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It was posted specifically to get people's reactions. From the responses it's pretty obvious that we are for the most part responsible and use common sense, as to when and where we wear our PFD. It's important in my estimation to bring up topics like this as to ensure the community is aware of the possibility of more unnecessary government interference, and take a stance against it, if necessary. We should not all lose our freedom of choice because of a few who were reckless and shouldn't have been on the water in the first place.

Wow....I didn't think this thread would create this much reaction. Great to see so much interest. To me, it all boils down to common sense. As I stated I may take my jacket off if I am anchored and safe. I don't wizz standing on the side, I use a cup, and get rid of it quick, as not to mistake it for.... I do believe in freedom and power of choice, and hope most use common sense. I know the various Bass Masters groups have to have a PFD on when the main engines are moving the boat. I totally agree with TJ and others that the government has imposed to many restrictions upon us already This licence and that card. This tax and that fee. Heck us Canadians can't go outside unless we have our ''Outdoors Card'' Lets all use common sense people and I think this thread has convinced some to wear their PFD more often. Dan

There has been a very high casualty rate for boaters/fisherman in Ontario recently. It's been in the papers and on the news. Most of the people were not wearing a life jacket. I personally always wear mine whether in the canoe or tinny. I may take it off if I'm going to anchor for while, however if there are rough waters or wakes from other boats the life jacket stays on. Do you wear one ? Do you think it should be mandatory ? This question has probably been asked before. Just curious about your views.

I'm in. Always interested in learning more. Let me know where to pick up the coupon

The wings are being dominated by the pens. It's like they have no real drive to win.

Yes Joey it is a turtle shell. I believe it was a snapping turtle. It was found on the shores of Lake Gibson here in St. Catharines.

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Apart from the first minute of the second period, the wings looked tired, old, and way to slow, compared to the young pens. The pens will be hard to defeat as the series continues.

Last year in Toronto tasers were used 367 times. I find it hard to believe the Police would of shot that many people in one year if they didn't have tasers. The RCMP used their tasers 1106 times in 2008. Again, hard to believe there would of been that many shooting by them. In the past police would use billy clubs or what ever to try and over power someone. Today with these tasers there's no need to, just zap the person instead. I f an officer feels his life is being threatened I can understand the use of guns or tasers, but the use of tasers are being used way to much. In Quebec this year the government band all tasers because a number of them were putting out way to much volts. Also in 2007 the United Nations reported that the use of tasers is a form of torture. Added to this, all the people that died as a result of being tasered, yet most of the deaths have been attributed to something else....would that mean all those people that died as a result of the taser, would of died at exactly the same time anyway..... I don't think so.

Picked these up at Home Hardware a few years ago. $12.00, yes I know, a bit rusty, but checked regularly. Only had to use them once Cut easily through the two hooks

Yep, Sportspal all the way. They are not the quickest if paddling, but if your not in a hurry, they are fine. I use my 38lb thrust motor and have enjoyed many a day on the water. Get one, you'll never regret it. Also I've heard suggestions of a Sportspal/canoe GTG. Sounds like fun.

Nice fish, well done.

Some real nice pics there guys. A sports pal GTG sounds like a good idea.

Yes, well, umm I like to consider myself an informed hunter Dan. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket Yes I knew that HC

What about the prairie oysters Dan You didn't leave them did you In a Pharmacologia published in 1696, deer testicles, were hailed as an aphrodisiac. Something to remember for next year, not that anyone needs them for that reason

Glad you guys like the pics. Well done on the Sports Pal Waterwolf. I have owned many canoes and by far, the Sports pal is the best. Not the fastest, but the most stable and able to take a motor if desired. Also unsinkable.

Fishing from a canoe really has it's advantages. You can get into almost any water. Go where the big boats can't go. The scenery is just fantastic at times. Experience wild life like you would not believe. One of the most spectacular times was when Tom and I were in a small back bay and all of a sudden tens of thousands of minnows just started jumping out of the water all around us as far a we could see. Some pics from a few outings this year.

Here's a sane solution... Saving the Big 3 for You and Me ...a message from Michael Moore Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Friends, I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. And now for a decades-old story, retold ad infinitum by tens of millions of Americans, a third of whom have had to desert their country to simply find a damn way to get to work in something that won't break down: My Chrysler is four years old. I bought it because of its smooth and comfortable ride. Daimler-Benz owned the company then and had the good grace to place the Chrysler chassis on a Mercedes axle and, man, was that a sweet ride! When it would start. More than a dozen times in these years, the car has simply died. Batteries have been replaced, but that wasn't the problem. My dad drives the same model. His car has died many times, too. Just won't start, for no reason at all. A few weeks ago, I took my Chrysler in to the Chrysler dealer here in northern Michigan -- and the latest fixes cost me $1,400. The next day, the vehicle wouldn't start. When I got it going, the brake warning light came on. And on and on. You might assume from this that I couldn't give a rat's ass about these miserably inept crapmobile makers down the road in Detroit city. But I do care. I care about the millions whose lives and livelihoods depend on these car companies. I care about the security and defense of this country because the world is running out of oil -- and when it runs out, the calamity and collapse that will take place will make the current recession/depression look like a Tommy Tune musical. And I care about what happens with the Big 3 because they are more responsible than almost anyone for the destruction of our fragile atmosphere and the daily melting of our polar ice caps. Congress must save the industrial infrastructure that these companies control and the jobs they create. And it must save the world from the internal combustion engine. This great, vast manufacturing network can redeem itself by building mass transit and electric/hybrid cars, and the kind of transportation we need for the 21st century. And Congress must do all this by NOT giving GM, Ford and Chrysler the $34 billion they are asking for in "loans" (a few days ago they only wanted $25 billion; that's how stupid they are -- they don't even know how much they really need to make this month's payroll. If you or I tried to get a loan from the bank this way, not only would we be thrown out on our ear, the bank would place us on some sort of credit rating blacklist).Two weeks ago, the CEOs of the Big 3 were tarred and feathered before a Congressional committee who sneered at them in a way far different than when the heads of the financial industry showed up two months earlier. At that time, the politicians tripped over each other in their swoon for Wall Street and its Ponzi schemers who had concocted Byzantine ways to bet other people's money on unregulated credit default swaps, known in the common vernacular as unicorns and fairies. But the Detroit boys were from the Midwest, the Rust (yuk!) Belt, where they made real things that consumers needed and could touch and buy, and that continually recycled money into the economy (shocking!), produced unions that created the middle class, and fixed my teeth for free when I was ten. For all of that, the auto heads had to sit there in November and be ridiculed about how they traveled to D.C. Yes, they flew on their corporate jets, just like the bankers and Wall Street thieves did in October. But, hey, THAT was OK! They're the Masters of the Universe! Nothing but the best chariots for Big Finance as they set about to loot our nation's treasury. Of course, the auto magnates used to be the Masters who ruled the world. They were the pulsating hub that all other industries -- steel, oil, cement contractors -- served. Fifty-five years ago, the president of GM sat on that same Capitol Hill and bluntly told Congress, what's good for General Motors is good for the country. Because, you see, in their minds, GM WAS the country. What a long, sad fall from grace we witnessed on November 19th when the three blind mice had their knuckles slapped and then were sent back home to write an essay called, "Why You Should Give Me Billions of Dollars of Free Cash." They were also asked if they would work for a dollar a year. Take that! What a big, brave Congress they are! Requesting indentured servitude from (still) three of the most powerful men in the world. This from a spineless body that won't dare stand up to a disgraced president nor turn down a single funding request for a war that neither they nor the American public support. Amazing. Let me just state the obvious: Every single dollar Congress gives these three companies will be flushed right down the toilet. There is nothing the management teams of the Big 3 are going to do to convince people to go out during a recession and buy their big, gas-guzzling, inferior products. Just forget it. And, as sure as I am that the Ford family-owned Detroit Lions are not going to the Super Bowl -- ever -- I can guarantee you, after they burn through this $34 billion, they'll be back for another $34 billion next summer. So what to do? Members of Congress, here's what I propose: 1. Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. And because we are facing a massive economic, energy and environmental crisis, the new president and Congress must do what Franklin Roosevelt did when he was faced with a crisis (and ordered the auto industry to stop building cars and instead build tanks and planes): The Big 3 are, from this point forward, to build only cars that are not primarily dependent on oil and, more importantly to build trains, buses, subways and light rail (a corresponding public works project across the country will build the rail lines and tracks). This will not only save jobs, but create millions of new ones. 2. You could buy ALL the common shares of stock in General Motors for less than $3 billion. Why should we give GM $18 billion or $25 billion or anything? Take the money and buy the company! (You're going to demand collateral anyway if you give them the "loan," and because we know they will default on that loan, you're going to own the company in the end as it is. So why wait? Just buy them out now.) 3. None of us want government officials running a car company, but there are some very smart transportation geniuses who could be hired to do this. We need a Marshall Plan to switch us off oil-dependent vehicles and get us into the 21st century. This proposal is not radical or rocket science. It just takes one of the smartest people ever to run for the presidency to pull it off. What I'm proposing has worked before. The national rail system was in shambles in the '70s. The government took it over. A decade later it was turning a profit, so the government returned it to private/public hands, and got a couple billion dollars put back in the treasury. This proposal will save our industrial infrastructure -- and millions of jobs. More importantly, it will create millions more. It literally could pull us out of this recession. In contrast, yesterday General Motors presented its restructuring proposal to Congress. They promised, if Congress gave them $18 billion now, they would, in turn, eliminate around 20,000 jobs. You read that right. We give them billions so they can throw more Americans out of work. That's been their Big Idea for the last 30 years -- layoff thousands in order to protect profits. But no one ever stopped to ask this question: If you throw everyone out of work, who's going to have the money to go out and buy a car? These idiots don't deserve a dime. Fire all of them, and take over the industry for the good of the workers, the country and the planet. What's good for General Motors IS good for the country. Once the country is calling the shots. Yours, Michael Moore [email protected] MichaelMoore.com P.S. I will be on Keith Olbermann tonight (8pm/10pm/midnight ET) to discuss this further on MSNBC. http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/me...dex.php?id=242

Hey Chris, I thought it was you, but was not sure with the side profile, sorry Corrected buddy.

Why would anyone go up a channel where they see at times 30 or so guys on either side, chucking lead. The channel is maybe 50 yards wide by half a mile long. Us shore guys fish the beginning of the channel maybe using up 40 or 50 yards of it. I would never bring my boat up in there looking at either side see guys casting, and think every single one of them is going to see me and stop fishing. I was fishing the channel a few weeks back from a boat, with a bud Paul. As he approached the shore guys he basically stopped far enough away to ensure he would or the boat would not be in their way. Smart thinking. I mean you have a half mile channel to fish, why going in tight amongst the shore guys, makes no sense at all. But then that's just my view point.

Well said Canadadude and bluetop you guys speak the truth. Here is a fish I caught today, and bluetop got yesterday.

What are you talking about Bruce ? I have been fishing Port D for years and almost daily during the winter, and never once has their been fights. Actually during these years we have never once seen you out on the wall. We have seen you on the other side fishing for perch in the corner. Risks, now that's funny. The regulars down at Port D have an annual clean up of the whole place. Many of us help out with the Kids Day fishing derby. Also Bruce, your President of the St.Catharines game and fish, Jerry M, as well as many other directors and members of the club fish with us quite a bit. So I have no clue what your words are about. And if you look on this board, Brandon(bluetop) posted our monthly trout derbys we have down at port, getting many guys from out of town and also from the States showing up for the derbys. We have many guys down here that also bring their kids fishing, trying their luck at landing their first trout. Risk now that's funny.

Many of us fish the winter months in Port Dalhousie, St.Catharines. We gave our selves the nick, Port Posse. We made it in our local paper. From right to left, Bing, Lee, Tommy, Brent, Canada (John), Knightfisher (Dan), FishinFeldie (Chris). Nice to see the Posse make the paper.