Re: Turmoil in Lake Ontario

Amazing that you moved to AZ after loosing that lunker Bob...

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"Bob La Londe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "go-bassn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I thought Erie was an amazing smallmouth fishery.  Literally millions of
> > bass.
> >
> > Warren
>
> It has been known for walleye and perch (both yellow and white) as long as
I
> can remember.  It also has a pretty good amazing white bass population.
You
> can catch them by the hundreds anyplace there is a warm water discharge.
>
> Also, I don't know if its the origin of the noodle rod, but its one of the
> first places that noodle rods were used to catch big steelhead on
extralight
> lines.
>
> As to smallmouth.  When I lived in Ohio most fishermen I knew didn't chase
> smallies, but I had one break off on me that was pretty big off the south
> shore of one of the islands out from Marblehead.  I was trolling a Rapala
> gold minnow behind a downrigger going for walleye.  I was watching the
chart
> recorder and keeping the cannon ball a few feet off the bottom.  When he
hit
> the steel rod that supports the cable started bouncing like I was dragging
> it over big rocks.  The line release didn't function so I brought it up on
> the cable while my uncle stood by holding the rod.  Line had wrapped
around
> the downrigger cable.  When I looked up that smallie had a mouth so big
> dragging through the water it almost looked we had a drift anchor out
behind
> us.  I frantically tried to get the line unwrapped, and when I did the
line
> seperated at the line release.  Oh, man that was a fish I wish I had been
> able to hold.
>
>
> --
> Bob La Londe
> Yuma, Az
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