OhioFisherman

Yep, Langley reels I think those were the only baitcasters my dad owned until the 60's, they are what i learned on too. My uncle that lived upstairs with my grandparents went into the navy around 1957 and was in the Mediterranean picked up a couple of mitchell 300's and sent my dad one, then I learned on a spinning reel.

LOL Dave, you may have some years on me, I had to look it up!

I'm old, when I bought mine it came in a small metal tin and looked like wax.

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/gink-dry-fly-floatant That stuff will keep mono on top of the water.

This is going back some years, 1980's, I had a 24 foot SeaRay I kept stored on a cradle outside at a marina roughly 70 miles from home, I didn't have a trailer for it, or a vehicle I felt could safely pull it around. It came with a winter cover (tarp) but after one winter and feeling a need to run 70 miles after every heavy snowfall or high wind to check on it I went the shrink wrap route, in part because I viewed any problems with those issues would be on them. The place that it were pro's everyone it the marina that went the shrink wrap route used them and no issues that I ever heard of, LOL and we spent a lot of time walking around the marina BSing! Considerations, It was my Lake Erie boat, the normal season for pleasure boaters starts around Memorial Day here, the marina didn't start putting there docks in until after ice out, and it was normally just a dozen or so for the charter boats until mid May, my tarp - wrap didn't come off until early May to give me a couple few - weekends of prep time. My last boat, much smaller, was stored indoors in my garage or barn with the trailering cover on it, no issues with mice, but our outdoor cats seemed to think that cover was a lounge chair, and cat hair is hard to vacuum off a cover! There may not be a perfect solution, I have seen spark plug wires chewed up by mice when parked in the owners garage. Shrink wrap is probably the way to go if you don't mind the annual expense and have a pretty clear idea of when your boating season starts because once it's off it's off.

I have never used one kick, not much of a tenter in my past, but this place has some examples of them for suvs and pickups. https://www.jcwhitney.com/results/?N=0&Nr=wpn_cat_name:Outdoor+%26+Camping+Gear

I know Ray Halter mentioned in the article, former owner of The Rodmakers Shop in Strongsville Ohio, now retired. A straight up guy and very good tournament fisherman in our area, his shop was the place to go for bass tackle and just about every kind of tackle for our area. It's been years since I have been able to fish, or even visit his former shop, but he had pictures of an Erie tournament him and his partner won with a 30+ pound limit. If he thinks that the area Lake Erie fishing has been in a bit of a funk the last 20 years? I would be willing to take his word for it. Our limit used to be 8, then 6, and currently 5, I had no problems adjusting to the changes, or the closed catch and release only season, protecting the fishery was my main concern. I remember a day with the 8 fish limit, I had pushing or exceeding 40 pounds of smallies in the livewell and no camera, releasing them just seemed to me like a better plan than going back to the ramp in search of one.

LOL, if Cohan wasn't offended? How could I be?

LOL, no r's in Monday so no rants! I blame the internet! A lot of factors involved, take Florida, it is roughly 1/6th the size of Ontario and has roughly twice the population, and as someone of the board once mentioned to me that lives in Ontario, I can get to Florida faster than he could get to Toronto? Population, distance, and available information? Not to mention better electronics, gear, boats? Take a look at some of the bass tournaments on the lakes you mentioned, and the crowd of boats following them around, just punching in gps numbers? The days of buying a few acres of land on the shores of Kentucky Lake for 60 bucks an acre or a few acres in Ontario dirt cheap are long gone? Everything has changed, and we have to change our thinking to protect the fisheries? http://www.rockthelake.com/buzz/2018/01/cleveland-municipal-stadium-underwater-lake-erie/

Some nice catches in that tournament by the way.

grimsby, I will agree that the answer is not that cut and dried. I am old and remember very well the days before we had a closed season in place here in Ohio. We had 50 - 60 + days fishing for them, in our case it was strictly catch and release, but it was normal to see people walking the bank or wading dragging a stringer of them. Besides the open waters of Lake Erie I fished some bays and river emptying into it, some were known spring time spawning areas for the smallies and it was sort of unusual to catch them there any other time, after the water warmed up a bit the largemouth took over. Agreed that sheephead and walleye compete for food, but in those early spring spawning areas you also had schools of huge carp sucking up everything in their path, not good during a spawn! We used to catch big smallies before the goby invasion, Erie usually has a very good food base, there are also millions of small shad, and everything seems to eat them too. Erie is the best bass waters in the state, and just judging by the news reports of our area having the best walleye fishing in 40 years? Why take a chance with the bass fishery if you can't seem to maintain the walleye fishery?

https://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2018/08/ohio_wants_to_open_the_door_to.html#comments I was happy when they put a closed season on them, it's an easy way to help maintain a quality fishery.

https://www.ebay.com/gds/How-to-Repair-Neoprene-Waders-/10000000178372119/g.html

https://www.amazon.com/Performix-LT14023-Electrical-Liquid-Black/dp/B000LNKIFS Brian something like this might work?

For a different look try them on a 1/8th ounce roadrunner head.

Walmart velcro fasten track shoes and walmart flip flops were always good enough for me, I did buy decent work shoes and boots because at times I chose pounding the concrete dock for 10 hours over being stuck in a truck for up to 15 hours. LOL, I save a lot of money these days on shoes, I don't wear them!

If you like them it may pay to stock up? There could be changes coming? https://fox8.com/2018/08/09/crocs-closing-last-of-manufacturing-facilities-ceo-resigning/

Pretty cool! Those recycled baits work as well as the name brands?

ketch, my dad was a ww2 vet and he had to quit school when he was 13 to help support the family when his father died, I worked with a lot of ww2 and Korean war vets, some of their handwriting was fantastic, I guess being far from home and in danger was a good motivator to learn?

LOL! The disappointed look? Dad it's for you. After 10pm I answered the phone, no calls unless it's an emergency! My daughters seemed to have a unique ability to find boyfriends that were long distance calls! Show that dude you care! write him a freaking letter, it's a lost art!

LOL, phones! I have 3 reasonably attractive daughters, you can only imagine what their teen years were like here.

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Lew, I have lived in this house for 28 years now, same deal, but my drive is only like 180 feet. It's really a never ending battle, I have used roundup and other things, even tried a propane torch and boiling water. Anything that has worked has been at best a year long fix, too many seeds and such blown around by the wind. Your laws and what is legally available for such use may vary from ours, and ours can vary from state to state. I believe salt is bad for some trees like pines? So runoff from use could pose an issue? I myself dislike using chemicals, a bit of green on my gravel brightens it up! LOL even another 20 - 40 tons more gravel seems to be a short term fix. https://valtecindustries.com/products/banish-weed-killer I think Art is talking about something like that, I am not sure of what the farmer that used to plant the field across the road from me used, but the corn and soybean crops seemed to be surprisingly clear of weed growth. Even if you used a barrier over time dust, and stuff will collect on top of it and the problem repeats?

20 would be like a mini raid, they kind of liked to do those thousand plane raids? Fighter escorts were generally a daytime deal, the Brits bombed at night because early on their fighters didn't have the range to provide an escort. The Americans learned that daylight bombing without one was getting far to many pilots can killed and planes destroyed.

http://fishing-app.gpsnauticalcharts.com/i-boating-fishing-web-app/fishing-marine-charts-navigation.html?title=POINTE+AU+BARIL+boating+app#14.86/45.5594/-80.3961 Boyd, if this is any help, I believe the rocks I mentioned on the way are off the northeast end of Burnt Island. It's been a lot of years for me Akri is far more update with info, as you can see from that chart there can be some wide swings in depth, quickly.