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My daughter is currently in Toronto Western Hospital on the 9th floor and sent me this picture she took at sunrise this morning and just thought I'd share .

Thank you, she'll be going home soon.

That’s a beautiful picture Lew. Hope she is out of there very soon.

Get the kids from Fleming down, they'll do anything lol

1650 Lund Rebel , great size for myself and son , Love the ETEC s RIP ... lol

How do I get on the rib share list

I use a beef and pork mixture in my Meat Loaf. I also add ketchup, mustard, tomato sauce, chopped onions, and a bunch of stuff I would have to kill you if I told you! One thing that everyone likes is adding hard boiled eggs to the centre of the loaf. Each slice will have egg in the middle. I also add a pound of bacon in a weave on top of the loaf. The guys at our GTG's always ask me to make meatloaf on our trips... HH PS... left overs get a grilling on both sides and a couple of slices of Swiss Cheese melted on top.

I agree with you Bill BUT what I am suggesting is that the dramatic end of seeing small lakers may be directly related to the onset of ,say, gobies. We would be catching at least a few small lakers if it was a spawning bed issue since IMO there is no possible way that 'suddenly' all laker spawning habitat got covered in silt to the point of zero natural reproduction. Some small vestiges of adequate spawning habitat has to be in the lake somewhere to produce some small lakers. But none are caught from what I have heard, read or seen. As for over fishing being the issue that cannot be logically asserted since there are lakers there of spawning age so again, we should still be seeing some small lakers from them. The tap got turned off and better research is needed to develop and to then explore hypotheses. Tagging studies are not right for this application to determine what is preventing any natural reproduction. IMHO time to use underwater cameras to watch what happens after lakers spawn on the very best spot to see if fry emerge and if so what may be there eating eggs or fry. Cordon off the area with buoys and markers off limits to angling and watch the bed closely. Cormorants? Gobies? Catfish? Perch? siltation? Whitefish? ????? Constant running cameras with researchers watching from the FMU office/lab. We need to know not just make speculative defeatist conclusions like that siltation is the problem and over fishing. No small lakers caught suddenly points to something else in my view any ways. Or a combo of things very drastic rather than gradual hit the laker pop'n.