Mohican State Park 26 DEC 2016

Originally, my brother and my friend Corey were going to hit up Cascade Valley Metro Park and/or the Gorge Metro Park near Athens, OH but decided upon Mohican State park at the last minute.  According to Wiki, " Mohican State Park is a 1,110-acre (4.5 km²) Ohio state park in Ashland County, Ohio, United States, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Loudonville. The state park is surrounded by the 4,525-acre (18.31 km²) Mohican-Memorial State Forest. Mohican State Park is located along Ohio SR 3 and Ohio SR 97. The Clear Fork of the Mohican River flows through the park and joins the Black Fork about a half-mile east of the park to form the Mohican River. The park is open for year-round recreation including camping, hiking, boating, mountain biking, fishing, and picnicking. "

Main reason being is that this place was a 2hour drive for both of us.

Unsure of for what we might get to fish, I stopped off at a local shop and picked up a few more items.

I left about 11:00am (Because Manchester United was playing and my brother was going to come, but got a call from a friend of his and decided to visit him instead) and got to the parking area of Mohican around 1:30pm.  I grabbed my gear and put it in my buddy's car as he'd arrived about an hour before me and did some recon. 

First, we drove over to the covered bridge area as he'd read it's a good spot for fishing.  When we got there, a guy was in the river wading with his fly rod.  Unfortunately, the river was very high and very fast.  This would be a common theme throughout the trip.

So, I tied on one of the inline spinners I just bought and cast a few times - only to get it stuck in a tree branch and lost it.  So, I figured this was the perfect time to pull off the Trilene and give the Nanofil I just bought a try.  Unspooled the Trilene and respooled the Nanofil 8lb. 

First cast, casting like I always do, the d**n thing rockets off and into the trees on the OTHER side of the river.  HOLY COW does that Nanofil cast far!!!  I'm seriously impressed!  Unfortunately, to make a long story short, I managed to lose 5 lures because I either didn't tie the knots correctly and they broke off or they just got stuck and I had to cut them loose.  I lost this shad bait from this month's LTB, I lost my rattle trap, I lost at least two of those inline spinners  and I lost one or two plastic worms on a swimbait hook.

The park is gorgeous.

According to the ODNR minimum size signage, you can catch both trout and salmon in the river.  As mentioned before, the water was just too fast and we couldn't find any slow spots or pools.  We walked a couple miles I'd say.

At the end we drove over to the Pleasant Hill Dam to check the reservoir, but it was iced over.  So we went down the spillway and checked that trail out.  Worst part of that aspect of the trip was the stairs to get down there.

Let me rephrase - I'm VERY happy there are stairs there, but there are 184 of them and after you've been lugging around your gear and walking for miles and not catching a thing, that's a lot of stairs to have to go up.  lol

So in the end, we didn't catch a thing or get hardly a bite and I lost quite a few lures.  Good news is that we really liked it and will be returning in the spring, hopefully when it hasn't been raining/melting and the river levels are lower and slower.