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Messages - muskarp
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« on: March 08, 2014, 09:12:58 AM »
Hit it again yesterday. Bright sun melted the little snow that covered the lake. Pounded all day with not a cloud in site. Fish moved deeper. 18-24' was the ticket with several different baits. Ice was still 9" at sunset.
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« on: March 06, 2014, 08:56:59 PM »
I broke out the Vexilar Fish Scout I stole off Dave yesterday. I didn't use it for fishing, just to see how deep the light was penetrating in Alum's chocolate milk. Seemed 12' was about as deep as light was getting. Cut about 40 holes in 3'-27' spread the tip-ups and did some hole hoppin'. Pulled 9-eyes, 2-perch, 1-cat and a gill. Unfortunately 7 were short by less than a inch and one little cigar. Blue Ice Pimple with a minnow head in 12-14' was the ticket for eye's,cat came out of 27'. Marmooska pulled the perch in 18'. Thanks for the scout Dave. It earned it's two minutes of use today.
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« on: February 28, 2014, 10:33:59 AM »
Great story. Glad you found a keeper after your pathetic perch day. After a day like that you've earned something worth talking about. I'm sure your BF and father are both very proud of you. Made your trip south well worth the effort.
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« on: February 23, 2014, 07:49:55 PM »
Most of the lake had ten inches after the rain. However, USACE has allowed the lake to rise three feet since then. Good news is it's starting to fall. Just hope they stop at 885' (where it was when it froze).
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« on: February 22, 2014, 11:17:51 AM »
Wow! Where is this at? Did you check personally or is this the bait shop report? We stopped at FFB yesterday morning about 10am. No fisherman. We walked out past the island. Questionable ice the entire way with lots of holes from melting snow and rain. We stayed 10 minutes and headed for better ice up north.
Even though most area's had 8" of ice. The top 4-5" were honeycombed and crumbled easily. I can't imagine yesterday's wind, sun and warm temperatures improved the ice's condition. I will not be surprised to hear of somebody getting wet today. Far from "solid".
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« on: February 18, 2014, 08:30:45 PM »
Saw a couple guys cat fishing today. If I had known they were going to be out there I would have taken them my old stink bait. As for the saugeye fisherman, I didn't catch any.
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« on: February 09, 2014, 09:21:30 PM »
Best way to go through the reg's is like this: Let's say your fishing Buckeye, start with the site specific reg's and see what all fish have Buckeye next to them, then go to the statewide reg's if the specie your catching is not shown under site specific reg's, if it's not under either there is no size or bag limit for the lake/ specie combination your checking (i.e Buckeye: saugeye 15"-6/day, crappie 9"-30/day, LMB doesn't have site specific so it falls under the statewide 12"-5/day, bluegill have no length or bag limit, perch have no length but fall under the statewide 40/day limit)
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« on: February 09, 2014, 09:08:26 PM »
Yes
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« on: February 07, 2014, 08:36:01 PM »
Just eat fast and stay under the limit. Don't bring more than a limit and you will be fine.
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« on: February 07, 2014, 08:04:48 PM »
Well after somebody talked me into hitting the lake, then bailing on me. I decided to sell out on the unproductive main lake operations that I've been conducting this ice season and head to community cove. Gas auger is in the shop again this season so the game plan was to punch three holes under the shanty and fish them no matter what. No hole hoppin' today! Set up on the break in 23'. First hole had a branch that I managed to wiggle off of twice. So the cover went on that hole. Moved to the next hole. Worked a 1/10th oz pink ice pimple with a minnow head to pull a couple out of this hole. But for some reason I moved to my last hole (maybe because the wood slot is smaller and less ice shows to help keep things warm inside). Bite on the pimple seemed to slow so I switched to a 2lb rod with a firetiger Marmooska with three maggots. That was the ticket all afternoon. Had to keep it moving though. If it stopped the fish would bail. Pulled most fish two to three foot off the bottom to get them to strike. Ended up with 19 fish between 10-14", only threw two back about 9-9.5"
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« on: February 01, 2014, 12:10:08 AM »
Try 128th oz marmooskas ( I think size 16) with one spike. Bite always gets tough after a month of ice. Gotta down size and go to 1lb test.
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« on: January 31, 2014, 10:12:26 PM »
Made the long drive back to my old stomping grounds yesterday. Ice was acceptable but not great. Hill country did not allow the wind to sweep the snow off. So, ice varied from 3" to 8". I don't fish the roadbed so I'm not sure how it faired. I'd imagine it was better since foot traffic and holes allowed cold to contact the ice. Managed 1 keeper eye, bass and crappie, and six dink cats. Lake has always been clear. Zebra mussles have made it too clear. I could see the bottom in 15' were I was fishing. Pretty tough to fool heavily pursued fish in those conditions. They recognize the fakes too easily.
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« on: January 31, 2014, 09:05:45 PM »
You know SS. I have met quite a few of the central Ohio guys on the ice at Alum and they pretty much never post, and they are the sites originators  . BTW, Alums been handing it to me this year. But all she's doing is peeing me off and I'm going to open a can on her one of these days. Then I'll post.... with pictures. 
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« on: January 31, 2014, 08:57:18 PM »
Congrats to you and your daughter. This stuff is addicting (when your catching).
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« on: January 31, 2014, 09:32:56 AM »
I use a Gamakatsu B10S stinger in size 6. It's actually a fly tying hook. Thin wire. Real nice hookup. Usually use on 4lb, sometimes 6lb, wouldn't use with 8lb (hooks too light weight). I hook the minnow just under the front end of the dorsal in the meat of the back. Hook is fine enough that it barely injures the minnow, keeping it lively. Here's a link: http://www.caddisflyshop.com/gab1stho.htmlAlso, hooking through the nose exhausts and eventually suffocates the minnow. Making him an easy target for sniffing and nibbling. A lively minnow makes the attacker commit and eat the bait. The dorsal hook does not pinch the mouth closed, does not drag the tail down (as in tail hooking), and holds the fish in a position that does not require it to struggle. Thus keeping it alive longer. However, struggling minnows do attract more attention, they just need replaced every ten minutes.
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