kickingfrog

Can I borrow it when you're done? Along those lines I'm not a huge fan of those floating speakers with 400hp inboards either. The good thing is after this weekend they almost completely disappear until next July 1st.

Leave it to a plumber to know that.

A deep sleep isn't what I want when I've been doing the texas two-step.

Not unless you want to wash lots of bed sheets.

Fun times. Do I sit or kneel?

After some frogin'.... ...He got back to fishing and caught a smallmouth on a topwater popper before dark (Just noticed the matching red sweaters and black pants) The next day my father in law came along for some fish. And got to see his grandson catch a 4lb smallmouth on a zara spook. It was 3lb 14oz, but I wasn't going to tell either that.

Depends on if it was in the non-fiction or fiction section.

Another option, although crude, is to use a 3 way swivel and a dropper line with a snap. You can add or remove 1ounce bell sinkers as the depth changes. My preferred method is the quick release clips and the single arm weights mentioned above.

... besides fishing every possible moment. We're spending a week in the area and figured there might be some down time so having something in my backpocket on a rainy day would be a good idea. 4 Kids ranging in age from 3-8. Thanks

Takin' the shallow water bite to the extreme. Dropping water levels on a reservoir?

Imagine, all those months that the highest, most important staff in the prime minister's office lied/hid vital information from their boss and allowed him to make untruthful statements to the public/media for weeks. And for all of that PM reluctantly accepted one staff member's resignation. Days before he still fully supported him even though, if we believe the story, the pm would have now realized that he'd been lied to and made false statements for weeks about the scandal. The pm is a lot of things but it is hard to imagine him as a patsy.

Owning guns and fishing rods could be moot if there is nothing left to pursue. We don't need no stinking research.

http://www.nugget.ca/2015/08/18/new-chief-pulls-plug-on-walleye-nets All First Nation fishing nets will be removed from Lake Nipissing as of Saturday at noon. Nipissing First Nation Chief Scott McLeod informed local fishermen today that the fishery is being closed this weekend, putting a stop to gill netting to ensure the health and long-term sustainability of Lake Nipissing and the walleye fishery. “I have been speaking directly with fishers to inform them of the closure, to encourage compliance and to let them know that we are actively working to develop plans to mitigate the economic impact of our decision,” McLeod said Tuesday. A special meeting of council was held Monday evening to discuss the closure. “We met last night to discuss the recommendations from Nipissing First Nation''s Natural Resources Department and to maintain sustainable harvest levels we needed to take action and close the fishery for the season,” McLeod said. He also stated that Nipissing First Nation is aware that some people may not respect council's decision, however the situation will be monitored through active patrols. The closure will remain in effect until the end of the 2016 spring fisheries moratorium. According to Nipissing First Nation closing the fishery before Aug. 31 effectively reduces the season by more half – to just over three months from the seven months is was in the past. This isn't the first time NFN has amended its Fisheries Law. In 2014, the community was informed gill netting would stop in Oct and wouldn't resume until spring when the recreational walleye fishing season opens. Council has also implemented several regulations that came into effect in 2015 to include the elimination of spear fishing and gill netting during the spring spawn, reducing the number of nets from five panels to three, changing the minimum mesh size from 3.5 inches to 3.75 inches, reinstituting the fish hatchery on a small experimental scale, hiring fishermen to seed a barren spawning grounds and studying the impact over a number of years, withdrawing licenses from any crews using non-members as part of fishing crews and actively patrolling and confiscating all unmarked nets. The Ministry of Natural Resources indicated in March 2014, the walleye fishery is in serious decline and is now only half of what it was in the 1980s, mainly due to the combined pressure of both the recreational and commercial fisheries. As a result the ministry did away with a slot size restriction aimed at preserving spawning walleye 40 to 60 centimetres in size and instead introduced a new minimum size limit to protect walleye up to 46 centimetres. The move was aimed at safeguarding young fish that have not yet had a chance to spawn.

No more than you are. Rule number 1 must not be forgotten.

To sum up, Canada's economy is in the tank due to world market sway. Ontario's economy is in the tank due to government mismanagement.

I don't accept that particular rendition of the facts.

That could really hurt if your opinion mattered.

So there aren't enough walleye because there are too many walleye... eating walleye. Good thing that didn't happen back when there was even more walleye. They would have made themselves extinct long ago and then there'd be no walleye left for the walleye to eat.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/popular-minnesota-fishery-shuts-down-walleye-season?src=SOC&dom=tw Popular Minnesota Fishery Shuts Down Walleye Season by Tom Davis In a move that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has called an abrupt halt to the walleye season on Lake Mille Lacs, one of the state’s most popular—and formerly abundant—walleye fisheries. The order, which took effect August 3, makes it illegal not only to harvest walleyes but also to target them. Any walleye caught incidentally while targeting other species must be immediately released. For reasons not completely understood—and that continue to be hotly debated—the walleye population on Mille Lacs has gone into free-fall over the past several years. As recently as 2012, the harvest quota—divided between sport fishermen and eight bands of Ojibwe, whose treaty rights allow them to net fish the lake—was 500,000 pounds. In stark contrast, the quota for 2015 was a mere 40,000 pounds, with 28,600 allotted to sport fishermen. To put this into perspective, a DNR biologist told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that not so long ago anglers on Mille Lacs would routinely harvest that much walleye “on a good weekend.” With more than 132,000 surface acres, Mille Lacs is the second-largest lake in Minnesota. And one of the factors contributing to the decline seems to be that the models used prior to 2010 to estimate the walleye population on this sprawling body of water were flawed. According to the Star Tribune, biologists “now believe they overestimated by a significant margin how many fish they could take from the lake.” But to the extent that overharvest is a problem, at least it’s correctible. (The largest of the Ojibwe bands that fish the lake, the Mille Lacs Band, has already stated that they will forego any walleye harvest allotted to them in 2016.) An even bigger and more-troubling problem is fewer and fewer young walleyes are surviving to grow to catchable size. And while, again, the reasons are complex and not completely understood, a myriad of suspects have emerged: Invasive species; climate change; a shifting forage base; a growing population of other predator species, such as muskie, northern pike, and smallmouth bass; and the list goes on. With area resorts, marinas, and tourism-dependent businesses standing to lose millions if the current trend continues, the Minnesota legislature has convened a special working group to try to sort through the issues and determine what can be done to reverse the walleye decline. There seems to be only one certainty: It won’t be a quick fix.

We have to believe the words of our leader. If that is the case, he is incompetent and had no knowledge of what his hand picked, closest staff members were doing during the scandal that was on the front page of the newspapers. But, that means we have forgotten rule number one. All politicians are liars.

And that is why we haven't been seeing a lot of the bullpen lately. Gasolina

Tough to argue against a .500 batting average.

Fires don't need gasoline. Five outs to go, you've got to go with the big guys. I'm more concerned that he apparently has never heard of a safety squeeze (Post game he gave some canned answers as to why you don't suicide squeeze). You had the bunter from the national league at the plate and a runner on 3rd and 2nd. Tie the game at home first, then worry about winning it.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/even-bears-annoyed-drones/ Does the buzz of a drone overhead make you nervous? Does it strike fear in your heart? You’re not alone. The heart rate of a black bear spikes dramatically when drones fly overhead, according to a new study in the journal Current Biology. But these cardiac changes don’t always accompany obvious changes in behavior. This raises the question: could drones could be causing severe distress to wildlife without our knowledge? Some nature lovers embrace drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are great for scoping out rare scenes like giraffes strolling across the Serengeti or providing rare views into inaccessible places like an eagle’s nest in a tall redwood tree. “Drones are being used more and more for research purposes. Ecology, wildlife and geology, anywhere with rugged terrain,” said wildlife biologist Mark Ditmer of the University of Minnesota. “They’re also being used to prevent poaching. If there’s a camera around a rare rhino, a poacher would be less likely to kill it.” Last year, Ditmer and his colleagues began to study whether the growing popularity of these aerial vehicles could have unintended consequences toward animals. t the time, the researchers were in the midst of a study on black bear hibernation in northwestern Minnesota. Bears sleep for months during the winter, but then rise in the spring without any serious health consequences. “We wanted to understand how bears are able to take long periods of dormancy, with the idea being that we could then help humans recover from long hospital stays or prep astronauts for lengthy space travel,” Ditmer said. So Ditmer joined forces with cardiologists at his university and biotech company Meditronic to design a set of heart monitors for black bears. The heart trackers took a reading every two minutes, meaning the team could make 720 estimates of heart rate per day. The bears were tagged with GPS trackers too, so the team “could see how things influence their heart rate, such as crossing a road or moving across an agricultural field,” Ditmer said. “And then some Ph.D. students thought that it’d be cool if we could track the bears with drones and look at bear behavior.” Ditmer saw an opportunity to take this even further and study whether the drones caused physical stress to the wildlife. The researchers obtained approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct 18 drone flights over four adult bears — one male and three females. The flyovers occurred sporadically over a three-week period — each lasting five minutes and typically soaring 60 feet above the ground. The team observed a sharp rise in bear heart rate with every single flyover. In many cases, cardiac pace doubled, and in the most extreme instance, the heart rate for a mother bear with cubs hopped from 41 to 162 beats per minute. Another mother bear experienced a similar incline, suggesting moms are extra sensitive to drone intrusion. The bears seemed more startled in windy conditions, suggesting that they couldn’t hear the approach of the drones until very late. It took about 10 minutes for bear heart rates to return to normal, though in one case, the bear’s heartbeat didn’t relax for 3.5 hours. “The incredible change in heart rate is by far the most interesting result of the study,” said University of Wyoming zoologist Jerod Merkle who specializes in bear behavior but wasn’t involved in the study. “An increased heart rate is indicative of bears getting themselves ready for a fight or flight response.” Merkle says when this happens, an animal’s body is secreting stress hormones, like adrenaline, into the blood, so the animal can act fast if necessary. However, just like with humans, he continues, persistent exposure to stress hormones can be detrimental to health. The bears didn’t often exhibit fight-or-flight behavior. Only two flyovers caused the bears to dramatically shift their movements. In one case, a bear ran faster than the scientists had ever seen her move at any other time period, Another bear wandered beyond her typical home range, invading another bear’s territory. “If you completely bolt from an area that you’re used to living in, it could open you up to forms of mortality, whether it’s crossing a bunch of roads or a competitor. In future studies, Ditmer’s team plans to examine if bears in captivity can physically acclimate to drone exposure.