OhioFisherman

Like Blake I think the average angler may be better informed and has access to better equipment. The television programs and the web make information easier to get. I don`t think the numbers have changed that much though, there are fishermen, and people that fish, some don`t put in the effort.

Great pictures Lew, nothing like the sun coming up, better when your on the water!

Happy birthday Brian, go catch a fish!

Eddy my house is all electric with an air tight wood burner also, mine has electric baseboard heat, good points and bad to it. You can turn off or way down the heat in the rooms you don`t use often. My house is just under 2000 square feet, we don`t have a gas line so the choice was heating oil, propane or electric in this area. 1. clean your chimney every year, you can get the tools to do it for about the price of a chimney sweep doing it once, you need to know the size of the chimney opening to get the right brush, and the height of it to get enough sections of poles to do it properly. It takes maybe 15 or 20 minutes, and another 15 or 20 to take the pipes apart inside and clean and check them. My roof isn`t angled badly or real high though. 2. Firewood, face cord seems to be what we call a rick here, and the going price is also around 60 bucks here for it.. Got any Amish up there? I get my firewood from Amish sawmills in my area, I fill my utility trailer 12x6 1/2 x 2 = 156 cubic feet, more than a full cord(128 cubic feet) for 55 to 60 bucks and it`s heaping. Slab wood, short cut, but a lot of heavy pieces. 3. yellow jackets like to build nests in my chimney, the clean out is outside, a small metal door. They get in around the edges, mine is chimney tile not metal, don`t know if they would do that on a metal one. Raid indoor flea fogger kills them, I wait until it is almost dark and drop a couple down the chimney, in the morning they are all dead. 4. It is breezey here most of the time, I keep my wood covered but where the wind can help dry out the new stuff. I got 7 loads last year, some was old and seasoned some was green for next year. Burning green wood will clog the chimney quicker. Oak is probably the best to burn, maple, hickory, cherry, black walnut, and even ash burn well also. Ash won`t last as long, it isn`t as dense. 5. Mine runs pretty much full time during the cold months, I have had it (bought it new in 1989 and installed it while the house was being built) very few problems. Some minor part replacements an I didn`t clean the chimney the first two years. LOL I learned! Had to get a chimney sweep in the dead of winter on a snow covered roof.

Oh no! LOL not what I would like outside my door or in my county! Cats are cool! in a zoo! Years ago a buddy and me didn`t have anything to do so we got a case of beer, took our b-b guns and drove to a deserted industrial section of the Cleveland shoreline. We had a few beers, shot the heck out of some beer cans, I turned around and sitting on the broken concrete rubble was an Ocelot watching us. Not real big as big cats go, but certainly something you wouldn`t expect to see roaming around Cleveland. LOL my buddy want to use it for a target, I didn`t want to do anything to tick it off, we decided the inside of the car was a better place to be. Half drunks and pink elephants? a couple weeks later there was a story in the paper someone caught it.

Wow, woke up to it on the news. Our hearts go out to the families, is there any where are kids our safe?

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.