You know you have too many fishing shows set to record on you DVR when you leave Friday afternoon with 90% available and come back Sunday night with 22% available and everything that was recorded in your absence was all fishing except the Big Blue / Tenn game (really ashame about Patterson for this guy is mature beyond his years and deserved better).

I start watching some of my recorded shows and In Fisherman Critical Concepts is one of the first. The same Mark Davis that I posted that busted his glasses with the spinnerbait on Lake Huites, who this show says is a Shakespeare something or nother, is fishing Lake Erie just after ice out. 43 degree water temps and they are fishing 1oz lead head jigs and 4 inch tubes on humps and SMOKING the Smallies. Big fish after big fish. Made me wonder what really is the difference about Dale and 43 degree water and Erie 43 degree water. Here I am SLOW fishing a 1 inch FNF suspended and they are dragging 4 inch tubes on 1oz heads. Davis also said something else interesting when he was releasing a 21 inch fish for he said that fish was a good 15 years old. I know the growing seasons are different and know the intervention of the Gobys(sp) at Erie as a food source has really helped but 15 years old sounds like a lot for a 21 inch fish. Wonder how old a 21 inch fish at Dale is? Between this show and the one that committed Fishicide on my other post has started me thinking of some alternative methods, when and if I can ever learn when to put down the Fly which is almost impossible. My first thoughts are jerkbaiting the outer edges paralleling the grass beds, weitless flukes fished slow thru the grass, rattle traps down the grass lines for these can't be moving any where near as fast as Hens's boat was on that one strike, dragging tubes thru the grass, crankbaits down the grass lines are all things that I don't do when the water is this cold but maybe I will start this mid week on my next trip. See ya, any opinions...