OhioFisherman

If the water is solid? it's too cold!

http://www.cleveland19.com/story/34019228/3-were-air-lifted-to-metrohealth-after-thursday-i-90-crash-officials-say Winter is off to a wild start here! I-90 east of Cleveland has been a mess since Thursday, and parts of it are closed again today. I can still see my grass, lake effect snow hasn't reached us... yet!

Read White Fang by Jack London, an old classic I read as a kid. The beginning makes wolves out to be smart and able to trap their prey.

LOL, I have never seen a caution salmon crossing sign!

I remember for a lot of years in the 60's and 70's there was a big commercial fishing boat ( netter) that was at the public dock by Kennedy's, I am sure that had an effect? I didn't see it there in the 80's as I recall. Opening of the walleye season and late fall used to be about the only time you saw walleyes being caught, it was a rough go any other time, although for me it changed in the mid 80's, I got them during mid summer when I bothered to fish for them. My dad and one of my uncles went to PAB for the opener in the 60's, my uncle got 3 walleye all week, dad got the skunk, but my uncles 3 walleye went around 25 pounds, one was around 10 3/4 pounds. They were around but limited numbers? and concentrated pre and post spawn?

I am sure gobies have helped here but there were big smallies in Lake Erie before they became common? We used to consider it a bad day back in the 1970's if we didn't get at least one 5#er. Fish eat fish? Gobies are small and everything bigger is probably eating them? Walleyes, pike, and even sheephead? In my younger days I remember catching perch at PAB that were full of crawfish, so every little bit of food helps? A local tackle shop owner and competitive bass fisherman here has been fishing the Lake Erie tournaments for decades, a good day weather wise and a good bite might mean a 30 pound limit for a win, it's really not a new thing? Glen Lau, a former Lake Erie guide and writer had pictures of huge schools of Erie smallies he took while diving back in the 1960's, people just weren't fishing for them then except during the spring bite. When I had my bigger boat back in the early 1980's in the Erie island area every charter captain at the marina seemed to have a stringer mount of a limit of 4-6 pound smallies.

http://www.wildlifelandtrust.org/wildlife/diy-activities/how-to-identify-coyote-tracks.html https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Gray-Wolf/Identification If it's any help, we have coyotes in my area, they can be heard at night, but I have yet to see one. A couple have been hit by cars and reported and collected.

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/invasive-bloody-red-shrimp-may-be-supper-great-lakes-fish.html http://www.glfc.org/eforum/article9.html http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/national_invasive_species_awareness_week_bloody_red_shrimp Not a fan of invasive species, that one though could be a new food source for young fish?

http://forums.tackletour.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=60338 They argue bearings there too!

I don't know anyone that has upgraded bearings in a spinning reel, on a casting reel it is fairly common, on a spinning reel you will gain what? Lape has the right idea, on a casting reel it will gain some casting distance.

Nice work Fish! 3 days fishing to catch a fish of a lifetime doesn't seem bad!

Condolences to the family and friends. Bad weather? the boat looks like it had some modifications?

What's fishing?

http://fish.shimano.com/content/dam/shimanoweb/fish/sac-fish/en/techdocs/current-models--2-/CARDIFF/CDF200A On that schematic I see two bearings with the same part number, 2927, those I believe are your spool bearings, one seems to go on each end of the spool.

https://www.boat-ed.com/canada/studyGuide/101199/# Not sure if this will be any help?

glen, no idea, he worked at a casino in Niagara?

Just curious, what ever happened to Rick O'Bannion? from the Niagara region?

Dan, would they have that book or a similar one at the library?

No idea up there, but the foam ones seem to be used for electronics a lot? Maybe at a place that caters to them? https://www.amazon.com/100pcs-Cleaning-Sponge-Printhead-Optical/dp/B00ST37P62/ref=pd_sim_194_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GQJJ3MY9NKXB4E19VVVA

Other videos on the link, you can try to type in your reel on the search too.

http://www.mikesreelrepair.com/schematics/fishing-reel-schematics/ http://fish.shimano.com/content/sac-fish/en/home/customer-service/reel-schematics.html http://www.fishingreelparts.com/schematics.asp http://www.pursuetheoutdoors.com/fishing/reel-schematics/ Youtube may have some videos on cleaning reels?

LOL! If you have a wife? She may not think so?

LOL Dave, I lived 1/4 of a mile from Lake Erie for a time, it was nice, I could drive up to the end of the street and decide if it worth going out. South winds here were usually a lock, I didn't have to go far out to catch smallies or walleye.

A couple of years old but a pretty smooth dry ride?

Cool, nice pics!