OhioFisherman

Never had a problem with mine, you can run a little rv anti freeze in it.

If I am fishing an area where the depth is pretty much the same I will use a slip bobber, I don`t like my bait parked in one place, I prefer to get some kind of drift, even if it is just from the wind, or in case of minnows as bait their movement. Like solo mentioned the worm blowers work pretty well for keeping a nitecrawler off the bottom, it keeps them visible to the fish. Dropshot rig will work, they also used to sell some plastic clip on your line devices you can set and run a leader off of at just about any depth. A egg or worm sinker with a swivel below it and a leader 12 to 36 inches long tied to the swivel will give you some room to get the bait near or on the bottom. Kind of like a carolina set up with bait. You can use a floating jighead instead of just a hook.

Great pictures and report! LOL a little photoshop? all those OFC`ers and no beer?

Some nice fish!

Forget the paddle, make the snow shovel do double duty!

Great pictures! I don`t think my dad (passed away in 1991) had any except for a couple of pictures of him, and one of him and his brother in France during WW2. Scars on his legs, grenade fragment, bullet hole probably made more of an impact on us than a picture would anyway. Dad was drafted(army) while waiting for one of his buddies to turn 18 so they could join the navy together. 50 bucks more a month to become a paratrooper so he volunteered for that, I guess growing up in the great depression makes you want a little more of a paycheck. He wasn`t rich or famous, but my greatest American! There were a lot more!

200% better than last year, LOL I caught 2 fish! Well sheephead? Met another OFC`er, priceless! and a friend of an OFC`er which seems the same. A much better year than I expected!

Life is so much easier when people work together!

Never fished for them this late, but with the first frost I like Rizzo`s idea. Except I prefer a shiner or chub over a sucker.

skeeter99, just your opinion, do you feel the new Curados are that much of an improvement over the old ones(green)? To warrant the drastic price increase?

Oarfish, also from Ohio a little south of you. If you have never been there you have a lot more choices, and bodies of water than we do here. Also a lot of different choices in comfort levels, from back woods camps to good sized resorts right on the waterfront. A lot are an easy one day drive, some take a little more effort. Thousands up there compared to what we have here. Some are in towns so other activities are close by, with in walking distance for some. Scenery varies too, southern Ontario a lot like here, rockier as you get farther north.

Part Czech some of it seems familier Ontario, Catfish, Georgian Bay Moon River, welcome!

Lew mine is a 2000, my heater control wasn`t working right, no matter what position I put it heat would only come out the window defroster. That control also works off of vacuum, the plastic line was broken. Yours is still under warranty? I was having my plugs and plug wires changed and they fixed it at the same time for free, just cut out the bad part and slip a rubber tube over the ends. Maybe just a leak, but probably a special tool to tell where. LOL or a computer!

Pig, all them smaller bait fish around! It might have choked on that one!

LOL great pictures! Walking that dock looks a lot like walking the plank to me. Options, radio heater, forget the radio? Two heaters!

WhopperwannaB? Oh Nooooooooo! Sorry Phil, your cute!

Hardware store or nut and bolt shop should have stainless steel or possibly brass ones a lot cheaper. Cabela`s or BPS might have a boaters nut and bolt kit containing some in it?

LOL I drove a 1986 chevette for a lot of years, used to steal the wifes astro when I needed a tow vehicle. That or wanna fish? tow the boat!

Not in your area, and just a general observation based on my location. My land value went from 12,500 to roughly 40,000 since 1989, add the house and it`s a lot more. My county has been one of the fastest growing for a number of years, a lot of reasons for it. Crime in the big cities, school system, the general atmosphere of smaller town life. Like Kirk mentioned,location,location, it seems to generate more interest, higher values. We do have much fewer developments in my immediate area of the county, a 3 acre minimum lot size slows overbuilding. Yes some older homes have been bought just to be torn down and new ones built, but most had larger lots. Or they were purchased for access, at some pretty high prices I thought. Again the location thing.

Hmmm, fires in California, drought in South Carolina-Georgia, might be big money in selling some water?

1986 35hp merc, had it changed about 8 years ago because I was getting some water in my lower unit, dude had it off anyway so I had it replaced, over due but working fine. I don`t use muffs to test the motor, I just don`t trust them, I stick my motor in a plastic barrel with water flowing in constantly. Only takes a short time of running dry to screw up an impeller.

LOL I know a little late, I took a 12 hour nap. Chronic, persistent fatigue may be caused by a number of things, some are simple to diagnose some maybe a bit more complicated. It only took me 3 years to get to the bottom of my Chronic persistent fatigue problem. First get your butt to a doctor! I played around for 3 or 4 weeks(LOL tough guy). The doctor is not always right, 3 out of 5 didn`t do me much good, including an Infectious Disease Specialist, Hmmm no explanation found in your tests, you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Dude a few more tests may have been in order? Getting the tests may also be a problem, LOL "no further testing is needed or necessary" from neuro number 2, duck season I think he is hiding. A month or so later a specialist decided I did need more test, like me he thought neuro #2 didn`t have a clue. I used to sleep 5 or 6 hours a night for like 50 years? Got up felt refreshed and was ready to go, something was wrong and it wasn`t getting a good nights sleep. I would sleep 12 to 16 hours get up and feel beat. It could be a lot of things, you need to begin testing, even though I first went to the doctor because I thought I had mono, the doctor said no, my mono spot test was negative. After more extensive blood work for lyme disease and west nile virus(outdoorsman thing) they found I had mono, LOL acute mononucleosis, it wasn`t cute. Sleep 16 hours get up have a cup of coffee, lay down on the couch and not get up till the next day. My wife was checking me to make sure I was still breathing, she had never seen me like this. Gerritt don`t be afraid to e-mail me or bust me off your phone number and I will call you. If you don`t feel right and the doctors answers aren`t making sense they may be wrong. Some of the causes can be hard to diagnose, but there has to be some interest in getting a correct diagnoses . B-12 and a lot of simple fixes can cause fatigue, mimics Multiple Sclerosis in some cases, you need testing to find out. Chronic persistent fatigue is a sign of MS, CFS and a host of other problems, some serious some fixable. Hope you get a better deal than I did, if you need help sorting thru the mess let me know. Remember though, I am not a doctor, just dealt with too many. Let your doctor know about the leg issues, I didn`t fit the normal pattern for MS so there was a lot of doubt. More common in wimmins until the mid 30`s or so, and the feeling for some doctors is if your over 50 you can`t get MS, wrong! I have a bunch of sites bookmarked dealing with the diagnostics, just didn`t accept the answers I was getting from the pros. They made little if any sense. Note that I am not saying you might have MS, some that may need to be considered, and tested for though, and it seems to affect everyone a little differently. Did I help or confuse you? I am confused!

No Mosquitos, no black flies! Go fish! Good Luck!

LOL Terry, the laws can seem vague and or misleading at times, I think I saw a section in ours that said any fish caught by legal angling may be used for bait. The rules for gobies contradicts that and I can only imagine what would happen if I got caught with a walleye, muskie, or other course fish on a hook for bait. Like that course fish thing? Pickerals!

One of my daughters girlfriend`s families has a pond. Her dad puts like 5 to 10 pounds of fathead minnows in it every year, you see them for a few weeks roaming the shoreline, then none. Just too small a species of minnows, they all seem to get eaten, even the panfish can eat them. Ok if you want to spend a bit of money year after year to keep a food supply in the pond, a better plan is a bigger species of minnow. Some of the ponds in my area that hold the largest bass have golden shiners in them and some of the shiners have grown to 3/4 of a pound. Way to big for all the panfish and most of the bass to feed on, a breeding supply of baitfish. In some of the ponds without minnows small bluegills seem to have taken over the role of baitfish for the bass and catfish, it is legal to use them here for bait, it may not be where you are located. If you can`t get a canoe-small boat in the pond with a depth finder to explore you can get an idea of the water depth-drop-offs casting a slip bobber with nothing but a sinker below the bobber. Set it deep and cast to the center of the pond and drag it to shore stopping every few feet, see if the bobber stands up quickly or drifts a few feet, stand up quickly mean you haven`t hit bottom, bobber drifting and approximate distance of drift will give you an idea of depth. Good luck with it, it`s nice to have a pond nearby to provide a quick fishing fix, especially if it has some decent sized fish.