OhioFisherman

Dang Art, my son asked me what mud shad are, had to look that up, we call them gizzard shad here. Makes sense to me that they would be good cat bait, tons of them here, and they have big die offs, lot of the littering the bottom of lakes and rivers as a food source for cats. After the spring crappie spawn here channel cats could be caught in big numbers fishing the same way for them, a bobber and spreader with emerald shiners, just set deeper to hug the bottom.

I fished in bass tournaments of various sizes for around 30 years, I can only recall 1 for sure were no one caught a fish, a falling water level seemed to shut down the bite completely.

I don't fish anymore, but never a lot on an individual lure, maybe 10 bucks for a pike - muskie sized lure. I didn't fish for them often, and flea markets and garage sales here seemed to have a lot of them cheap. Tubes, lizards, worms? I used to buy by the hundred.

LOL, and here I sit trying to boost Canadian tourism! 60 years ago if you told someone here you were going to Canada to fish for carp they would have thought you were crazy? They still would today, we have much bigger carp, and seemingly an endless supply of them! LOL, now the depression is setting in, my biggest carp outweighed my biggest ski by about 10 times?

Good work! 93 degrees here today, the dog days of summer are hitting early, I can imagine people wanting to be on a cooler lake!

If I buy a car battery from the Walmart here they install it for free, as long as I can drive it there. I had to replace the one in my 2009 van a couple of years ago, I haven't driven in 6 years so it sits for long periods of time unless my son needs to use the heavy metal. Never had an issue with a battery from Walmart, after all, it's not like they make them.

Oh I am sure, but there are a wide variety of factors? Society has changed? and a much wider choice of ways to spend your recreational dollars? Why spend your money on travel and lodging costs?

I'm stateside and in a rural community, we don't have government trash collection, it is done thru a private company for around 110 bucks a quarter, which can vary with the price of fuel, they tack on a fuel surcharge. Once a year, in the spring they have a community cleanup day, they park a couple of big dumpsters at the township service garage and you can bring your junk in for free, but they have some restrictions on the junk you bring in. They only accept limited amounts of tires, construction waste, and a few other items to keep people that abuse the system from taking advantage of it.

Great report, nice upgrade on the gear!

Yep, a small smallmouth.

I never realized how quiet and peaceful life could be until my last ex wife talked me into getting my own dog!

Dang! nice fish!

Both members of the first place team won a ranger 620 and split a check for 25k, not a bad weekend of fishing? 107 and change for 15 fish.

Lost the picture myself Brian, I know that area very well, did some walleye fishing in the area myself, and a lot of bass fishing! Looking at some of the pictures? It has sure changed in 14 or so years!

https://jamieschmale.ca/walleye/LarrysReport.pdf " Fishing lodge records show that almost half the guest were Americans. This was a boom time. " " The number of walleye decreased year by year. The American fisherman became increasingly frustrated by the size of their catches. The once flourishing tourist trade collapsed. " I am old, so maybe a clearer picture of the chain of events? Or just a different view of them? Walleye fishing in Lake Erie went to heck in the 50's, fishermen from Ohio, PA, NY, Mi and other states headed north to catch them. Once the rebound in Lake Erie started the need to travel hundreds of miles to catch them became unnecessary? I know very few people that used to head north for walleye that still do.

http://walleyefederation.com/ Live stream started at 3pm.

I hope you heal quickly, not being able to fish or do other stuff on your own sucks!

http://fox8.com/2017/06/09/hundreds-of-people-cast-their-poles-for-the-cabelas-walleye-tournament-in-lorain/ http://walleyefederation.com/twf-live-leaderboard.php Two days and a limit each day with 73.02 in the lead, not a bad average fish?

LOL, my electric company has sent me a new calendar every year now for 27 years, it doesn't show the best fishing days! Should I complain? or give them a pass cause it's free? It doesn't have long range weather predictions, which were more of a concern to me.

http://www.baitnet.com/search.php There also used to be a bait store right in Parry Sound? TAYLOR'S ICE & BAIT 96 JAMES PARRY SOUND ON P2A 1T9 Canada (705) 746-5495 Too many years ago for me, that might be the place?

Nice work men!

No idea what a head mount costs, but that was a lot of heads?

http://www.cleveland19.com/story/35602371/watch-live-deer-poaching-news-conference-in-cuyahoga-county http://fox8.com/2017/06/06/live-video-cuyahoga-county-prosecutor-odnr-hold-press-conference-on-deer-poaching/ The name of the game was money?

Good read! I can't deny fishing for them here before they put closed seasons on them, but I supported that move.

Welcome! nice ski, dad's make good net men!