kickingfrog

I'm working on it. I have a canoe, but if I can get a buddy to go we would need something more fish friendly for the two of us.

Not even an ugly stick.

Others have passed judgement. As to the meaning of words, they can be searched so easily as to render them accessible to even the most obtuse.

Mike zig zag a lot, his equilibrium will be way off.

People get paid to promote a product. That's business (and I'm fine with that). People are overly sensitive when this is pointed out. That's incongruous.

Hey Dave, Dave is not wrong, and made a valid point. I enjoy the show, appreciate the hard work required to bring a fishing show to air and know that the work doesn't end when the show is in the can. I also know you contribute a great deal to this board as well. I don't buy my vehicles based on who won the last hillbilly circle race however.

I think the camera man kicked the rod in.

Make mine holdfast.

Considering the weekend's thread about pre-wedding customs. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/cash-please-were-getting-married/article1924188/ Cash please, we’re getting married DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 5:47PM EST Last updated Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 6:26PM EST Aileen Farrell and Eric Terrien don’t need monogrammed Egyptian cotton towels. Ms. Farrell, 25, and Mr. Terrien, 29, have been co-habitating for 10 months and plan to tie the knot in August in Ottawa. Last fall, when Ms. Farrell, an administrative assistant and part-time ski racing coach, was setting up her wedding website, she stalled on the registry section. He offered her a suggestion: registering at their bank. She took his advice. On their wedding website, the couple have instructions to call their local TD Canada Trust branch to make a deposit directly to their joint savings account. “We don’t need the material stuff any more,” Ms. Farrell says. Instead, she’s hoping to use cash contributions to renovate their basement or redo their backyard. She and her fiancé are also planning a second, more elaborate, honeymoon in 2012 for soccer’s Euro cup in Poland. Many soon-to-be-weds have dismissed the standard registry as stuffy, impractical and outdated. The contemporary set now register with travel agents to plan six-week escapes to Fiji. Others register at art galleries in hopes that wedding guests will help pay for a pricey painting. Some wine connoisseurs even create registries to expand their cellared collection of vintage bottles. “For many, many years, weddings were about the tradition of the wedding and marriage,” says Lisa Cable, a wedding planner in Vancouver. “It’s evolved more into the celebration of the unique lives of the couple.” Entrepreneurs have spotted great business opportunities in the alternative registry trend. Sites such as downpaymentdreams.com and ehoneymoonregistry.com have cropped up as channels for couples to collect cash gifts. In January, Victoria real-estate agents Christina Carrick and Patricia Kiteke launched Home for the Honeymoon (homeforthehoneymoon.com), which they bill as Canada’s first down-payment registry site. Ms. Kiteke says many newlyweds she’s worked with are interested in buying kid-friendly houses with yards rather than condominiums, but often need financial assistance from friends and family to make down payments. A registry offers a socially acceptable way to ask for help, she says. And couples receive assistance from real-estate agents on purchasing a home. The company takes a 7-per-cent cut of guests’ contributions. Newlyweds Janine and Martin Evers set up a last-minute registry on the site two weeks before their January wedding and used the $10,000 worth of contributions to top up the $35,000 they had in hand to put a down payment on a $478,000 four-bedroom house in Edmonton. “Paying that much more on your mortgage made a huge difference,” Ms. Evers, a 30-year-old esthetician, says. The shifting idea of the wedding registry fits with marriage trends. Canadians are marrying later and often shack up before they get hitched. In 1972, the average ages for first marriages among Canadians was 22.2 for women and 24.7 for men, according to Statistics Canada. In 2004, it was 28.5 for women and 30.5 for men. Co-habitation before marriage has also been on the rise in the past few decades. Though many common-law couples never marry, it's worth noting that in 1981, common-law unions made up 6 per cent of all families and in 2001, that figure rose to 14 per cent. While today’s engaged couples are happy to reject traditionalism, their families are not always receptive. In Ms. Farrell’s case, some thought her savings account registry was gauche. “My mom at first was a little taken aback when I told her … she thinks it’s a complete slap in the face to the idea of marriage.” To placate the traditionalists, she and her fiancé registered at Sears, Home Depot and Bed Bath & Beyond. Kelly Hill, a 27-year-old social media marketing manager in Austin, Tex., was also forced to make a small conventional registry to appease her fiancé’s grandmother, who “wanted to give a gift [they] could unwrap. “We put up a thing at Pottery Barn and checked a bunch of things we didn’t really need,” she says. Ms. Hill pointed all other guests toward a page on her wedding website where she had a PayPal link for invitees and friends to contribute to her and her fiancé’s down payment fund. She also posted photos of a house they were eyeing. “People don’t like the idea of putting money toward something when they don’t have a visual picture of it in their heads,” she says. They had only 56 guests at their February, 2010, wedding but pulled in more than $12,000, which they paired with the $5,800 they had in the bank to put toward a down payment. They purchased a house in November. Sarah Shore, a principal planner at Dreamgroup Productions wedding and event planning in Vancouver, says couples can tell family and members of their wedding party to spread the word about alternative registries, or include a page on their wedding website. While mentioning registries on invitations is a major no-no, Ms. Cable says, couples must find some way to communicate their wishes clearly to their guests. A friend of hers recently married wrote, “No gifts, please” on her invitations in hopes that guests would instead give cash to use for a down payment on a house. Most people didn’t pick up on the subtext. Of the 150 guests who attended the wedding, only two brought gifts for the newlyweds – the others showed up empty-handed.

Not all of us haul in the fish hand over fist. Nice phish photos.

Surprisingly enough there was an offer of $300 for the megaphone he was using.

They are another tool in the toolbox. Walleye can be caught on a hook and a free worm dug-up from the garden.

TJ is furry either way.

Never. It just better end in regulation.

I had no idea who I was bidding against for the rod. I do have to go reel shopping now however. I also picked up 2 handlebarz spinners from the draw table. Nice.

I know it's fix now but this might help in the future: With our expressvu remote if you press the guide button after you are in the guide mode it will cycle through different channel options, such as "all channels", "all subscribed channels", "all HD" and then any favourite channel subsets.

I think I'll join ya.

Hands up, if you know of a phabs fan that can be an A Physiotherapist could make a good living on all the shoulder injuries from the hands flying up.

And Charlie Sheen will live forever.

Maybe I follow you out Saturday?

:rofl2:

Lose- Say little. Win- Say less.

Good thing Friday is pay day.

I wonder if Fish ON will be available? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/tvontario-archives-go-online/article1917788/ TVOntario archives go online KATE TAYLOR From Thursday's Globe and Mail In 1975, a 36-year-old Margaret Atwood talks about her celebrity and confides that men have stopped blaming her for turning their wives into feminists. In 1976, former Ontario premier John Robarts gives his calming analysis on the election of Quebec premier René Lévesque, saying, “I don’t think Quebec will separate.” In 1980, film buff Elwy Yost chats with veteran director John Huston, who recalls actor Orson Welles feigning stage fright on the set of Moby-Dick and writer Truman Capote producing pages of a script from a hospital bed. In 1994, exasperated host Steve Paikin tussles with novelist Mordecai Richler over the question of Israel. TVOntario opened its archives to the public yesterday, launching a website that includes more than 375 episodes from such fondly remembered shows as Saturday Night at the Movies, Studio 2 and Polka Dot Door. The educational broadcaster estimates it would take five days to watch all the material it has posted and plans to keep updating the site with more programs. In making its archives available to the public for online streaming, TVO follows the lead of the National Film Board, which has more than 1,700 films and shorts available on its website and offers a popular iPhone app for viewing its content, and the CBC, which has thousands of radio and TV clips online, including footage of historic news events and interviews with politicians and entertainers. With a smaller archive and a smaller budget, TVO is taking a curated approach, featuring playlists on topics such as Toronto or Canadian writers or Ontario premiers. “The initial approach has been to dive in and find the jewels and bring them to the viewer,” TVO chief executive officer Lisa de Wilde said. “People have access to so many sources of information. The value we can bring to the table is to provide it organized.” Like the NFB and the CBC, TVO makes the material available for streaming but not for download. Putting public video archives online can be an expensive proposition: As well as the cost of digitizing old films and videos, the organizations have to clear all the rights to the material, paying residuals to writers, actors and composers whose work is included. The CBC website has to explain to visitors why they can’t see old episodes of Mr. Dressup: The broadcaster has yet to clear the rights to that show. “The NFB created a helpful approach with the [actors and writers] guilds and styled it as a pilot project,” de Wilde said. “TVO has piggybacked on that.” TVOntario, which generates a third of its $60-million budget itself, will pay about $30,000 in residuals for the first year of the project and will not be broadcasting any shows that were not produced in-house: Like the CBC’s online archive, the TVO project concentrates on current affairs programming and will not include drama. Making old TV dramas and comedies available online is a much tougher proposition because the broadcasters rarely produce these shows in-house and therefore don’t control the rights to programs that often involved a host of creators and producers.

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