Spring is in the air!

Hey everyone and SAUGEYE1 the ultimate fishing machine. I am a member of ohiogamefishing website and saw yours. Looks great, and looking foward to meeting some of you out with fishing poles in hand! I go by Nate and am a student at Hocking College campus(rio grande classes), Will be graduating in May with Bachelors of science Degree in fish and wildlife conservation and managment. You can tell by my degree what I am dedicated to and and absolutely love doing! I live outside of Logan (hocking county).Well.......come on spring I feel it!

Nate, glad to see ya finally joined. next couple of weeks we need to start getting after those eyes.

Pendog66? Welcome aboard... always good to see familiar faces... if you have any question just ask the mods or the admins

to the site!!!!!!!!!
Make yourself at home!!!
saugeye1, this is giving you a pretty good rep.. You gunna be able to keep it up???
CYA On The Water
BTW if you have classes in Rio Grande your gunna e-mail me some original Bob Evans food???

you noticed johnny he called me the ultimate fishing machine not the ultimate catchin machine!!!!!

Congrats on your soon to be degree in a great field. Im sure you can make this forum well educated. Welcome.

thanks again for the invites. I'm all for helping anyone with some biological questions about wildlife managment, If I cant answer the question I could surely find someone that can. Also...I'm very interested in Saugeye information fishing and research and Black Bear Management and sightings in Ohio. If ya'll have any information please keep me informed!

Nate you need to get me a pic of that monster crappie for my photo album. you are my hero!!!!!!!!!!

Nate did you order your new fishin combo last night. call let me know what u went with..

Thanks for the help,
Love the pic!!!

Nice slab! Welcome to the site... What do you know about stocking Rainbows in fall for pond management? We've been looking into it for a couple of years now and Freshwater Farms in Urbana has a listing about it on their website.. www.fwfarms.com I think is their site address. What effect might a few trophy trout have on the bass population?
Pond is about 2 acres, bluegill are becoming stunted and the bass aren't as large as they once were either. We've been pulling bluegill left and right and they're still thick.

You wanted a question and there it is! Honeymoon's over!

Good fishin'!

ratherbe

ratherbefishing wrote:Pond is about 2 acres, bluegill are becoming stunted and the bass aren't as large as they once were either. We've been pulling bluegill left and right and they're still thick.

If you weren't about 30 mins from me I would be more than willing to come up before a night of catfishing to help rid you of your bluegill problem , but thats a pretty far drive just for bait... I stare buck creek right in the face when sitting on my porch... cant go wrong with that!

Hey if you just want the ribcage and head I'll give you all the bait you can handle but those fillets are mine!

LOL... I dont blame ya

ratherbefishing...sorry its been awhile since ive been on here. school makes it hard to find time for anything. Well it sounds like you've got to many fish in your pond if the bass and bluegill are both staying small. Putting a FEW trout would not hurt anything with a two acre pond, large enough that they would not affect population of other fish. Yes they will problaly eat along of young ones in the spring, but that would help open up the space and allow the bluegills/bass to get alittle bigger a few years down the road. Hope this helps

It sure is and a few weeks early here in northern IL this week I rode the motorcycle twice to work.

I'll look into it a little further, I appreciate your advice...
Trust me I understand the demands of school, I'm getting ready to start a pretty competitive masters program at Ohio State.. I've been in college since 2000, working my way through and moving around a lot.... I won't know what to do when I'm done being a career student.

Wow a career student huh...your just testing my knowledge. just kidding. what are you studying? Believe me...natural resources is not the place to look for jobs in Ohio and sometimes being a career student sounds like its the only plan for me, but I'll just keep chugging along and maybe end up in grad school one of these days then that may lead to a job, your lucky to be at OSU by the way! Well.... hopefully the water keeps getting warmer and the fish start biting harder!

I'm majoring in Early Childhood Education, and I have a concentration in Social Studies.
Once the economy turns around you'll be alright.