OhioFisherman

I threw a lot of jigs using 17-20 lb test mono and never had a problem with them breaking off, even thru them on lighter line. If you are in one of our southern states where there are bass that exceed 6 pounds on a regular basis lighter line is more of an issue. Also cover, around wood. like docks, fallen trees light line can be a problem, it's nice to be able to exert enough force on them to help prevent them from getting into deeper cover once hooked.

I have never fished on the ice, but I made one years ago out of a plastic mustard container with a screw on lid. It was a bigger item though, like 1/2 gallon? I put a small screw eye with a couple of fender washers and a nut holding the eye to the lid and a 3-4 ounce lead weight bolted to the bottom and drilled 1/4 inch holes in the container. The plan was to attach a piece of parachute cord to the eye and drag it along the bottom on a drift an create a chum line, or tie it to a tree or dock and have it as a fish attract-er.

I know next to nothing about Quinte, is there a river there that has a walleye spawning run? After following the Lake Erie fall brawl thing here it seemed like some of those big fish may have been moving closer to spawning grounds, just not a place you could expect to have a reasonable chance to catch them after early spring. This article is from my area, but I would imagine that the lures he mentions might not be a bad choice anywhere? https://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/2019/01/fishing-report-for-friday-jan-4-lake-erie-streams-clearing-after-new-years-eve-winds-wet-weather.html?fbclid=IwAR3RUV26lGu9AoCeQdgIM4EZ0Cl5Nypm38mk2P_oIMIDO2xQJEXEAQW0S5k

LOL a water dog?

https://www.coshoctontribune.com/story/news/local/2018/12/27/amish-man-fined-28-000-poaching-26-point-buck/2416482002/

Pork, just guessing that long point is at least 100 miles east of the areas I used to fish, deep water so more common?

Going back a lot of years to when they used to stock salmon here, my brother and my dad were out one day trolling deep for them and dad got a 4-5 pound lake trout, as far as I know they are a rare catch in my area of the lake. Also saw a pic of a guy netting a muskie in the fall brawl, another pretty rare fish in this part of lake erie.

Incidental catch from the fall brawl. https://www.toledoblade.com/MattMarkey/2018/01/06/While-still-grand-record-trout-fish-leaves-angler-about-81-000-short.html

LOL, we rented a lakefront home one year in New York, my kids and their cousins had been fishing off the dock one day and had some small bluegill and perch in a Styrofoam minnow bucket on the porch. After dark we heard noises on the porch, and there was a momma racoon and her litter fishing in the minnow bucket, they are a lot more skilled at catching them than your cat! Explorers? no idea how they knew there were fishing that bucket, but they had no problem getting the lid off.

Brian, spin, he was one of the regulars on the family trips to Canada years ago before he moved to California like 40 years ago to take a job offer. I had about 4 years on him, complications from a gi blockage, still waiting to get the whole story from my aunt and his sister. A talented guy, guitars, drums, and made or rebuilt amps. The Tomcats - SVC 4th of July Music Festival 2015 - YouTube I Love Amp - YouTube

http://theacoustikats.com/ My cousin Rich and his buddy Tom, Rich passed away suddenly a couple of days ago, RIP.

I used soft scrub and a rag.

Like Art says, that river is known for it's smallmouth fishery, and that smallmouth crush guys has other videos on it, they even have yak videos by another guy fishing that river, but not in that spot! What a mess, sort of surprised they let it sit out there that long, you would think there would be concern about fuel leakage into the river?

Wondered about that Dave, once they made a comeback on Erie here that late fall shore bite really caught on, and a lot of the piers and shoreline areas are known for it, although some are real sketchy areas to be in at night,

The weather forecast is saying almost 50 for tomorrow and almost 60 for Friday here John, a bit breezy with 18 mph winds but out of the ssw and se so near shore shouldn't be too bad. Can't recall seeing it, any casting from shore walleye fishing on that side of the lake? It has a cult following on this side and they stick some pigs doing it.

Always the plan for me, but some days it still wasn't much fun being out there, rocknroll is music!

LOL, always had a love - hate relationship with that lake myself, the best fishing in Ohio, if you can get out.

ch, that is kind of an interesting question, I really have no idea how it is on the north side of the lake, but on the south side we get huge schools of emerald shiners around the piers and break walls in the fall. I haven't been out in a lot of years now, but some of those schools seemed a 100 yards long. We also get huge schools of shad, and I have caught steelhead that were eating them, so I imagine the walleye do too? One of the bigger walleye caught in that fall brawl thing here came from Sandusky bay which is fed in part by the Sandusky river, the site of one of our spring walleye runs. The bay is a spawning grounds for a lot of species of fish and is loaded with carp, I wonder if the walleye are feeding on some of the small ones? They are in the same area, it's smaller, eat it? There has to be billions of them swimming around? I used to net my own bait in area streams on the way to the lake, around the lakefront all the bait stores ever seemed to have was emerald shiners or very small golden shiners as a substitute. If I was fun fishing for smallies I liked bigger minnows, so 4-6 inch chubs were the way to go to limited small fish bites. At times I even had to keep some suckers for bait, but those only seemed to catch walleye, and some of our rivers here that feed Lake Erie have big sucker runs in the spring. I have never seen a " native " golden shiner in any of our streams here that feed Lake Erie or in the lake itself, but with the bait stores selling small ones by the pound as bait? You have to imagine some are getting into the lake to establish a population? I have caught steelhead with small perch in their bellies so walleye may not be their only problem? and there seems to be plenty of gobies now?

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article223237475.html

porkpie, most of my walleye fishing on Lake Erie was back in the 1980's with my dad and one of my brothers, it was the same back then, I don't recall ever spending 8 hours on the water fishing for them, most days we had limits by noon or 1 O clock. Yep good news for those close to Erie, but in my case most of my family members started going to Ontario to fish for them because of an acute shortage of them in Erie. Once than changed it got difficult or impossible to convince them to make the trip north.

If you had good luck on your side of the lake this year it may get better? https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/walleye-catch-rates-highest-recorded-in-20-years-population-set-to-increase-in-lake-erie

" yup and it looked to be a fresh one too " When I was young I was fishing with my neighbor and his dad off a Cleveland area pier and he caught a sheephead with one hanging on it that didn't let go, it was the last fish that one ever bit! I have seen their bites on a few fish, even on a catfish at Pointe Au Baril.

Yep, have a fun and safe holiday!

Well David, and keep in mind I haven't really been able to seriously fish in around 15 years now, but the questions I could usually answer involved rods, reels. line, and lures, and even those questions were more our less geared to my primary interest which was bass fishing, and a 6# bass in my area was a real nice fish. Also no one I fished with, was trying to be " a pro " weekend anglers, some very good, but mostly fishing for fun and a little competition, and my tips weren't intended to price anyone out of the interest of fishing for fun. Spots and lures probably near the top too, and the whys of that much harder to answer, some spots had fish a lot more frequently than others, but it didn't mean they were there or actively feeding all the time, and the lures to catch them in those spots could vary widely at times.

If I was dropping a pan I would have an oil pan gasket right there, it's a lot easier than searching for one later?