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Really sorry to hear Dan. You and your family are in my thoughts

And end up with what happened in the United States with people dying at 2x the rate that Canadians did. Curious, what number of dead people are you comfortable with? we’re at just over 20,000 so we bump that to 40k? Funny that’s the same number of Canadians that died in world war 2...that’s acceptable?

This graph literally shows that large cities with high population density suffer severely with the disease (New York city and Los Angeles) and places that disregard lockdowns/covid measures also have the most cases of disease (texas, Florida) therefore directly proving that covid safety measures/lockdowns do work. There’s loads and loads of data out there showing how disregarding covid measures ie not wearing masks and not locking down at all had the most significant negative impact those populations. Conspiracy theorists love to point to outliers like New York and LA...the places that are most dense with the most multi cutural population ended up with the most cases of covid. Look at the stats on the west coast where the population density is similar and it’s not cold all winter and see what comes up when comparing to Florida and texas. you’ll note the case’s per population are actually the lowest in the country aside from the middle grain belt states. Even California’s case count in relation to population is extremely low. by the way, I don’t know what the hell kind of “severe” lockdowns you are referring to in california. Great, their measures were severe by texas and Florida standards but if you follow basically anyone in LA on Instagram (almost any celebrity) it sure as hell doesn’t appear like there were any severe lockdowns. You want to see those, look at New Zealand and Australia and how they handled their lockdowns and how effective they were. Australia has basically not been locked down since last summer. as Bill pointed out, our lockdowns were implemented wrong, they allowed high powered businesses to disregard any measures and it really screwed up our system. Please don’t point to the United States as “the place that got it right” people quite literally died in the US at twice the rate of canada when looking at it comparison to their population. 570,000+ Dead now, That’s almost the entire population of New Brunswick. I would also argue that that number is severely understated because healthcare is not free. Heck a covid test in the United States cost $100+ so how can you tell me anything is accurate in regards to their figures. Furthermore you think the folks that live in poverty in the back woods of alabama and West Virginia are getting top notch medical care? another place that has no ability to lockdown simply due to population density and corruption is India. They opened everything up and look what’s happening, they are “reporting” 300,000 cases per day! Remember only the wealthiest of the population in that country receive medical care. You can only imagine how many people are actually infected in a place as unsanitary and densely populated. we’ve proven it 3 times in a row, lockdowns/stay at home orders work. 3 waves we’ve gone through and within a week case numbers begin to drop every single time. We are already dropping our cases in Ontario. And every time we get out of the lockdown our cases go up again.

“Essential” as defined by the lockdown orders is so loose that any business involved with shipping and distribution is essential. What the hell business do you know that is not somehow involved with shipping or distributing goods? perfect example, my brother works for a board game company lol

So I just found out something absolutely incredible that makes me feel so friggin mad I can’t describe it. my brother is the COO of a distribution company based out of brampton. Luckily the company is not gigantic about 40 employees and ownership is 100% on board with doing everything in their power to keep people safe. They have provided full paid leave to any of the staff that have even been exposed never mind contracted covid. well anyways today my brother was describing the fact that he has one employee that is on a company mandatory quarantine after returning from his month long vacation in India. Another employee leaves Monday to go see family in India for three weeks. Both were working out scheduling with my brother and he found out that due to the fact that both of these employees are “essential” just like absolutely anyone else that is still working (check the essential list of businesses) you are exempt from the mandatory 14 day quarantine. I knew this was the case for truckers but I never put two and two together that it simply applies to anyone thats “essential” so this entire “14 day hotel thing” is entirely bogus and doesn’t actually exist except in the limited case where a foreigner comes here isn’t working. my mind is frigging absolutely blown. My brother has told the employees that they are both not allowed to return to work without quarantining and providing a negative covid test. But without his companies policy there’s literally no quarantine for people traveling to India, Brazil etc etc mind friggin blown

welp the thread is gonna get closed now... but yup the whole allowing flights in full of double mutated variants and the like is absolute garbage. They traced the vancouver canucks outbreak to a flight from brazil. It had a bunch of NHL hockey players literally bed ridden. Rumour was a few were so bad they were on IV's

Dan went and saw him mom and dad early on last year. They ended up being sick and infected him. Jake doesn’t know, he works from home. He’s always masked up and sanitized etc, just unlucky that he caught it while running errands or something. his girlfriend also young and healthy ended up being hospitalized. I’ve never met his gf because he’s back living in wales now so I didn’t mention her experience. He just explained how terrifying it was when he was sick and struggling to breath and then she was struggling to breathe and it was making him have a panic attack while already struggling to breath and it was simply a giant mess. all of these people in their thirties, non smokers, no pre-existing conditions and speaking for jake and Dan, both athletes

well there's the Not getting severely ill/dying from covid benefit. Let me guess, your immune system is awesome? You should tell that to Dan my 33 year old personal trainer life long friend who ended up hospitalized twice, or my 33 year old friend jake Wales national basketball team member who now takes a puffer daily after catching it last november? Really unhealthy old guys they are.

Johnny trust me we are glad to have you sticking around with us. Cases like yours remind everyone that people need the ICU for many things aside from just Covid. Im glad there was a bed ready for you to use. May and June are quickly upon us, and some more catches of a lifetime are waiting to bite onto your line still. Stay well and all the best as you recover.

ive got a connect that can get it to you cheaper, or if you are interested the new curado xg that came out this year also cheaper. Shoot me a message if you are interested. Also the SLX MGL is in a lot of people's opinions nicer than the DC. The DC is a feature but the MGL body is legendary in shimanos line up. My collection at this point basically includes something from everyone, my old Abu's from when i first started getting serious about fishing (the revo sx spinning reels from 2011 ish were awesom) ambassadeurs, my musky and trolling stuff is all quantum, diawa tatulas, lews tournament speed spools, Megabass, and a whack of different shimanos...Citica, new curados, old curado 50e's that are still perhaps my favourite reel of all time (i managed to buy one brand new last year...such a score) but out of all of these the king of them all is the new bantam mgl. I wish I could afford to replace every single reel in my arsenal with bantams. I am certainly from now on sticking with shimano though...not a slight on any of the other brands (Lews especially too be honest) bit the shimano products just seem to hold up better and feel better. Thats my preference though, their stuff just feels more rigid and lower profile than diawa. Heck i probably even like my old curado 50e as much as my megabass FX. Thats really saying something. The curado line up though, seems to be the best bang for buck reel out of any generation all time.

the funny thing about the wishmasters is that they just look like a normal musky bait. I remember fisherpete showing me one and I was slightly confused lol but who the hell am i to talk, i pay $30 for a giant Dog X instead of $9 for a zara spook all to catch bass...I have no idea why either cause I caught a lot with the zara lol.

https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13054-015-0852-6.pdf note icu beds capable of invasive ventilation 1,122

guys, I am 100% on your side that so much of this stuff doesnt make any sense. Without being political our politicians are 100% accountable for what is going on. But lets not get into the conspiracy theory garbage "the ICU's arent full" Theres quite literally only 1,200 ICU beds in Ontario. 750 of them are currently occupied with covid patients. That quite literally leaves 450 beds for every single other person that needs to go into intensive care in the entire province. Think about what you are saying for a second. Basically any person that is in danger of dying ends up in the ICU, what happens if a natural disaster, terrorist attack or any other form of mass casualty event occurs, i guess we are going to leave it once again on the doctors to decide who lives and dies? People pushing for us to not care until the ICU's are literally totally full so that in the event that you get in a car crash you will simply be left for dead because there is no space is a strange way to think. If you want to talk about the Covid situation being a mess, have at it, but lets not completely disregard what doctors nurses and those in the medical field are going through at the moment. My direct team member at work's wife is a nurse, she is not trained nor certified to work with intubated people with severe cases of covid, but guess where she started working this week due to staffing shortages. You guessed it, she has been assigned to the covid ward out of desperation. Please Please Please do not make light of the situation at our hospitals at the moment. I invite you to talk to any nurse/doctor or other healthcare practitioner working with covid patients prior to announcing that your hospital is totally fine on a fishing forum.

Lol i definitely did in hindsight. I remember a boat with a grey yammy. If id put two and two together i would have stopped and said hi. I was clearly on the wrong program, guys apparently slayed on saturday, I think I was up too shallow thinking id catch some rainbows. Did you see me? my boat sticks out like a sore thumb up there.

You are right about one thing, I got skunked, I lost a PB laketrout at the dock...yes i went fishing for two days and ended up hooking my first fish at the dock lol. I also ended up catching my PB pike off of the dock, unfortunately out of season but the thing was absolutely gigantic and I want to cry just thinking about the fact I dont have a photo or anything due to it being 2 weeks too early. It was still spewing roe! im lucky i have a place to stay! My buddies did it a couple of times through the winter this year to ice fish though because they couldnt stay with me due to covid. Man I cannot wait to have my friends up to the lake, fish all day, cook some steaks and have some beers at night, do it all over the next day. I cant believe its been more than a year. 😪

By the way everyone, I towed a boat to the lake this past weekend 300kmh each way and went fishing...passed plenty of OPP and had no issue what so ever. I was also travelling alone and obeying the rules of the road.

praying that the municipal boat ramp in our district doesn't close. I doubt it will because a significant amount of people rely on it to access their homes, but the fact we are now back at square one as it relates to people going outside with their immediate family members still blows me away. The funniest one is a photo from Peterborough where they put a wooden sawhorse style barrier in front of the boat launch. All i can say is that I hope the person that inevitably moves it out of the way simply puts it to the side and doesn't pollute the lake with it.

funny how this guy hasnt posted again or seemingly even been back? My suggestion is if you are going to fish simcoe from shore, make sure you cast towards the water.

Tell the cops you are going to the grocery store...aka the lake to fish. Enough said

Classic first post “give me your spots”

This thing is about people not dying/having major complications. you can’t be scared of getting sick, we never were before. I get the flu shot every year and try to avoid contracting influenza. Unfortunately I’ve also caught a strain one year that was not covered by the shot, I got so sick that I was one dose of tylenol not lowering my fever away from calling an ambulance. I don’t expect nor should anyone else expect to live in fear the rest of our lives, we just need to get vaccinated, grind this thing out and get our numbers back to reasonable levels. Covid and especially these variants are still killing people upwards of 3-4% of the time. Numbers that are wayyyy too high. Young people are now being hospitalized and ventilated with the newer variants. what scares me most of all though is that the anti vax segment of society will become the permanent breeding ground of deadlier and deadlier variants until things become so sever and dangerous that young healthy people start dying en masse like during the Spanish flu. that might be the only thing that will finally get people to clue in though is when their kids start dying a lot.

Far More prolific though. Big breeders are far more common.

Yes I believe that the infestation of gobys is specifically notable in the st Lawrence. Although Georgian bay has gobies the infestations seems to be far less prevalent. I have no idea what factors would impact this.

im not sure im clear what your question is, but my assumption that due to the nature of a musky to be large and eat larger meals less often, my assumption is that muskys do not benefit from eating gobies in the same manner as a bass or walleye. Not that either of those species dont eat the occasional large meal, but I dont think its the musky's nature to spend its day cruising foraging small bits of food like a goby, They are more so an ambush predator waiting for for a larger fish thats made a wrong turn. While smallmouth bass on the other hand, this is basically all they do, swim and forage for food.

Most other species protect their nesting grounds, muskies breed and leave. They don’t seem to benefit as much from predation of the gobies either like the smallmouth and pickerel do. we all see how the smallmouth are doing in fisheries with gobies. funny how the smallest fish has the biggest impact on the apex predator in the waterbody