100 feet the lure should drop steadily when the free spool button is pushed but not over run when it hits the floor. Also like the rods in the picture and still have them.

Never really used a steel leader longer than about 12- 18 inches longs for pike, just kept them coiled in the tackle box-bag. The baits I was throwing intentionally for pike were heavy enough to straighten them out. Used longer steel leader when Muskie were the target, stored the same way and no real issues in the storage. Did have issues with the quality of the steel leaders, crimps not tight enough, lost fish, and lure/ Poor quality snaps, lost fish and lures, even with the berkley cross locks, the string-ease snaps look like the ones to use for big fish. Worm harnesses? a piece of pvc pipe with grooves cut on one end or both and some rubber bans will hold them, put the hook in one groove and a rubber band through the loop of the harness and put it over the groove on the other end.

I know little or nothing about the first two, but worked on an unheated truck dock for 30+ years, no love for the cold. Drove an 18 wheeler around in traffic during the same time period, no love for the snow. LOL now I can`t handle heat.

Andre, older bait caster at home? Make, model? It may just need a good cleaning and lube?

Tecumsehs memorial is a little ole rock, but without him we'd be American. And 10+ trillion in debt! The more the merrier?

Johnny Horton

Same as JPD, never had any problems with regular baits stored in plano boxes. He is right on the Gulp Baits. A side note though keep the same color baits together though some will bleed colors.

Oops, might be minus the motor?

Doesn`t seem like a bad deal on this one if your willing to travel. http://www.boattrader.com/listing/2006-CRE...V-1850-91926907