OhioFisherman

Just another day "on the beach"

A simpler time Roy, didn`t take much to make people happy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maRHBwtY1Qo...feature=related

LOL Roy had that one bookmarked, along with this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okd0CFLyvlM

The guy can draw a crowd, that was pretty evident at most of his campaign stops. Now if he can turn the economy around! He was left a mess!

plastic crawfish are usually seen rigged as a trailer on a bass jig, I have also fished them on a plain jig head in rocky area for smallies when I am looking for a smaller profile bait. Creature baits are more or less a flipping and pitching lure, rigged Texas style. Them and the craw have their uses, but most of the time it`s a worm or lizard for me, usually if you throw a worm or lizard in front of a bass it will take it, same with a tube. No particular line test for me, although I do try to fish heavier line in junk, usually 17-20 pound Stren mono. Unusual for me to use less than 10# test anyway expect in open water.Hardly ever used braid or floro. 3/0 - 5/0 widegap hook, mustad ewg works for me. Texas style and usually pegged with a rubber peg. Although cover can be a feeding spot I believe it is more often used as an ambush point, safety zone. Opinion? Doesn`t hurt to carry some if a different look is needed to provoke a strike, not something to get carried away on. alot of different ways to rig most soft plastics and at times it doesn`t hurt to experiment.

Just one set of millionaires helping another set of millionaires get richer! At the peoples expense. They should be forced to build their own stadiums and not use tax dollars for them.

Phil, ya buddy! Your company loses billions, you come whining to the tax payers for help and deserve millions in pay and perks for it? A bonus for being extra STUPID? The worlds biggest self promoters.

Former Truck driver, retired & disabled, now working on driving my wife nuts!.

Any one study history? Southern states lost the civil war here mostly because they had little or no industry, they got what they needed from the northern states or overseas through trade. Once their ports became subject to blockade it hurt them badly. Second civil war here started during the 60`s, the jobs war. Southern states still didn`t have industry, modern farming methods and tools freed up labor, but no jobs for them. Welfare states, it started the great raids on northern industry. Move your plants, here, few if any unions, cheap labor, tax abatements. Every trade magazine had ads for companies to move south. Some companies offered skilled trades the opportunity the option to move with them eg. Grumman Aircraft and others. Companies learned from that, cheap labor down south, but cheaper in Mexico, the next move, plus few if any pollution controls, officials easily bribed. Now China and India. Jobs loss has been going on for a long time, just might be at the tipping point now though, sooner or later you can`t recover.

Thanks Gerritt, a lot of friends, former co-workers, even bosses were employed at the DHL terminal in the Cleveland area (Middleburg Heights). Job loss here in the states is becoming epidemic. BrookPark Ford plants, engine plants 1&2 and casting plant once employed about 12,000 people, now about 1,200? Chevy Plant in Parma 3-4 thousand now less than one thousand. Ford Plant in Lorain closed. Massive jobs cuts at Avon Lake Ford plant. Twinsburg Chrysler Plant Ford Walton Hills and the trickle down affect to other local industries and businesses, even city government. Having all the eggs in one basket can totally screw up a community if that business has a down turn or goes bust. Jobs affect the housing market, no jobs? No home sales, and home losses. People get hurt! DHL was trying to compete against UPS, a tough job any where.

If your looking for a bigger boat Florida may be the place to go, repo`s are at a record rate. A story on the news about it Monday? Repo man said they went from 20-25 a month to 150 35-45 footers a month? need the home, need the car, lose the boat!

Size of boat? Obviously a 16-19 footer is going to be easier to tow, larger boat may require a special vehicle to do it safely? Like a pickup, full size van, ect? I have had smaller boats and one larger, a 25 foot SeaRay, the SeaRay was kept at a marina summer and winter. SeaRay was able to sleep 4 so like a campground on the weekends. Summer dock at the time like 600 bucks, early-mid 80`s winter storage and winterizing around 350. 70 gallons of fuel to fill it (233 mercruiser stern drive I/O). First couple nice weekends of the year were devoted to getting it ready, Bottom paint if it needed it, polishing, teak work, docked about 55 miles from home. Insurance summer and winter! about 450 at the time. 200-300 bucks a weekend to spend the weekend on the boat, LOL I was a drinker back then and single. Beer ice food a bottle pop gas dining out. Smaller boat you can trailer, keep at home? Not limited to one body of water, rough windy weather meant being tied up to the dock with the big boat, a bit much to handle in those conditions docking. Smaller boat you can take to an inland lake, maybe not as bad, easier to handle? Even alone? SeaRay was like 12-16 gallons of fuel an hour at cruising speed 24-26 knots, but would handle 4-6 foot waves pretty easily, fuel costs for water skiing? No clue. Imagine pricey. Nice heavy boat, hard to beat the ride over a smaller or lighter boat. Brother had a Bayliner Capri, 19 foot v-8 I/O much faster in calm water, open bow sort of useless if it got rough. Other brother had a Bayliner Trophy? 22 foot v6 4.3 I/O boxy caught the wind, lighter so the ride wasn`t as good, easier on fuel. All my smaller boats have been fishing boats, not too good for much else, no power to ski. The Capri was towed with a older Ford thunderbird 1978? The Trophy with a full sized chevy van. Make sure the car you drive will tow the boat you buy! Unless you intend on keeping it docked.

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Yep same thing, I think the original senko was made by Gary Yammato? Somebody makes something new everyone makes a knock off. Haven`t used them much myself, but Texas rigged, wacky rigged and even on a jighead, light with an over sized hook say 1/8 ounce with a 3/0-4/0 hook. Used wide gap worm hooks for Texas rigging, mustads ewg 3/0 -4/0 a sproat style hook for wacky rigging. Small rubber band (Brace style0 o ring in the middle and the hook slid between it and the senko will help prevent tearing like you get sticking the hook in it directly.

I remember hearing a number on California`s economy, bigger than a lot of countries, I think Canada was ranked 10th in 2005 and California is right near there also. Nice job by the way! A lot of problems out there now, spending problems, immigration problems, jobs loss, and the housing market. The government has been pretty stupid in my view, California has one of the, if not the largest illegal alien populations in the country. Most are low or no income, California has to provide education and health care to them, whether they can pay or not, number was like 3 to 5 million people? Not paying or paying very low taxes and receiving benefits that far out weighed them. Housing market hit hard by defaults on home loans, crazy prices for homes out there. My brother lived outside San Diego during the later 70`s until about 1995? I bought a brand new home here in 75 for 28,500, he came home to visit and thought my yard was large, LOL 50X126? he paid 3 times as much for his home out there at the time. Falling property values? less revenue to the state. Think the number I heard is a 40 Billion short fall for them? Roughly what it costs us for 4 months in Iraq? Big spending and tax cuts(income loss) gets you one thing, debt! It has been building for at least the last 8 years and has now reached the breaking point, all the states are hurting to some degree. The trade policies were fool hardy? An initial boom as we shipped machinery and setup to receive imports? but revenues to state and the federal government dropped as higher paying manufacturing jobs were replaced by lower paying service industry jobs, and less of them. Every county here in Ohio is looking at cutting services and layoffs, same with the state government, a lot of states have had their un-employment funds run out and are borrowing from the fed to maintain benefits. Same story across most of the country. If the US has financial problems it is going to affect the rest of the world, we are the worlds largest market, and people aren`t buying.

Check your payment, principal v. interest which is bigger? Lowering the interest portion of the bill saves you money monthly. Really doesn`t take a lot to get the interest portion down, instead of stopping at the gas station, McDonalds for a cup of coffee take one from home, 20-30 bucks a month more you can throw on the principal, rent a movie instead of going to the movie theater. Always found a way to put at least 100 extra bucks on my mortgage a month, sometimes quite a bit more. Took an original 25 year loan down to less than 15 years. Refinanced when interest rates dropped. Last refinance was for safety, sick and didn`t know why, refinanced the 15 years loan, lower interest rate and payment went from 625 to 225 for 10 years. Just a safety thing in case I couldn`t keep working, turned out to be a wise move. House has been paid for a few years now, you don`t have to strap your self to do it, just make good choices.

One of my buddies went down there a few years ago with his family. He is a tournament angler here though, hired a guide and shiner fished for a day, he got a 10+. He didn`t do as well on his own, nothing over about 5 pounds. He had trailered hi triton down there. Want a big fish and are on a tight schedule a guide is the way to go? Think they also charge for wild shiners over bait store ones.

10-4 what Gary said, about 1/3 off the price of a new one and if the reel is in great shape well worth it. Like to see how these reels are still performing after they have been around longer myself, old ones, green had brass gears, new ones aluminum, lighter, but as durable?

Sorry Lew, one of the toughest parts of getting old. Condolences, to you and the family.

Like Lew mentioned the cheating can happen, a pretty well known incident to the bass guys here, 2 dudes that live on or near a lake here entered the tournaments of that lake all the time and did well on that lake. On a tournament day one of the other anglers notice a bobber bobbing near a tree in the water and took a look, it was hooked up to a live bag with 5 bass in it. He clipped the fins and reported it to the tournament director, the 2 dudes that lived there weighed the fish in, they would have won if nobody had checked. Like 100 boats in the field, dudes were banned, lost all respect.

Fished in tournaments with the club I was in with reduced limits, I liked them. Instead of a 5 fish limit as the law allows we would knock it back to 3 fish, separate the men from the boys, get rid of the dink keepers. Sort of specific to some bodies of water though. On Lake Erie you can still weight in 12-15 pounds with 3 fish, some of the inland lakes here it can be a tough job with a 5 fish limit.

I have a 17 foot aluminum with a side console and a 35 merc 52-55 motorguide on the bow. Trolled out of mine quite a bit, on Lake Erie for walleye and smallies, on other larger bodies of water, Georgian Bay. Also on a lot of smaller lakes, it can be done with the gas motor, bow mount and at one time I also had a transom mount electric on mine also. Deep water I don`t mind using the gas motor, 15-20 or over, anything shallower I like the electric because of the noise factor. Just can`t see trolling in 6-8 feet of water with the gas motor if I don`t have to. Never thought my 35 used much fuel trolling, never checked, Mine has remote tanks, at one point 2- 6 gallon and then I cut down to 1 6 gallon and if I was going to be on a bigger body of water I would bring a 3 gallon tank. Trolling from the bow has advantages? Your able to see the weed lines up close, before your lure gets to them. Hands free for fighting the fish, and if the area you are fishing has a lot of rocks you can keep yourself out of trouble better. If it`s choppy or rough I prefer the gas motor.

Great pictures! Reminds me of Virginia Beach, my only trip to the deep south. The Pine trees looked different though.

Very nice job!