OhioFisherman

Get well soon Gary! Nothing like having a perfect idiot! I feel the need for some anul probing myself.

I use Mustad 32746BLN in most of my jigs, I like the black nickel finish and they are sharp, also almost 3 times as much cost wise, but way cheaper than gammies. I also like a bigger hook, but most of my fishing is for bass, I go with a 2/0 to 4/0 hook. Walleyes mouth will handle a bigger hook and on a small jig there might be less chance of getting bit off? I do down size on some jigheads and use a size 1, but basically it is because of the size of the soft plastic I am using on it. Nothing wrong with hair jigs, I have caught a lot of fish on them and prefer bucktail to maribou, but again for bass. I do manage to catch walleye, pike, and a little of everything on them though. Haven`t seen the grave diggers around for a while, my favorite was the old doll fly, the hooks were crap though.

Easy for me 10# stren, 14# stren, 17 stren I can tell by the diameter. The really thin stuff is 8#.

Great pictures and report Mike! They still have salmon runs up there? Never went myself, but my brother used to and had some very good trips. It was back in the 70`s? Tales of the salmon burning the gears out of a mitchell 300 on some of their runs.

Congrats Roger! You look younger in the new boat.

Were did you guys find a beer can on a boat? Or was it floating by in the water? LOL Great looking ride, always liked the classic style!

Sorry guys, I hope you get spring by August!

I kept them long enough for the weigh in, a couple of decent fish that died I had mounted about 25 years ago. Just not in any particular hurry to keep any fish, I have kept a walleye or steelhead just because the wife and kids like them. Shortage of walleye in the Kawarthas probably relates to the amount of traffic those lakes get and the amount of walleye kept, food supply is probably also a factor. Those lakes have been getting hit hard since I was a kid.

LOL it should be richfish? The prices get scarey quick!

Great Eddy! Always nice to be able to see water from the back yard! 5 mile long lake is a big one here!

This is the only fishing site I hit regularly anymore, just the best I have seen, and more or less what my interests in fishing are centered on. I hit other sites on occasion, depending on what I need to get info on, and due to my illness I hit MsWorld and BrainTalk to get info on medical issues. LOL I was always a bit of a book worm, now I read info on stuff on the net.

Never got that far into New York to fish, Findley Lake and Chautaqua are good lakes in western New York for bass. Our Club and some others had small tournaments on Findley( a small lake ). Just my understanding that Chautaqua has a lot of them and some are bigger( a bigger lake ). Seen and caught some nice fish out of both. New York has some nice lakes!

http://1stbass.org/area_maps.html http://www.nybass.com/index.php try these

Thanks Terry, I don`t even open them to see what domain they are from so I probably don`t want to do that. Want to see some viagra ads?

An e-mail question. One of my e-mail accounts has a block sender or block e-mail from this domain option, what is the difference?

Where have all the flowers gone? When will we ever learn?

??? it`s not a fishing site? LOL Congrats Rick! you da man!

LOL Squid, just because your a grumpy old man doesn`t mean we have to be!

Crappie usually start hitting good here the second or third week of April, they will probably be running late this year with this cold weather. There are a lot of ways to fish for them, a simple bobber and spreader baited with minnows if you can use 2 hooks per line. We have used perch rigs also, it gives you two slightly different depths. Small 1 1/2 or 2 inch tube baits, jigs and grubs, roadrunners and such will work. Never had much luck with red worms or nitecrawlers for crappie, they will work for perch. Dock areas, any wood in the water, places where weeds are starting to grow or where you see smaller baitfish are good areas to try. A dark muddy bottom will warm quicker, it also might hold fish. I would be looking in shallower water(warmer) but back off to the first drop off if no action for crappie in there. Perch were a nuisance in Pointe Au Baril seemed like you couldn`t keep away from them, don`t now how it is in the lake you are fishing, later in the year though also. Drifting or slow trolling with an electric motor works also, as slow as you can go, you are searching a larger area that way for them, just drag a small minnow on a spreader or perch rig, a small jig and grub and weave back and forth across edges of shallow and deeper water. If there are no reference points carry a marker bouy. Catch a fish and drop it in the water and fish that area harder.

Pickeral rig a perch rig? 2 hooks one above the other with a snap on the bottom for a sinker?

65 year old sweetie ? how did you get a girl so much younger than you?

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Always carry insurance on your boat in the winter! It`s probably been about 25 years ago, the marina one of my buddies was at is in a river valley. The ice builds up by the highway bridges over the river and forms a dam backing up water and more ice. They had a quick thaw that year and it all came down at once, it took the boats stored in bunks on shore and washed most of them to the river mouth were they hit the steel breakwall and sunk. My buddy lost a 30 foot searay he bought the summer before. He was one of the lucky ones though, he kept insurance on his boat all year, a lot of the people didn`t they lost like 60 boats and only about half were insured.

Just depends on your spare change, Abu 6500- 6501 will do on a budget, like 80 bucks stateside. Curado 300 might be a good reel like 250 bucks here. Depends on your cash flow.

??? that could be a truck driver?