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I use a home made peppered vodka for my wife's Caesars. Just add some slightly crushed pepper corns to vodka and let it sit for a week, swirl the bottle a few times during the week. Strain the vodka through cheese cloth and use. BTW does not taste good in screwdrivers.

I want the Bills to stay in Buffalo and hope they do. I enjoy the experience of going to an NFL game in Buffalo much better then T.O. I am indifferent to Toronto having its own team. However the economic impact in a community of pro teams is almost always over stated/estimated. Tax dollars generated are offset by tax breaks, interest free loans and land deals below market value to billionaire owners. In the end the dollars are a wash. The un-measurable is the mood, spirit and general good will that a community can have when it gets behind a sports team. BTW The minimum salary in the NFL is below $400k. The max cap is $120 million and most of that is eaten up by a few key players, the bulk of the role players make less then a million dollars. And again, because at least half of their games are played out of state, county, city not all of their taxes go to the state, county, city they play in. Many of the players also live for more than 6 months in a different city then they play in. The benefits of tax money from 53 pros making part of $120 million is over stated when you are talking about billions of tax dollars.

But they are tender at that size.

Looks a little different then the one I used in shop class.

Taxes are based, in part, on the state where games are played and where the players live in the off season. Buffalo is the only team playing home games in NY State and for the last 5 years one of those 8 games has been played in Ontario. In today's world a 135 million dollar reno is lipstick on a pig.

Swiped this from the net:

I wonder if Tim Tomas knows that world hasn't ended.

I guess I go to work today.

Agreed, but her's would be fun to play with.

That's a bit of a chicken and the egg situation. Less bigger eyes to eat perch, more perch to eat small eyes. The perch/walleye dynamic is a natural one, we just throw it out of wack sometimes. I am also not aware of the perch pop. in Nipissing.

Sounds like bb is burning the evidence.

I've never needed my seatbelt, but still buckle up, what a waste.

Good stuff, from a determined angler but "Fishing from a boat every month this year" is something I hope you are not able to say in 2013.

Heard a good line today: If you think the world is going to end on Friday give me all of your money. If the world ends, I'll double it and give it back. If the world doesn't end I keep it.

Sticky fingers.

The January 2013 Reader's Digest has an article about this still missing young man.

You knew someone was going to say it, I'm just surprised it took 4 people. Nice wood.

Ya, San Fran could have stayed home and got rained on. Should be snow in NE in the middle of December.

No they're not. The dolphins will be drafting behind the bills and neither are making the play-offs.

They may have trouble crossing the border next time.

This article was discussed here almost 3 years ago, but didn't notice if someone else had brought up this aspect of the fishery. http://www.nugget.ca/2010/02/05/somethings-fishy-on-nipissing-photo-gallery Something's fishy on Nipissing By DAVE DALE, The Nugget Saturday, February 6, 2010 10:37:12 EST AM Lake Nipissing walleye may have become hooked on a fat-rich diet of smelts, a theory that explains a disappearing act this past fall, as well as ice fishing complaints and a recent explosion in the perch population. Richard Rowe, Nipissing First Nation biologist, told The Nugget Thursday that "lower-than-expected catches of all size classes of walleye" were found in the annual netting survey. Rowe said the fall walleye index netting results conflict with harvest success - the commercial quota was reached early - and the upward trend of spawning fish documented over the past five years despite similar pressure. "The 2009 FWIN results are puzzling," he said, explaining how the results from the past 12 years made sense when compared to harvest data and estimates for both natives and non-natives. "This year is a bit of an anomaly," he said, suggesting it serves as a "wake-up" call for an expanded study. "It's not uncommon to have the odd 'off year' in a long term data set. Having said that, we cannot take that chance . . . The 2009 results cannot be ignored by managers." Rowe recommends a detailed study involving a partnership of stakeholders to test his "ecosystem change" theory, combined with an independent trap netting exercise in the spring to validate or add to the FWIN results. He said the annual FWIN study documents other species at the same time, "showing perch numbers trending way up, with herring trending down." Native harvesters, Rowe said, are reporting many more smelt in the lake and they are forming a significant part of the walleye diet. "These trends in perch and herring, as well as what anglers are saying about walleye not biting, (combined with) a recent increase in walleye growth rate, are all consistent with an increase in smelt," he said. "Walleye on a smelt diet could potentially change their activity patterns making them much less active, which could partially explain low FWIN catches as CONTINUED FROM A1 well," he said. "There also appear to be changes at the zooplankton level of the food web, which, if confirmed, may be the mechanism for an increase in smelt, among other things," Rowe said. "It's all circumstantial evidence, but it's really starting to pile up for some type of ecosystem change." The Nugget's inquiry about the FWIN results came before Rowe finalized the results and held a data-sharing meeting with North Bay District Ministry of Natural Resources staff and other parties. Rowe said he intends to discuss the issue with the Lake Nipissing Stewardship Council later this month. Phil Hall, acting district supervisor, confirmed the MNR biologist involved with Lake Nipissing is on parental leave and a replacement hasn't been named. Hall also said winter creel data is still being collected by staff during the week and a contract worker every weekend. But Hall, speaking as a private citizen who fishes every winter with an ice hut off Deepwater Point along the south shore of Lake Nipissing, said his experience coincides with what many people are saying. "We're not getting too many walleye and the perch are way, way up," he said, adding that everybody also says "the walleye fishing was great this summer." Bill Richards of Billy Bob's Bait at Lakeshore and Pinewood Park drives said he thinks the lake is in "excellent shape" because walleye fishing is "great in the spring and great in the summer." Those who fish successfully in winter, Richards said, are not sitting in their huts on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. He said many of his customers who fish early in the morning and early evening are pulling up one to three walleye and about a dozen perch each time out. If anything, Richards said, people are getting frustrated catching too many "slot-size" fish 40 to 60 centimetres long. Walleye this size are considered prime spawners and must be released back into the water. His son called him from the lake recently via cellphone, Richards said, asking what to do with a 70-cm walleye. When told to release it, he said his son refused, saying, "I just threw the last six back." Carl D'Amour, a retired MNR conservation officer and part owner of Grump and Grumpy's ice fishing bungalows, said Rowe's smelt theory isn't far fetched. D'Amour said smelts hang out in large schools suspended well above the floor of the lake. Lake Nipissing ice fishermen commonly bounce their jigs off the bottom. Josh Savoie, Ben Laplante and Patrick Corriveau were heading out to "Perch City" Thursday afternoon, a collection of ice huts east of the Manitou Islands. Savoie said they've been catching tasty perch steadily for weeks, but only caught two walleye. Laplante, however, caught an 11-pound ling, a species of freshwater cod that is making a comeback in Lake Nipissing. Corriveau, a seasonal construction worker laid off for the winter, said he get as much fishing in as possible before he gets too busy in the summer. "I enjoy the outdoors, even if I don't catch anything all day," he said, with Laplante saying they caught 80 perch the other day, including 35 keepers for a fish-fry that night. "It was good eating." [email protected]

I use a 3-way swivel or a bottom bouncer. In the past I would use an inline sinker but don't anymore.

I need a dumbed down version to fully comprehend the documents.

I like the Williams wobblers. I don't tip them. I figure the minnow inhibits the flutter of the spoon and if I really think bait is needed I'll use a different presentation.

Stocking can help, but as mentioned it is not the be all to end all. Stocking, on its own, often is little more than a ineffective stop-gap. If there is spawning habitat loss then stocking is at best a put and take situation. If cormorants are eating too many baitfish then it doesn't matter how many walleye are stocked, there will not be enough baitfish for them to grow/survive anyway. If invasive species are changing the lake's "make-up"…. If anglers are keeping more fish than the lake can sustain... This is a complex issue it can't be solved with a single solution or quick fixes.