We bought a house on a small lake in North Eastern Indiana. The lake is supposed to be good for blue gill and crappie. It has a very mucky bottom close to shore and weeds that seems to stay fairly close to the lakes bottom. No lily pads or other floating vegetation.
Our first casts with artificial baits got caught on the weeds and I switched them out to some weedless baits. We had a blast just casting against each other and later laughing at my wife's futile attempts at wetting the line.
While it was an enjoyable couple of hours of family fun, it would have been so much more fun if we caught something. I don't have a clue really how to fish. As a child the half dozen times I went with friends we used worms and bobbers. Is that still what I should be using now?
If I reel the bobber up to the rod tip won't I still have a length of line with hook and worm hanging loose? How will that affect casting? I'll tell you right now neither my daughter or I wish to be impaled by a wayward hook, each others or our own! I didn't say we cast well, just better than my wife
Please give an ORCAN a lesson so I can get the rest of my family into the hobby and we can have fresh fish every once in a while.
Right now we are just shore fishing. I bought a small row boat that has four coats of peeling paint that I want to clean up before our maiden voyage. Any hints on removing paint from the aluminum boat would be greatly appreciated too! My electric hand sander is slow and the wire wheel on a drill has me breathing in all the paint dust.
Thanks one and all for any tips and pointers or nods towards good books or websites to read. I have done zero research.
Your lazy friend.
Dave "O"
