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Headhunter, while I don`t disagree that people capable of running a large corporation well should be paid well, the same old question arises, when is enough, enough? Honda Motors, an apparently well run corporation feels 13 million is enough for 36 executives. They also apparently have no issues working for that sum. When a company or group of companies goes to the government, and taxpayers to bail them out of self inflicted problems, isn`t it time to rethink the salary positioning? Is it better to hire 5 people, delegate the authority, to get opposing view on a business decision or allow one extremely high paid exec to run the road to ruin? Also a factor is some of the people that sit on these boards that make these type of decisions sit on the boards for many companies. In part the "old boy" network, you appoint me here, I will appoint you there. Very lucrative work? If you can get it? A recent story here of board members making 270,000 a year, for 9 days a year of meetings. 30,000 a day? And then stories like this http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9033101459.html At what point do you risk alienating your customers and employees? If these same CEO`s want to make the argument it is a global economy? Why doesn`t their pay reflect that? I personally would have no problem with our government capping CEO`s pay. They made the argument for global trade, if your going to talk the talk? walk the walk? Or use money and influence to buy your positioning? Why should US auto execs, given their history, feel that they should earn more than the execs at Honda or Toyota? Why should a US defense contractor pay it`s CEO millions? when it is the taxpayer footing the bill? Because the right political contribution allows it? Why does our government allow our drugs companies to pay their execs millions, and charge higher prices for the same drugs that Canada buys? Canada can negotiate drug price with our drug companies? But our government blocked the same option for our taxpayers? Just my view things need some adjustment, I don`t buy a product or service with the idea of overpaying an exec because he wants it. You have to believe if our president wanted that kind of money we could find someone to do the job cheaper, and possibly better.

Ya hook up percentage on frogs can be pretty bad at times, always wait until you feel the weight of the fish on the line to set the hook and if it misses it completely just stop the retrieve, wait a few seconds and give it a twitch or two. The fish might hit again. Although I didn`t use braid it is probably a better option now for the reasons mentioned in the video.

We are all aware of our auto worker debates so keep it civil. Just a different way of thinking between management in our countries and some others? Our management seems to be drive by greed? http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/112.html The lean and compact Fukui, like all of his predecessors, is an engineer who started in R&D and later ran the subsidiary. While other auto chief-executives-to-be were punching keyboards in an accounting office, Fukui ran the company's motorcycle racing operations. He's still racing. He hikes the stairs to his tenth-floor desk--tenth floor so he's in the middle of things at Honda's 16-story Tokyo headquarters and a desk because executives at Honda don't have offices. Honda doesn't disclose executive pay in detail, but the sum of salaries and bonuses that Fukui shares with 36 board members, $13 million, is just about enough for the boss at a big American company. Says a lot when the top 36 guys at Honda make as much a only one top guy at GM? Certainly part of the problem here with the bailouts. I have no problems with keeping the Ameican auto companies in business for the most part. But to use our tax dollars to pay bloated salaries for the failed execs? Again more of a wide spread problem here just because of the number of people and amount of money changing hands. I think here every CEO thinks he deserves 10-20 million a year. We do have some good sites to track the campaign contributions, and it`s the same old story, follow the money. You can get a good idea of who is supporting who by the money trail. Unfortunately the average taxpayer is stuck with the check.

I spent a couple hours yesterday making sure I had all my windows updates and that AVG and avast were updated, no problems here either.

Little angler, thanks kid! you make me remember being young. Great to see some one asking questions it can prevent mistakes or wasted time in the future. You will learn as you get more time on the water more fishing trips under your belt none of this is carved in stone. Desire and confidence in what you are doing plays a part. Cudz is right about not needing dead calm water to throw a top water lure, and there are a lot of them and different styles. Some like a Jitterbug or spook seem to work best with a rhythm to the retrieve, walking the dog, the jitterbug will gurgle at you. Lure like a buzzbait a steady retrieve helps the fish locate the lure, especially when you are retrieving it thru junk or dirty water, I like to bend the upper shaft so the blade makes contact with the lower shaft on a retrieve but doesn`t stop it, some come with a clacker, a small second blade that contacts the main blade, adds sound and vibration. Speed? If you find fish, if they want a surface lure, they will let you know. Don`t get set on one speed until you start catching fish, then try to repeat it. Prop lures, like a heddon torpedo or smithwick devils horse? cast, let it sit then make the props spray some water, stop, start over. Frogs. thrown them in places I don`t think the fish could see them, a motion and rhythm thing also, they need to be able to track it down. Too many baits to cover, confidence, experience catching some fish on a lure will give you the best idea on what will work, you won`t get either if you don`t fish.

A gimmick, they will eat a plastic lizard, plastic worm swum on the surface weightless at times too, and you can buy a bag of 8-10 lizards for 3-4 bucks.

Loosening the drag will help, but if you are fishing around heavy cover expect to lose some fish,

Hook quality on jigheads can be a real issue and it basically comes down to the old saying, "you get what you pay for". I used jigheads all the time and was unhappy with the quality of hooks, same issues, the standard hooks in most inexpensive jigs straighten too easily. I started making my own jigheads years ago, when it was a lot harder to find jigheads with better quality hooks. I also adapted some of my molds to accept larger sized hooks than the standard ones for the mold. For general use I use Mustad 32746BLN hooks, a light wire hook but with more strength than the standard hooks. i have land carp in open water up to around 35 pounds on them with no issues. Not a hook I would recommend for fishing around heavy cover though, I have lost bass 4-6 pounds trying to bulldog them away from cover, they will bend but not easily and tend to spring back into shape. A reasonably priced hook though,like 10 bucks a hundred here stateside, 70-90 a thousand depending on size. Gamakatsu 604`s are hard to beat, a bit pricier though, like 32 bucks a hundred, or vmc barbarian`s, not sure of the pricing on them any more, like 16 bucks for 70? Expect to pay 2.99 to 4.99 for 4 or 5 painted jigheads already made and painted unless you buy in bulk. http://lurepartsonline.com/cart.php?m=prod...etail&p=402 http://lurepartsonline.com/cart.php?m=prod...list&c=1968 http://lurepartsonline.com/cart.php?m=prod...list&c=1368 A stateside source, you may have someone up north with similar items. I used the mustads for fun fishing, didn`t lose fish on them often, tournament days the gammies or vmc no hook issues, don`t want to lose them if they count. Can`t help you with the rod eyes, I used what they came with.

LOL BassKiller, most Americans don`t like it either. Funny that Mexico is very strict on who enters there from it`s poorer neighbors(is that possible?) but they certainly don`t watch who is leaving their northern border well! Something on the news this morning? Between the amount of money illegals are sending home to Mexico and the illegal drug trade it equals almost half the legal trade between the US and Mexico. Our problems seem to be with the southern border. But politicians can screw up anything.

I have used mono and braided dacron- nylon for pike super braids weren`t out. Important thing was getting the lure - bait in front of the fish. Best plan for fishing for them is fish at the depth they are at which can vary over the season. Early spring shallower and deeper for the bigger ones as it warms up, except maybe early or late in the day. Any lure that you would use for bass has a decent chance of catching a pike, mix in some spoons which most people don`t use for bass. Are you fishing from a boat or shore? Shore angling is a limiter but can be done. Your chances are better where baitfish, other smaller food fish for pike are present, any fish smaller than the pike is food. Cover,wood weeds help the smaller fish hide, shallow water gives them a place to escape to. A deeper pathway to these can be a spot to look. If your using a bait caster not hard to set it up for pike, take the line and tie a steel or flourocarbon leader to it and snap on a lure. Don`t buy leader with cheap snaps, at least get them with Berkley cross locks on them. If you can find them with the Stringease snaps they look like the way to go. Never had to use a steel leader over 12 inches when casting for pike, I have used them longer when trolling just to error on the safe side. If your fishing live bait, big chubs, shiners and such a slip float set up is a good way to do it. Steel leader snelled hook, they usually run 10-12 inches long pre-made? Put the stop on the line or tie a blood knot on the main line just cut off a piece or use left overs from your spool you used to spool your reel long enough to fish the depth of water you are fishing. Slide on a bead that won`t fit over the stop or blood knot, slide on the slip float. Weight is needed to keep the bobber upright and the bait at the depth you want to fish, some crimp on splitshot, I slid on a worm weight. I used a swivel snap at the end to attach the leader-hook allows the bait to swim without as many tangles or line twist. Any concerns about the quality of the snap just crimp a split shot over it to prevent it from opening. Bigger chubs, shiners tend to catch bigger than average pike.

nomad, sorry to say you might be right, vacations are now being called staycations or naycations. Different perspective on the passport thing, in the winter you have to leave your country to find some heat, we just go a few states south. Just me but I never needed a passport the only time I ever left this country was to visit yours. No need or desire to go anywhere else.

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My sister-in-law and her husband both work for suppliers of Honda in Marysville Ohio, both had all overtime cut a few months back, sister-in- law is now on reduced regular hours 3-4 days a week. They are expecting some increase with parts for the new model year but unless car sales increase it won`t hold up. Look at dealers lots in my area and they are all full, with cars to be sold and hardly anyone walking the lots.

Enough fish dinners for me as a kid, I will eat fish but don`t care to. Usually a diet thing for me , sardines, tuna, salmon out of a can. Usually kept one fish a year, decent sized walleye, steelhead for the wife and kids.

A witches brew and it can be confusing. Here in the states I had short term disability as part of my employer funded union run health insurance, it would only cover 26 weeks of disability and if the doctor didn`t word the request properly you couldn`t get it. To give an example I was put off of work completely April-June of 2003 by the doctor, no problem they paid. For us a set benefit, 300 bucks a week, less than 1/3 what I made working. Returned to work in June 2003 and not right worked 2-3-4 days a week, managed about 3, 5 day weeks until October when the doctor put me back on restrictions, but not off work completely. More or less a vague statement that I could work no more than 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week and at times a lot less, depending on my need. Company would not allow my return to work under those guidelines, union work rules prevent my return to work under those guidelines, and union run health insurance refused to pay because the doctors statement didn`t specifically say I couldn`t work. Appealed, fought with them for a couple months, then decided if they didn`t want to pay 1200 a month they could pay me 3000 a month retirement. Here in the states government run Social Security, part of it is Social Security Disability Insurance(SSDI). After 10 months off work my wife convinced me I wasn`t going to be able to return, might of been after she had to help me off the floor? Confusing diagnosis from the doc`s, all agreed I was sick, but no clear reason why, nothing was showing up on the tests they performed that would give a clear diagnosis, maybes. 2 denials from SSDI on my claim for disability. A common practice here 60% are denied the first filing, lower number the second and I had to go before an Administrative Law Judge hearing(ALJ) to present evidence on why my claim should be approved. Evidence presented, including finally a diagnosis from a specialist that took the time to run the proper tests needed to make the correct diagnosis, and I was approved back to the last day I had worked 29 months ago. A lot of people here complain about Social Security, but have no real idea what it covers, and most of us are just one accident or illness away from disability. Most long term disability insurance plans here are a trade off, you can get paid from them or Social Security but not both, SSDI won`t consider you unless you have been off of work at least a year or possibly terminal. Just guessing that most average workers can`t afford to carry an outside source disability insurance plan. SSDI here pays based on income level and a portion of lifetime earnings, the more you work, the higher you income level the more SS taxes paid up to like 106,000 bucks, so the more they pay. Workers comp? Here the trend is for the companies to fight all claims unless your broken and bleeding on the job.

Suckers mouths are on the bottom of their face, bottom feeders for the most part, right were the catfish spend most of their time, a natural food for the cats, nothing should be needed to add, if they are too big just cut them up. Shad, an oily fish and their die offs put them on the bottom were catfish can feast on them, big ones are good cut up. Up on the Shawanaga river any big minnow worked chub or shiner. Pretty easy to catch your own bait(chubs and shiners) fishing for them with a size 12-16 hook with the barb flattened down with needle nosed pliers, a bobber and maggot of tiny piece of worm. Thought I saw in the regs rambleon? posted mooneye weren`t legal as bait?

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You can burn in a lot of memories, how do you pick just one? LOL I will follow slowpokes lead, fishing an area of lake erie shoreline by myself on a week day, my brother fished it regularly for walleye and frequently caught a decent sized smallie. I had fished it with him a couple times but it was hard to get him to concentrate on smallies. Fished the same area with my buddy and usually got one or two 20 inches+ made me upgrade my golden rule to a 22 incher. Spent like 8 hours searching and not much action from anything but sheephead, a big area to fish and it`s run up against the wind and get a good drift going and repeat. Last pass of the day, around 3ish I got the hit I was looking for bam, and I had to fight to keep the slack out of the line, she was coming up! Lipped that rascal and threw the marker buoy over, a nice 20 or so inch smallie. and in the next half hour I got about 18 more, all between 18-22 inches. Then they shut down again and it was like no fish in the water. A week or so later I took my buddy and his 2 sons and had a repeat, we all got some good ones. Never could break that 22 inch mark though, a spot over the years that has usually produced at least one 20+ inch smallie a trip. There are days when it ain`t easy. LOL maybe I am spoiled? under 19 isn`t what I am looking for? LOL except on tournament day? Lot of days putting 2-3 times that many in the boat,but the size wasn`t there, 2-3 pounders are average.

We have 2 boston terriers and a lab mix mutt. Bostons are great dogs, but not particularly an outside dogs, they can`t handle heat or cold for long. Pictures of ours i my avatar. White spotted one we got after I was disabled from work, he listens because I was home with him since a puppy and had time to train him, a great dog! Bigger than most bostons, around 30 pounds but a baby unless it is play time. They are not really yap dogs, they bark when someone comes over, until they meet and greet then every things cool and they want to play with their new friends. Great with my grandkids, youngest just turned one and they just inspect her. She grabs the white one and he just looks or moves away, the black and white one just runs. Black and white one is going on 7 years old, we got her when I worked 10 to 15 hours a day and fished when I could on weekends, wife at work, kids in school so not a lot of time with training, a good dog but independent, has some obedience issue she will take off when outside, the white one doesn`t. White one has more of the bulldog in him, more of a massive front end, black and white(female) dainty at around 19 pounds. Clean looking dogs, real short hair. The lab mutt is typical lab, mud or water and he is in it.

I am in the states and was a truck driver, no idea on the EPA regs now it has been 6 years since I worked. I was a city driver 35 city delivery trucks that were parked at the terminal at the end of every day. The company contracted with a mobile unit to wash them like once a month. They usually had it done on Saturdays and I wasn`t there to see what hoops they had to jump thru to meet the laws. A lot of road drivers are owner operators, some truck stops have a truck wash, T/A has one near here at their place off of I-71 and state route 224. Some do it your self washes here will handle a tractor, one in Lorain Ohio. Just higher ceiling so you can safely pull the tractor inside, but no room for a trailer. Just not enough room to get in. A lot of the owner operators just do it themselves when they get home. Company drivers generally won`t pay to have it done unless they get compensated for it and that doesn`t happen at many. 30k seems like a big investment with out a sure income from it and I am guessing with the economy one of the first things the companies and owner operators cut back on is washes. If fuel spikes up again they will cut back even more.

When I bought my 17 foot aluminum it came with a 36# thrust bow mount (minn-kota) easily enough power on calm to moderate days not good when it got windy. On a 12 footer a 30-36 should be fine, mine is sort of heavy, casting platform, wooden decks and a 35 merc hung on back. One battery would last me most days, but I always carried two just for the trolling motor. Think I got my charger at wal-mart a 10 amp automatic. I also have an old shakespeare 30# stern mount I used on all electric lakes here no problems on aluminum boats up to 16 feet,

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Have a great day Norm!

All 3 of mine eat Nutro lamb and rice, the oldest will be 14 this year.. Neighbors lost 2 of their dogs feeding them that cheap stuff they had problems with a few years back.