OhioFisherman

I hope that all gos well and you have a speedy recovery!

Girls in dresses on skates? Great!

One of my friends made some a larger paper clip with 3 or 4 ounces of lead poured around it. One end was straightened to given the lead someplace to bond to. They work ok, cheap to make . Just slid it on the line and let it slide down and jiggle, usually knocks the lure loose.

LOL Nice job Joey, had to be a blast not knowing exactly what, but big. Just teasing on the snag, I have caught a lot that ate things they weren`t supposed to eat, minnows, tubes, jigs. I thought maybe it took the perch after you hooked it. Didn`t look like cold water was slowing down it`s eating, fat rascal!

LOL snagged it? It wouldn`t have possibly eaten the Perch on purpose, they don`t eat meat. LOL

Simcoe smallies look a little strange!

A 24/7 business and the resort-camp can only be as good as the people running it. Fuel prices probably won`t drop significantly. A lot of foreign (USA) tourists have spent themselves into a hole, hard to justify a vacation - travel when you can`t make your mortgage payment. The foreclosure listings in the local papers far out number the job listings, they advertise a week at Disney World here on TV for 1600 bucks and given the choice of a week at DW or a week up north for a comparable price most are heading south. Tourist business is changing, the well to do will always be able to afford it, the average family maybe not. A changing mindset with a lot of options for the travel dollar.

1972? working, fishing, drinking beer, shooting pool, smoking er, cigarettes, , chasing wimmins. What about the Herter`s catalogs?

I have been using AVG since Rick first posted about it, no problems with it, and it doesn`t tie up the computer like Norton. I did have issues getting Norton to go away, but once I got it out all is good.

It hit late last night here Lew, temps were in the low 50`s yesterday snow blowing around now, not as windy now as last night but still a stiff breeze and a lot cooler.

Great pictures Lew. Cleveland is also surrounded by a park system, they call it the Emerald necklace, full of deer. Rural were I am, had them in the neighbors garden Wednesday evening just before dark, probably 250 feet behind my house and the dogs know, they run to the patio door and bark. Some nice racks, a lot of running around this time of year, probably the worst for them running out on the road.

I don`t ice fish, but the jigging rapala type lures will work in the open water seasons too. I have even caught catfish on them.

I`m waiting for the next ice age!

Florida, Texas, California, family in all of them, big bass too!

everyone/thing tries to avoid toronto as much as possible ... LOL I thought it was Cleveland?

LOL I wake up tired every day. Keep on track Steve! You got it all! A white ford wagon? a goal?

LOL seen that a lot too, 17 inch fish thought to be 5 pounds, if you fish enough tournaments and see the actual weights as they hit the scales you learn. 20 inch maybe, 17? give em a year or two. Colors on the smallies can be weird, seen some from inland lakes here with colors sort of like that one, just not real pretty as the great lakes fish, never caught one with colors like that up north either. I don`t know if there is or can be any cross spawning between L/M and S/M. Caught a lot on Erie here that had one bad eye, one eye would look normal, the colors in the other looked like they ran together. Don`t know the cause, Pollution? Didn`t seem to be an injury, no scaring. Any smallie over 6 is a nice fish, had days when 5 17 inchers would have been nice.

LOL they feed them pumpkins and beer down there.

LOL I am a redder neck, I made one out of a semi rim and rebar, a little tougher to carry!

Schools are closed here, sisseys can`t walk 8 miles to school. LOL I wouldn`t let mine anyway, I don`t even let them drive in this unless they have to.

LOL you mean red snapper was wrong?

As a kid and young man I fished with live bait a lot, sort of a pitching, flipping technique, with a bobber and shiner or chub. Bait size wasn`t as important as sticking the bait in front of the fish, you got it in front of a fish, especially a large one and the bobber never got a chance to settle, it just kept sinking. I had very few fish injured, I was alert, expected a quick response to a minnow dropping in on a good fish. Also seen fish injured by lures, it happens as much as we try to avoid it. Just my feeling it is more important to locate places where big fish frequent than bait size, the small catches all thing, they don`t pass up an easy snack? It was relaxing sitting around in a boat with a 6 or 8 inch minnow swimming around looking for trouble at times, but if it`s not legal I can adapt, sort of what it`s all about anyway. Adapting, the better you are at it, conditions, laws, seasons the more often you will be successful. Good discussion, no perfect answers, just be aware of your fishery, if you want it to stay good, adapt.

About what I expected 0, I don`t do ice.

If you shake more than once? You need to buy a reel toy!

big guy brought up some good points, technology has made it easier to be more consistent. A good thing? Also some mixed emotions on that, for the casual angler 3 or 4 days a month a help, for a guy with a cottage or home on a lake that uses it more often, on a lake with a lot of homes and cottages, with a lot of people insisting it is their right to keep a limit every time out a possible disaster. Real hard to keep accurate catch numbers, they don`t check everyone, every time out. Guesstimates. Competitive fishing? Bass fishing here is about the best it has ever been, a change in thinking, the fish used to wind up on a stringer when I was young. Now most if not all are live released, TV and money have helped, and hurt. Big motors on small lakes, needed? People running up and down a lake at 60-70 miles an hour? Fishing for nesting fish? More closed seasons needed,no fish should be a target during the spawn. Just to me the tournament trail of organizations like bass and flw (follow the spawn) don`t make a lot of sense, just a lot of money.