Drewhop

I am Andy. From Newark which is just east of Columbus. I am surrounded by rivers and lakes. Buckeye/Dillon Licking river Muskingum river. I will fish any water I can get to. I have a 16 foot tri-hull boat that is about to hit the water for first time in the next two weeks. The rebuild is almost complete.

I cant believe I didnt think of a Alice pack. I go into the Mil surplus stores all the time.

So I am a tad on the large size. I am about 6'1 and 340 lbs. That is not my problem tho. I have 54" shoulders which I think is where my problem arises. The reason I bring this up is cause I found a few back packs at a couple local places and all of them are too small. I do alot of walking when I fish rivers and streams and would love something I can strap on my back pack a bunch of supplies and keep on fishing. Any suggestions would be great.

I bought some Gammy EWG RB today. I really liked them. I bought 1/0 and 3/0. I was targeting some small fish and I did notice I was hooking farther out on the lip but it was still a solid hookset.

"I'm In"

Nice looking smallie. Would love to get into a few hogs like that locally.

Just depends on my mood. Most of the time I use artificial. If I am feeling lazy and want to relax and let me son do some fishing as well. I will get bait and enjoy a nice calm sit down.

I have In-Fisherman and Ohio Game and Fish sitting beside me on my desk at work. 2lb Bluegill=awesome. I also read the How to on this site which made the article stand out even more.

Thanks for the welcome. My grandparents have a house over at Indian. I go there a couple times a year and do a bit of fishing. I am already a addict on a ohio fishing site and a few other forums. Might as well get addicted to this one.

This fishing season has started a little rough for me. I have lost 3 good size smallies in the local rivers. So I decided today I was going to walk a smallmouth creek until I caught one. Well I now have a sunburn and I caught a 9" creek chub on a jignpig lol. Smallies are winning so far this year but they will meet there match soon enough. I did have a blast playing with the creek chubs tho. There had to of been 4000 of those things swimming the waters and the male I caught was in full spawning mode. They get seriously pink when its there time to shine.

Thanks for the warm welcome. It is hard not to find what you are looking for on this site. Seems like a bunch of great info. Look forward to adding some info as well.

Thought I would stop in here and say hi. I am from Newark Ohio. I have been fishing as long as I can remember. It is my escape as I am sure quite a few people share the same escape. I am a casual angler but only because I need more hours in the day. I also think lunch should be a mandatory 3 hours so fishing can be figured into the schedule. I am a member of a Ohio forum as well but bass are my true love. Small mouth large mouth I just think there need to be more of them. Well enough rambling here are a few pictures from last year. Still need to catch a few more this year. I was going to post a few pics but I will wait until I get a few more posts under my belt. Look forward to meeting some new people.