OhioFisherman

High waters levels give more feeding and spawning places.Muddy fast running rivers can be bad for the spawn, silt can cover the eggs.

Saw a piece on the news yesterday I think, corn, wheat, and one other grain`s prices were up a minimum of 250% since 2000, use of grain for ethanol is raising the price, and a lot more production planned. Cold beer is nice once in a while, might have one this year,

Sorry to hear it Ron, ALS is bad news, best wishes to them.

Never used a center pin just bass tackle, casting and spinning, light line to me is 8 # test, I tend to push fish hard drag is set below the breaking point of the line and I don`t fool with the drag settings. I play with fish in the livewell. Long rod has advantages, for me 3 foot or so reach 7 foot rod=10 feet of shock absorber. Lactic acid build up is what makes your muscles tired, same deal for fish.

Some decent prices on that site and just a matter of what you are comfortable doing. Local tackle shop takes care of me, I buy what I am comfortable with from them but don`t limit myself.

Wayne has made nearly 11 000 NF posts LOL seems like I have seen pictures of Wayne with fish. Could have been a combination of all 3, still snow on the ground there? hasn`t been any here for at least a week. It`s very early season here, even earlier up there, a week or so of warmer temps for decent results.

I don`t think I want a Q on my hat, people might take it for something else.

It happens, just a bit cool for a lot of action. Probably a bit warmer here in northern Ohio than where you are and still early. Daughter and her boyfriend just got back from the farm pond out back, a couple bluegill and a couple crappie, crappie in the pond seem to be stunted from lack of a good bait fish supply, rare to see one over about 6 inches long. Cold front predicted here for the weekend and into next week, it will probably slow things down even more. Snow?

One of my buddies just got NGK plugs for his 50 merc at a Napa store here in Ohio 3 at 8 bucks a piece, they had to call other stores to find them.

Probably no help to you, never fished for them in the spring, fall only and here in Ohio out of a boat. I have gone up some rivers here to the point I could go no farther. Like mentioned deeper pools are the best bet, and since I was more or less bass fishing ones with junk in them seemed to hold more fish, logs and stuff. Undercut banks, tree roots, makes for some fun trying to land them though. All of mine have come on bass tackle, 6 to 7 1/2 foot medium action or heavier rods, a mix of spinning and casting and 8 to 17 pound test line, lures only. Tubes, small crankbaits, jig and grub.

LOL, BBR to BCR? Nice catch Rich! er I guess. The darn things will eat anything, used to catch them on live shiners crappie fishing, caught them on tubes, Carp are like vacuums.

Tried the gobie drop shotting on Erie last year, non-Berkley tube out fished it, couldn`t even get a sheephead to take it. Don`t use live bait much and not at all recently, you can try the Gulp baits as trailers on a spinnerbait-buzzbait, instead of a pig on jigs. They probably have some use.

Geoff see if someone from the board is in your area with both, more of a comfort thing than anything else. You will pick up and use the tool you are most comfortable with, I can and have used both, even though I am a righty I prefer a lefty.

LOL Glenn, water is still real cold here, maybe in the upper 30`s in the rivers and ponds, Lake Erie was like 36. Breakfast of Carp? not champions? dsn, some of the bays of Lake Erie here can produce a 35+ carp anytime of the year, just some real pigs here.

My daughter and her boyfriend went to a local river today for a little fishing after work. 1, 2 foot carp on a piece of Strawberry flavored shredded wheat cereal.

LOL Joe, been some kind of rumor there was a football team in Cleveland too.

The old boys club? Been here a while and didn`t know there was a senior citizens section to the board.

She should pay a visit to our current leader, the previous one had the country humming along?

Sad news, I posted one like last month about Winnebago having problems. Recreational and tourism industries will probably all take a hard hit for a while. Job and economic news here just continues to show weakness. Like 3 smaller airlines shut down in the last month or so, ATA, Aloha, Skybus. Almost 250,000 jobs lost since the beginning of the year, trickle down economics, when the biggest market slows down it affects the world? Construction and manufacturing sectors continue to slide down hill. Trailer sales place down the road from me, I don`t see people looking.

Ya lunker, a sad fact of living next door to a bigger country without nationalized health care, easy to make a border crossing and increase their pay. Although he was busy, he had people skills, a very good explanation of the problem and corrective measures. Some doctors here come up short on that test.

LOL Bill, typical 19 year old, made of steel, wasn`t wearing the leg immoblizer they gave him on his emergency room visit, after the doc checked him out, fitted with another and told it doesn`t come off for 2 weeks, until the next visit. Doc was busy, didn`t get much time to talk, but the accent was obvious even though slight. Brain drain? Ya one of my thoughts too, we are soon to become a nation of geezers with the baby boomers starting to age, health care field will be strong here for 20-30 years at least. First doc I have met that was obviously from Canada.

I have seen Phil(whopper) holding them, he is a pro!

Subway BMT sub samich, foot long. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Threw some money at one today, went with my son to the orthopedic doc, a Canadian import from southern Ontario, eh? Like all the people I have met from Canada, nice guy! Guess my son tried to dislocate his knee cap.

Nice fish!