OhioFisherman

Currently I can only dream about fishing, I am no longer foolish enough to attempt it! I do remember the good old days though, trying to get 30 - 50 guys to agree on some sort of a bass tournament schedule that was workable, trying to piece together info on open tournaments, planning a road trip to Toledo - Michigan to hit the tackle stores and stock up for the upcoming season, trying get vacations and tournaments to align, seeing what fun fishing options people were working on.

LOL, you have to have your toolbox handy to clean one?

http://www.ktlo.com/2017/12/01/new-fishing-boat-brand-to-be-manufactured-in-flippin/ You're probably right David, but it looks like Forrest was good with it? https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammy-wood-182915159

Advanced Marine Performance 727 West Industrial Park Road Flippin, AR 72634 833-MYVEXUS (698-3987) Brian, as I recall Flippin AR was the home of Ranger boats. https://www.tradeandindustrydev.com/industry/manufacturing/news/ar-advanced-marine-performance-launches-new-brand-13490 Ya, it seems to be a Ranger boat product? Lape, maybe Range boat dealers will start carrying them, I believe Lund and Crestliner are both selling v hull aluminum bass boats now. https://www.lundboats.com/boat-series/pro-v-bass/ https://www.crestliner.com/bass-hawk/1850-bass-hawk/

Lape, they look good and well built, time will tell?

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Nice healthy looking fish, 30 inch?

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This sounds like a situation where size matters!

https://fox8.com/2018/10/31/wildlife-officials-investigating-habitat-of-57-inch-timber-rattlesnake-found-dead-in-harrison-county/ and I am glad!

I am right handed and learned to fish using right hand retrieve baitcasters, well those and bamboo poles. I bought the first left hand retrieve baitcaster I saw, it just seemed more natural to cast righty and retrieve lefty, all my spinning reels have been left hand retrieve.

I am thinking that once schools let out and it's peak vacation season that finding a place for a weekend or anything less than a full week would be especially tough?

I saw it was in Russia, Siberia I am guessing? I imagine trash pickup is pretty scarce up there so the truck it out in containers? Food probably also gets pretty scarce? Nothing like that here, we get to see raccoons digging thru the trash cans.

That is incredible Moose, your take on it? a lack of other easily available food sources?

Sing, that one is a tank! I have seen them in the back bays of Lake Erie here and in Pa. but never anywhere near that size, saw some real small ones years ago as a kid here 4-6 inches long? nice brightly colored and cool looking.

LOL, ever watch bassmasters? it's really unacceptable to lose a 100,000 dollar fish to a broken line! Weeds, wood, zebra mussels all play a part in it here, one of my brothers lost a bass around 7 # because it swam thru a half submerged cement truck tire at a pond we used to fish, two pieces of cover in that pond, two tires and you had stop or turn a bigger bass before they could get to them. I could fish the open waters of Lake Erie with no junk around for smallies and walleye and be perfectly content using 10# mono, there just wasn't much if anything they could get into, although the zebra mussels did mean you had to check your line for nicks frequently. When you got into the back bays of Lake Erie and the inland lakes with trees in the water, flipping docks, lilies, weeds there was just so much more for them to swim into, and given half a chance they will!

https://1source.basspro.com/index.php/component/k2/237-fishing-info/2415-the-lowdown-on-long-nose-gar Remember him? Watch small one eat, it helps explain the problem with hooking them. And for big ones you need hand protection or another way to release them.

Long ago I tried the original spider wire, it's been like 20-25 years ago, maybe more? Wasn't happy with it at all, and went back to mono, but I am guessing it has improved with time. I put 65# test on a couple of abu c4 reels, and used 17# test stren for backing, those reels would hold a lot of line and I didn't feel that more than 80 yards or so was needed. Watch your knots if you do, my first couple of uni knots were terrible, I could pull the knots apart.

Sing, we used to make a mid summer family trip to Pointe Au Baril and I would take the wife out fishing. Her casting skills were pretty grim so it was a day of live bait fishing with big minnows to see if she could hook into something big. As I understand it, gar will swim into a school of minnows and thrash their bills around to stun the minnows and then eat the stunned ones. If you look at one their mouths and throat might support that, nothing like a bass, walleye, or pike, I can see as they would need more time to eat and swallow a bigger bait fish. One day I caught 1 that was 46 inches long, hooked on a 6-8 inch chub, my wife got 1 41 inches with just the line tangled around it's mouth-nose and no hook in it. Just guessing mine was around 17 pounds, I thought a pike the same size gave a better fight. Two consecutive years my wife also caught some pretty big catfish fishing the same way, one was around 15# and one around 25 #, even they gave her a better fight. Never hooked one on a lure.

Just from looking at the prices they aren't much cheaper down here.

Nice job, I would have no clue.

Justin, here is a video, there are more out there. I usually used this style of jig head, http://www.lurepartsonline.com/Online-Store/Worm-Jigs/Barbarian-Bullet-Nose-Jigs.html finding jig heads with a stronger hook than your typical Aberdeen hook in them used to be a problem. An exposed hook gives you a better hook up ratio, although that never seemed a problem for me even when texas rigging them.

Justin, fishing a lizard is basically just like fishing a worm, just a bigger profile to the bait so, just my experience that the average fish tend to be a little bigger. A fan of Zoom lizards and Zoom u-tail worms myself, cheap and they caught fish, and you can just put them on a ball or mushroom style jig head and swim them over weeds and catch fish, even swimming them texas rigged slowly with just enough weight to keep them down will work.

Justin, are you comfortable throwing soft plastic baits? If I was restricted to shore fishing I would be throwing a plastic worm or lizard for bass a lot, but you can use tubes and such also, just a lot of ways to rig them and they have caught a lot of fish for me.

The Cleveland Boat show was this weekend too, just in time for the worst winter storm in our area in about 10 years, I expect they had a very low turnout.