OhioFisherman

Guys all good points, a geezer myself, sometimes progress comes in small steps. Look back at the pictures from when the tournaments started, them fish were all hanging on a stringer and no limits. After the tournament fish fry cause they were all dead.

Night guys!

Expand your horizons.

Glen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVD76fmfDI...feature=related

and on top of that some states still allow you to fish for them during the spawn! Target the biggest fish, the best gene pool and pull them off the bed and let the bluegill and such eat their eggs. Some of the logic is hard to follow?

Never used the tags always comfortable guessing, never scaled one in the boat if it was legal on the golden rule it went in the livewell, smallest one was kept on one side separate from the bigger ones. Never had one die in the livewell in a tournament.

Quit picking on truck drivers! Sitting in a Perkins pancake house eating dinner with some of my driver buddies one evening before returning to the terminal. The incredible hulk sits down next to me, big dude 6'5' 260# or so, didn`t know him. The next thing I know his hand is on my knee rubbing it, hitting him with a fist didn`t seem like a good plan, no bats or bottles on the tables. Looked at my pals calmly for guidance and they are laughing their butts off, all I said was he was to big to hit. A set up by them. Dude turned out to be one of my best friends! Loved to fish! Single back then and in pretty good shape, could bench 225 five times, but not in the same league as him, he could do 500 without much thought.

Since 1991 Chevy Astros and a GMC Safari, 4.3L v-6 engine, all bought used, never any major problems with them. Engine might be the base engine for the Chevy pickup now? Think they stopped making the Astro-Safari line in 2005. The one I have is 2000. My boat is a 17 foot aluminum, maybe 1500 pounds for boat motor and trailer? Also pull a 6.5x12 tandem axle utility trailer with 2 foot sides that I haul firewood in from the saw mill, holds 1.25 cords, heavy for that van but doable with care, guessing around 5000 pounds, wood and trailer.

First plan should be to have fun, fish or no fish! Not many pike here in Ohio, mostly in Lake Erie tributaries and it seems only early in the season when the water is still cold (spawning areas). Seen pictures and reports from people getting them in the Toronto harbor area early season, you might try there? Nothing fancy to getting them here, we get the on basic bass tackle, small crank baits, spinner baits, just certain areas to expect them and certain areas not to. Just me, but if I am targeting them, steel leader time, just poor success landing pike or skis with out one. They are shallow early spring, caught them in 3 or feet of water near shore. Although I did most of my fishing from a boat an easy cast from shore.

Manns jelly worms? I think, haven`t seen them around for a while. Think I am wrong on that, unless they changed the look?

Gary this storm was a bad one, from the southern plains to the east coast, they are blaming 20 deaths on it. Saw pictures on the news somewhere southwest of here, ice covering trees breaking them, power out, a mess! 10 inches to a foot of snow here from it.

LOL ya waterboatmen, here in Ohio I get them in my swimming pool. My wife won`t let me add fish though.

Don`t quote me Gary but the home office is Springfield Missouri, think that is where they do most of it from?

Hope your feeling better Rick!

Gary any weeds in that lake? Largemouth I have caught in lakes or ponds with little or no weed cover tend to be much lighter than lakes or ponds with a lot of weeds. No idea if it is natural camouflage or perhaps something in the diet of their food supply. I agree on the colors, clean or light colored water, light lure, dark murky water, dark lure.

I have never bought one, but I listen to some of my wife and kids. Queens greatest hits. Super Tramps greatest hits. Wings greatest hits. David Bowie greatest hits. CSNY.

Nice catch Gary! Especially on dancing eel! A lure of a thousand casts for me ,er, and nothing to show for it. Think it`s parked in the barn next to the Doll Top Secrets, a lure so secret the fish didn`t know they could eat them! Except for one dumb pike that hit one at night. Ya just never know?

I read an article years ago in a fishing magazine about extensive testing Berkley had done on scents, for some reason pike prefered Mackeral. You could try stuffing some from a can in to a larger tube?

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBird...iterIDtable.htm

You can probably do the same with a can of cheap fish flavored cat food, plus the fish oils in it may also help to attract them.

Think it`s a redtail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk

LOL Hometown The new stoves are more efficient.... Mine has a Cadillac combuster!

Steelhead are kind of like fishing for carp, I just use my bass tackle.

My wife`s girlfriend breeds Dachshunds can probably get you one for half of 700. Don`t know if she has any pups now though.