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  1. This is an incident I saw a while ago. A man kept about a dozen or so pan fish around 7'' in length. Not too far from him, a young couple was fishing with their daughter, caught a small sunfish, about 6'' in size, they kept the fish. The man started shouting at them, "Do not keep that fish, that's too small, that's why we do not have big fish any more." Does it make sense? The man fished until dark, kept about 3 dozens or so pan fish and went home. Who did more harm to the fishery. The man with 3 dozens of 7'' fish, or the family with one 6'' fish? I saw this type of thing happen more than 3 times with my own eyes. I only thought about them today, after the Cameron incident, that in all 3 cases that I SAW IN PERSON, the people who asked others to release the fish are actually the people who had kept and/or will keep much more fish later on, this MAY also include tiny fish. I am not saying that the man and the lady from Cameron Lake are the same since I do not know them. But I do have pictures of the guy who accused and "attacked" others more than once, displaying fish he kept. The fish were as dinky as 6" in size according his own photos. A lot of people here are nice and do C&R. But not those 2 or 3 people that I happened to bump in.

  2. "Lead is identified as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and fishing gear now accounts for 18 per cent of the lead entering and polluting the environment."

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    "Anyone who possesses leaded fishing gear can continue to use it. However, it is preferred that leaded gear be taken to local hazardous waste disposal facilities to be disposed of properly."

     

    http://www.ec.gc.ca/EnviroZine/english/iss.../feature3_e.cfm

     

    "The Canadian Wildlife Service estimates that up to 500 tonnes of lead in the form of lead sinkers and jigs is lost in our environment every year," said Minister Anderson. "That's the equivalent weight of dropping some 500 cars into our lakes, rivers and streams each year."

     

    http://www.ec.gc.ca/media_archive/press/2004/040217_n_e.htm

  3. Hey Leechman:

     

    Interesting experience... I had a similar experience on Jan 30. Caught a few perch at Simcoe and brought them home to Toronto. They were iced between 2 - 3:30 pm and we got home about 8:30 pm. Just like you, I dumped them in the sink and went for a shower. I come back in the kitchen to find out that the wife had seen two of them moving & put them back in the bucket & filled it up with water. In 3-4 minutes both were alive & even looked well. Didin't have the heart to kill them, so we decided to let them be for the night & cleaned up the rest. We woke up to find both of them belly-up in the morning. I couldn't figure out why they had survived a good 6 hours out of water & died in the bucket. Chlorine, maybe?? I wonder.

     

    Os

    Rising temperature was one of the reasons. Temperature shock killed those two fish. If you leave fish in the fridge or outside, they may not die. It works about 70% of time.

  4. Weird i was just on the website looking for ice info on Guelph lake or Belwood lake.

    Couldnt find anything so i was going to email conservation people and see if they had any more info.

     

    Belwood Lake Conservation Area is not open yet.

    Guelph Lake Conservation Area will not be open for this winter.

     

    http://www.grandriver.ca/Newsroom/News.cfm?id=129

    January 07, 2009

    Winter activity update

    GRCA conservation areas are currently closed. Check back here for the opening date for winter activities and regular condition reports.

    Ice fishing

     

    * Shade's Mills Conservation Area - Cambridge Closed.

    * Belwood Lake Conservation Area - Fergus Closed.

    * Pinehurst Lake Conservation Area - Paris Open from Wednesday, Jan. 7.

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