OhioFisherman

I have only owned 1 brand new vehicle in my entire life, a 1973 Dodge Tradesman van, after 6 months the clutch pedal started started sticking to the floor, the pivot arm had never been greased. I kept some people working, mostly in auto parts stores, but wrecking yards too if they weren't work fixing.

How big do Salmon get up there? I might choose completely different rod and reel choices for 10 pound steelhead and 20+ pound salmon? Never fished for or caught a salmon, but the waters you fish may play a part in the selection? The rods and reels I used here for bass also seemed to work fine for steelhead, but it was mostly open water fishing.

I can no longer stand long enough to cook or handle the heat from a hot stove - oven - kitchen, so my son and his step brother handle the cooking. We do turkey for thanksgiving and ham for christmas, just a family tradition that dates back to my grandparents. Christmas is a lot lower key for us than thanksgiving, especially on years like this with a shorter amount of time in between, less time in the kitchen cooking and more time with the family. A spiral sliced ham, potato salad and such, different types of bread, a cheese and vegetable tray, pies, and serve yourself at your own pace.

58 degrees and light south winds here, a 13.76 walleye caught over the weekend, the fall brawl may have ended, but the walleye fishing hasn't.

I didn't know the program existed, I don't usually watch tv programming and refuse to pay for an expensive cable package. An interesting format, watched the first couple of episodes on youtube.

" used Anise oil on baits " Wow! Some of you guys are real geezers! LOL me too! I don't how much that helped, but it didn't seem to hurt, and it is still available. https://www.lurepartsonline.com/Scented-Worm-Oil

LOL, I remember dragging a jig on bottom and accidentally snag dead ones, turtle food?

LOL, I also contribute tax dollars.

LOL, ya Lew, the burb I lived in didn't have a building over 3 floors high. I get they assist other departments, but it seems a risky thing to put a trainee in that position? I'm guessing if you got injured making the jump you wouldn't have a job either?

Some of the stuff on Ali gets here pretty quickly considering the distance, other things get shipped on the slow boat?

I don't know how important tungsten is to you? but there are options? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33032903108.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000014.19.4e15272dzYmsCN&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller&scm=1007.13338.146400.0&scm_id=1007.13338.146400.0&scm-url=1007.13338.146400.0&pvid=b0594ed9-bb7b-4a74-a0bc-90ccadb6d1e0

I was a Teamster dockman - city driver for 30 + years for a number of trucking companies in the Cleveland area, luckily the pension was run by the union, so your total time counted and not just the time with a certain company. Illness forced me to retire before my 31st year, but we had a 30 and out so I could at any age, I was 52. At one time there was around 75 different union trucking companies of all sizes in the area here, a lot of things factored into the changes, but deregulation of the trucking industry was the biggest thing. LOL, I applied for a job as a fireman when the first trucking company I worked for closed. The city called and said I would have to do training and have to jump off of Cleveland's fire training tower into a net, like 90 feet below, I had to pass, there would have to be a real fire for me to even consider a jump like that! Over my working years I was in many auto plants, you could see changes were needed and coming, still a shame though.

Thanks for that info musky, I was wondering how far north their range extended.

My guess was that it was going to suck the body fluids out, wrong though, I guess they are capable of taking bites out of them? Shown on a tadpole.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33038660007.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000014.1.2ccd7b9bOH2ksS&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller&scm=1007.13338.146400.0&scm_id=1007.13338.146400.0&scm-url=1007.13338.146400.0&pvid=9eeff30d-6486-42df-8b26-20019203e46b Those might be a choice for a dropshot or jighead?

They never appeared to be the most obvious fish in the water to me Tom, most of the time we noticed them rippling the surface.

There are times when i don't feel like I am missing much not driving anymore Lew.

Since a lot of our friends up north don't have Shad in their area. here is a pic and article about one from my area early this year. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/this-is-why-thousands-of-dead-fish-were-spotted-in-the-cuyahoga-river All we have are gizzard shad and they get up to around 15 inches long, and they are even in some of our inland lakes. Not much use for them, they provide a food supply for a lot of other species though. The Lake Erie walleye eat a bunch of them, a bigger meal than 3-4 inch emerald shiners. They use them down south to train bass?

That may be every where Art ? Snow or ice here and the news reports look like demolition derby practice.

I didn't remember the Sidekick and just stumbled on that while looking it up Dan, glad the info may help. I have seen a lot of projects, some are very interesting.

Far more interest in Dan's project, I know we have some sports teams in my area though. Dan, I would imagine this was checked? https://www.cars.com/research/suzuki-sidekick-1993/recalls/

JD, I think that pic was from a Scandinavian country.

Thanks Terry, I figured an idler axle of some sort was needed, more of them for a heavier vehicle?

Knowing nothing about them things what does a track set up look like on Sally? Will standard snowmobile tracks be strong enough? Seems like quite a difference in weight and maybe HP?