ORIGINAL: Big Tuna

I've seen him stand there for hours,till he gets his man.

I just dont understand how the same guys get away with it year after year. I know for a fact, they run batches upon batches of fish home and come back. The same guys.

Just sayin........

walleye is great. but honestly perch and bluegills are tastier in my opinion.  i will be there june july and august w/ the boys

well where to begin i fish the spill often as i can snagged one last week as a matter of fact sent him packing with a frown . i was not ripping my sonor as hard as i could and did not have any intention of snagging a fish , sometimes there are so many fish that you just cant avoid snagging one or two . the ao's you guys refer to are locals and you just have to get up earlier and get there earlier than they do , if you can't make that kind of commitment to fishing once in a while you should put up your rods and go home . most of the locals think of nonresidents as interlopers and treat them with disdain so don't be an ao yourself and maybe try to get to know some of them and then when their not look'n you slide in between a couple of your new buddies with that said the crappie are hitt'n all over in the bays on the north end , and lastly the icelady is right the crickticketers don't always wear their uniforms when suspected wrongdoing is happening , and i wouldn't be suprised to see one surface in scuba gear in the spillway . more to come from an unhappy local

In my 45 + years of fishing I never owned a Sonar lure and will never own one! I have seen them in use many a day through out my lifetime in different types of fishing and they are by far the No. 1 Snagging Lure ever invented!

ORIGINAL: Split Shot

A guy that lives 2 miles from the Lake doesn't have any more right to the fish than a guy that lives 80 miles away. If they shut rt.79 and 19 down those little towns would be hurt'n. Locals don't like the Muphear's but, Out of towners bring alot of money into Crawford county. Property Taxes, Gas, Food, alcohol, etc. Business people love Muphear's. Just Say'n from a Muphear.

your not a mupear, the correct term is touron [ tourist  +  moron  ]  and as for us locals needing your money, my life wont be 1 bit better or worse if you spend a thousand bucks at the bait shop or 20 cents for a seat in a pay s-h-i-t-t-e-r, so get over your self importance

Bluntman, I only brought it up because Drill4gills mentioned Muphears and out of town interlopers in 2 posts. 

dont think most of the linesville population of less than 2000 has a problem with it either.

MUPHEARS, OUT-TOWNERS, TOURONS , NEVER MIND I'M STAYING OUT OF THIS ONE !!!!! NW/

Take a simple look at Conneaut and the Ghost town that area has become since they slowly started closing the park years ago. When I was a kid there were small businesses all over the place up there, now look around......if you can manage to find a business owner ask them if they like Tourons or not............

This thread is eight (8) years old. Is it still relevant???

Well how about every spring start a new thread with current comments and observations, not stuff that happened eight years ago. 

Pymy Spillway talk....
 
I can think of so many other way to enjoy fishing other than lifting and raking schools of fish stacked in tight spots for spawning. I even understand novices or young fishermen being enticed to easy catching but come on....really ? Is that the best some good fishermen can do to produce fish catches ?

Yea Rich I do, I can't wait to fish it this year ....lol ! Shinnying up my Sonars now !

So if I throw a couple of these on a sonar and rip it as hard as I can ill have better luck at the spillway 😀

Never fished the spillway in the spring for walleye.  Dead mid summer when it's the hottest I will hang out there for some huge catfish about 100 yards off shore in the channel.
As far as sonars, they, like june bug spinners, rooster tails, cpswings, worm harnesses, have had their day in the sun too at Pymatuning.  Probably a five year stretch in the eighties it was the go to lure and EVERY bait shop on the lake had 100s in stock!
I used the heck out them on the north end with some success and an occasional snagged fish.  The best however was a late summer day on the north end and we were just dropping them in a slow flutter and reeling up really slow.  We must have caught fifty big white bass within an hour.  What a circus.