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All I know is it's too big to fit in my mouth.

CTC has a couple of options in this weeks flyer. Sale starts Friday.

http://www.nugget.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3098066 FISHERY: Walleye eggs collected at Wasi Falls By DAVE DALE The Nugget Updated 6:30pm Wednesday, April 27, 2011 The walleye spawn at Wasi Falls was fast and furious this spring with mild weather allowing volunteers to collect two million eggs in three days. Dave Waye, of the Lake Nipissing Walleye Restocking Association, said there have been years when "nasty and miserable conditions" have turned their labour of love into a week or more of hard work. "The spawn came very fast this year. We're kind of lucky we got out here when we did," Waye said, referring to the launch site at Wistiwasting Country Club dock where the eggs are mixed with male walleye sperm before being transported to the hatchery. Trap nets are set near the Wasi Falls and they had no trouble catching 45 females and more males than they needed — including a 50-pound muskie attracted by an easy spring buffet. Usually, all the fish are returned live and unharmed to the lake, but the Ministry of Natural Resources took a dozen for a research project looking at walleye diet. Scott Kaufman, MNR biologist for Lake Nipissing, said they're partnering with Laurentian University to find out if the invasion of spiny water flea has changed what walleye eat. Kaufman said they'll be comparing the results with data taken in 2002 and 2003. Waye said collecting the eggs is one step in a process that will eventually lead to fingerlings and the fresh hatch being planted back at Wasi and rehabilitated spawning grounds at the Chapman's Chutes, LaVase River and Bear Creek. While walleye restocking is no longer funded by the province and Lake Nipissing is considered capable of sustaining fishery reproduction on its own, Waye said the association feels it's worthwhile. "There are poor year classes," he said, when the natural spawn doesn't go well for a variety of reasons. "Our view is . . . this evens out the low points." He said growing ponds in the West Arm of Lake Nipissing are also used to mature the young walleye and restocking there has returned a natural spawning population to an area that was depleted more than a decade ago. Waye said the restocking program has an 80% hatch rate compared to nature's 5% success, and the survival rate to the 2.5-inch size in ponds is about 50%, considerably better than in the wild. He said it would take as many as 1,000 female spawning walleye to do the work of the 45 females they used to gather the eggs. Kaufman said the river spawners are almost done for this year and the walleye that spawn in the lake on shoals will be busy for another week to 10 days. He said the walleye spawn is triggered by temperature and the warmer river water gets things started. John Gauthier, a first-time restocking program volunteer, said he thought it was time to give something back to the lake. "This is a great thing, everybody in the community should get involved," said Gauthier, who's been fishing for decades. "I took a lot of fish out since I was 16 years old, a lot of big fish . . . so I'm back to help out." [email protected]

I'll second that. The improved clinch has always been my knot of choice, but I don't like it with fluoro.

Or the buggers are so full of tryptophan that they are sleeping it off.

It's movin', but at a snails pace.

This link has been posted here the last 3 or 4 springs, but this is the first time I remember seeing sturgeon.

A year later and no one has snapped this place up. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/housing/few-offers-for-canadas-biggest-fixer-upper/article1991822/ Few offers for Canada’s biggest fixer-upper PAUL WALDIE From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 6:35PM EDT Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 10:14AM EDT Maybe it’s the location, the price tag or the fact that it’s not quite finished. Whatever the reason, selling Canada’s largest house has not been easy. The 65,000-square-foot property is in Haileybury, Ont., about 140 kilometres north of North Bay, Ont., on the shores of Lake Temiskaming. It includes an art gallery, office area, swimming pool, squash court, two elevators, a giant hot tub, a small gym, a boathouse and 43 acres of land. But many rooms aren’t finished and a new owner will have to sink in as much as $1-million to make it livable. The house, about the same size as Bill Gates’ mansion near Seattle and about 10,000 square feet bigger than the White House, has been on the multiple listing service for about a year at an asking price of $25-million. But there haven’t been any decent offers. Now the firm trying to unload it plans to run ads in several newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, in an attempt to drum up interest. “The Haileybury Lakeside complex is a luxury property with potential to become a landmark residence and office,” according to the offering material put together by Ernst & Young Inc., a court-appointed monitor handling the sale. Potential bidders have until June 24 to submit an offer, with a 15-per-cent deposit. “It's a unique asset and it's a high-cost asset, so there's clearly going to be limited buyers for it,” said Alex Morrison, a senior vice-president at Ernst & Young. When asked whether he has ever seen a house that big, Mr. Morrison said: “I never have. It's quite an impressive building when you go up and see it.” The vacant complex is one of the last remaining assets of Englehart, Ont.-based Grant Forest Products Inc., once one of Canada’s largest building products companies. And it stands as a sad reminder of the company’s ill fortune and bad timing. Founded in 1980 by Peter Grant, the family-owned business expanded rapidly as the housing bubble grew in the United States. At its peak in 2004, Grant operated six mills – two in Ontario, one in Alberta and two in South Carolina – and was North America’s third-largest maker of oriented strand board (OSB), a product similar to plywood that’s used to build walls, floors and roofs. The success prompted Mr. Grant to branch out. He started building a golf course in nearby Earlton, Ont., acquired a 65-foot yacht made partly made out of OSB, and snapped up acres of land around Timmins. In 2005 he started work on the Haileybury house, hoping to use it as an office complex, living quarters and a showcase for Grant products. The monster-home dwarfs everything else in the area and was supposed to come complete with a small golf course in the surrounding acreage. By 2007, Mr. Grant’s fortunes turned. The housing market in the United States began to collapse, dragging down OSB prices and forcing Grant to cut production. Within two years, OSB prices had fallen by two-thirds and Grant’s sales had dropped from $500-million to $184-million. Even worse, the downturn came just after the company had launched a costly expansion project at two mills. The company tried to keep going but by June, 2009, it succumbed and filed for court protection from creditors, citing nearly $600-million in debt. The mills have since been sold by the monitor, Ernst & Young, and all remaining assets are up for sale. Mr. Grant abandoned the Haileybury project in 2008, leaving a partly finished relic. If he could have hung on just a bit longer, the company might have survived. By 2010, the housing market began to turn around and China started snapping up Canadian forest products. Prices for OSB jumped 34 per cent last year and Toronto-based Norbord Inc., one of the largest OSB makers still standing, reported a profit for the first time in four years. Even more telling, Atlanta-based giant Georgia-Pacific, which bought three of Grant’s mills, recently announced that it is close to reopening the mills to take advantage of the upturn in the market.

From a PBS show Oregon Field Guide: http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg/segments/view/1783

No, I'm just a poser. No it was the theatre at Georgian college. I went to Central as well.

Funny I was suprised people, including yourself, were able to reconise me last night since I do not resemble that fit guy in my avatar picture.

That's why I didn't post the ones of the crowd No, in all seriousness the one crowd shot I tried to load onto photobucket wouldn't upload last night. I'll try this morning. Edit: Just added a crowd shot to the original post. Looks like you were right N.A.W.

It's late, and I'm going to bed, so this is sort and sweet. VIP passes for a meet and greet and some subs before the show courtesy of TJ. Some tips and some laughs. I left the rest of them at the bar. Paul Powis J.P. Dave Part way through the minnow bucket story This young guy was hanging on Dave's every word during the tail... sorry tale. Conclusion Thanks Guys.

Nipissing walleye would never eat those things. ... But I sure would.

Em I too late????

Three letters TJ: SAM

Barrie tomorrow night, don't forget to bring a non-perishable food item for the food bank.

It is sometimes used as a bit of a catch-all term for any trolling that doesn't involve downriggers or other "extreme" methods for getting your lures to a certain depth.

One of them is the scholarship set up in his late sons name, whom John alluded to in a few posts.

Some might find this more amusing than others, but I was looking for something to make me smile.

Burning it is a bad idea.

I use 2 different sized cases.

I know someone who has this on a plaque in their home. "To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." I think our world will be a little bit different without John.

The phrase: Tough as nails; doesn't even begin to describe Mister Proenneke.