OhioFisherman

Congrats to your uncle, very nice looking area.

LOL yes pictures and report! especially the trash bag suit! a tie is not mandatory! Living in the country that has been about the only thing that scares me, walking outside and meeting the striped kitty.

I didn`t vote, surface lures, whether a buzzbait or hard body. You are waiting to set the hook until you feel the fishes weight, but does the fish have it in it`s mouth? A hook caught slightly in a fin or other body part? Their miss or my loss? If I stick them I don`t lose many no matter what the lure. Just harder to get a good hook up with a surface lure, they miss.

LOL Phil, I have had guys try to take my marker buoys also, no clue what they are thinking.

Great pictures Lew!

Congrats Phil! I didn`t know guys from south of I-80 could read. LOL

70? what do they have a beer bottle opener on them? LOL they look good Roy nice job!

I like natural colors, silver- black back, perch,shad, anything that looks like food fish, sucker patterns, walleye patterns, haven`t used trout patterns but with the numbers in the Great Lakes it might work.

Since replacing my original cranking battery years ago I have always used deep cycle batteries to start my 35 merc. Might not be a good plan with a bigger motor? 4 or 6 cylinder, mines a 2 cylinder, all my electronics run off the battery used for cranking also. I carry two extra for the electric bow mount, 12v.

Congrats TJ, it is the best I have seen.

I had like 25 years straight of trips to Ontario, never had a problem with a CO or DNR here, their job is to enforce the rules, mine to obey them. LOL I did get the comment one time" all this tackle and no fish? I fish for them, I don`t enjoy eating them.

Johnny I used the Bitsy Bug jigs often, the Bitsy Bug flip has a better hook, but also some small hair jigs that are probably more of a walleye jig than bass jig, the problem with them is the hook, most have a light wire hook(aberdeen) and around cover care is needed, the hook will straighten on a snag, but also on bigger bass if you try to horse them away from the cover. Black and Blue is a good color, my buddies son that fishes tournaments here uses that color all the time. I mixed it up more but used black and blue also. Browns and greens, some with orange mixed in, all black, even all white, the baitfish thing. Had some real good days throwing a 1/8 ounce Roadrunner with a small pork frog or grub. LOL, I fished Lake Chautaqua in New York 3 times, 2 day tournaments and couldn`t catch a bass, couldn`t land the muskies I hooked. Hooked one on a 1/8 ounce spinnerbait with a 2 inch grub trailer, 40 plus inch fish 10# test line. The next day hooked a bigger ski that went airborne, right next to my partner in the back of the boat. I don`t see him often, but he still calls me "not for long" that is what I said when he saw me hook both skis, you got a big ski! "not for long". 4 time was a charm on that lake for me, I caught bass fishing the wrong side of the boat, away from shore pulling tubes up the deep edge. LOL I was proud of my 12 pounds, until the weigh in, my buddies kid and his partner weighed in like 24 pounds, one was a 7.2 smallie. Day 2 was worse.LOL Always fun though!

Great report Brian! LOL glad most of the lakes I fished here didn`t have pike!

Great pictures Terry!

Great pictures, hmmm Canadian double wide tent?

Johnny first time I saw a tube lure I wasn`t really interested although I had used the old tube worms with some success, I think Knight tackle made them. I use a lot of small stuff at times, 1/8 th and even 1/16th ounce jigs, the small catches all thing. Since a lot of my fishing was tournaments I was looking for 5 keepers first, the big ones will take small stuff a 12-13 incher might not be eager to take a bigger lure. Took me a while to get comfortable with the spinnerbaits also, LOL my brother Mike has out fished me some days using the in-line spinners like a Mepps or Rooster tail. You just never know what the hot lure of the day will be. Most of the time I throw 3 1/2 inch tubes, usually much more inclined to go smaller than larger.

They sell the for stocking in ponds here for weed control, triplod white amur or something like that. They are supposed to be sterile? LOL roll them over and spread their fins to check? Seen some in ponds 30-40 pounds, like a pig rooting on the bottom. Cool segment on the news here last week, extreme bow fishing on the Illinois river, hit the carp in the air with a bow.

LOL Go Home Lake? got to love the name! Great report John. No clue why a jig and pig sometimes will out fish a tube or visa-versa, even same color patterns, fall rate? profile?

I have seen them do it here for catfish, LOL bigger jug though, usually like a 1 gallon white bleach bottle.

Night fishing? Most of mine has been for bass, but walleye and anything that will bite also. Live bait works day or night, nightcrawlers, minnows. To keep a kid interested it might be the way to go, most species will eat them, for kids fishing means catching. To many boring nights of not catching might cause the interest level to drop. The natural smell, motion, of live bait, a wounded struggling baitfish, prepared baits for cats, store bought or chicken livers and such., although minnows and crawlers have worked just as well for me for cats. Basic bass tackle, top water lures, and everything else, amazing how small a lure they can find in the dark, it doesn`t have to be a noise maker type lure. Dark 4 inch worm on a jig head if the water is not too weedy or full of snags, texas rigged if there is junk in the water. Small jig and pork rind, a lot of baits can work. Just me but for kids I am more interested in them catching any fish than a big one, that can come later. The 1 1/2-2 inch crappie, panfish jigs work, small enough for any fish to eat them. I haven`t caught many cats on artificial lures, more of a rarity than rule. Bass, walleye, panfish, sheephead, the odd muskie hookup( I don`t fish for them on purpose, enough trouble in daylight) like one pike. Light attracts baitfish, lights on a dock, near shore. not legal in places to intentionly bring your own in places, but use fixed ones. How you go about it depends on what you are after. Night is nice, the crowds are usually gone, fish tend to move closer to shore to feed.

Er? fall out of the boat? Before happy hour or after? Lures mentioned should work, try deep during the day towards evening try the mouths of coves that have deep water at the entrance, points that fall off fast, the deep edges of any weed flats. They probably won`t be far from food, which for big pike could be perch or walleye. I like being on the water up north from 4pm till dark. Pike will take a jig and pig too, 5/8 or larger worked on the edges of deep weeds dressed up with a big pork frog, pork worm, even soft plastic lizard 6-8 inch. The bump from a pike or ski is a lot more solid than from a bass.

Ya nice fat smallies!

Just me, I am cheap, if it runs good and doesn`t cost much to fix? A little weld and grind?

Robert, I bought my first Abu reel when I was like 13, a 1750 used nothing but Abu baitcasters, 5000`s, 5001`s, 6000`s, Ultra Mag XL`s, also bought some models that had issues right out of the box and a short sales life. Usually a good reel is sold a long time with no problems, I used my 5001c`s for 20-25 years. LOL got an Ultra cast sitting in the barn short lived model with a reason for it.

Clamp-It, I watched one of my operations managers be-rate and be-little the osd clerk(another member of the management team) because he had a tummy ache. sissey, little girl wants to go home. Dude was so embarrassed, but visibley ill he stayed, rushed to the hospital later that night for an appendectomy. Some people are morons, but expect you to feel bad for them when they have a problem. Your health is number 1.