Joe and I took our little boats to St. Joseph Lake Sunday, August 1st, 2010, I caught the first fish on A KVD worm and caught another both small. I lost two fish. Joe also caught two small bass. I think I won though cause I caught the first one 
.
We didn’t catch anything to brag about but we had a good time. The water temp was 80 degrees and pretty stained to lightly muddy, they must have got more rain there than we did at home.
I had the opportunity to visit Lake Logan in Ohio and watch the weigh in yesterday about noon. I got to see some of the people I have been reading about in the reports. I must say everyone seemed really friendly and nice.
My friend, Larry Sali got big bass at 5.32 pounds. Sam and Mike Skinner got first place with a 14.26 pound bag John and Carol Bircher got second place with a 12.98 pound bag
It was a little warm but some nice bags of bass came in. I can highly recommend this tournament for anyone who likes to fish for bass. I believe it starts at 7 am an weigh in is at noon. Please check to make sure I am correct on the time.
My fishing partner Joe and I went to Oakthorpe Thursday, July 1 and I was lucky enough to catch a 4 pound 13 ounce Largemouth. Sure looks skinny in the picture that Joe took, it was actually a chunky fish.
I caught it on a green and white Scum Frog and it was the only fish we caught. Notice the eye wound, must have got hooked before or something.
Joe being the good sport he is…first complained that I waited to long to set the hook, even though you are suppose to wait until you feel the fish, I caught the bass Joe! Then he said it was blemished because of the eye. Um Joe, how was the eye on the one you caught? NOT! Little bit of jealousy huh Joe?
Joe and I went fishing today at an Ohio lake a friend of ours told us about, which I promised to keep secret. We got there about 8:30. I was using a green and White Scum frog, one of my favorite lures.
My first fish weighed in at a nice 7 pounds 4 ounces and I was very happy made my day. About 15 minutes later I hooked another big bass, I weighed it and it went 8 pounds two ounce. My third bass was over 6 pounds and the fourth bass just went 1/2 pound.
This lake was cover in grass and algae. I had to clean the trolling motor of weeds about 6 times. The lake is also very shallow and we had to use our little 8 foot boats to even fish it in Southeast Ohio.
This was the best day as far as big bass goes that I have had in a long time.
Joe and I went bass fishing in Somerset Reservoir in Ohio Sunday. We caught about 6 small bass a piece and seen some big bass spawning.
I caught my bass on a Zoom Mini lizard Junebug color and one on a lizard camo color. The water was still a little stained from all the rain we had Friday night.
This is a very small lake with no ramp and if you were to take a small boat like a bass hunter, it is trolling motor only.
If you’re looking for a couple of tournaments to fish with nice people I can recommend Lake Logan Saturday mornings and Dow Lake, by Athens on Thursday nights.
These are a good bunch of people that don’t act like know it alls like some bass clubs do. These are just a bunch of people who get together and like to fish for bass.
If you’re new or a veteran fisherman, you will like these people. They are a good bunch of guys and will help you any way they can.
Try it, you might like it!
Joe Arnold and I went to New Lexington Reservoir in Ohio Saturday May 15, 2010 and caught about 15 small bass. We seen a couple of nice ones on their beds but most of the ones we caught were less than 12 inches long.
Joe caught his on a white trick worm fished weightless and I caught mine on a Zoom mini Lizard, junebug color.
Joe looked like a lobster after fishing all day in the sun.
I have heard of big bass being caught in this reservoir but haven’t seen any big ones caught in two years.
Joe and I went to Oakthorpe Thursday and never caught a fish! We didn’t even have a good strike let alone a bass. It has been pretty slow lately, my friend Larry who usually slaughters them hasn’t done real well either there.
Joe went again today and never caught a fish again.
Hopefully things will pick up.
I do know the Division of Watercraft are watching this lake and looking for people who run their outboards since it is a trolling motor only lake. I hope they catch them!
Every time I go to Oakthorpe Reservoir there are idiots who are running their outboard motors even though it is a trolling motor only lake. So, I politely tell them it is a trolling motor only lake and then they get upset and tell me it isn’t even though all they have to do is go to the ODNR website and see that it is….the very first sentence says trolling motor only lake.
The good news about all this is that I talked to a Division Of Watercraft Officer and he assured me Oakthorpe was going to be patrolled for people who run their outboards……..woohoo, that is good news! Thanks!
Oakthorpe is a very small lake only 46 acres and why people think they need to run their outboards there I will never know.
I read an article back in the early sixties that 1 out of every 100,000 bass eggs make it to an adult. This really concerned me and before B.A.S.S. or most any other fishing organization was formed, I began to preach to others about catch and release.
Now you have to realize back then almost every one ate the fish they caught. One such person was a good friend of mine named Joe. Joe loved to fish for bass and was quite a sportsman but what he caught he kept. Well, I talked to him about catch and release but he wanted to still keep the fish. I tried everything I knew to keep him from keeping all the fish he caught.
One day he put a nice bass on his stringer and I began about how I couldn’t believe how he was going to keep that fish. How only 1 in 100,000 made it to an adult and how that was a female bass and it would produce more bass if returned. I kept on him for about an hour.
I would do this every time we went fishing. One day he agreed with me and returned the bass he caught and very rarely did he keep a bass after that at least that I know about.
Here is the deal. I have seen people keep every bass they catch, I have seen guides who tell their customers to get their fish mounted and even include it in the price they charge when they catch a nice bass. I have seen others especially older people keep all their fish. Somewhere along the line it is going to effect the number and quality of bass both. You have to realize older people lived in the depression years to and were brought up to eat fish, it was a way to survive when others had nothing, so I have no qualms about that but now they don’t need to keep everything they catch.
Now, I don’t mind people keeping a bass every once in a while if they like to eat bass but just remember the big bass are females. They will be the ones who produces more bass for all of us to enjoy in later years.