OhioFisherman

Rich just my experience that walleye don`t get a chance to take a lure like a rapala deep enough to worry about using a steel leader, but if you are fishing in muskie or pike water like Lakaire anything can bite them. I fished Erie a lot for walleyes and smallies, smallie fishing with a short jig and grub, like a fuzzy or foxee can get you some bite offs, I had problems with them and I was quick on the trigger. A short leader, 3 or 4 inch was all it took to fix the problem, don`t know where you can find them I made my own. Can`t help you with the braid, I don`t use it much, shouldn`t make much of a difference walleye fishing, I have caught them using golden stren, braided dacron, 17 pound test blue blue stren.

Dang, the world is flat, I don`t walk well and I am real close to the edge. Stupid humans! I thought we had the market on wackos cornered!

Best of luck Brian, like to be in the boat with you for the tournies!

It`s bad luck not to fish hard?

Now I get hockey! They are playing for a fancy beer mug!

Congrats Steve and to your wife and family! That hospital doesn`t have OFC hats?

The part that is stuck is the bearing race, it is pretty tough steel, a pipe wrench may just slip. I had one freeze on a used 68 camaro I bought years ago. It was seized pretty good and took some time to get off without causing any damage to the spindle. Oil or grease won`t free it, it will just make sure once it starts coming off it will keep coming off. When those get stuck it is almost like they are welded to the spindle, the piece of pipe worked for me without causing any damage to the spindle. If you get it off you do want to inspect the spindle for burrs or sharp edges, damage done.

This is coming from a former Cleveland Browns fan so take it for what it is worth. It is probably not your team, the lesson was taught to us by the former owner. It is an organization (business) design to make money for that or those owners, the people that support the team mean little or nothing to them. Through out the years Cleveland had one of the best attendance ranking in the NFL, was it enough for the owner? No, bad enough that he couldn`t make money off the team he wanted tax dollars for a new stadium. Get people emotional, rah-rah over a pro sport, everyone makes money but the fan. About the only good thing it gets done is keeps some people off the water! LOL I never let a sport keep me from my sport, fishing. You can be a player too, go fish! Take ownership, boats, tackle, a cabin on a lake? You will be the owner!

We had an !989 GMC Safari (astro) van, I took it to work one day and when I got off work it wouldn`t start. It would crank, was getting fuel but no ignition, I had it towed home( there is a reason for AAA, LOL). Pulled the distributor out, removed the cap, turned it upside down and insulation was falling out, bad pickup coil. After breaking the darn thing trying to get it apart I found out it was cheaper to buy a remanufactured one that came with a new pickup coil and ignition moduale than to buy the parts to repair the old one.

My brother used to use wire line on Lake Erie before he got down riggers. The fish were easy to spot on a good depthfinder, getting a lure to run deep enough was the problem. There are other methods if you have a depthfinder that will show suspended fish. A jig(heavy) and minnow or crawler and a slow drift, driftsock. A jigging spoon may work, like a Hopkins shorty tipped with a crawler or minnow, even jigging a lure like a Heddon sonar. The wire is probably easier in wide open waters.

Brian, some of the pros have had issues with skin cancer caused by frequent and excessive exposure to the sun while out fishing, Bill Dance comes to mind as one that was mentioned. Care is needed, sunscreen, a hat, and clothes! Especially the guy from bama!

I support sense

LOL, not only pretty but talented too? Nice job Wayne!

Dad started us off pretty young, I probably had a stick with a hook and bobber on it around 3 years old at the swimming hole catching bluegills and chubs. First real fishing trip was like a 5 year old birthday present to us from dad, and nothing could have been more welcome. First trip to Ontario in 1957, a family thing, a cottage on Beaver Lake near Quinte somewhere, mom, dad, 3 boys and one in the oven and a family friends family. Clean water and it was like 50 feet from the cabin, swimming trunks? too much time, underware is good! nothing to hide! Two of my brothers my dad and me hit it hard, my older brother never developed the fever. Very few of our vacations were anywhere but Ontario, my older brother joined the navy right out of high school so the rest of us would pack up and head north. Didn`t take much to make us happy, decent weather, and water! Did a lot of fishing around here, but short trips a day or two. Some tournament bass fishing in other states and here, Ohio doesn`t really have a lot of places to rent cabins on the water and not really a lot of places I enjoyed here, it was just fishing. My first wife went to Ontario once with us, she didn`t like it(bye!). We did the family trip every summer for like 25 years and a guy trip(family and friends, close ones) most Septembers. My daughters(older ones) were nervous about going to Ontario the first trip, LOL no Tv? Well ya there is but nothing much you would watch, and I don`t drive 500 miles to watch TV! they got into it, other kids at the camp, fishing, swimming, boating, cooks outs, campfires, what else do you need? Had all the kids and my wife to a lake in New York several times for vacations/tournaments, sort of a little Canada, a primer for a longer trips that never happened. LOL all my girls (3) will work harder at it than my son, go figure!

Just from the pictures it looks like your outer race of bearing fell apart and the race holder could possibly be seized to the axle. Oil it down well, and find a short piece of pipe(heavy wall) that will fit over the axle shaft, with pipe and a smooth surface inside there is less chance of damaging the threads. You can heat the race with a propane torch also, try not to heat the axle too much. That might allow it to move when you hit the pipe with a hammer. A gear puller might also work if you have one available. If your bearing caps keep falling off clean the surfaces that meet and put some Loctite or even super glue to help hold them on.

LOL did you leave Connie up there? Nice fish!

Great pictures and report Phil.

They used to have a guy on the news here named Rizzo that gave the sports reports, I like yours better, he never mentioned fishing! LOL Nice fish! Congrats on the PB!

Lew our hearts go out to you and the family, a loss for all of us.

Reason for the fraying? Carefully inspect your rod guides, I have seen them with small cracks or chips. You can do it with a q-tip it will snag on a crack or chip. Water you are fishing? zebra mussels? they can play heck with the line. A lot of my fishing was on Lake Erie and it`s tribs, lots of zebra mussels, line needed constant attention and monitoring. Even with heavier pound test mono cuts could be felt. It doesn`t take much of a nick in the line to seriously weaken it. Down here zebra mussels have spread, they are in most of the waters now, even ones without an easy connection to the Great Lakes. I used 10# test for bass at times, sometimes even 8#, but was a lot more comfortable with 17#. The only braid I gave a serious try was the old spider wire, didn`t like it, it may have improved over the years.

I have shot a .50 Desert Eagle, a kid could do it.

Hmmm, Lund, Ford, both have 4 letters.

I was lucky when I did mine, one of my customers shops put the insulation on bare copper wire, I have a bow mount and wanted the batteries in back. The had wire with extra thick insulation(6 gauge) I ran it under the deck and cut garden hose and cable tied it to any points that might get more wear. I use quick connects like on small electric pallet jacks to connect the wire to the batteries. My boat is 16`8" for that long a run I felt better using 6 gauge wire, a welding supply house might have something you can use, like from an arc welder? http://www.andersonpower.com/products/multipole-sbs.html

Not real familier with Ford products, but ignitions switch assemblies can go bad. The one on my wife`s Chevy Astro went last year, the lock on the steering column is basically a lock that moves a lever under or thru the steering column. They had to drop the column to replace it.

LOL, thanks Wayne, you got me drinking again! Sorry about your lack of luck? Something has to go right!