OhioFisherman

The last time I went fishing Deg and Whopper from the board took me out with one of Whopper's friends, like 2005? We started out from a western basin harbor and left a mud trail as we left the dock. Wind direction there was always a factor on the water level, but even from fishing that area from years before the water level was low. I saw a video a while back of a friend of a friend fishing a western basin harbor a couple of years ago, and it looked like the were dredging that area.

I caught one a Pointe Au Baril one year that was coughing up crayfish.

It's pretty cool to see some of these studies, walleye aren't afraid to travel, they do the same on Lake Erie.

Lake Erie is at record high levels right now and could cause ’catastrophic’ erosion problems I guess the water level is high?

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This is usually a peak time of year for them here, this year has been screwy though weather wise! 71 here today, tomorrow the high is forecast for 51, them cold fronts just keep rolling in!

It's been a lot of years since I was on Lake Erie Chuck but it also had massive schools of emerald shiners, we would usually see them in the fall along the break walls while smallie fishing and some seemed 100 yards long. We also seem to have our fair share of gobies and I am guessing freshwater shrimp too, along with the mayfly and midge hatches that drive people living along the lakefront nuts.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/05/02/key-fobs-garage-door-openers-have-suddenly-stopped-working-some-north-olmsted/ https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/05/04/north-olmsted-officials-solve-key-fab-radio-jamming-issue-after-residents-had-trouble-opening-cars-garage-doors-weeks/ The original story and a follow up, no idea what that guy was fooling with!

Nice mount!

Like 40 or more years ago I fished a bass tournament with a guy, his boat. Practice day I noticed his depth finder was gone when we were launching, I sold it and I am getting a better one. After a short period on the water the floor of the boat was wet. Dude? we have a problem? He didn't fill the transducer holes, we had to take a couple of sheet metal screws out of his van to plug them.

No fish in Simcoe!

Kind of what I thought, evidently no shortage of food for them there. It seems to me that Lake Erie used to be better for perch, but with the ban on Walleye netting here they focus on perch. Looks like the makings of a great fish fry!

LOL, the elusive lake x? I haven't really fished for perch here since I was in high school Brian, but I can't recall ours here being that portly any time of year.

David, just curious, what body of water is that? Always impressed by some of the perch pics, I can't recall seeing them that fat on this side of Erie, even pre spawn.

No idea how much of this rain makes its way up north, but it is pouring here and the 10 day out look isn't sunny! https://www.cleveland19.com/weather/

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Dobyns_Fury_Casting_Rods/descpage-DFC.html They list a couple swimbait rods that are more budget friendly.

Today's video, just videos of different brands, but if you look at his favorite combo for throwing them it may help?

https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/102572-5-senko-and-hook-weight/ not sure how accurate this is but a 5 inch senko and a 3/0 wide gap hook is 3/8ths of an ounce, very doable with a baitcaster.

Says a bit about the driver shortage here to me if you have a 76 year old guy driving your truck? I know some older people still get around well, but...

As I saw on another news channel that guy broke 10 ribs, can't recall exactly but that street had a 25 or 35 mph speed limit, a good thing he wasn't on the highway doing 55 mph! There was another one of those foot bridges on the Cleveland shoreway that connects I 90 to I 77 and I 71, a few years back a truck hit it and created a traffic nightmare because he destroyed it.

Also never had one but as I recall mustangs were one of the big brand names?

http://www.cleveland19.com/2019/04/30/garbage-truck-stuck-between-bridge-overpass-i-/ Another ouch, trucks, about a mile from where I grew up, walked and rode my bike across that foot bridge many times.

Seemed like a decent boat, you must have easy money to think losing it was worth taking a chance on losing it?

Ya, couldn't really get a size reference from that picture, and no idea how big peacocks have to be to start spawning, but with two of those fish in the picture at this time of year it did seem like a spawning thing.

We have some local areas along the Lake Erie tributaries that seem to flood every couple of years, horror and tragedy stories on the news about the home losses and such, but they keep on allowing them to rebuild there. It's not like those areas are unknown, or the risks and dangers of living or building there? Flood me once? shame on you! flood me repeatedly? shame on me?