OhioFisherman

Great pictures and styles of jigs, doug cool! singingdog nice with the perch! I tip some of mine with altered uncle josh pork grubs, I take a heavy duty big eyed sewing needle and run rubber legs through the pork fat portion of the body just under the tough skin, never had a problem with it pulling out from fish. Also used small pork frogs,and plastic frogs, like flyrod size on some of them. Not just bass lures, a lot of different species will take a jig. I threw a lot of 1/8 ounce ones, finding them with a good hook was more of an issue, just like a bigger stronger hook in mine than the normal small aberdeeen.

LOL Rattletrap, most of my driving the last 20 years or so was an 18 wheeler, I think the Astro is very comfortable! My wife`s 1995 was a conversion model with the fancy seats and interior, seats were way too soft for me, steering seemed different too, becaused or the added weight? maybe a different gear ration in the steering? Seemed sluggish compared to my more basic model. Same thoughts on it though, if they were looking to improve fleet fuel economy numbers they should have done away with the V8 full size van. LOL Lumina van? that was short lived! I pulled my tandem axle utility trailer 6 1/2x 12 heaped with green slabwood from the amish sawmill with ours, got to be near 5000 gross no problems.

I have had 3 safari/astro vans still driving my current one a 2002. Great vans, never had any serious issues with any of them. Normal maintenance, an alternator, tie rods, window motor. Pulled my 17 foot aluminum with them and no problems. Ya Lew has one, 2005 I think the last year for them, don`t be afraid to buy used if you know what you are doing, all of mine have been used.

I probably won`t drive that day! Since I only drive like 1 day a week I am doing more than most?

Great pictures Glen! The shiner, golden? Arkansas?

LOL Pete, I enjoy seeing the pike and muskie shows on TV, nice to see how the tough guys fish, way too many rods out for me, looks like a lot of work!

If you use sanding sticks probably a better deal here http://www.blackbearcc.com/Tools.htm#x_acto

Just from my own observations color can be very important and not at all logical. Fished the Georgian Bay years ago and a black buzzbait or jitterbug out produced a white buzzbait or perch colored jitterbug in clear water during the day. Fished East Harbor down here, me and a partner throwing the same plastic worm different colors, he had 4 fish landed me without a hit throwing to the same spots. I switched colors to his and started catching fish, clear shallow water. A lot of times I will change colors before the type of lure. All the baitfish I have seen were light on the bottom darker on top, I favor that pattern unless I am trying to imitate crawfish or gobies, then all dark is good. Night time I think all the are doing is sensing movement , feeling vibrations, chasing shadows, I don`t worry much about color at night but tend to go with the program, dark lures at night. Much more success on baits that aren`t perceived as night time lures at night over noisy surface lures, jig and pig, texas rigged worm worked for me.

http://www.accuweather.com/watches-warning...11&metric=0 Not going to miss us here either, yesterday morning the local news station was saying we could get up to a foot of snow. Hope it is cleared up by Sunday, got to pick my wife up at the airport, LOL if she can leave Rhode Island.

Bassdog?

Actually I was kidding about our government taking over, neither side of congress has a very good record of running up anything but debt. A natural resource? If you look at the history, back when we had our own oil, congress gave the oil leases away for a song to the influential.

Best wishes for all of you.

Rick, I don`t know if what we are getting is heading you way, it`s a mess though. Went in to vote, by the time I got out everything was covered with ice. Cars, sidewalks, the roads in spots. Now thunder and lightning.

The prediction here is gas prices could hit 4 bucks a gallon this summer, diesel fuel prices are already like 3.70 a gallon. If you have it chances are it moved on a truck, rising transportation prices passed on to consumers. Increased expense to farm and raise food. Recession? This one might turn into a depression? Not much good economic news here. One way to offset fuel costs, would you like fries with that? Get a second job? Time to nationalize the oil companies? Our governments can do a more efficient job running them?

Very nice! I have used a lot of small hair jigs for bass, none with feathers also, just not something we see here often.

Joe Walsh is from the area, used to play in some of the clubs with his band back in the late 60`s.

I have been in a court room here before, I believe them! Glad I don`t do jury duty now. Some of the things I have heard from doctors tends to make me avoid them also.

Like 63 F here today and an ice storm warning out for tonight and tomorrow, tomorrows high like 33f. I will be a bad day for driving.

Never had it happen to me, I go in with an idea on what I am spending, not afraid to pay a fair price or pass on an item I think is over priced. LOL at this stage of the game a life jacket wouldn`t be a high priority item.

Might try this? http://fishingjapan.net/viewtopic.php?p=4570

http://www.bass.jp/aboutus.php No idea what a suburb of Tokyo would be, looks like a lot of stuff in the store?

http://westernbass.com/ncalifornia/featured/view.html?id=7 This link will take you to more info on California Bass fishing. Most of the pigs caught in the states over the last 15 years or so have come from there. Texas and Florida also good spots, but them trout feed California fish seem to pile on the pounds. Go figure the state with the most people, and for it`s size not much freshwater. California might have more people than all of Canada, the bass? bigger!

Nice fish Wayne!!

Pete and Mark Zona were on tv here this morning, fishing, and catching Muskies in wisconsin. Pete didn`t even have his fish attracting head gear on! Nice show!

Not much help to you, my trout fishing has been limited to steelhead on lake erie and I don`t do ice. I do reject the notion that a lake is fished out. Heavily pressured? yes, limited numbers of quality fish? yes. I also was a tournament guy here in Ohio, for bass. Some lakes you need to spend more time on to get an idea of what approach to take locating the fish and what methods work best to catch them. Took me 3 trips to Lake Chautaqua in New York before I caught a bass, first two trips all I could hook were Muskies. I did learn the first two trips where not to fish! For me a different game plan for fun fishing, I want to go to lakes I have had success on. I have had lakes where I look like a bass master on practice days, like a bum on the tournament day. Situations changes, the faster and better you adapt to them the better of you are. LOL a pattern is only a pattern if your catching fish on it.