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Also hooked these on tribs of Lake Erie sucker fishing a bit more of a challenge http://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/buffalo-fish-info.htm

Like Glen says it gets to be fun after a while, back when I started overtime was more or less optional for me. 8 or 9 hours of work and I was home waiting for dark to go fishing, or in the winter to get the heck out of the cold. Never was much on breakfast, lunch was a couple 3 small cans of tuna, or 1 large can of salmon and some fruit or cut up vegetables. Dinner was whatever I wanted, I worked it off. I don`t drink much pop (soda) a case can last me a year or more. I prefer fruit juice or V-8 and wash it down with coffee. A speed bag or some rednecks at the bar can keep you in shape too! You get to a point where it looks like they are moving in slow motion. Watch out for buck teeth, cuts your knuckles.

Mike we used to fish for them when we were kids, simple to do not much equipment was needed a bobber small hook and a split shot and piece of worm. There were no limits for them here in Ohio. Deeper pools were better than fast running water. Used to seine my own bait here, chubs, shiners, and suckers. Suckers were a last resort, about the only time I did any good with them was on Lake Erie for Walleye. Not my first choice for bass, pike or muskie. My uncle who was into muskie fishing used them a lot though and when we used to go to Pointe Au Baril the bait store there sold them up to about 18 inches long for bait. My choice for bigger bass, pike is a chub or shiner 6-10 inches long, 6-8 for bass. Even had 2 1/2- 3 pound bass take an 8 inch chub, you can usually tell it`s a smaller bass, they have to work at it, bigger bass usually just grabs it and goes. Also used small bluegill here for bass, it`s legal here 2-4 inch. Perch in Pointe Au Baril for pike and skis, it was legal in the waters of the great lakes up to the first dam, obstruction. Don`t know if it still is and probably not on inland lakes. Soft ray fish, chubs shiners small shad seem to be easier for them to take, and they know it, pike will take a 8-10 inch chub much faster than a perch. Just never had any luck personally using suckers for pike or skis. Might be a spawning thing? Walleye tend to spawn in streams and rivers? Lots of suckers in them so they are more used to depending on them for a food source? Bass pike and muskie spawn in shallow quiet bays, not many suckers there? Got a lot of walleye, and no smallmouth dragging a swimming jig over rocky bottoms on Lake Erie. Chub or shiner got the smallies.

Since Thursday of last week the snow cover on the ground 10-12 inches here has disappeared. Went by one of the local river near me an it was 300-400 feet over it`s banks. Use some caution if your near one, might be ice up or down river causing a jam and waiting to break.

Opened right up for me TJ no waiting!

China isn`t as worried about it`s people getting lead poisoning from the manufacture of batteries as the US and Canada are. Even batteries for my mobility scooter are made in China.

And yes we still love you!

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I usually have one or two of those go each season between a few abu casting reels. I have older Abu reels and have never had one go, one of the easiest spots on a reel to lube. About the same amount of problems with my Abu`s as my Shimano`s, none.

Always liked Cash! Dude did look old in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2rxPSDUlvk I was just out of high school and the James Gang used to play in the area a lot.

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Mission accomplished! It`s all about the correct tools for the job. Went into Cleveland yesterday to a machine tool supply shop, needed carbide bits to cut through an easy out I broke off in a bolt. Picked up a couple 1/8 and 3/16 carbide bits to use on a 1/4 inch bolt, also a couple of odd shaped carbide cutters, 1 with like a ball end 5/32 and one drill shaped but with smaller spiral cutters instead of the customary flute shaped grooves on the of a drill bit. Took some time but cut right thru the broken easy out, went through it a couple more times with progressively larger drill bits and then re-tapped the hole. Done! Stainless 1/20 bolts now in place with some anti-seeze paste on them just in case. LOL now it warms up! Not for long though I guess?

These guys may be a little old for you, don`t know what kind of radio you had in the baby buggy. Band of brothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYDETBVs8g Solo

Good afternoon Lew! I am awake again! Ya also have problems with the board loading late at nite, early in the morning, don`t turn the thermostat down so low!

Jim I agree to an extent, not really the robots causing the problems. China has laid off over 20 million, told them to leave the cities and return home, so it is hitting every where. Those people probably wouldn`t have had jobs to begin with if ours hadn`t been shipped there. The numbers used here by our government are smoke and mirrors, not factual numbers, the true numbers here are much higher. They changed the way they figure them during the Reagan years.

Don`t know how they got out there but the coast guard usually only rescues people, not the sleds or 4 wheelers, your own deal on that. Could be n expensive trip? But as long as they are safe.

Steve you don`t have to go to the gym to lose weight, staying off your butt helps. Get a set of dumbbells, loaded movement will burn more calories than unloaded movement. A question of motivation and spare time, back when I was single I used to carry the dumbbells around the house after work, lifting them a break and lift again. Back then though the living room furniture was a weight bench, off 7 months in 94 with a back injury, lost 30 pounds, same program but the dumbbells were used while lying down. Walked from my house to the traffic circle a couple times a day ( 1 mile each way ) did laps around it at night when the traffic died down on the bike. A lot harder to do with the family around but it can be done, I used to drink back then too, just burnt more calories than I took in, actually had trouble keeping weight on. At one point I was down to like 173 pounds, at 6'2' that wasn`t enough, more comfortable between 190-200. LOL my butt is my home now.

Getting up late?

Less cylinders generally means less thirsty, rear end gears are generally a compromise, lower number better fuel economy, higher number quicker take off and pulling power. EG. a car with 4:10 to 1 gears is going to get down the track quicker than the same car with 3:23 to 1 gears. A screamer at high way speeds though, engine is turning more RPMS to maintain speed, increased fuel usage. Over drive transmissions were a way to help, allows a lower number rear end to have the same pulling power and increased fuel economy by adding an overdrive gear to the tranny. Allows for a higher number first gear in the tranny to make up for a lower one in the rear end. Pick up trucks are intended for pulling, hauling, they probably come with a higher gear in the rear end than a car, a towing package might add to that. Rear end gear ratios used to have some options, a higher gear number will make the ride seem more peppy a lower number better on fuel, not as good towing. Got a 4.3 in my Astro, first gear is a screamer, kicks into second at like 10mph, designed to get the ride moving at bit faster. Transmissions like the douG Nash five speed (manual) could be ordered with different gear ratios like a 3.25 to 1 first gear instead of a Muncie 2.20 to 1 first gear to allow quick pickup with a low axle gear, more top end speed better fuel economy.

Canada lost a record 129,000 jobs last month Fri Feb 6, 2009 4:45 PM EST business, economy, canada Rob Gillies, Associated Press Writer TORONTO — Canada lost a record 129,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate surged more than half a point to 7.2 percent, the single-worst monthly job loss figure in the country's history. The numbers are far worse than the 40,000 job losses economists expected and outpace losses in Canada's two previous recessions in the 1980s and 1990s. Statistics Canada began taking a labor force survey in 1976. Danielle Zietsma, a spokeswoman for Statistics Canada, said the agency does not have comparable data from before 1976 but said January's figures are a record for the number of jobs lost in a single month. Canada's labor market was much smaller during the Great Depression of the 1930s. "Nobody was even looking for anything close to this," said Craig Wright, chief economist at the Royal Bank of Canada. "Perhaps firms are looking at the gloom around the global economy, and all the gloom in the U.S. and saying even if we haven't felt it just yet, it's coming so let's get ready for it." Wright said the country is witnessing a complete collapse in confidence and unprecedented uncertainty. "It's just big, sharp and ugly," Wright said. Wright said the U.S.-equivalent based on labor market size would be 1.3 million jobs lost. He said that the U.S. labor market is about 10 times the size of Canada's. "In that sense the U.S. actually outperformed Canada," he said. The U.S. lost 598,000 jobs in January, the most since the end of 1974, with the unemployment rate jumping to 7.6 percent. Statistics Canada reported Friday that the cuts in Canada brought to 213,000 the number of jobs the economy has shed in the past three months. That wiped out all the jobs gained from earlier in 2008. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his Conservative government would not alter its $32 billion economic stimulus package unveiled last month despite the dire jobs report. "We will not be blown off track every time there is some bad news," Harper said when asked about opposition calls to expand the stimulus program. "We cannot have in Parliament, quite frankly, instability every week and every month, every time there's a new number, people demanding a different plan. This is a massive stimulus plan." Harper said he anticipates more job losses to come but said the more troubling news came from the United States which posted even larger job losses than the previous month. Canada's economy is largely dependent on what happens in the United States. Nearly 80 percent of Canada's trade is with its southern neighbor. "The United States remains the epicenter of this particular crisis and this remains very troubling," Harper said. The financial crisis and the global sell-off of commodities have hit Canada hard. The central bank is predicting economic output will contract 4.8 percent in the first quarter. The drop in employment was most pronounced in manufacturing, which suffered the largest monthly decline on record, with 101,000 jobs lost. "That's an unbelievably large decline in every sense of the word. It's phenomenal in terms of how sharp that has come off," Wright said. Avery Shenfeld, senior economist at CIBC World Markets, said many of the layoff notices announced in recent months were put into effect. Shenfeld said they knew hundreds of thousands of job losses were on their way but predicting exactly how many will show up in any given month is virtually impossible. Unlike the U.S. there is no weekly data on unemployment benefit claims in Canada that can be used to gauge how quickly jobs are being lost. Statistics Canada said Ontario's auto sector, where the Detroit automakers have major operations, took the brunt of the cuts but didn't release the exact number. The forestry sectors in British Columbia and Quebec, which are heavily dependent on U.S. homebuilders, were also hit hard. Ontario, the center of manufacturing in Canada, lost 71,000 jobs in January. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said he is looking at changing the welfare rules to allow more people to apply. Claims have seen a sharp uptick since the end of 2008. Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan called the jobless numbers "deeply troubling," and said he hopes it will prompt the federal government to widen unemployment insurance benefits. Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Canadians should expect further job losses. "The United States economy has not hit bottom. The U.S. housing situation continues to deteriorate so Canadians ought to expect that this is going to be a difficult year," Flaherty said. He urged Parliament to acclerate the legislation process so that the stimulus package is passed and said they already lengthened the amount of time unemployed people will be able to collect insurance if they are laid off to 50 weeks from 45 weeks. He had hinted at the bad news on Thursday when he described the figures to be released as "regrettable." TD Bank economist Derek Burleton, who earlier this week presented the gloomiest forecast to date in predicting 325,000 job losses in Canada during 2009, said he was shocked that the country is already one-third of the way there after one month. "There is no sugarcoating this," Scotia Capital economist Derek Holt said. "Normally when you get that kind of surprise you immediately look beneath the print for some encouraging details, but there weren't any," Holt said. "This was an all-around bad report." © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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They eat these http://www.fishingworld.com/brannansbass/D...mp;SKU=Arkie-CF

Just got back from Cleveland, man I don`t miss it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJqVneZP6tA