OhioFisherman

LOL, be patient, it's coming. I am probably a good distance south of you but I am starting to hear birds in the yard that I haven't heard since fall.

" I am astonished that your taxes are actually so low, considering the fact that I live in a condo and pay close to that, mind you property values are ridiculous, hence high taxes. " Akri, I live in a rural township here, a move to the nearest small city would almost double my property taxes for a home of equal value. The township is run by elected trustees and they are basically part time employees, we don't have to pay taxes for a full time mayor and things like that. Our police protection is contracted out thru the county sheriff and our fire department is volunteers.

https://www.hlrbo.com/Listing/Search/OH Heck it seems like an industry here in places, part of it is way more people and a lot less public hunting lands, most of the public areas get hit really hard. There are all kinds of options? daily, weekly, monthly, and annually leases, and on some sites you bid on a lease like ebay.

I don't know how it works up there, but stateside, especially in some of the southern states people pay big bucks to lease land for hunting, and other than them and the actual property owner it's pretty much exclusive use of the land for hunting.

Ya, it's not just hunters though, about 8-10 years before I moved out to this area my brother and I used to come out here to fish a couple of farm ponds, he had gotten us permission to do so. One day we went back and were told no more, some clown he had also given permission to fish them decided to take a short cut back to the ponds and drove across his newly planted field in wet weather and buried his pickup, and then had the gall to go to the farmer and ask him to tow him out. Really no clue on that one, there was a driveway next to the farmers home back to the ponds, it seems a bit more respect was in order?

I will agree with Old, it's not just a PA problem, it was a regular issue here until I started taking license plate numbers and calling the game warden. Some years back an area guy was shot and killed in his back yard during hunting season and whoever did it just left him lay and took off. If you can't see what you are shooting at? are you really a hunter?

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.