OhioFisherman

Ya, look how badly people get torn up by 120 pound dogs?

What has your weather been like? colld fronts rolling in can affect the bite, colors? it can make a difference, with soft plastics like worms or lizards I usually had two rods set up with the same bait, one light, one dark. Depth, I have caught largemouth at Pointe Au Baril in 20 feet of water hanging out with the small mouth, the only reason I could think of it happening was food, cooling temps, but not that cool? Jig and soft plastic? Fall is sort of strange at times, especially if you are having wide temperature swings.

jimmer, has the fishing pressure changed? Has stocking walleye changed if applicable?

From a biological view http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/archive/discuss/index.php?topic=588.0 Most of our fish spawn in the spring and they need a good amount of time to develop the eggs, fattening up in the fall helps.

I think they do put on the feed bag in the fall, shorter daylight hours, cooling temps are a signal to wild things? Some bodies of water are capable of a much bigger feed bag than others? The falt blowing so bad you couldn;t l brawl walleye tournament on Lake Erie last year, the entries got bigger as fall progressed? Smallie fishing on Lake Erie seemed to get better once October hit, maybe not numbers, but certainly average size, LOL if it wasn't blowing so bad you couldn't get out. I always had better success at Pointe Au Baril after the first frost here, looks a way off though.

LOL, ya they drove out because they saw other vehicles out there, looking for sea shells or something, and didn't know there were places to avoid. Early 1960's, and he had his 1961 Chevy Impala buried. I guess people there were used to that so he didn't have much of a problem getting a tow out. Saw pictures of the tides, crazy!

Lost a friend and co worker back in the early 1990's to a boating accident, you need to be careful and alert, no matter how much fun you are having.

LOL, fish in the net makes them easier to tolerate?

Looks a bit rolly out there for a toon?

Evidently there old ones and newer ones, you might want to ad which you are looking for? On some lures it makes a difference? Like the old Wiggle Wart lures from Storm?

The list does separate the bears by type. Even one from my area! " Brent Kandra, 24, male August 19, 2010 Captive Columbia Station, Ohio Kandra was a bear caretaker on property of Sam Mazzola that kept exotic pets. The bear was out of its cage for feeding. Prior to the attack, Sam Mazzola had his license to exhibit animals revoked, but was still allowed to keep the animals on his property.[21] He also accumulated dozens of dangerous, exotic animals despite past convictions and losing his license after animal rights activists complained he was making money by letting people wrestle bears. "

I remember one of my uncles with a picture of his car stuck in the bay of fundy during low tide, he was lucky to get it out in time!

They are wild animals, unpredictable and some times dangerous! If a black bear is native to Ontario, doesn't that make it a Canadian black bear?

Sadly it seems these happen every year, seemingly everywhere.

A dime? they were like 4.50 a dozen here, The price in some areas seems to have gone up? https://www.smithcreekfishfarm.com/index.php/bait/crayfish-for-bait.html

LOL, mid summer trip was a family trip, September was the guy's trip! They were usually better able to deal with the weather.

I used to getup to Pointe Au Baril once or twice a tear for a lot of years, September weather was always a crap shoot, some times almost like summer and others like later in the fall. My choice for bigger fish would always be September.

Here in Ohio a lot of bait shops near the Erie Island area sold crawfish and what they called bass minnows in the spring as Smallmouth bait, the so called bass minnows were just hatchery raised Golden Shiners in the 3 - 5 inch range, I can't recall ever seeing leeches for sale here like in Ontario. Live bait gives you an edge at times, some days while fun fishing it saved a day or trip for me. I am not sure how much the actual type of live bait matters, smallies will take a worm, if you can get past all the other smaller fish that will get to them first. Them smallies in my avatar are just a couple of many caught in Lake Erie when I lived 1/2 mile from it.

Never used one myself, one of my brothers was big into Salmon and Trout fishing on Lake Ontario and following the Walleye migration here on Lake Erie had two on his boat, both electric.

dave, I never caught a catfish while fishing the open waters of Lake Erie, never targeted them out there either though. Places like Sandusky Bay and some of the rivers that empty into the lake are loaded with them though, good sized ones here too.

Often wondered about the direction of some of the fish stocking programs here, coho in Lake Erie, Striped Bass in some of our inland lakes that really can't compare in size to some of those southern state's lakes that have them. Blue cat and spotted bass in Lake Erie seemed like better and cheaper options to me?

If you have looked at the last couple of these articles? both had a good sized channel cat as a cover photo, and both were caught ( allegedly ) in a relatively near shore area of Lake Erie, gobies also make good cat food?

I seem to recall seeing pictures of Cormorants with some type ring around their necks to prevent them from swallowing the fish completely?

Looks like it may have been another good year for the Walleye and Perch spawn on Erie, it also sounds like the Emerald Shiners could use some good spawns? https://www.cleveland.com/sports/2019/08/calm-down-lake-erie-walleye-coming-home-for-labor-day-weekend-aug-30-fishing-report.html?fbclid=IwAR2Du05COTkBwx7IpFm-thnU7Mzey952MDPHzlCcSLRITgpPhY11uXggYbA