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tdot not many pike here, I know a couple of places to get them early season like late march early april, it takes some effort and you wind up catching bass and walleye in the process. Since the areas are off of Erie I avoid them.

Thanks Mike, I like Fish Fishburne.

LOL Bucktail, in this less civilized colony bass season is only closed on Lake Erie, like May 1 to the 3rd saturday in june. Inland lakes wide open, Muskies too open all year.

Large metal funnel set into the drivers seat, steel tubing to the injectors, methane? adjustments? enough fat to form a good seal!

Old Milwaukee 4.99 a 12 pack, Bud like 8.00? for 12, cheap beer=more gas!

Fish it was crazy here during the first fuel crisis back in the 70`s, fights in the gas station waiting lines. Sad to say this is nothing, give it another 20 years as demand goes up and supply goes down. LOL people were a lot more civil to each other here back in the 70`s. Hmmm , gas, beer, gas, beer = meltdown?

Almost as bad as not fishing!

Snowing pretty good here also, they had the schools closed by 5:30 am. I do wonder at the logic of sticking all those people in an area that has a known shortage of water, makes about as much sense as letting more people into a country with a known fuel supply problem. Hmmm, Canadian Lakes bottled water? Buck a bottle? soon to be cheaper than gas? you to can supply cheap imports to the USA!

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=876 Arnold might be knocking now?

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I started using Stren back around 1973, switched from the original trilene. I have tried other lines over the years, a new product, a deal, most didn`t turn out to be such a deal. I tend to go with the Clear Blue Stren, I like to be able to see my line, especially for bass fishing. A lot of opinions on line, LOL like cars, boats. It has been predictable for me, I know what to expect from it, and no problems with it in a variety of uses. Not much experience with braid, but a good enough feel with the Stren so I was in no hurry to switch. A tip, if your fishing with a slip bobber or such in a weedy area a little floating fly line dressing spread on the line while it is being reeled in will make it float, helps to keep it from getting tangled in the weeds and helps to keep it visable. Always nice to know exactly how much slack you have out there.

Hard losing a friend, but pretty easy to make a new one Rich. We lost one of our Boston`s, Ginger almost 2 years ago. A sweet heart of a dog and momma`s girl. I was also leary of a replacement, but when my wife wanted to look for another off we went. Game plan changed in mid stream, never had a male Boston, but Bandit stole our hearts. A big goof, great with kids or any one else that wants to play, LOL or sleep. My little buddy now, they grow on you. Happy dog days!

I retired in 2003 age 52, not the original plan, forced to by illness. The plan was for a career change to something that involved less hours working, more hours fishing. A 40 hour a week job would have been like 2 days hours less a week and I would have been happy working 3 days a week. Teamster truck driver most of my adult life, good points to it some bad. One good point was our union ran our pension fund, your pension followed you from company to company and a few closed up on me. Deregulation of the freight industry hurt the trucking companies just like it has done to the airlines, no safety margin everything revolves around profits now. One bad year can send a company down the tubes. Just my opinion if management says a plan is good for you? It is probably a whole lot better for them. Management makes a living off of keeping costs down, and the employees are part of the cost. They aren`t looking at your best interests. Sort of tough for me at first, sick and no clue why, double talk from the doctors not what I was used to or expected. A label for an illness instead of taking time or making an effort to determine the true problem. It took me 3 years to get a correct answer, LOL and I am not happy with it either, just have to accept it and move on. Right now everything is on hold, got to make sure the wife and kids will be ok, 2 still in high school. I know I will get worse, just not sure of the time frame. Stuff happens, just have to try and deal with it. LOL I am saving enough in gas money to buy a couple decent reels a month, just no energy to use them. Sucks!

LOL given a choice of a 1/2 pound perch or 30 pound carp? I might stay home! Neither is a trigger for me. To each his own though.

Depends entirely on the planned use. I had a 25 foot Searay glass boat i/o I didn`t trailer it. docked and stored for the winter at a marina near the island area of Lake Erie. Great boat for that purpose, heavy, handled rough water well and I didn`t get wet. Not as nimble as a smaller glass boat like a bass boat, but safer for a family on big water. Sold it and got a 17 foot aluminum, again great boat for the intended purpose. It also saw Lake Erie and a lot of other waters. Easy to trailer, nimble, easier to repair, store. Safe as long as you pay attention on the water, know when to go, when to stay home or fish small water. The Searay was like a weekend cabin I could fish out of, the smaller boat a cabin was rented and I fished out of the boat.

LOL John, Ohio Redneck not Virginia there is a difference. Virginia and Alabama rednecks can talk to each other without translators. I am far enough north to understand most Canadians! eh? Catfish? fun to catch if they are big. Probably even ate some at some point in my life, gramps used to clean them and they lived upstairs.

LOL catfish guy? incidental catches for me, my wife has a lot better luck size wise than me the river up there has some big ones. We used to get them walleye fishing.

Get well Jennifer! Glad to hear things went well Wayne! er, nice outfit. I agree on the doctor deal, I grew up thinking the doctors were always right. My illness changed my opinion of that, you have to be your own advocate. Some doctors seem to think slapping a label on an illness is the same as a proper diagnosis. Again the best to you and the family!

Back in the day carp and sheephead were removed from our hooks using a fish billy, a good whack and they don`t come back! I have gotten mellower though haven`t done that for a long time. My PB sheephead, near 20 pounds, LOL no pictures plezze! went into a dumpster! That is why Lake Erie smallies grow big!

John, one of the reports we got was from a former friend of my dads. He claimed to have hooked one like 4 feet long trolling a worm harness on the bottom for walleye and got it near the boat before it broke off. Don`t know for sure how reliable his info was though, we broke ties with him after him and his buddy got caught trying to bring home 27 northern pike. Just guessing honesty wasn`t a strong point. There is a picture in the Cleveland papers every few year of one that was caught and released in Lake Erie here. Just guessing water quality is still better there so they are probably around. Drift a piece of cut shad, big chub on a slip bobber near the bottom? Shawanaga might be a place to try, maybe the winoa? Some good catfish there.

John I agree with you, a struggling fishery (sturgeon) should be protected. Two laying on the deck doesn`t seem like a good way to go about it. Suppose every one kept two because it was legal? My dad used to tell me stories about him walking the shoreline of Lake Erie as a kid and dead Sturgeon laying on the shore, people threw them up there because they were ugly. Started fishing Pointe Au Baril in 1964, Dad in 1961, there were reports of people catching them there back then, although we never saw one.

LOL your sick! One of my uncles took his wife with him on a trip up north, she got sick, he took her to the hospital, they admitted her, he went back and fished until the vacation was over. Then picked her up and went home. Now he is dead! But from natural causes.

Welcome Douger, never fished for them on the Georgian, going on the premise Steelhead are Steelhead like the bass are bass. On Lake Erie a lot of pier and breakwall fishing for them in the fall of the year. While we fished from a boat, and for smallies we hooked a lot of them. White tubes to imitate baitfish, small chrome crankbaits, a white jig and grub, and if the smallies weren`t on we sometimes fished for them on purpose to waste time. A little cleo or other small spoon, a blade bait like a silver buddy or sonar. Most of the time we were within easy casting distance from shore and casting to shore, bait fish such as Emerald shiners schooling around the breakwalls, piers, is a plus, match the hatch. Softer action rod might help also, most of ours were fast action and a lot of lost fish.

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