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If you take proper safety precautions and are responsible like your supposed to be every single time you go out on your boat either to fish or for leisure then as far I’m concerned everyone will be fine. As far as ICUs being full they aren’t. Same Bull over and over. Last year this time my father was in the hospital with health complications and media was blowing up saying the icus were full. I went to icu and Covid unit at the hospital where he was staying. Ghost town. People can’t continue to have their lives and livelihoods ruined. If people are responsible and safe like they’re supposed to be every time you go out on the water then why shouldn’t they be allowed to. If you don’t want to fish stay home. More fish for us.

Quack cures are a dime a dozen for CV19. So are quack Drs and quack published papers in support of these miracle cures. Rule of thumb, if no national health agency is interested in this then it's not worth my time to go do my "individual research" on youtube or other stray websites. If it had validity and could save countless lives the world would take notice. Pushing this on OFC won't speed up that process. Try politcians, some are actively looking for red herrings.

Because it has fat and salt, both of which are TASTY!!!! 😉

Really hoping I can take my kids fishing. This will be the second walleye/pike opener that I haven’t been able to fish with my brother. And let’s face it. The kids like their uncle a lot more than their dad.

Pretty well everyone I know is aware so I figured I might as well share my experience here with freinds that I haven't met, a few I have met, thankfully. A week ago Wednesday I almost died. I had some unknown infection that went septis and that's not a good thing. Apperently, as I have zero recollection, my wife came home from work around 6PM and found me on the kitchen floor and had a hard time to rouse me. Called 911 and they took me to the War Memorial Hospital in Hagersville On. I apparently was going on and on in some unknown language telling a freind to move his car so the ambulance can pull in, Joe was 60 miles away at the time. I remember nada. They transported me to the Brantford Hospital from there. The 1st thing I do remember is having CT scans then a woman talking to me. She was a surgeon that was called in to perform emerg. surgury as that thought I had obstructed or ruptured bowels. I remember clearly that she said " Sir you are a very ill man." I said I don't feel ill." she replyed "Your blood pressure is 80 over nothing, believe me if we can't get your BP up you are going to die on us." Not everyday someone tells you that. I had no reaction at all and she asked me if I understand what she said, I did but didn't freak like some might. OK Readers Digest version. They pumped me full of fluids and drugs and I am here to tell the story. 4 days in Intensive Care in the Brantford hospital, transfered back to a room in Hagersville for 4 more days. I am so impressed by the 4 Doc's that took care of me and especially the entire staff at both hospitals including the cleaning ladies, they work thier buns off, each and everyone. Not only do they have to do the work they are covered from head to toe in garb, masks, hats, face shields, yellow gowns from head to toe, the work they do is hard enough normally now they must be dressed like Aliens and Steelworkers to do it, a nurse told me that there are times they need to change thier scrubs twice in a 12 hr shift because they are soaked to the skin. It took me 3 days to have a normal bowl movement and get my legs and abdominal muscles strong enough to get in and out of bed. 99% of the pain was in my abbs and I looked 10 months pregnant with my gut so big and tight I thought I was going to explode. I did have to drink a gallon of what tastes like bay water from Hamilton next to Stelco, mmmm good. They actually weighed the result. It took up to just Sunday to be able to walk without a walker or cane. I hurt from head to toe. A small price to pay to stay alive. But I seriously thoght they were trying to kill me with what I was given to eat, what eat? I was on a liquid diet for 6 days., and I gained 5 pounds!!??? Everything tasted like hand sanitizer! A tricky part is to guess the time it takes to undo all 4 I.V. sites, remove blood pressure cuff, etc,etc. and get to the commode or toilet when the gut is rumbling as the enima is doing what it is meant to do and not make a mess for some poor soul to clean up. Oh my gosh. Many say I am full of it, in this case I agree. I used to call The Hagersville hospital a large Vet's clinic. I take it back,, I am truly sorry, together they helped save my life. I am penning a hand written thank you as soon as possible, I think they would appreciate that. Oh yea, I didn't see the white light but there were a few times in the past when we had Blast Furnace breakouts that I did see that light plus I saw an image of my Nani, (Grand Mother in Italian) standing in front of the light. Another story for another time. JD/out.

guys, I am 100% on your side that so much of this stuff doesnt make any sense. Without being political our politicians are 100% accountable for what is going on. But lets not get into the conspiracy theory garbage "the ICU's arent full" Theres quite literally only 1,200 ICU beds in Ontario. 750 of them are currently occupied with covid patients. That quite literally leaves 450 beds for every single other person that needs to go into intensive care in the entire province. Think about what you are saying for a second. Basically any person that is in danger of dying ends up in the ICU, what happens if a natural disaster, terrorist attack or any other form of mass casualty event occurs, i guess we are going to leave it once again on the doctors to decide who lives and dies? People pushing for us to not care until the ICU's are literally totally full so that in the event that you get in a car crash you will simply be left for dead because there is no space is a strange way to think. If you want to talk about the Covid situation being a mess, have at it, but lets not completely disregard what doctors nurses and those in the medical field are going through at the moment. My direct team member at work's wife is a nurse, she is not trained nor certified to work with intubated people with severe cases of covid, but guess where she started working this week due to staffing shortages. You guessed it, she has been assigned to the covid ward out of desperation. Please Please Please do not make light of the situation at our hospitals at the moment. I invite you to talk to any nurse/doctor or other healthcare practitioner working with covid patients prior to announcing that your hospital is totally fine on a fishing forum.

Well it's about time!!! All those people hugging, kissing and general canoodling at the boat launch first thing in the morning.

They never will !

Thank you for your highly clinical and scientific and medical analysis. Hahaha! For the record I and others are pressuring agencies to review Ivermectin. I am here since many may feel there is no hope. I know some members here and like them. So I want to give members hope that a cheap and easy cure may be present regardless of the naysayers with no credible reasoning behind their attacks. For the record here I am stating that Ivermectin will become the 'standard of care' for treating covid. Me, I have had both vaccine shots due to the work I do. I am not an anti-vaxer. Vitamin D3, C, and zinc are taken daily. Our gov't isn't even advising on ways to boost our immune systems. I have also read Finland has achieved proper vitamin D levels since 2014 by adding it to milk products. Finland has by far the lowest virus cases and mortality rates and has stopped shut down methods from what I have read. Why hasn't our gov't advised on at least vitamin D? Maybe I missed it. IMHO incompetence or some other reasoning......

A freind of ours owns a very small, (12 slips) marina here on the lake we live on. It is not open to the public, mostly used to get his residence boats in and out. He does not charge to use the ramp. The call is out to the Ministry of Who knows What, if his freinds can use the ramp? So far we have gotten a no from a OPP beat cop and a few maybe yes from our MPP's office. In the mean time I am going to use it when we decide it's time to fish. Having said that I hear complaints not just here but in the general public how tough it is not to be able to take the kids fishing. Please, what a sacrifice it is to follow what the scientists recommend to try and kill this thing we all face. Got my 1st shot of Astra Zenica yesterday. In and out thank you m,9e. For those that are qeuzzy about getting poked, I didn't feel a thing, nothing, not even a Bee sting. I had to get a blood thinner shot in the thigh everyday for a week not long ago, that my dear freinds hurt like an SOAB. It was an 8 out of 10, 8 being if it lasted any longer you would go into shock, it hurt real bad but not the C-19 vaccine. I wouldn't wish that pain on my worse enemy.

Thanks Geoff, better than OK, my wife says my additude is more positive than before. I actually noticed I am laughing more and taking my health and what I put in my body like I did before I was 40. . I am asking her if we can go for a walk, all year I made excuses not to go. I am up to 30 minutes walking every other day. Last week it was 5 minutes and I was gassed. Going to try 35 mins tonight. Spall chik no werk.

We really should start an OFC DJ service, as we certainly have a lot of spin doctors here...

Well, if Rogers is blaming Ericsson, then somebody dropped the ball at both companies. Nothing gets put into "production systems" unless it has been fully tested in a beta site. Also, Rogers should have a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) in place, for these types of situations. Given that the system went down in the middle of the night, that is typically when new apps are downloaded into production, so it makes sense that something killed the production system. Rogers will sue Ericsson, Ericsson will probably sue the outsourced development team and the legal battles will ensue for years. If you were affected by the outage, be sure to contact Rogers to get credit put on your bill. If you don't get joy, they have a group internally that is called "The office of the president". They are the top group of customer support folks who do have the power to deal with this. HH

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-april-19-2021-cases-icu-vaccines-1.5992969 HH

Up are your parents place where you ice fished in the winter? Surprised you didn't see me out there Did well on Sat, not a lot of size, but well into the double digits.

wow 300 k each way! Hope it was worth the drive...the 300 k back is a tough one after a skunking (been there done that...sometimes muskies suck)

By the way everyone, I towed a boat to the lake this past weekend 300kmh each way and went fishing...passed plenty of OPP and had no issue what so ever. I was also travelling alone and obeying the rules of the road.

hmmmm....an accident? One that leads to being in ICU? That is reaaally stretching it. I have been on thousands of trips and never once needed a visit to the hospital. With fewer people on the roads this would be even less likely! How many times have any of us ended up in ICU from a fishing trip? I am gonna put those odds at about 1 in 100 000. Far more end up in there from alcohol and drug use...yet that seems permissible Hospitals overwhelmed? When we were in lockdown last year I went to the hospital. I had injured myself playing hockey before lockdown, but I waited awhile to go because the hospitals were apparently overwhelmed. Finally when the pain wouldn't subside I went in. What I saw was a shock! Honestly you could have shot a cannon through the Guelph hospital! I have never been served so quickly in my life. Checked in, met a doctor, had an xray, met a doctor again to get the news, and then back in my car driving away in less than 45 minutes! There were tons of staff hanging out at the nursing station talking to each other. The hallways, meeting rooms and waiting areas vacant. I acknowledge I was in emerg not icu, but seriously...if icu was so stretched why did they not re-allocate some staff or room from emerg? Lakes will still be there in a month - I hope so! And if they are, I hope my dictator government permits me to use them. Even if they don't...I plan on finding a way

What's a two-stroke? 😉

That’s really got to suck. The excitement of buying a new trailer and can’t go anywhere. akin to buying a new boat and someone drains the lake

Butterflied a pork tenderloin. Rubbed it with a typical BBQ rub. Spread a thin layer of ground sausage on the tenderloin followed by a thin layer of Havarti cheese. Seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Rolled it up tight and then wrapped with bacon. Put it in the smoker using hickory at 270°. After about 50 mins I started basting it with a chipotle beer BBQ sauce every 15 mins or so until the internal temp got to 140°f. Took it out and let it rest for about 15 mins before slicing.

Brian, your a better man than me.I dont tie anything smaller than a 16.Hands are too clumsy and eyes dont work so good any more! Some recent ties,from left.olive scud,greenrockworm,quill abdomen wet fly,nd a WD 40! Hey,have u tried a furled leader? They are awsome! Built myself a jig and been making some! Hers one with indicator butt section.U gotta try them!

I figured they shut it down knowing the budget was coming out at 4....

Sorry Duckie but it may be both real and a scam. (Virus is real and the response has been criticized as basically a way to funnel wealth and power upwards. I don't see anyone here saying it's not a real virus. I see concerns that it is being used for other purposes and I read that many are questioning the need for lock downs. Me, I posted something many here missed so I'll post it again. EVERYONE should be aware of such 'possible' cures for covid which are NOT even mentioned in MSM or from our elected and non elected 'bosses'. https://noqreport.com/2021/02/25/peer-reviewed-study-ivermectin-cuts-covid-infections-deaths-by-75/ As a researcher it seems odd that the many doctors and jurisdictions in the world who are using this are basically being called 'liars'. If so and since they aren't doing it for profit since the med is not patented and so cheap, then the doctors/office people/corp owners who disagree or question the honesty of these doctors are also liars. I will say this. I personally know a chap that was a 'long hauler' re aftermath of covid. A couple months of not even wanting to get out of bed to go to work. Now, after approx 3 wks after taking 3 Iv pills he is 100% he says. IMO it took this time to heal his internal organs after stopping the virus which was still sneaking around inside him. Right now the former patent owner of Iv has announced a 'new treatment' which many think is just a rework of Iv in order to gain patent thus $billions$. Why am I telling you all this? So a few may forward questions/pressure to our 'leaders' to properly investigate/review Iv and hopefully to allow its use to end all this reverse Robin Hood nonsense of the rich taking from the poor to give to the rich. Word is slowly getting out with pharmacy mags even stating in articles that Iv works. The only way to hide it is to stop us from hearing about it and to push vaccines as savior.

its one thing to protest lockdowns because people need to go work to earn money to pay bills and live etc its quite another to believe Covid is all a big scam - that site looks like it leans towards the latter. it preaches removing masks and posts old videos from the early days of the pandemic with information that has since been corrected as we learned more about the virus (eg masks dont work, 50% false positives etc)

What if you get in an accident on the way to your 'essential' fishing trip? ICUs are almost full? What then? Its called a 'Stay at Home order' for a reason. Think of others, not yourself. Not an easy thing for us North Americans to do but its important. Fishing can wait a bit. The Lakes will still be there in a month. My boats back on axle stands till at least May 20th. I'm not happy about it but its the RIGHT THING TO DO. Try it.

Sorry, the sarcasm went right over my head, I am not use to that from you! So, would you feel better if a 75 year old who lives alone stayed in his own house alone when he could be out in the bush with no interaction with anyone else? My motor coach has 1000 km range. The fuel tank is full, I don't even have to stop for fuel. I have enough food here to last me for 2-3 months and the ability to take that with me so I don't even have to go into town for supplies. My property there is fully serviced, water, septic, hydro. I have already given up so much in the intrest of doing my part, Christmas, my son's 50th birthday, the birth of a great grandaughter. If you can give me one valid reason why my isolating there where I can fish and hunt without having to contact anyone else is going to put anyone at risk then I will consider it.

They put up signs a few weeks ago. They won't be closing the ramps, I fished out of there on Sat.

No, you guys Pondoodle.

EXACTLY.

That sounds like something they should look into to prevent the carp they are trying to prevent from entering the Great Lakes?

Go sturgeon fishing. Way easier, and a ton of fun!

Live your life according to what you think is best. Stop worrying what other fishermen think. You’ll only get conflicting opinions.

I've got a brand new trailer sitting in the back yard, slept in it twice just to check out the mattress, looks like it may not move again this year.