What part of Ohio are you moving to?

You'll be good in the Akron area. Within 1 hour you'll have world class steelhead and smallmouth fishing to the North Conneaut, Chagrin and Rocky Rivers, of course Lake Erie, great muskie fishing to the south, Peidmont and Leesville Lake. Lots of public area that have largemouth and panfish.

I would reccomend a boat with less than 10 hp motor. You'll have a lot more access to good fishing on restricted lakes.

As for hunting. Ohio is deer hunters heaven. Just too many of them and we can't kept the numbers down. If you do not have private access I'd go South to the Salt Fork area. Northeast Ohio has many public areas that produce large bucks and turkeys. Off the top of my head I can't name any.

I can be more specific if you tell me what you like to hunt or catch.

Steve182,

The amish hunt the public land around Zanesville and Coshocton pretty hard. It's not uncommon to see groups of 40 hunters pushing the woods and they do shoot everything in sight. I suggest getting topo maps and hunt the small parcels of public land near private land. It works well.

Either way. There's some good fishing near Akron. We'll have to hook up for muskie.

I'll be bowhunting in Zanesville in November if anybody wants somr company on their private land. Otherwise i'll be on the public stuff

We have a Blue Devil on line?

Big O. We'll have some great fishing directly between us. I've got a buddy from Arkansas who owns a small farm between us also. Maybe the two of you can spin some southern boy stuff. I've own some of the best deer land in Central Ohio. Maybe we can have a day for the guys on line.

Big O, Zanesville is in SouthEast Ohio.

Big O. The mascot at Zanesville High School is the Blue Devil. They are the rivals for the local high school here. I was called steve182 a blue devil.

I don't know what part if Arkansas my buddy is from but a finer person you'll never meet. He was a farmer until his wife became ill and had to move to Ohio to be close to her specialist.

When will you be in Ohio?

Big O and buckhunter. I am not from, nor have I ever been to that area, so i'm no blue devil. I'm just tagging along with a few guys who thought it was a good place to kill a big buck with a bow w/o paying for land access, leases, etc. Alledgedly there is great public land hunting there, though i am worried about crowds. As far as private land, I have no connections. A couple of the guys i'm going with went out last month, made some contacts, knocked on doors, etc, but we haven't been granted any access yet. I will spend the first day of my week there putting on some miles, finding stand locations, etc. on public land. Then i'll hunt my ass off and hope luck is on my side. I will surely knock on a few doors, but by november, i'm sure i'll be too late to find private ground access.

buckhunter,
I've never caught a muskie, but would love to. How far from Zanesville are you? Do the amish Bowhunt much? In groups like that? Early November? I have heard that gun season on the public land is high traffic. Hoping archery, at least midweek, is better. I guess i'll steer clear of the horse and buggies. Big O, yes, they make good furniture.

Big O,

I've got you covered for deer season. My place is not big but it's loaded with deer. Bow/muzzleloader only please.

Too bad you couldn't get here sooner. Today is the last day of turkey season. I called in two big'uns this morning and took the bigger.

Pheasants? Yeah we have 'em, especially in the NW, but OH isn't much of a pheasant state.

You can, ofcourse, also use more tradtional muzzle-loaders as well.

Big O,

Let me know when you hit the buckeye state.

heard.............sorry

Hey Steve,

Remember the 9pt we saw bedded near the road? I had him walk under me yesterday. I saw 3 nice bucks and 2 smaller bucks that day. He would be dead now except I have my sights on the big 10 point I spotted a couple days ago.

Hey, I know your holding a tag, Muzzleloader season is in January...

tbogg10, I've caught a lot of fish out of Hoover.

BigO.

Welcome back. I'm happy to hear you had quality time with the family while in Ohio. We'll hook up next time. Your time was really limited this trip.

The Buckeyes did look good tonight. Hopefully Cincinnati can pull off a big upset.

personally my favorite fishing lake is hoover reservoir in Westerville, it is a 10 horse limit lake so its nice and peaceful as for hunting i like the hocking hills region, wayne national forest, salt fork, there is a lot of farmland and deer are very populated i have found i very easy to get permission to hunt private farms because the deer tear up crops so bad, which also grows em big. i also like hunting in Coshocton and Muskingum counties, this year Ohio's muzzleloader season is actually moved back 2 weeks and is in mid january.

Jeff,
I am eating that tag, along with a few others this year. I just don't have another hunting trip in the cards this year. My wife and Mom(our babysitter) have been great about the few trips i've taken already. Hope you connect with that 10 or something bigger. I believe Butch and Ken will be out for M.L.
I'll be hunting winter bow here all of January, though i expect to get out only once or twice a week.
PA was slow, weather was crazy, snow, rain, ice, wind. I could've shot several does but didn't have a doe tag. Never saw a buck. Crunchy (understatement)snow made the kind of hunting i wanted to do difficult. One of our guys shot a decent 6 point on friday, and a few does were taken on Sat., the last day. A buddy shot a 20" wide 8pt the Sat. before i got there, won our big-buck pool. Other than that our camp got a few basket racked bucks.
Good luck with the rest of your season and Merry Christmas to you and yours. Keep in touch.