newsnot
244 posts
Apr 12, 2011
11:24 AM
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what is your favorite fishing spot in and around the dayton area.
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DebCB
53 posts
Apr 12, 2011
1:59 PM
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My ex-husband loved to fish for big carp at Rainbow Lakes in Fairborn. We'd cook up a batch of dough ball, load up 2 or 3 poles, a 12 pack of beer, and lots of 8 track tapes of Black Sabbath, Doobie Brothers and lots more music. We'd usually go around 11:00 at night and stay all night keeping an eye on the lines and looking at the stars. That's one of the only good memories I have of that relationship way back in 1970.
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tlturbo
233 posts
Apr 12, 2011
2:08 PM
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Deb - I would do the same thing almost but I usualy fished during the day by myself. Cooked up my own Strawberry/cornmeal dough bait. Going carp fishing wasn't a particularly great appealing date to most girls (wonder why?) thought I did manage to talk a couple into trying it and they had fun. Tha lake next to Rainbow Lake was loaded with catfish. When I was younger, my parents would drop me off at the lake behind Skyborn drive-in.
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AllenN71
179 posts
Apr 17, 2011
11:51 AM
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I was lucky enough to be friends with the son of the owner of the Sulphur Grove Fishing Lakes, which we also utilized for swimming. Mike taught me how to catch snapping turtles by reaching into their underwater burrows and grabbing their tails.
According to Mike, the turtles hat their heads in an air chamber above the waterline, so it would always be the tail you grabbed. Well, I just said he taught me how. Notice I didn't say I ever applied that knowledge, because I didn't.
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delcodude
137 posts
Apr 17, 2011
6:43 PM
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AlleN71:
Some called that noodlin'. Most did it in the Fall months when the snappers were more lethargic than in the summer months. I recall in Ohio Fisherman back in the '70s there was a story. They said they'd walk around the river banks tapping the ground with a pole searching for the hollow sound that would signify an undercut bank. The trick though was to know which end the tail was at, once you found one. You want the sharp edge and not the rounded end because that was where his head was. So if you're feeling around a snapper's shell and you come to a rounded edge you'd better be fast in getting your hand away...chomp.
Thanks for bringing up Sulfur Grove Lakes. I fished those as a youngster too.
I think the Stillwater is still the best fishery in SW Ohio, but I've caught some smallmouth out of the Mad River behind the Skyborne Theatre. Mostly small ones.. And some largemouth in the Mad around Eastwood Park.
Also the lakes across Harshman from the Hydrabowl (a name from the past) where the Eagles' nest is. The biggest bass I've ever caught in Ohio came from the big lake in the back on the right. About 4-1/2 lbs. You can't see it from Rt 4. You're not allowed in there anymore because all the illegal activity that used to go on after dark..
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AllenN71
180 posts
Apr 22, 2011
3:09 PM
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There's a plenty "illegal activity" that goes on "after dark". One of the things that dismays me is that Huber Heights - and most other Miami Valley jurisdictions - has imposed a "curfew" for minors. Not, mind you, that I am an advocate of 13-year-olds running the streets at two AM, but rather in our day, anyone under the age of seventeen or so would face a week's grounding (or worse) if he or she were not home by whatever hour the parents had set. Once the kid was past 17, hours were negotiable; but of course the parents had the last word. Even when I was 18 and on leave from the USAF, when I came home for a visit it was "my roof, my rules". And that is how it should be. But I digress...
One fish we used to catch a lot was the bluegill. The bluegill is a distant cousin to the piranha. I got bit quite a lot by bluegills in the various "swimming holes" we kids utilized back in the day when you could enter a natural body of water without a haz-mat suit.
But bluegills - if they were big enough - provided nice filets. The Great Miami below Taylorsville Dam and above Needmore held a lot of catfish and carp. We usually threw carp back - they even looked unappetizing - but catfish we kept and ate. I can't say I've never eaten carp, however; as the ethnic restaurants here in the DC area have been known to substitute flounder for scallops. Maybe there will be some carp in the "filet-o-fish" I break my Holy Week fast with.
You are right about the Stillwater. I remember going down to the edge of the Great Miami in my boyhood and seeing water strider insects and tadpoles. Natural food for the fish. Three years ago, that spot was flowing with clear water--and nothing else. But on the outskirts of Dayton, I saw guys fishing on the Stillwater and Mad rivers in several spots.
For some reason the Great Miami seems to have been hosed, fishing-wise. If you know someplace along the Great Miami where it is still possible to catch something other than bluegills, catfish and carp; then let me know.
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FAITH
36 posts
Apr 25, 2011
11:06 AM
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We'd go to Huffman Dam at least 2 evenings a week in the summer in the early 70s. Mom & Dad would fish and Aunt Cora would be busy lighting "gnat smokes" with her cigarettes and some leaves we'd gather with the purpose of deterring the mosquitoes and gnats. I liked to fish, but mostly caught crawdads.
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tlturbo
237 posts
Apr 25, 2011
2:40 PM
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I fished at the lakes behind Huffman Dam occasionally. Also a great place for a panicanic (as Yogi Bear would say)with a date.
Last Edited by on Apr 27, 2011 5:40 AM
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jersey
7 posts
Apr 26, 2011
4:11 PM
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I was the only daughter that would go to Rainbow Lakes with my Dad.
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NRA_Life_Member
11 posts
Jul 06, 2013
11:40 PM
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I used to go to a pay lake named Bill & Lola's way out on Stanley, I think it was between Stanley & Route 4. Kind of across from Eastwood Lake. We used to get dropped off in the late afternoon and fish all night for carp & catfish. The place was lousy with rats and if we got bored with fishing, we'd start throwing rocks at rats. Oh, what great fun!
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NRA_Life_Member
15 posts
Jul 07, 2013
11:04 AM
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Yeah, "quarry in the middle of a junkyard" sounds about right, but it had some really big carp in it. It was definitely a low-brow place but we were poor and it was cheap. All we needed was a box of Wheaties to make dough-balls for carp and a cup of nightcrawlers (or liver) for catfish and we were set.
Last Edited by NRA_Life_Member on Jul 07, 2013 11:05 AM
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