Lake Erie small mouth bass

[Rex]

This will be my first time up.<br />I sure would like some info. if you would<br />help.<br />Could anyboby point me in the right place's<br />to catch some of those big bonze back.<br />G.P.S. location or any help at all I would<br />very much appreciate it.<br />I need to try-out the new 5600 reel on some<br />big boys.<br />17' starcraft boat with a 65 merc.<br />400tx,4 mich 300 reels with fireline on all.<br />maybe what they are hitting on.<br />What is the best time.<br />Just anything that would help.<br />THANK YOU<br />REX A. HUBBLE

 

[ebbtide176]

Re: Lake Erie small mouth bass

maybe someone will come onboard on next round... i can't help you, sorry<br /><br />bump

 

[SeaRay245]

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one thing i forgot to say on the other board is smallies are feedin on the gobies we have here now so there not good to eat

 

[wippb]

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Searay<br />Interesting fact about the gobies. What makes the bass uneatable. Is it that the gobies transfer a bad taste into the bass or something else. Never heard of that before.

 

[SeaRay245]

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for one thing the gobies are a bottom feeding garbage fish and they eat anything that usually means anything thats laying there waste anything and i dont know about u but there some pretty nasty stuff layin on the bottom and i dont think id take the chance by the way gobies also feed on fish eggs and there slowly eating all the walleye eggs and thats never a good thing

 

[singerjr]

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Found this about gobies they have spread even farther. <br /> http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/7_31_99/fob1.htm <br /><br />Very disapointing, going to hurt all the lakes and the Seaway. <br /><br />At least it's not all bad news. Time will tell.

 

[singerjr]

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Would-be goby predators have had a tough learning curve, Jude's studies indicate, because the 5-inch-long invaders behave in ways "none of our native fish ever do," he says. They jerk, scoot, then stop, only to shoot out unexpectedly in another direction. Other times, he notes, gobies dive under the gravel and vanish. Jude has watched hungry bass become flummoxed by the gobies' seemingly erratic activity. <br /><br />However, the predatory fish seem to be wising up. Increasingly, anglers are catching game fish that have stomachs full of gobies—suggesting these larger fish may begin reining in the gobies' territorial dominance.<br /><br />Yet that fuels another concern. Mussels pick up and store toxic pollutants from the water. Mussel-eating gobies will pass those toxicants on to the fish that prey on gobies, which can then transfer the poisons further up the food chain—potentially into people. "Right now, we're investigating how much of a [human] problem this will become," Jude says.

 

[SeaRay245]

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yup its true we have even found some inside the belly of our beloved walleye kinda scary in fact

 

[smsean]

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are we talking about catching smallmouths or we talking about catching gobies?

 

[fishy13]

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Don't know when you are planning a trip but I'm originally from Buffalo NY and small mouth bass are not big at all I think the record is less than 6 pnds. So when you say your gonna test out your new rod on some of the big boys I just laughed! "TIP" Good Luck with your trip ask one of the locals where the Hamburg town Park is and fish 450 yrds in front of that park out in Lake Erie about 15-25 ft depth and you may have some luck.