OhioFisherman

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.

LOL Phil, that was the boat bag, the reason I liked fishing out of my own, didn`t have to carry it! My boat was slow to plane though, should have had it in back? Just easier to carry stuff than decide to try something you don`t have with you. You guys had breakfast you needed to work it off!

I guess one of the advantages of living here, cheap tackle. http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/community/s...ead.php?t=85592 http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/community/s...4500&page=2 http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/02/f...around_the.html Lots to see and do if you get around ok.

I have never tried it. I make a lot of my own jig heads but soft plastics are for the most part pretty cheap. A flea market a mile from the house that sells closeouts, discontinued items from wal-mart and such for 50 cents to a buck a package. A couple pre-spring fishing shows with similar pricing on name brands. I have also bought directly from the manufacturer 100 quantities usually warrants some kind of deal.

Cha-ching! 600 in 10 minutes? you won`t have to spend as much next year?

Thanks Glen! Open water looks so much better than ice! Nice fesh!

I have trolled for eyes up there with a lot of different boats and motors, same here, even my SeaRay with a 233 hp mercruiser, flat lining. My brother`s 135 merc and a 1.6 or 1.9 sea drive never had a speed issue. Don`t know how big a factor it could be.