I took the boat out to work out the cobwebs. It sucked that the Maple Street dock isn't in yet. SUCKED!
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I consider a keeper. We watched the Game Warden bullshitting with guys hooking them just the same and throwing every one on the stringer. They'd basically have to shut the run down to stop people keeping those fish. Throw away millions of dollars getting pumped into the local economy
So what if this fish bites the jig head first and the hook gets set and hooks him like that? Was the lure not in his mouth? It's a huge grey area
Can't blame ya. We need an inch of rain badly. My boat trailer is getting an overhaul this week. I wanna follow you up there sometime
You said earlier you are flossing them. So which way is it? Fish that bite at a twister tail are going after the tail. And the hook is inside the mouth. This right here looks like a snag to me. All I'm saying is I've been written a ticket down there for fish that have been hooked closer to the inside of the mouth than that. The main reason I rarely fish that money trap for maumee and Perrysburg. Speaking of money for the local economy...writing multiple tickets at a pace of 85 to 120 dollars a whack pumps alot of money into the local economy up there.
I'm flossing them, no doubt. Just playing devil's advocate. I seen 0 fish hooked inside out today.
Woke up late and went around 11am this morning and caught two and lost one. Not a bad start.
Where do the walleye go when they get stinger hooks in the chin, jigging out on the lake? From what I've witnessed, in the cooler.
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Honestly, doesn’t it take some balls to write tickets for snagged fish when commercial nets are used in the lake?
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Not disagreeing with that statement. Also not pointing out the fact or stating that 99 percent of the fish caught on the lake are hooked outside the mouth which they are NOT.Where do the walleye go when they get stinger hooks in the chin, jigging out on the lake? From what I've witnessed, in the cooler.
Here is a female walleye that absolutely deep throated a bandit on April 5th last year.
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There are just as many, if not more, walleye thrown into coolers that come to the boat with a crankbait “velcroed” to the side of the face as there are fowl-hooked and kept in the Maumee and Sandusky rivers. There’s no question those fish were going for it. Writing a ticket for a fish hooked anywhere near the mouth is dumb IMO. Six fish is six fish. There’s over 150-million adult walleye in the system right now, literally an all-time high. I think we’ll be alright.
Totally agree Jim. Plenty of fish in the system now.
Difference here is the river fisherman are proclaiming that they are admittingly force feeding the river fish...hell they aren't even using bait to prove their point.
To each their own as long as the wardens allow it now who really cares. I can tell you all without a doubt it never used to be allowed.
And with the crankbait velcroed to the side of the head statement it is a pretty common occurrence when there are 9 hooks on the average crankbait as compared to 1 single hook from a floating jig.
Difference here is the river fisherman are proclaiming that they are admittingly force feeding the river fish...hell they aren't even using bait to prove their point.
To each their own as long as the wardens allow it now who really cares. I can tell you all without a doubt it never used to be allowed.
And with the crankbait velcroed to the side of the head statement it is a pretty common occurrence when there are 9 hooks on the average crankbait as compared to 1 single hook from a floating jig.
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I agree with you on that. Consider the river gets about 1% of the pressure the lake gets. Maybe more fish chin hooked by stinger hooks on one day on the lake than outside in fish on the river the whole seasonthe
So the question is: Do you still wanna come fish with us?
Hell yes I do but I'm gonna use a pink twister tail just incase I get one of the 1 percenters that bite...lmaoI agree with you on that. Consider the river gets about 1% of the
So the question is: Do you still wanna come fish with us?
. I always admired the old school snaggers that used the clear metal flake tails that blended in with the fish. Not that you seen it above water when they were armpit deep taking them offMan y’all making this complicated. Just simply ask yourself what would the Indians do?
Then self identify as one from 114 years ago.
EASY PEASY
Then self identify as one from 114 years ago.
EASY PEASY