kickingfrog

Yes to all above.

Very nice Bernie! Keep us posted.

Back in the day, I had a few too many on a Thursday night (Fridays off was great) and got a ride home from a friend. Next morning when I went downtown to get my car I had a ticket for parking at an expired meter.

Horn broken, watch for finger.

The pair of ya are fish teases.

Darn 'merican beer. Just 'cause it taste like water doesn't mean it drinks like it. Don't judge all us Canucks based on three drunk bozos.

Oh ya. Anybody else tired of paying good money for baits that don't run true out of the box?

Nice! I can't wait to see the fish. I bet Glen was COLD!

Out of towners don't get to vote for low rent politicians. They can take their business elsewhere however. Out of town winter anglers are not the sole source of the problems, but they are easy to target. Good luck to 'em. In a democracy you ALWAYS get the government you deserve.

The Collective is generous.

Like almost all politicians he's full of it, and it floats, therefore there was no danger.

I'm sure this would make a lot more sense if you had been able to take a picture.

Enjoy your families. My wife, her sister, her mother and her aunt will be doing their best to boost your economy on Friday. Anybody between Barrie, Ontario and Grove City, Pennsylvania be on the look-out for a blue, late model CRV. Do not approach these women, they are armed with enough credit cards and discount coupons to do serious damage to anybody in their way. Me? Four days of Yankee and Canadian football and all the chili I can eat! I love this holiday too.

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDi....aspx?e=2189286 Fishing for answers Barrie man offers reward for return of beloved fishing rod Posted By J.T. McVeigh Posted 7:00am Charlie Crosby just wants his fishing rod back. The Barrie man was away fishing with some friends a couple of weeks ago for his annual week away with his fishing club, and had to leave the river to get his wife to a doctor's appointment. He put the rod and reel on the roof of his car while quickly packing up. Being in a bit of hurry, he climbed into his vehicle and drove back to Barrie. That's when he realized that he had left the rod on top of the car. "I couldn't sleep for a week after it happened," a distraught Crosby said. "This just isn't any rod, this is the Cadillac." All seemed lost until he heard that someone had called a local radio station saying that they had found a rod on the road in Wasaga Beach. The fellow knew that someone had lost something special, telling the radio station that 'he couldn't believe it, this thing is a work of art. Hearing this he quickly called the station. Crosby found that staff couldn't find the contact information the caller had left. "And that is where I'm at, I can't get a hold of this guy." Without getting into dollars and cents, this is a unique rod. Known as a float rod it is more than 13 feet long, carefully sculpted and finished. The equipment is a real eyecatcher on the rivers. The rod is made of inlaid wood and brass fittngs. Crosby's first name 'CHAS' is on the rod. ` The reel is hand-made, machined from an aluminum blank and is again perfectly balanced. "It was an anniversary present, and I would really like to have it back" said Crosby. As member of the Nottawasaga Steelheaders and volunteer with the Nottawasaga Conservation Authority, Crosby knows that the rod and reel are quite well known. Now with the radio tip going cold, Crosby is appealing to the public at large to help him retrieve his property. He has been putting up posters with pictures of the reel throughout Wasaga Beach as well as going to area newspapers and radio stations for a call out. With the reel maker now retired from the business, and the craftsman who sculpted the rod having moved the New Brunswick and having dropped out of sight, replacing the equipment is impossible. "We moved to this area in 1971 and I have been fishing the rivers around here every since, this is really important to me." Like anyone whose passion drives them, losing the equipment is taking a real toll on Crosby. "After the years of memories on the river, losing that rod is like losing my right arm." If you have any information on the whereabouts of Crosby's gear, contact him at 728-6636.

Thank you Paul Harvey.

Be careful what you ask for.

Get the stove, and then explain how much better you could catch fish to cook on/in it if you had the thruster.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinio...article1372332/ Philip Jackman From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 8:08PM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 8:32PM EST Welcome to Collected Wisdom’s new luxury cabin cruiser. Now, relax while one of our minions pours you a drink and CW figures out how to drive this thing. THE QUESTION: Ted Holmes of Toronto asked: “Why is the steering wheel in a pleasure boat on the right side, when the steering wheel in a North American car is on the left side?” THE ANSWER: For this one, we hand the wheel over to Gregory P. Katchin of Richmond Hill, Ont., who draws on more than 40 years of boating experience and his Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons classroom training and teaching. “Looking at a boat from the stern (rear), the propeller in most single-engine setups rotates clockwise,” he writes. “This clockwise rotation sets up an opposite-direction torque reaction that tries to rotate the engine and boat counter-clockwise, and thereby lift the starboard (right) side and ‘steer’ the boat to the left.” By having the driver seated on the right side of the boat, he says, the driver’s weight counteracts, to some degree, this torque reaction. “In dual or multi-engine installations,” he says, this torque is less of an issue, “but the right-side steering-wheel standard was set many years ago in single-engine installations.”

In part 3 the anglers must get smaller.

Wow! For being an unsavory, smelly (or insert your adjective of choice) bunch we sure spend a truck load of cash in the pursuit of a simple fish. Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nation...article1367441/ Freshwater sport fishing a $500-million catch for B.C. Fishermen spend more on equipment than downhill skiers, put more into economy than cruise ship passengers, study finds. Vancouver Published on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 11:58PM EST After years of decline, freshwater sport fishing is on the rebound in British Columbia, according to a new study that found more than 300,000 anglers are spending more than $500-million a year on the activity. The study, being released today by the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C., found that, annually, sports fishermen spend seven times more on equipment than downhill skiers and inject more into the provincial economy than cruise-ship passengers. “It's a groundbreaking study,” said Don Peterson, president of FFSBC, a non-profit organization that works in partnership with the provincial government to provide fish-stocking programs and promote the sport. He said the study is important because it puts hard economic numbers to what is often seen as a simple leisure activity. “While we always knew that freshwater anglers spent a lot of money chasing the big one, we are now able to quantify the extent to which investments in sport fishing produce returns for the province's tourism and hospitality industries,” Mr. Peterson said. The report looks only at freshwater fishing, not at ocean angling for salmon, which is under federal authority. The study, by economist Gordon Gislason, found the buyers of 319,000 angling licences in 2005 spent $480-million on equipment, travel, accommodation and hospitality services. By 2008, licence sales had climbed to 340,200 and annual angler expenditures had grown to $530-million. Mr. Peterson said the trend indicates that by 2017 there will be 416,700 sports anglers in British Columbia, marking a return to a level of participation not seen since declines began in the 1990s. Many had thought that in an increasingly urbanized country, where many immigrants come from homes unfamiliar with angling, sport fishing was destined to fade from Canadian culture. But Mr. Peterson said the popularity of fishing is increasing because of a number of initiatives. Angling regulations have been streamlined, it has become easier to buy licences on the Internet, community outreach programs have introduced the sport to children and immigrants, and fishing opportunities have been improved by stocking programs. The report notes that British Columbia's stocking program is unique in North America, because hatchery fish are produced from eggs collected yearly from wild stock. The result is that the genetics of wild strains are protected, although up to eight million trout and steelhead are stocked each year. The report also states that British Columbia is at the forefront of introducing sterile forms of kokanee, cutthroat and rainbow trout into fishing lakes. By manipulating water temperatures when the eggs are incubating, the hatchery program is able to produce fish that are sterilized; as a result, the fish put all their energy into growth, not reproduction, so they become bigger and faster. The development of “trophy” fish has helped drive an increase in sports angling. “The stocking program results in $21 in angler expenditures for every $1 in stocking costs, an exceptional return on investment,” the report states. It says 1,000 businesses that outfit freshwater anglers contribute $210-million in GDP, and generate wages and benefits of $120-million and tax revenues of $125-million. The report found that anglers release about three-quarters of the fish they catch, and that the average angler spends $120 a day to catch 2.1 fish.

Sounds like a very proud father.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

You would be.

http://www.nugget.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2167597 Blue-green algae bloom is gone Posted By Press Release Posted 2:00pm Nov 9/09 The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit advises resident and visitors to the municipality of Callander that the blue-green algae bloom has disappeared from Callander Bay. Testing by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment has verified that toxins do not persist in the water of the bay. This allows the Municipality of Callander to operate their two water plants, if necessary. "We are very pleased with the cooperation of the Municipality of Callander," said Peter Jekel, Director of Environmental Health. "They handled the blue green algae situation well and took all the appropriate steps needed to protect the health of the area residents and visitors."

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