OhioFisherman

Great pictures! I have seen fish that small before, I try not to catch them! Wellies? boots? the boat leak?

An interesting story on the news here today about a company going to 4 - 10 ten hour days for their work week to reduce fuel consumption by their employees. Reduces fuel use driving to work by 20%, ok if it isn`t made up by more driving for other causes. Us old guys here remember when Sundays were kind of dead here, not much was open on Sundays, some convenience stores a few gas stations. Sundays were more of a family day because not much else was going on. LOL wanna cut fuel use by 1/7th? close the malls on Sunday!

I would expect proper behavior from a guest, client, ect., including a fishing buddy, hands on me means walk the plank dude. Yelling, screaming at me? you don`t know your place dude, but this ain`t it!. A numbers question for police, 2 dudes telling one story, you with another, unless you have evidence?

? One thing that always reminds me of some sportsmans clubs is the keep out sign, land leased by such and such sportsmans club. Some are very elitist and if they can state their opinion? But then some that consider themselves sportsmen in fact actually aren`t? P3ta? No real clue where they are coming from, but some species here have been hunted to extinction, the solution by the hunting lobby? open a new species to hunting, like the morning dove. Dudes? you could have gone for comorant? Just different strokes and opinions.

Jig and a plastic worm, lizard, grub.

The rubber core sinkers work pretty well for adding weight to a spinnerbait, just pull out the rubber core and crimp to the hook.

I have a 17 foot SmokerCraft, actual length like 16'8" with like a 72 inch beam. Older boat(1987) and narrow compared to todays models. Lot of time on Lake Erie, some on the Georgian Bay, inland lakes in Ohio, PA, New York, there are days when I haven`t gone on Lake Erie when I had my 25 foot cruiser, others when it was no problem going over to the Erie island area with the smaller boat. Good judgment can trump a bigger wider boat. Wider boat generally more stable.

Down south? Ohio fish 6-6 1/2, south of the Mason Dixon line add maybe a half a pound.

I have been using Shimano products since the late 70`s, mostly baitcasters and never needed customer service, they make a good product.

Pointe Au Baril Ontario(Georgian Bay), French River( Northeast of highway 69?), Findlay Lake New York, Chautaqua Lake New York, Presque Isle Pa. East Harbor(off Lake Erie, Ohio) Sandusky Bay (off Lake Erie, Ohio), Black River(north of Elyria Ohio, trib of Lake Erie), Berlin Lake(Ohio), Milton Lake(Ohio), Clear Fork Lake(Ohio), Ladue(Ohio),West Branch(Ohio), Alum Creek(Ohio) West Harbor(Off Lake Erie), various shoreline areas of Lake Erie between Cleveland and Sandusky Ohio, and a million or so other places I haven`t fished.

Points, especially off shore points, harder to locate for the average fisherman and they get less fishing pressure. Weedy flats with much deeper water nearby, if the flat is 5 feet I like to see 10 to 15 feet of water real close by. Structure, wood, rocks, tree stumps, submerged culverts, old road beds, anything that can be used for an ambush spot or current break, wind can cause a current in lakes and the fish will use them. Sudden depth changes(drop offs) doesn`t take much at times, just gives fish another type of ambush point or edge to trap bait fish. The shoreline can get hit pretty hard on a lot of lakes, finding off shore breaks and structure can help a trip.

Nice job Glen! Walleye are dumb, they eat bass lures. Black or white might be the only colors you need. Hobby shops sell glitter and an epoxy clear coat that you can add the glitter to and get some flash on the jig. I think some tackle making catalogs also sell some glitter that can be added to powder paint. You can modify colors of powder paint by mixing them, I had some bright green I made into a green pumpkin by adding black to it. Best colors for me though have been white with silver glitter and black with a emerald glitter. I used to get the powder paint for free so mixing and messing up wasn`t much concern. One of the tool stores sells one pound cans(I think 1 pound) of basic colors of powder paint for like 10 bucks, much cheaper than the tackle places and works the same. Cabela`s and Bass Pro shops sell eye busters for removing paint from the jig eyes, the powder paint is a lot tougher than conventional paint though. Mustad 32746BLN is a decent hook for most species, like 10 bucks a hundred for 2/0, cheaper if you buy by the thousand. Also a longer shank version is available, don`t know the number off hand but might be a better hook for jigs tipped with crawlers.

Congrats Joey and Paul. Stuff can happen, usually at a bad time. Been out of work due to injuries a couple times, had the death part but not disability, savings can go pretty quickly even for someone as cheap as me. Bad thing is you never know when something that doesn`t seem too bad can turn out to be career ending.

Rod eyes, spinning rods have larger eyes, casting smaller, the way the line comes off the spool. Just doesn`t seem like a good plan to me, I have never done it.

Haven`t named one since my SeaRay, Agitator. Marriage made me mellow.

I have used original Stren since the early 70`s, mostly a bass fisherman but at times all species. Not much luck landing hooked muskies on it, bad game plan.

My personal opinion it is part of the spawning activity, in the spring here they are jumping, some huge ones. When I had my cruiser docked at a marina they would hit the side of the boat at the dock. You don`t see them jump much after the spawn. I wouldn`t worry about fishing for spawning carp, not much chance of ever diminishing their numbers.

Cookslav can`t even imagine what kind of problems that would cause on Erie, guess it made the water brackish and they now catch redfish in that lake. 14 inch hole didn`t stay 14 inches for long. Smokey, some interest programs on the history channel, stuff they never taught us in school! http://www.wcpn.org/news/2001/01-03/0301salt-mine.html http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=RS6

I would leave them be, hard to transport her eggs if any to an area near water for that distance and keep her interest. Neighbor used to raise chicks, don`t know how old they were when purchased but near full grown in 6 or 7 weeks, darn things eat I guess as long as a light is on? If they are in heavy brush they may be pretty well protected? Don`t know what baby ducks eat, but a feed store would, faster growth the faster they are out of there to a safe place? Our cats discourage any ground nesting birds but we still get the stop overs briefly.

Don`t think it would be unusual with gas prices moving daily, we even get them on our trash collection bill.

Thoughts go out to you and those affected, a terrible thing to happen.

Roy me either, a program about disasters on the history channel, made me think about the salt mines here under Lake Erie, I knew some people that worked in them and they are huge. No clue, they have salt mines under the lake on the Ontario side?

http://fr.video.yahoo.com/watch/236107

Sheephead in the lake? Whopper will be busy! Smallmouth? Deg can catch those, both pleasant to fish with! Both can carry gear and help an old guy out!

Like mikeh says there should be a couple grease fittings near the pivot point on the motor, a marine grade grease probably your best bet in them. Owners manual should mention what to use. They also make a grease fitting that slides over the steering control shaft that attaches to the motor, just looks like a nut with a grease fitting and allows you to keep it greased, got mine on close out but the cost is 10-15 bucks.