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« on: October 04, 2014, 04:08:00 PM »
If todays snow was any indication, we may have good ice by the Nov 2nd season opener....LOL Assuming were still on Sundays and starting Nov 2nd....  Salmonid
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« on: September 21, 2014, 03:18:27 PM »
Thanks Dave, looking forward to it, have won some of the sponsors stuff in years past, always good stuff and a great time!
Salmonid
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« on: March 25, 2014, 06:30:46 PM »
Good choices Dave, I agree with your selection!! those were awesome catches... now I know Ill have to top my 13.5" Crappie, 18" Hybrid Striper and small channel cat for next year!! I had a trophy cat on but lost him at the hole, a whole lot of shoulda, coulda going on. LOL
Salmonid
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« on: February 21, 2014, 08:15:30 PM »
13.25" from my pond this afternoon, also got a nice 11.25 heavy guy as well as a few shorties Ice jig tipped with waxie  Salmonid
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« on: February 21, 2014, 08:12:13 PM »
not huge but always fun on a public lake to get a nice fish on an ice jig and the light rod, LOL 16.5", maybe 2.5 lbs pretty heavy frame...Released...  Salmonid
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« on: February 15, 2014, 07:44:37 PM »
I put it into a clear pouch like you would for an office folder holder.. make sense, keeps it dry when you lay fish on top of it.
Now I need to catch some more quality fish, lost a 8-9 lb channel when it wouldn't come through a 4" hole... whoops.....
Salmonid
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« on: February 15, 2014, 07:36:22 PM »
actually I thought the fishing was decent today, me and 2 buddys from ogf.com caught about 30 short crappies and 13 keepers, and about a dozen white bass from tiny to 4 between 11" -13" a few tiny perch and 1 decent gill and a small channel , all near the dam area. caught on a little of everything, ice jigs and spikes seemed to be the best, tons more lookers and you had to work them hard to get them to bite, best ones were the ones about 3 or more feet off the bottom, they seemed to hit better.
Salmonid
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« on: January 27, 2014, 08:28:21 AM »
agree that just because a fish is small, doesn't mean it is stunted, and that's the key to weather or not they should be culled or not, if your in a big lake that's got a lot of nice keeper gills and some medium ones and some small ones, Id NEVER waste any fish as that's a sign of a healthy predator vs Prey lake where things are balanced just right. ( without mans help)
But if the lake has 98 out of a 100 gills under 5" then it probably needs some thinning.
Everyone wants a lake loaded with big gills but if your taking any, don't expect the cycle to last for long because you will have interfered with mother natures plan, LOL
Just like farm ponds, no such thing as a lake full of big bass and big gills, it will be one or the other , usually big gils means stunted bass and a lake with big bass usually means stunted gills there are always a few years of overlap where a lake will have decent numbers of both in its lifetime but as all living things, there is evolution and eventually the ponds fish will balance each other out.
It always amazes me how some guys will throw away and leave on the ice 6.5" gills all day long not realizing that next yea those guys will be solid keepers.. Duh....
Salmonid
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« on: January 26, 2014, 07:20:23 PM »
Thanks again BassHawk, Nick was happy to hear you had his stuff and grateful to get it back! Thanks again for doing the right thing!
Salmonid
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« on: January 26, 2014, 07:17:30 PM »
Lowell, you need to get your priorities straight...LOL  Pipes can wait, fishing cannot!! Salmonid
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« on: January 26, 2014, 07:13:12 PM »
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Me, my buddy Scott and Pondfin@tic and his buddy Ricky fished out from the ramp today, started at the 2nd pilings since some guys were already at first ones, we got 3-4 sunfish and 1 short crappie there between the 4 of us in an hour so we headed straight out into deeper water, in the next 2 places we set up, we managed a fair number of fish, 1 small white bass, 1 small perch, 2 small channels cats, about a dozen short crappies and managed 8 keepers with 4 of them between 10-12" so enough action to keep us all happy since we were out in open water, ice was 6" at pilings and about 8-9" on the main lake. Fish caught on a variety of things, Ice jigs with both spikes and waxies, sweedish pimples, forage minnows, jigging raps and probably some other stuff. Couldn't find any consistencies to the bite, early on you had to really work them to bite then later after noon, if you jiggled it too much they swam away, we did mark many fish that were interested but wouldn't commit, frustrating....
Overall a decent day with good friends and decent temps, the wind picked up later in the morning but in the shanty wasn't bad.
I hope others did ok out on the ice today
Salmonid
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Dayton, Ohio
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« on: January 22, 2014, 03:25:08 AM »
yes golden shiner, I have them in my pond and catch them all winter, about 9-10" is a really big one usually in the top half of the water column Im always chasing them thinking there crappies, LOL
Salmonid
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« on: January 18, 2014, 07:42:51 PM »
we fished on the main lake but at 10 am this morning, 24 cars at Blackhawk with folks spread out everywhere, the couple we spoke to were not having much luck. edges are still iffy so be careful, I went from 6" solid to a spud through on the first hit in a mater of inches, snow will cover up the cracks and soft spots so be ever vigilant, I spudded my way across a half mile of ice today LOL Im wore out...LOL
Salmonid
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« on: January 18, 2014, 03:29:27 PM »
Got this 15" White bass out on the main lake today at Indian, again, slammed a Jigging Rap, barely and I mean barely..came through my 4" hole, LOL  Salmonid
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« on: January 16, 2014, 06:14:42 PM »
St marys is the most heavily tested watershed in the state, if there was a problem, the EPA would be all over it....
We eat fish year round never a problem and I fish all the catfish tourneys there all through the bloom and the fish don't mind if you can handle fishing water the color of pea soup. LOL Best fishing of the year for us has been in the worst of the blooms and I have bass tourney guys tell us the same thing.
I was talking to the Outdoorsman bait shop today they have spikes and waxies but open at 8:00 am, he told me always a couple guys waiting for him to open.
Im also trying to figure out ice thickness for a trip up this weekend, I need to know what main lake looks like, looking for crappies and I have nice spot in mind, only a 15 minute walk from the parking area.
Funny what Waupak said about the armchair guys always watching from the cars, laziest batch of folks I ever seen, LOL we will get some nice cats from the boat during tourneys and have then hop out of the car after watching us, and cast within a few feet of our boat after seeing us land a big channel cat.. We love to catch and let go right in front of them, maybe a 4-5 lber and watch and listen to them bitch and moan that we wouldn't drive over to give it to them, ha ha
Anyways , let me know what the ice is like from this week....
Salmonid
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