No Minnows What the heck!!!
First fishing Trip in Ohio, I loaded up the truck, carefully stowed the poles, made sure I had the fishing license in the tackle box, stowed the said tackle box, filled hot steaming coffee in the thermos packed the lunch headed to CAESAR CREEK. LAKE, found a Bait and tackle located nearby and asked for a dozen minnows, owner of the tackle shop says' he don't have any, I then asked for the next best thing, Leaches, tackle shop says' he don't have any, then asked for the next live bait in my list Wax worms, you guessed it tackle shop says' he don't have any, No live bait at all said he won't get anything live until the spring, The tackle shop owner suggested that I try Cowan Lake, So I put those coordinates in the good old trusty GPS made the drive to the lake found a bait store and would you know it the same response as above, went looking for another bait store found another one a few miles down the road just to hear the same story. So my question is where is all the live bait? I did manage to wet a few lures in the lake without any bites but by then my 5yr old fishing partner was getting cranky because of the cold and the lack of fishing time.