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Sharks are not like most fish, no bones etc, etc. Sharks also have to swim forward to "force" water over their gills. Dragging a shank back wards with a motor is not the same as moving a fish back and forth at the side of the boat. I guess no fish has ever faced down current before? They would all be belly up. MB-Bad advice is worth less than no advice.

About 10 years ago the big hydro boats came to Barrie. I was fortunate enough to snap these shots. The driver was alright. These are scans of old prints so the quality isn't the best.

Yes I have, but that doesn't answer my question.

When did fish gill filaments become directionally specific?

And the add at the top and bottom of this page is???? Always neat to see how other cultures, I just wish I could do it more often.

No thanks.

This was the first thing that came to my mind. George Carlin - Stuff

No, No, NO, they are brown trout!

I use a manual one. Just a med/fine file from CT tool department. whetstone are great for knives but I use a file on hooks.

wait a second

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nation...article1249976/ Mark Hume Vancouver — From Thursday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 09:00PM EDT The Fraser River is experiencing one of the biggest salmon disasters in recent history with more than nine million sockeye vanishing. Aboriginal fish racks are empty, commercial boats worth millions of dollars are tied to the docks and sport anglers are being told to release any sockeye they catch while fishing for still healthy runs of Chinook. Between 10.6 million and 13 million sockeye were expected to return to the Fraser this summer. But the official count is now just 1.7 million, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Where the nine to 11 million missing fish went remains a mystery. “It's beyond a crisis with these latest numbers,” said Ernie Crey, fisheries adviser to the Sto:lo tribes on the Fraser. “What it means is that a lot of impoverished natives are going to be without salmon. … We have families with little or no income that were depending on these fish. … It's a catastrophe,” he said. Mr. Crey said a joint Canada-U.S. salmon summit should be called to find solutions. The sockeye collapse is startling because until just a few weeks ago it seemed the Fraser was headed for a good return. In 2005 nearly nine million sockeye spawned in the Fraser system, producing a record number of smolts, which in 2007, began to migrate out of the lakes where they'd reared for two years. Biologists for the DFO were buoyed by the numbers – the Chilko and Quesnel tributaries alone produced 130 million smolts – and because the young fish were bigger than any on record. Those fish were expected to return to the Fraser this summer in large numbers, and those projections held until a few weeks ago when test fishing results began to signal a problem. Barry Rosenberger, DFO area director for the Interior, said test nets at sea got consistently low catches, then samples in the river confirmed the worst – the sockeye just weren't there in any numbers. There had been some hope the fish – which return in five distinct groups, or runs – might be delayed at sea, but Mr. Rosenberger dismissed that possibility. “There are people hanging on to hope … but the reality is … all indications are that none of these runs are late,” he said. Mr. Rosenberger said officials don't know where or why the salmon vanished – but they apparently died at some point during migration. “We've been pondering this and I think a lot of people are focusing on the immediate period of entry into the Strait of Georgia and asking what on earth could have happened to them,” said Dr. Brian Riddell, President of the Pacific Salmon Foundation. “What we're seeing now is very, very unexpected.” Some are pointing accusing fingers at salmon farms, as a possible suspect, because of research that showed young sockeye, known as smolts, got infested with sea lice as they swam north from the Fraser, through the Strait of Georgia. “This has got to be one of the worst returns we've ever seen on the Fraser. … It's shocking really,” said Craig Orr, of Watershed Watch. Dr. Riddell said sea lice infestations are a possible factor, but it is “extremely unlikely” that could account for the entire collapse. “We have had the farms there for many years and we have not seen it related to the rates of survival on Fraser sockeye [before],” he said. Dr. Riddell said a sockeye smolt with sea lice, however, might grow weak and become easy prey or succumb to environmental conditions it might otherwise survive. Alexandra Morton, who several years ago correctly predicted a collapse of pink salmon runs in the Broughton Archipelago because of sea lice infestations, in March warned the same thing could happen to Fraser sockeye. She said researchers used genetic analyses to show Fraser sockeye smolts were getting infested with sea lice in Georgia Strait. “I looked at about 350 of this generation of Fraser sockeye when they went to sea in 2007 and they had up to 28 sea lice [each]. The sea lice were all young lice, which means they got them in the vicinity of where we were sampling, which was near the fish farms in the Discovery Islands. If they got sea lice from the farms, they were also exposed to whatever other pathogens were happening on the fish farms (viruses and bacteria), ” said Ms. Morton in an e-mail. “There's a lot of different beliefs as to why the fish haven't shown up, but I think it's pretty clear where there are no fish farms salmon are doing well,” said Brian McKinley, a guide and owner of Silversides Fishing Adventure. “It's pretty frustrating to watch what is happening,” he said from his boat, anchored on the river near Mission. “I remember sockeye would just boil through here in August and September. It was insane. . .now the river seems dead.” Dan Gerak, who runs Pitt River Lodge, said there is an environmental crisis on the river. “Definitely something's got to be done – or it's finished forever,” he said of the Fraser's famed salmon run. Other big runs of salmon are expected to return this year - notably pinks where are projected to number 17 million - but it is too early to tell if the sockeye collapse will be repeated with other species.

Keep 'em. Two bit yankee receivers are a dime a dozen. I don't really care if the Ticats win, as long as the Argos finish 1 point ahead of them and win the head to head games. BTW I'd love to see a CFL game in Hamilton, way better atmosphere than the dome. I have tickets for the Argo/Ticats game the week after Labour day. Seemed like a good idea back in June.

Sorry Mike, maybe I should have told you that I am an Argo fan Anybody remember the last time the both the Argos and the Ticats were having good years??? At the same time???

A story about some modern technology helping pinpoint a battle from World War I. Also mentioned is a website for historical maps. The link below takes you the Globe and Mails site and will show you some maps. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nation...article1247577/ SUSAN KRASHINSKY From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 04:23AM EDT As hundreds of troops lay dying on a ridge in Flanders almost a century ago, the last thing many of them saw was a quixotic windmill, slowly disintegrating in flames. For decades, the British regiment whose soldiers fought in that battle on the Messines Ridge, nine kilometres south of Ypres, didn't know where that landmark had stood. They had little to go on: a date, a village name and a painting. Now, archivists at a Canadian university have helped them unravel a 95-year-old mystery. "It's been a talking point in the regiment for years," said Pipe Major John Spoore from his home in London, England. He has been a member of the London Scottish Regiment for 23 years. "Somebody mentioned that McMaster University had trench maps. That's why I came to them." Mr. Spoore found the university's website Peace and War in the 20th Century. The Hamilton school scanned almost 500 maps and 600 aerial photos from the First World War. The site, pw20c.mcmaster.ca, is free and searchable. It's a way of making history accessible, said map specialist Gord Beck, instead of locking documents in a rare-archives room where they must be handled with special gloves. Mr. Spoore's request was so specific that he needed expert help. So in early June, he got in touch with Mr. Beck. He had some leads: the date of the battle (Halloween, 1914); the village where the regiment set off (Wytschaete); the forest nearby (L'Enfer, which means "hell" in French); and a painting by Richard Caton-Woodville depicting the grim scene. Mr. Beck searched university archives for descriptions of the battle, and triangulated the location on his maps. After much searching, he happened upon it: a square topped with a tiny X, the sole indicator that a windmill once stood there. Though the battle and its location are well known, such a specific search can be tough. "At the time every other small village would have a mill," Mr. Beck said. "The old windmills you picture when you think of Don Quixote." McMaster's digitized maps made Mr. Beck's job easier. Instead of hunching over a desk with a magnifying glass, he used the high-resolution scans to zoom in, pan around and find the X-marked spot. Mr. Spoore, who will be 73 in two weeks, said he is glad the puzzle is solved. "I've been within a few yards of where it was, but we've never really been able to pinpoint it exactly. We can now." The London Scottish - the sister regiment of the Toronto Scottish - lost its last living veteran of the Messines Ridge battle about 10 years ago, Mr. Spoore said. But the painting still hangs on the wall at its London headquarters, and they mark the anniversary faithfully. "We still celebrate a Halloween dinner every year," he said. "Not with witches or anything. A regimental dinner." It's an important part of history, and not just for the London Scottish. A young Austrian corporal named Adolf Hitler was there, too, fighting on the opposing side, Mr. Spoore said. Thanks to a Canadian effort, the debate around the table this Halloween will be a little quieter. "Hoping that you can assist in putting this old grey head at ease!" Mr. Spoore wrote in his June e-mail to Mr. Beck. That's exactly what happened, he said yesterday. A SOLDIER'S SONG John Spoore wrote a song about the battle in 1984 to mark the 70th anniversary of his regiment's offensive. The Burning Mill at Messines Nineteen fourteen, on Hallowe'en, the day dawned dark and still, As seven hundred kilted soldiers, advanced on Wytschaete Hill. They were not battle-hardened men; some were of tender years. They were The London Scottish Volunteers. When the battle raged hand to hand, it was a bloody scene, As they fought that day to hold the ridge, by the village of Messines. Their rifles jammed and they seemed damned but they fought with iron will, By the fiery glow of a shell struck burning mill. They'd left their homes and ones they loved, not many days before, To fight the invading army, on a not too distant shore Where the Belgian people were our friends and remain so even still. They remember yet that battle on Wytschaete Hill. At muster call at closing light, the men were filled with dread At so many comrades wounded and so many lying dead. They had no hero soldier's grave, indeed they never will, Their headstone - just the ghost of the burned out mill. Nineteen fourteen, on Hallowe'en the night grew dark and chill, So many kilted soldiers lying dead on Wytschaete Hill. They'd been not battle-hardened men; some were of tender years. God Bless those London Scottish Volunteers. John Spoore

Now life jackets? The government is always getting in my way of fun. Seat belts stopping for school buses motorcycle helmets speed limits crumple zones in cars asbestos in our buildings traffic laws criminal code building codes I am tired of it. Why don't they just go back to something they're good at... wasting our tax dollars?

Just like the fish stories... no photo, no believe. Great stuff Beans!

And we wonder where guys like Madof find his marks???

That's one big mud bug.

Nah. Poop floats.

A very minor point: The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is an Ontario government department and while Saskatchewan, and the other provinces, have similar ministries the MNR was not involved in this case.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nation...article1245964/ SASKATOON — THE CANADIAN PRESS Last updated on Saturday, Aug. 08, 2009 09:10PM EDT Three young Saskatchewan men were arrested Saturday in connection with a recent YouTube video that showed three males using rifles to shoot ducks on a prairie pond, footage that has caused widespread public outrage. A spokesman for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment said all three suspects, whose names have not been released, were arrested Saturday morning in a small Saskatoon-area community. Search warrants were also carried out at two of the individuals' residences. Gary Harrison, manager of the department's special investigations unit, said provincial and federal wildlife officers and the RCMP were also able to pin down the location where the video was shot. ”It's close to the community that the arrests were made in,” he said. The accused men, who are all in their early 20s, are to appear in Saskatoon provincial court on Monday to face a variety of charges under provincial and federal wildlife laws. Mr. Harrison won't speculate on the motive for the shooting. He also said more investigation is needed of the area where the video was shot. ”Anybody who has watched the video knows that some birds have been killed and we really don't know how many that was,” he said. The environment ministry said the content of the video led to a significant number of calls to poacher tip lines in both Saskatchewan and Alberta — a number Mr. Harrison calls ”unprecedented.” The video depicts two men firing at the ducks while the third captures their glee on camera. Police and provincial authorities launched an investigation late last week, soon after it appeared on YouTube. Mr. Harrison said the video is very unusual. “When I started we didn't have the Internet and YouTube. I haven't seen one that's been posted like this and had the killing of the birds in a media form like that,” he said. Brian Petrar, operations manager for Environment Canada's wildlife division, said while charges haven't yet been formally laid, officials will likely charge the individuals with offences under the federal Migratory Birds Convention Act and the Saskatchewan Wildlife Act. The large number of tips that poured in from the public helped officials make the arrests. There were a large number of calls from individuals offering information on what they thought were the identities of the men in the video and the location of the duck killings, Mr. Petrar said. “Working with provincial officials, we were able to focus our efforts on one particular area as a result of a number of calls. Over a couple of days of hard investigative work, we were able to pinpoint the individuals involved and where they lived,” he said. He declined to be more specific about exactly what may have led investigators to the three suspects. But Mr. Petrar did say that information from tipsters and the fact there was a sign in the video and images of a blooming canola field in the background also helped officials track down the suspects. The suspects were co-operative with law enforcement officials during the arrests, Mr. Petrar said. The identities of the men charged and the community they live in would likely be made public after they appear in court on Monday, he said. Rarely has he seen people be so blatant about posting such illegal activities on the Internet, Mr. Petrar said. “It's not in any way related to hunting or sportsman-like behaviour. It's just the indiscriminate and unethical killing of waterfowl,” Mr. Petrar said. The overwhelming number of tips in this case shows that the public understands the value of the wildlife resources in Canada and isn't willing to put up with animals being slaughtered, he said. A conviction under the Migratory Birds Convention Act can carry fines of between $300,000 and six months in jail for individuals, up to $1-million — though Mr. Petrar noted that maximum penalties are rare. Judges also have a lot of discretion in such cases and can also impose a wide range of penalties for those who are convicted of such federal charges, he said. The video sparked widespread public anger and prompted the Toronto-based Humane Society of Canada to post a reward of $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of those shown in the Internet posting. Society executive director Michael O'Sullivan said the organization also got calls from people who wanted to help and they were directed to tip lines in both western provinces. O'Sullivan said he is pleased to hear of the arrests. “I would like to commend all the members of the public who provided information. Canadians take cruelty to animals very seriously and they want to help out as best as they can,” he said. All three suspects have been released from custody.

Ha Ha. That's the first thing I asked her when I met her at Lakair last year.

Nice photos Joey. I've seen some big flocks of cormorants on the south east side of Nipissing, but not that many in the west.

That's us in a nutshell. Throw in a TILLER! here and a hockey fight there and that's about it. Thanks for thinking of us.

"how the heck am I going to find the time to fish with all this fun happening around me" More Hemingway less Jacques Cousteau