kickingfrog

I like the crystal (14lb on a 2500), haven't tried the super slick.

I all seriousness I've only had problems with them not coming apart. Maybe clean up the inside with a q-tip?

duct tape

… and the small ones too.

I can take a picture of a 400 te on a gas stove-top.

Watching some online videos it appears that the 400 series may have a bigger star drag then the 200s. These could have been prototypes however and I haven't seen any photos of a 400 series calcutta d's to confirm.

Sure you could use it (Smaller baits and a soft, long rod) but I don't think with the size and weight of baits (and cost) used it would be really worth it.

I am used to using the traditional star drag and my TE is my favourite reel. Having said that, I wonder if part of the reason the traditional star drags are as big as they are is because they have been between the reel handle and the body of the reel. They had to be big. I guess we'll see.

Tackletour does a great reviewing products: http://www.tackletour.com/previewshimanocalcuttad.html

My safari has been a little slower the last few days for most pages.

The sun is the engine (or is of motor ) that powers plant growth.

I've only heard that on this site. That doesn't mean it's not the case, I just haven't seen it elsewhere.

As stated before the blue fish being caught now are a regular walleye (Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum). The fact that the colour comes off on towels and the snow would be a key point. http://www.ontariooutofdoors.com/fishing/walleye/?ID=86&a=read And even if the skin/scales were a different colour that alone does not mean it is a different species. The grey and black squirrels most of us are used to seeing are all grey squirrels.

I think there was a left turn at Albuquerque.

Security dude in the back must be checking out their shoes.

I don't care how much evidence you think you may have, I am gonna call it a pickerel.

The data and any serious photos will be analyzed nine ways to Sunday but those 2 photos from last night were as close to real time as possible. I watched the live feed on the net. The rooms were full of people (far to ugly and awkward to be actors btw) reacting with pure joy, excitement and relief as the photos were put up in screen first as thumbnails and then higher resolution.

They only checked to make sure there was not a golden-arches sign in the first photos… at least until Mc Ds signs on as a sponsor.

No curiosity I guess.

Yep. Lots of missed high-fives and moments of awkward physical celebrations, but good on them. For most that might be the pinnacle of their career.

If that's where you think babies come out, you are in for a huge surprise. All in good time.

It's a little early in the am for that.

Except for work, and here, I'm just about always antisocial.

OFAH Lake Nipissing Walleye report: http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/suns-prod-images/file/1297294213467_Lake_Nipissing_Walleye_Data_Review_2012_OFAH_Report.pdf

4th: http://www.nugget.ca/2012/08/03/ofah-didnt-consult-local-group-executive OFAH didn't consult local group: Executive By DAVE DALE, The Nugget Friday, August 3, 2012 7:22:31 EDT PM North Bay Anglers and Hunters executive were not impressed with how the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters waded into the Lake Nipissing walleye fishery. “If you want to throw gas on the fire, they sure did a fine job of it,” Lee Payne, treasurer of the local group, said Friday. OFAH issued a media release Tuesday which said the walleye fishery is in “crisis,” blaming depleted stocks on commercial gill netting which is managed by Nipissing First Nation. It urged the Ministry of Natural Resources to suspend gill netting until it can properly regulate and enforce the non-recreational harvest. “There's no point in finger pointing. It only gets people's backs up,” Payne said, adding the situation is “not a crisis. It's a problem and as a group we think it's workable.” Daryl McLure, president of the local group with about 65 members, shared Payne's concern. “None of us liked not being consulted ...,” McLure said. “I personally wouldn't have called it a crisis.” But McLure also said he agrees with the OFAH that the MNR needs to do more to manage the fishery. “We've been pussy-footing around for a long time. The Ontario government doesn't know how to handle the situation,” he said. About seven years ago, the MNR imposed an aboriginal communal commercial fishing licence on Nipissing First Nation with a quota of 30,000 kilograms annually, which was less than half the estimated sustainable harvest target of 66,000 kg. Nipissing First Nation rejected that, creating its own commercial fishing bylaws with a management and enforcement system in 2005. It set its commercial harvest quota at 43,000, knowing that the recreational angling harvest was less than 23,000 kg in 2004. OFAH said angling effort and success has decreased significantly since the season was shortened, limits reduced and slot sizes imposed to protect spawning-size walleye. Based on a graph OFAH created with MNR data, angling harvest peaked at almost 60,000 kg in 2002 and decreased to less than 7,000 kg in 2010. Greg Farrant, an OFAH executive, said Friday the federation will meet with local anglers and hunters clubs to discuss its actions. Farrant said the federation has 675 clubs which aren't always consulted when it addresses conservation issues. The MNR's review of Lake Nipissing walleye data since 1967, provided as a draft report to OFAH for its comments in May, has been shared with stakeholders but not provided to media despite requests. Farrant said the province has the legal authority to shut down commercial fishing if conservation of a resource is required and he said the data shows the resource is “approaching a crisis level.” Whether it's a “crisis” or “approaching a crisis” is not the most important issue, he said, “it will get toward collapse if something is not done.” McLure said it would be fair to suspend all fishing — angling and commercial — if it really was a crisis. “I would think you couldn't suspend one without suspending the other . . . if it's that bad,” he said. “But I'm not convinced it is.” [email protected]