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Havent been on here in a while. But he's now hanging on the wall.

Stingers. As everyone already stated, the paint is an issue.

This 10 point deer was taken in the Ravenna National Guard Training and Logistics Site in Ravenna Ohio. I green scored him @135 5/58 with 10 6/8 in deductions.

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Congrats on your first deer! And great job Dad!

Do you have a picture of the mast? And would you ship to Ohio?

Nice job Jess. How deep is the water there? Walleye at 65' down. Wow.

Sorry to get back so late. The water where we were at was 72-75 FOW.

We got our three tickets punched today! Went out of Conneaut to the 10/36 and trolled with the wave NNE. Speed was 2.4. Ran all dipsy program using the green circus freak and a glow in the dark frog. Circus Freak did the job today. All #1 dipsys, 3.5 outsides setting, @195-210, 2 inside setting @130-160. Downrigger set @58'-68'. All eyes were over 26" hogs with only exceptions was two @ 20". Waves weren't that bad in the morning, but the afternoon brought out some 3' breakers. All in all a great day.

Hit the big pond again on Sunday. We ended up with only 9 eyes, but we had to leave early. We went north out of the harbor to 72 FOW and trolled with the waves. Outside #1 dipsy set @3.5 150 out caught most of the fish with spoons.Hot colors for spoons was MI stinger confused blonde and Ole Pete's bloody nose. Meat only caught 2, and nothing off of the wire. All the fish were hogs with one Fish Ohio.

Sorry for the late report. We launched out of Geneva 4 JULY 10 @0500hrs. Headed north to 70 FOW. Set up and trolled with the wind. We ran 4 dipsys, and two wire rods. Big Dipsy #2 setting @ 125-135 #3.5 setting @150-160 all spoons, wire set at 250 back with cranks. GPS ground speed was 2.6mph. Hot color was purple. Wire only brought in two eyes. We ended up with two tickets, plus one 27" steelhead. All the eyes with the exception of one was all over 25-28" range. The fish shut down at 10:00am. We had to leave at 11:00, so it worked out for us.

Ray, I headed out of Geneva Sat. I left my jets at home. Wished we had them. There not interested in dipsys yet.

Good job Ray, I'l be seeing you soon on the river! If the weather holds up, we'll be going out of Geneva Sat. Good luck and be safe. Jess

It's a week late, but here it is. We went up last weekend out of Geneva. Headed west about 7-8 miles. Trolled in 47-50FOW. Only one eye and several farm animals. Marked lots of fish, just no cooperative fish.

Okay lets get this party started. It's been a while since a post for Ohio Erie was put on here. Has anyone gone up this year? How are you doing?

If the weather holds up, I'll be launching out of Geneva this Sun. I'll have a report good or bad coming up. Good luck to all and be safe.

Good eating there!

Had a great year in Ohio and West Virginia. The first deer was an almost perfect 8, but he had one tine broke. It was taken on a controlled hunt at a Army National Guard base in Ravenna, Ohio. It field dressed in at 151lbs. The ODNR guy aged it at an unbelievable 2.5 years old.

The second deer was an 8pt from WV. It was my son's first deer hunt. It field dressed in at 125lbs

That was awful nice of that person to do that. Then to take nothing for it to boot! Hope you get back on the water soon.

I went out of Ashtabula 06 SEPT 09 to the 08/47 line and got our 2 man ticket. Thew action was great in the morning and it died of in the afternoon.

Good job! I gave up on the eyes for a bit and started perching. Went out of Ashtabula yesterday in 58 FOW and got two tickets. Started to knocking off the third one and it was getting pretty ruff so we called it quits. I'll try for walleyes this Friday if the weather cooperates.

That's what I was thinking Tray.

I was on my buddies boat and he had vinyl on his floor. I want to put some new carpet where the existing carpet is and put in some compartments somewhere.

Go with the vinyl. The carpet is a pain. It retains fish slim, dirt, and other nasty stuff. At the end of the day, all you do is hose off the vinyl.

Jess, you may have hit on the head.

If in fact there is such an abundance of foods for them, it sure would explain alot.

I mean you can find the fish, but, they just don't want what we have been offering.

Has to be something to it.

Maybe now that the Full moon is past, things will pickup ?

Then again, they are calling for storms and winds here for the weekend, so anything that was setting up in patterns, is gonna be dispersed again.

That is the only thing that I can figure out. It applies for hunting, so why not the fish.

I agree, the weather is going to screw up everything this weekend. We have a small craft advisory so I already cancelled tomorrow. ARRRGGGHHHH!

Here's a crazy idea. All species need food, cover, space, and habitat in order to survive. Obviously, the water space and habitat are there. What about food? Since the majority of us us spoons and with the abundance of the water fleas, and the hook fleas, do you think that the fish really do not care for our presentations? Perhaps they are getting their fill on the fleas? Remember how tough it is to fish when the mayflies hatch, or when other species are in abundance?

I've run both black, and chrome with no significant difference. The fish don't really care IMHO.

Glad to hear they made it our way. I have been on vacation so I haven't been out in two weeks. Hopefully if the weather holds out I'll be up there Fri/Sat.

I just sent my LMS332C back for repairs. It was blowing fuses and would keep re-starting itself. Then it stopped working all together.

Good luck with Lowrance's customer services. It took me three days to finally get through with almost an hour wait each time.

Nice job Jess!

Thanks. It is slow going in our neck of the woods right now. Not a whole lot of action going on. Hopefully I'll have some better reports in the next few weeks coming up.