"go-bassn" 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.


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Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com
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