kickingfrog

Nice Cliff, I'll have to wait for a few years for my first outing with my son.

That storm was a loud one for April. We had one lightning strike on the river that was sorta close, no static or nothing but close enough for me. I was ready for the bang but it was still pretty loud. I guess the guy next to me wasn't as ready because it seemed like he jumped a 4 feet in the air and when his feet hit the ground he was half way to the trees with his line trailing behind him. Not sure why he thought a bunch of big trees was better than fishing in a small open area on the river during a lighting storm? I felt that I was safer on the river, I did keep my rod low however.

My brother and I have fished the trout opener for more years than we can or care to remember and this year was no different. Nothing to hard core for us. Just show up before daylight and fish a few hours, take some pictures and head home. The weather man called for thunder storms and he was right. As soon as it was light enough out to see the clouds you could tell a system was coming. I almost always fish hardware and my brother almost always float fishes. I had two fish on and landed before 6:15am, my brother had a few on right away but didn't land one until about 6:30am or so. All the while the thunder was rolin' in and the clouds were getting thicker. Rain was starting as my brother landed his fish and then the sky opened up and fell on us. I have seen weather like that before, but never on the trout opener or without a long hot humid stretch before hand. The other people that were fishing the river headed for the trees to wait out the storm. So my brother and I thought we would get a chance to hammer a few with a captive audience. Nothin'! After about 20 minutes of hard rain it started to let up and finally stop. Shortly there after the river started to turn to chocolate milk and no fish were being raised. In the past we would have sat in out or found clearer water but life's a little busier for me now and I'm going to Algonquin next weekend so going home before lunch let alone dark only helps out at home. After years of only film photos or none at all from my brother I knew this year would be different because I got him a digital camera for Christmas. Two fish later and a trip home and I find out that he only took one photo of my two fish. I guess I should have included a "how to" guide on paying back your brother for years of high quality picture taking. First I teach him to fish, now I have to teach him how to take pictures. lol

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDi....aspx?e=1537512 Sonar used in search for boater INVESTIGATION Posted By RAYMOND BOWE Posted 8:00am April 24, 2009 Aircraft out of CFB Trenton are no longer assisting in the search for a missing Tiny Township man, but provincial police are clinging to hope that Nick Dusome will be found alive more than a week after his disappearance. After five days of searching, no sign of the 29-year-old boater has turned up, including his 14-foot fibreglass vessel. Police had been searching a massive area this week -- some 150 square kilometres -- from Penetanguishene Harbour to north of Honey Harbour, but the focus has been diverted back to the local harbour. The OPP's underwater search and recovery unit arrived in Penetanguishene Harbour yesterday morning, near Dusome's last-known location. They are using side-scan sonar in their search for clues. The unit is expected to be back in the harbour today. "We're still searching, we're still active," said Southern Georgian Bay OPP Const. Peter Leon. "But every day that passes, it's more difficult for the family and for the officers involved. "But we want to bring him home safely, so we're bringing in every possible resource," the constable added. Assistance from the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Trenton was suspended around 3:30 p. m., Wednesday, and the OPP has taken over the investigation. Police say Dusome moored his boat last Thursday evening at the Town Dock and went ashore to Yorkie's Bar and Grill. He was last seen leaving the bar around 12:30 a. m., last Friday, and presumed to be making the return trip in his boat to Harbour West Marina on the other side of Penetanguishene Harbour. His family reported him missing Monday night after he failed to return home or show up for work. Recent weather conditions have made the search difficult, but provincial police had a helicopter in the air over Penetanguishene Harbour yesterday. "Unfortunately, the water conditions and wave action were very turbulent, making it very difficult for our spotter being up that high," Leon said. Authorities are not sure what kind of safety equipment Dusome had aboard his small boat, which he uses daily as his primary mode of transportation to travel from his home to work at nearby Bravo Marine Services. Area residents are asked to call the provincial police communications centre at 1-888-310-1122 if any possible evidence of Dusome's whereabouts washes ashore. His boat is described as creamy white with a 25-horsepower Johnson outboard motor. Dusome is described as white, about six feet tall with a muscular build, short brown hair and a reddish goatee. He weighs about 210 pounds. He was last seen wearing light brown overalls, a dark green jacket and dark coloured boots. Article ID# 1537512

Maybe he would have taken $500?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/lifeMain/home Why we're often lost in space From Friday's Globe and Mail April 24, 2009 at 4:06 AM EDT As an experimental psychologist, Colin Ellard maps the differences between the navigational skills of animals and humans. In his work at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Ellard has come to learn that we can't hold a candle to even the common mouse - let alone remarkable migratory species such as the Monarch butterfly. And still, when Dr. Ellard embarked on a family camping trip in Algonquin Park he couldn't avoid making the kinds of human errors he studies. He and his wife managed to get spectacularly lost after leaving a marked trail, even convincing themselves that a familiar landmark - an island with an osprey nest - was not the same island but a second, completely different island. In his new book, Where Am I? Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall, Dr. Ellard explores how we have all come to lose our way in the world, despite being its brainiest creatures. There were a number of cases this past winter of skiers getting horribly - sometimes fatally - lost after leaving marked trails. You argue that these aren't random events - they're predictable. Enlarge Image Colin Ellard at Toronto’s Eaton Centre with geese: They have navigation tools we lack. (HARPER COLLINS) We cling to this idea that we know where we are. By the time we abandon it, we're really lost. Then we're really in trouble. My story was like that. Even though the facts were obvious, in hindsight, at the time, in the context, we were quite convinced that there were these two islands with two osprey nests. We wouldn't let go of that idea. I've heard of other stories when people have been lost and they've had a compass and the compass disagrees with their mental map of space. So they think their compass is broken. There's an added level of frustration. You think, "I'm a smart person. Why can't I figure this out?" It's really primal. One of our earliest and biggest fears is the fear of being lost. You can even see it written into aspects of our mythology. Think of the Minotaur and the labyrinth. It's deep. We're the only animals that talk about this stuff. We can reduce it all to sets of equations and send rocket ships off into space, but you put the average one of us into the shopping mall and we're trapped in there for years eating fries and drinking bad coffee. You explain one of the reasons we have this problem is that our brains construct spaces instead of sense them. One of the hallmarks of being human is to have the ability to detach ourselves from the here and now. How often are you actually in the moment? You're usually off somewhere else, imagining some entirely other place or situation. That works to our benefit, that ability to imagine places where we're not. When it comes to being able to locate ourselves in the here and now, it can be a handicap. So, what does the ant or the homing pigeon have that we don't? The African ant forages for these vast distances. They find what they're looking for and make this immediate straight line back to their nest. For the entire time that they've been foraging they've been able to preserve this kind of homing vector. At any given time they can immediately turn and not only know the right direction home, but how far they have to go. In human terms, imagine getting about 40 kilometres from where you started and being able to make a beeline, or an ant-line I suppose, directly home. Formally, it's called "path integration" and we can do it but we really are not very accurate at all. A different case would be homing pigeons or sea turtles which have access to magnetic fields. They have sensory equipment, as far as we know ... which they can use to find direction and, in some cases, location. But some human cultures have figured out good systems. Two things seem to be universal in wayfaring cultures like the Inuit and the Australian Aborigines. One of them is that they've honed this exquisite eye for detail that we don't have. The other thing that these cultures do is use narrative and story. The best example of all is these song lines in Aborigines - what they're doing is they are making an explicit connection between their creation, the creation of everything, and the shape and size of the landscape. They're using song lines as a kind of navigational aid, but at the same time there's this spiritual connection to place. You suggest our built environment - even cyberspace - adds to the static between us and nature. Part of it is we just lack the tools that other animals have. And part of it is that because of our abilities, we've built an environment for ourselves that has made it possible for us to survive without having access to that very detailed information about where we are. We build a shelter and cocoon for ourselves from the rest of the world. But then again, we invented the GPS! We can't find our way for real, but we can create a technology to do it for us. The first time I thought about technology that way was not long after I bought a GPS for my family to try geocaching with my kids. I thought it was a wonderful way to get them outside and get them interested in place. ... It's the same with social networking features on your phone; now you can use it to track not only what your friends are doing, but where they are. And how far they are away from you. It's almost a hyper-modern, silicone-based analogue of Aboriginal song lines. We're connecting our stories to places, but not by singing songs, with these gizmos we hold in our hands.

You're a real son of a gun! I HATE you! That's the perfect colour as well. Very nice.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...y/National/home Submerged under water for 20 minutes, boy wakes from coma Manitoba family's faith tested during 13-day coma, but prospect for recovery called 'remarkable' Article Video Comments (25) PATRICK WHITE From Friday's Globe and Mail April 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM EDT WINNIPEG — Growing up near the snaking Whitemud River, 8-year-old Samuel Gross embraced baseball, soccer and books. But he never learned to swim. On April 9, the ice-strewn waters around his home on the Westroc Hutterite colony, about 120 kilometres west of Winnipeg, were days away from cresting when the shy third-grader went for a walk with friends along the stream bank. Because he can't remember what happened next, the boy doesn't understand why he's now being called a medical miracle. Underwater for 20 minutes, he was rushed to hospital. Doctors feared he would never recover. Samuel Gross, 8, is shown in this family handout photo. The Manitoba boy, who has been in a coma since flood waters sucked him into a culvert two weeks ago, has opened his eyes, according to Westroc Hutterite Colony member Ben Gross. (The Canadian Press) Videos 00:00:00.000 CTV Winnipeg: The little boy who nearly drowned He was under water for several minutes and his family feared the worst, but after a 13-day coma Samuel Gross woke up Play Video On Wednesday, after 13 days in a coma, he woke up and recited his father's cellphone number. The sequence of events that led to his awakening tested the limits of medicine along with his family's faith. Friends say Sam slipped off a snowbank and toward the raging maw of a swollen culvert. They ran to pull him out. They grabbed onto him. As they started pulling, their grip loosened and the current carried him away. As soon as he heard, Robert Gross, Sam's father, ran to the scene. He looked at the culvert and his heart sank. “It had a lot of suction there,” he said Thursday, in a slight German lilt. “Enough to get swept away.” For 20 agonizing minutes, Mr. Gross and many of the 90 other residents of the Westroc colony scoured the waters around the culvert. “It was done with a heavy heart,” Mr. Gross said. “He was so very helpless.” When the human body hits such cold water, holding one's breath becomes nearly impossible, said Gordon Giesbrecht, professor of thermophysiology at the University of Manitoba. In cold-water submersions, Dr. Giesbrecht has found the maximum he can hold his breath is 13 seconds. “It would be terrifying for a short period,” he said. “Then you'd breathe water in and that would be it.” Somewhat counter-intuitively, breathing the chilly water can also save the brain, the organ most at risk during drowning. The body's impulse to respire is so strong that the lungs will continue breathing water in and out well after submerging. Studies on canines have found that mammals can continue breathing water for up to four minutes. Circulating that icy water through the lungs, Dr. Giesbrecht has found, cools the brain and reduces the body's core temperature. In warm weather, if someone were to stay submerged in an outdoor pool for more than four minutes, “they will either be dead or have severe irreversible brain damage,” Dr. Giesbrecht said. “But the cooling of the brain increases the time you can go without oxygen. The tissue, as it gets colder, requires less oxygen.” When a cousin finally pulled young Sam from the icy waters, the boy appeared blue. “His hood was over his face,” said Julie Gross. “I pulled it back and my first impression was he died already.” Some colony members started CPR and called authorities for help. Due to floods throughout the province, the Manitoba government had stationed an Alberta helicopter equipped with medical staff at the Winnipeg airport. It touched down more than half an hour later. The crew continued CPR as they whisked the chilled, unresponsive boy to Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. At the hospital, Sam's heart finally started beating on its own after two hours of CPR. Doctors kept his body chilled for another two days to protect the brain from inflammation before gradually warming him up over a period of 24 hours. Doctors had another problem to contend with. Stomach contents had flowed freely into the lungs, blocking off oxygen to the heart. With the help of a ventilator and an artificial surfactant, Murray Kesselman, medical director of pediatric intensive care at the hospital, and his team were able to open the lungs back up. For days afterward, Sam remained in a coma. Nobody knew how his brain had been affected. The prognosis wasn't good. “When you look at submersion injuries and near drownings, in most circumstances 20 minutes would not be associated with recovery,” Dr. Kesselman said. “It wasn't clear what kind of awareness he would have.” His parents and four siblings prayed around him. “You always have to have hope,” Mr. Gross said. “As long as there's life, there's hope.” After a week, Sam's body stabilized from the original anoxic insult and doctors took him off the ventilator. Several days ago, he started opening his eyes but, discouragingly, “with no awareness,” said Dr. Kesselman. “We were very concerned.” Concern turned to jubilation on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after Sam slipped into the frigid stream. The child opened his eyes, moved his arm and his father heard him say “Ouch.” Dr. Kesselman started testing his brain, asking him his age, birth date and father's cellphone number. He passed with flying colours. “And then he would say, ‘Alright, what else do you want me to do?' “ said Dr. Kesselman, who anticipates the boy will be released in about two weeks. “He's the boy that he was. His brain function looks very good. The potential for recovery is remarkable.” Dr. Kesselman said the sequence of events saved the boy: cold water, rapid helicopter deployment, expert treatment. Mr. Gross has a different explanation. “My prayers have been answered,” he said. “It's a miracle.” With a report from CTV News

Ya, if that is 8 inches I'm... never mind.

North is a relative term, since our friend from England would have to move Southwest if he was going to end up in Dryden.

Nice fish. Thanks for the photos.

I don't think it is too hard to see both sides. On one side you have a group of people who have worked hard for a number of years to improve the river and are concerned that all that hard work may be for not. The other side wants to increase the number of fish using the improved river system and improve the number of fish they can catch downstream. Sometimes it is difficult for those who are in the midst of a situation to see the big picture. Or they are concerned that someone else with a politician's ear will mess things up. Hopefully science rules the day and not politics, but I doubt it. Facts: Diversity makes an ecosystem stronger. There is a finite amount of pounds of fish that an body of water can produce.

And runs on pure shine.

Nothing wrong with using what you have on hand, and it's not like it was a short bus. Although I wonder why they felt the need to cover/remove the word school, but not the word bus?

Ya, no worries about having a conversation with someone over the noise of a 2 stroke, and then getting back to the shore only to find out they could hear EVERY word.

NO! Buying tackle is a complicated process that requires planning, stops at 3 major stores and a co-signed loan... Well... that only happened once.

My understanding was that there are not a lot of basements in the south. Insert easy trailer park joke here_________. Seriously though, I don't think there are a lot of basements. Scary stuff. Hold on tight dawg.

And I thought I was beatin' the system by getting my beads at a craft store, buck or two here I come.

Outdoor Canada or Ontario out of doors just had an article about Aurora trout. Maybe check their sites.

Interesting points. Engines are getting more efficient, however the tournaments have an Formula 1 race feel to them. Meaning, it's not about the angler but the technology he has purchased or been sponsored by. Tournaments are about money. Big purses for the anglers, product placement for the sponsors etc. The engine makers, and the boats they push, are big players behind that money, might be a tough go.

Politics unfortunately have a lot to do with regs.

A nice fish by bucktail turns to this??? Where have you met these "bios"? What attitude is it that you are referring to? Do these "bios" offer facts and or opinions you disagree with? Or don't understand? Or can't understand? Or won't understand? Do these "bios" that you have experienced this "attitude" from refuse to back-up their positions with research and proof?

My father in-law bought a new honda 4 stroke over the winter. The quote he got from somewhere was $600 plus to install it. It's a 40hp for a 16ft side console. Question 1 Is that a reasonable price? Question 2 Anybody have some marinas in the area that they would recommend? Question 3 How tough is it for someone who is very mechanical and his son-in-law, who is not, to install an outboard? Thanks for the input.

Very nice! The original floater probably hasn't changed much, but the box might give a better indication of the era.

More resources for enforcement, conservation and education would lessen the need (money) for stocking. Education for those who want to learn and follow the rules and enforcement for those who do not.