Quote Originally Posted by Dr.Ed View Post
I'm sorry my profile is lacking but here are the facts. I was born in downtown Cleveland and I have been fishing Lake Erie since I was 9 years old. I am now 76. I was on the lecture circuit which included the Cleveland Sportsman Show and Cleveland Eastlake Middle School. I wrote for Bud Reiser's Walleye Magazine until it was bought out by the InFisherman. In Greek, doctor means teacher. All I am trying to do is share my current knowledge and experience with those who care. On my boat we don't use four letter words like golf, bass, Blue and the "F" word. Go Bucks!!!
I personally have never been offended in any way with your posts. The fact is that I started fishing lake erie in 1955 at the age of 7! In that day there were no limits on any of the fish that we now have limits on! If you went to Niagra reef area and saw more than 4 or 5 boats it was considered crowded. We didn't have cell phones, fish finders or sonars, gps or radios. We just had ourselves out there and most often alone because there were not that many boats that would venture offshore very far. I am now 64 years old and have still learned from your posts and have been refreshed on forgotten ways to catch walleyes.

I understand what you mean by the risks involved when you go offshore 15+ miles to catch a limit of walleyes in 3 to 4 foot waves. For someone to come on here and belittle you for posting what you have done and the ways you have used to catch fish is beyond me. They claim to have caught all of those 10 lb fish this year and to have fished in months that are not normally fished in due to a mild winter, I do not disbelieve their story as it is much easier to catch 10lb + walleyes when they are concentrated into one of the largest shoal's of walleyes on earth due to the call of spawning! But when that same person can go out into the open lake and catch a 4, 5, or 6 man limit of 28" walleyes using his own experience and know how plus being out of site of land then I may be more inclined to listen to what they have to say as long as they are not attacking others with the words of "who the f-ck do you think you are?" especially when that person has been a member of this site since 2/28/2008 and has only made 13 posts, of which only a few have any type of actual fishing info in their content! I am still at a loss about the "We trolled 5 times in Jan 8 times in Feb and 13 times in March and caught more 10 lb plus fish than we have in our hole careers. We jigged nup a bunch in April," where were the fishing reports for those trips that he claimed to have made back then? He then goes on to say "caught hundreds of bass in May" but again no fishing reports? "and last weekend we were in Conny for monster perch." again no fishing reports! I just think he likes to belittle and not contribute!

Dr.Ed:~Please keep up the good work keeping us informed as to the where how and when of your fishing trips!!