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Fishermen Use Dead Friend's Ashes As Carp Bait http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/the-lateral-line/fishermen-use-dead-friends-ashes-as-carp-bait?src=SOC&dom=tw

http://www.nugget.ca/2016/04/30/everybodys-interest-is-best-served-by-conservation The best way to ensure the health of the Lake Nipissing fishery is by getting all affected parties to work toward the same goal. That’s the opinion of Scott Nelson, president of the Lake Nipissing Stewardship Association. He was one of about a dozen people at Wasi Falls Friday, gathering eggs to take back to the association’s fish hatchery to give them a better chance to thrive. The stewardship association, Nipissing First Nation and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry were working together on the project to keep tabs on the health of the fishery. The ministry has been carrying out a survey on the spawning grounds since 1968. The target of the association is to harvest about two million eggs, but they only got about 400,000 Friday. That means they’ll be back over the next few days to try to improve the harvest. Once the eggs hatch, in about 14 to 28 days, the fry will be returned to the lake. Members of the association estimate the survival rate of hatchery-hatched fry is about 80 per cent, compared to less than 20 per cent in the wild. Nipissing First Nation also will collect some eggs – they’re aiming for about 200,000 – which will be taken to the hatchery in Garden Village. “It’s really small scale,” Clint Couchie, natural resource manager for Nipissing First Nation, said. “About four females. That’s what we would need for that number.” A big part of this harvest, Couchie said, is providing an educational program for residents of Nipissing First Nation. He said school groups will be invited to visit over the next few weeks before the fry develop “to see what goes on in the process,” and also to let people see how much work is involved in running a hatchery. Couchie said he doesn’t want the eggs to hatch in-house. The problem the groups ran into Friday is that “the females are slow to come in,” Couchie said. The groups netted a couple dozen young males, but only a few females, ministry management biologist Kim Tremblay said. “We’re getting a lot of young males – first-time spawners,” she said. They had already sampled about a thousand males, but “the females are just starting to show up now.” Tremblay said it’s still too early to make any predictions, but what she is hoping to see is some first-time spawning females show up. “We want to see the larger year classes. We’re hoping to see some six-year females,” she said. Nelson said he understands and agrees with the ministry’s position that stocking the lake isn’t the answer. “We have to control the harvest,” he said. “Everybody is looking to improve the fishery on Lake Nipissing, and the truth is, historically, we have been over-harvesting the lake. Recently, we have been getting all the participants together to figure out what is best for the lake.” The collaborative effort on display Friday, Nelson said, is promising for the lake. “Everybody’s interest is best served by conservation,” he said. “That’s the best way to ensure a sustainable harvest and a healthy fishery.” All the fish netted during the survey are tagged, and anyone catching a tagged fish is asked to call the number on the tag and report the tag number and location of the catch.

I smell burnt toast. Frustrating.

English is a complex and often nonsensical language that is always changing. Writing it is equally difficult. I do notice when someone gets things a little sideways but try not to make an issue out of it, in part because I know there are some wholes holes in my skills.

He also had the fishin' magician that I think was given to me at one point but I have no idea what became of it. The original multi-tool?

K-tel version "from the makers of the pocket fisherman" is the tadpole. Now I'm not sure which my cousin had?

My cousin had a pocket fisherman and when I was 7,that was the coolest thing ever. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/manitoba/phil-kives-k-tel-winnipeg-obit-1.3556818

Ya, I recently replace my 5 year old phone and when I downloaded the nevi app it doesn't have any lake depth info like the old one, unless you pay. I haven't paid yet and might not bother, I've got the SD card and the lap-top.

To-Lu comin' around after his second homerun today. Saturday home games are junior Jays days and in the upper level the kids get in for $12 and they can run the bases after the game.

Really wanted to like a guy like him.

A Kin talks about the Jays ambidextrous pitcher Venditte: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/pat-venditte-1.3548115?cmp=rss

"Only" 2 runs in the top of the 1st but 38 pitches by the starter to get 3 outs.

Man, the Jays sure work the counts. Lots of opposing pitchers are having to throw lots of balls and are leaving games an inning or two earlier then standard. That's more pitches for the pen.

My friend is considering buying a cottage. He asked me about the lake. I was wondering about the type of Lake it is. Deep/weedy etc. Is the lake getting better or worse? Is it the goto lake in the area or do most fish else where. Is it the type of Lake that has tons of water skiers and jet skis. Did it get fished out by yokels in the 70's and 80's. Save "your spots" if there are fish, I'll find them. Although I have some insight as to why he might be getting a deal.

Your family still in the area?

A friend is looking at a place on Mill Lake and I figured this would be a good place to look for any intel on the lake. PM if you prefer. Thanks

Sure individual batters are an issue but they can not step out like before. Pitchers control the speed of the game. Red Sox and Yankee games are always near the top of time for 9 inning games and when they play each other it often takes close to 4 hours for 9 innings.

Jays with a 11am start today in Boston... The way the red sox play I should be able to watch the last couple of innings after work.

I had a similar problem a few years ago. I just needed to clean up the conections in the foot pedal and tighten a few screws. Easy to check that before going further.

Another contender is the one who jumped the fence at the Toronto Zoo to get a hat from the tiger enclosure.

Shapiro appears to be the only one that knows Cleveland was the hotbed for baseball office staff. This year's Jays are going to be the least effected by this. It will only get worse in the following years and it doesn't look good at this point.

Body found: http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/body-of-missing-canoeist-recovered-from-pigeon-lake-1.2862267?platform=hootsuite# The body of a missing canoeist from Halton Hills has been found in Kawartha Lakes. According to Kawartha Lakes OPP, the body of the 28-year-old woman was recovered from Pigeon Lake on Saturday morning. The discovery comes five days after the OPP ceased search efforts for the woman. RELATED STORIES Search suspended for missing canoeist on Pigeon Lake Search continues for two missing canoeists on Pigeon Lake Body of missing canoeist recovered from Pigeon Lake Police say the woman and two other people went out on a canoe on April 3 to retrieve a pedal boat that had drifted away from shore. One person was able to successfully make it back to shore after the canoe capsized. The body of a 23-year-old Scarborough man was recovered from the lake on April 5. Police say none of the canoe occupants had life-jackets on.

Peanuts are a legume, not a nut, I thought?

We moved south from North Bay to Barrie in the summer when I was about 11. We'd been swimming in Nipissing for 4 months by then and ran right into Simcoe. Delayed my puberty by at least a year.

Gibby signalling to the pen who he wanted: Buck Martinez has played a lot of ball and watched even more, said he'd never seen that before.