OhioFisherman

LOL Art, us southern gentlemen get to start the yard work early. I cut most of mine, more of a spring cleaning, I have a bagger on the lawn tractor and it sucks up the junk from the trees. Also had the roller on the tractor already, might make a good beer keg?

A lot of it is access, mine has a splash guard on back, livewell pump in back, bilge pump in back, batteries in back, putting it in from the inside would be a pain. Much easier to rear load! Doesn`t make a difference as long as it stays in and doesn`t leak.

Try to get the names of the people on the town council that support the condos, if most people in the area don`t it might scare them to see their names in the local paper supporting the condos. Voters might make them get a real job. Our area is rural and it seems like most people here want it to stay that way. We don`t have multi-home building, and we have a minimum 3 acre lot size with 200 feet of frontage. Back lots are allowed but must be 6 acres. Moves to get the lot size decreased fail and the people pushing the moves usually get voted out. A lot of back door dealing though, you never hear much about who is making campaign contributions to smaller towns elections, a lot might be from developers.

I don`t use it often, but berkley vanish, no problems with it.

I also think ones used for food are plastic. I have seen people here use home heating oil tanks for a large grill, don`t know if they are smokers also. I also saw a guy selling used stainless steel drums, no clue what was in them, or where you could get them. There are drum dealers in a lot of bigger cities, and industrial supply house might also carry them or know who would.

One of my favorite crankbaits catches eveything, I learned of them years ago from my brother that used them on Lake Erie for walleye. I have caught L/M, S/M, walleye, pike, perch, sheephead and crappie on them. Some do work better out of the box than others of the exact same bait, a better searching action to them I think it is called. I don`t know the reason for it, but the lure can be beat up have the paint or plating gone and out fish a new one. A lot of the lures action may also depend on how aggressively the fish are feeding and how close you come to matching the hatch, what they are feeding on. Had days when the little wonder didn`t work up north, but a longer lure with not as much wobble like a Rapala would. It can pay to mix it up sometimes.

Socks on the docks? be hard to make a redneck out of you! LOL nice fish!

Welcome Bryce, there is only one sport---FISHING, what the heck is hockey?LOL

CH, 74 here today 32 the high for Friday here, LOL it might reach you by Saturday? Dress warm!

Good morning! Last nice day here for a while! Snow? Keep that stuff on the other side of the lake! LOL

Very nice work!

Thanks Spiel! I always like to see the industries claims about the economic impact of them having to take better care of what they are importing into our waters, eg. round gobie, zebra mussels, and now VHS? What about the economic impact on the fisheries? The waterways? Most of that is funded by taxpayers, so it`s no concern to them? Let them use their profits for ballast!

LOL Kerry, just cut the feets off! I was wading a pond by a cement company, they had started to level off the field behind it using fly ash from coal power plants. There was a wash out at the back of the pond that had filled with the fly ash runoff and was cover with dust, sand, and probably cement dust. One step and I was up to my waist and it was like quicksand, had to get out of the waders and pull them out from solid ground. Always be careful!

LOL Phil, once you clear the opening at Tibbel`s start flippin or pitching a worm or lizard at the stuff on shore to the right and work your way towards the mouth of the harbor hitting all the docks. Early season is nice because of less boats in the water and less boat traffic, I think the bass season shuts down May 1st though. Not very deep water, 4 feet is a real plus! But some of those pigs are in a lot less. Junebug or a lighter shade like watermelon in a 6 inch lizard or worm will work, the rip-rap at the entrance to the harbor is also a good spot, deeper water less junk, you can fish a lizard on a jighead pretty easily with snags or texas rig it and drag the edge of the rip-rap in deeper water 6 to 8 feet. I am trying to get up there before the season closes, but it is hard for me too plan. LOL at Tibbell`s I can just roll of the dock into the boat? or water? Not usually hard to get a 4# plus L/M there.

First good size cat I saw maybe 15 pounds was a nite fish my dad got on a sucker at a lake here in Ohio fishing for muskies with my uncle. Day and nite feeders, my opinion it`s a toss up on the best time. Water depth? also mixed ideas about that, both my wife`s fish came in about 8 feet of water on a slip bobber set at 6 feet, but on a flat near deeper water. A buddy got one pushing 40 in a tournament on a crankbait in 5 or 6 feet of water. I have caught some up to about 10 pounds in shallow and deep water, even jigging blade baits. If your fishing a river system try eddys or slack water near them. Big trees in the water can hold them too, bridge pilings and such. Like Art says the bait doesn`t have to stink, just be something they think they can eat, a lot of things will work, and a bigger size may mean bigger fish.

Phil, Tibbel`s?

Trying to embarrass me?, now I might have to catch a fish! Can`t have only one guy from Ohio that gets lucky! LOL Nice job Phil!

Welcome John! I just say no to ice! I can`t walk on water, why push my luck! Seems like some people know how to do it though! Anyone else lurking out there? don`t be afraid to join in! LOL

Just my experiance that some of the smaller shops don`t do the business justice. Some are well run and can compete, some are there because there is nothing else, once some competition come in they are gone. Only one in the Cleveland area I could recommend, the rest are bait stores or small big boxes like Gander Mountain or Dicks.

LOL good thing you are waiting till after Easter mike, cold and a chance of snow here Wednesday thru Sunday. Actually not compensating, not fishing much, LOL just thinking about it! Used to wade the upper parts of the Chagrin as a kid fishing for smallies and catching bait. I don`t think the trout make it up that far though, it`s been a lot of years, maybe?

I have always used big creek chubs or shiners for them. My wife isn`t much of a caster, on trips to the georgian bay a big chub gave her a chance to catch a good fish whether it was a pike, walleye, ski, or bass, she got about a 15# cat one year, the next one around 25#, also around a 40 inch gar that lassoed itself with the line trying to get the chub. The blood baits, chicken parts and such might limit the species you can catch.

Tried spiderwire years ago and didn`t like it, bought some power pro a couple of years ago but haven`t really had a chance to use it much.

They are incidental catches for me, my biggest has been around 35 pounds, on 8# test line early in April on a tube fishing for smallies. I have mellowed a bit over the years, we used to remove carp and sheephead from the line with a fish billyclub. Some people like to catch them and or eat them so I release them now, but I don`t like them.

I put mine in from the outside, I have it attached to a screw on the transom with a piece of steel leaders so it doesn`t get missplaced and I can see it hanging when I take the straps off. I pull it to allow any water to drain while I am tying the boat down. My livewell has a separate drain, I pull the plug on that when the fish come out. I also have a bilge pump, water is only a problem for me if I am fishing in the rain, leave the boat in the water on vacations, or catch some waves wrong. I carry a spare plug for the boat and livewell.

Mike, Whopper is I am guessing 150-200 miles from Lake Erie, I am disabled and walking on dry level ground is a bit of a challenge, in a river I would be swimming. They are pretty fish, but my love was bass fishing, hard to beat Erie smallies. Chagrin, Rocky, and Vermillion rivers East and West of Cleveland also get pretty good runs of steelies, they are more in my area, and I know guys that fish for them. My walking and wading days are pretty much over. They do stack up at the river mouths in the fall, millions or billions of emerald shiners gather around the breakwalls and the steelies are feeding on them and whatever else is near by. No doubt that they are fun to catch, and a mixed bag is possible with smallies, and walleye. A boat gives you more opportunities.