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Happy New Years CC. That Bite could be from a Grizzly watch your back. lol dsn

Reconstuction Of US Flight 1549 Landing In The Hudson Animation You require Adobe Flash Player to view this !! Listen to the Ground Crew and Pilot flying US Flight 1549. If you watch carefully you can even see the school of geese crash into the engines!! Truly amazing. dsn

I took a walk over a bridge and saw this slight orange tinge in the water out towards lake Ontario. As the waves moves you can make it out ever so slightly. So I followed the trail. From the left of the this pic to the right was a orange tinge to it. You can see it a bit to the top right corner of the pic. Just under the over hanging tree. What a mess ! Wonder if its paint? It was coming out pretty quick. Here's a top view. Closer look from the top. Poor us this is supposed to be our drinking water. Oh by the way here's a carp from 2 days ago. Which I prefer to report about rather water pollution. Check out the hump on top of its head.. it must have banged it against something during the fight. DSN

Yeah I hear you. But cats can be fun too on light gear. But they are no match to carp fight. dsn

It's been a tough season for carp so far, with the up and down temps and cold mornings and evenings. But they are slowly coming around. And I have seen some that have spawned an gone. But other areas they have yet to do their thingy. This year is interesting hope it isn't going to be a nasty looking year for carp. They are getting nasty looking. Oh yummy !! Extra flesh to chew on !! In the following pic I caught it while I fishing with MJL last week. Mind you he landed one with the same infection but this one was worse. The fish from the begining and this one was caught today. Will be heading back out for more action. Hopefully. Have fun out there. DSN

You can go my way.... The Ultra Point Hooks are extremely sharp and never straightens out. And 15lb power pro along with any kind of swivel. MJL hates Ultra Points but I stand by them. Cheaper than Kamasan for sure. DSN

That's priceless!! make sure to get those printed and framed!! DSN

I think I'll be "SICK, SICK, SICK... MIGHT EVEN DIE !! If I had to keep all the carp and eat them too. I'll have carp oozing out of my body from every hole and I might even stink like one if I had to keep and eat everyone I catch in a day's outting. Even if they allow catch and keep ... how would I even lug a 30lb+ carp home if I don't have car? On Public Transit, alive ? DSN

I love this shot. Looks so peaceful. Plus it's amazing you can see every grain of sand.

Thanks I'll keep this in mind. DSN

The Key is to once you set the hook !! Reach for your digital and bend down close to the water, while holding your rod tip high. Make sure the digital is set to Tele-Photo and the shutter speed is set to a high speed to freeze action. I set the rapid firing setting also so you hold the button down while the camera clicks away just in case the fish takes a jump out of the water !! DSN

Yeah I'll stick to the daylight fishing. That night time thing can be very spooky !! "What's that sound in the bush?" DSN

Second day out carping. After seeing CCMT's carp report I decided to check my local hole. Normally I don't fish for Carp this early usually Mid May to the end of May. But they were in. Very sluggish on the take thats for sure. I tried using the 2.5 ounce lead but they didn't hit it hard enough.And no runs. I had to watch the line intensly for line movement while usinga single split shot and hair rig. With 8lb Berkey Transition. I tried the bait-runner with 30lb Power Pro but I guess the line was too visible after using it for a few seasons it turned light greenish and highly visible from what I could tell above water. Here are some pics So much fun with light tackel DSN

Thanks CCMT for this report. Because of it, now I'm back into the action after checking on my honey hole. Pics to come next outting. Lake O DSN

Nice report, Hope they'll being coming towards my end soon!! DSN

I also need corrective eye wear while fishing too. What I used to do was go buy a regular pair of polarized sunglasses from BPS and take it to my optometrist and ask him to come of with the lens to fit frame ( cut shape of the lens to fit). You'd be surprised how cheap that was... it's usually the frame that costs the big bucks. My optometrist sold frames but I pointed out to him none of the frames blocked light from coming in through the sides. So he spoke to the lab techs and they made it happen !!! Just tell them you need a pair of frames that blocks the light from coming in through the side of the face. If you decided to try this route check the thickness of your lenses around the bottom. If it's thick you might have to choose a thicker frame. If not then your ok with a narrower frame cause this is what's going to hold your lens. I think BPS has cheap fishing sunglasses on sale for $6 bucks I picked up two. Cause I'll be updating my presciption soon as well. One thing they pointed out... the sunglasses that have a single panel that blocks the light on the side of the frame is better than the wrap around ones when it comes to prescriptions. Cause when they do the wrap around with a prescription lens you might get distortions looking through the side of the lens. Can make you dizzy after a while. And don't worry if the frame doesn't have sqrews to put the lenses in the frame. They melted my frame and put the frame back to its original shape with the prescription polarized lens in it flawlessly. Truely amazing !!

I had these for years. Bought them from the local Home Hardware and they cut large treble hooks to chains. and I'm talking thick chains. The boltcutter is only 12 inches long. Just close your eyes when you cut hooks or anything steel cause the part you cut will fly off. made in Japan dsn

My mom truely believes catfish is the solution for the allergies. I have tried it in the past it it does seem to work. So I decided to stock up on catfish from the stores that farm them. I have seen the nastiness of some cats that swim in ponds and lakes I didn't think I would even try them. My nose started running a few days ago non-stop. So here they are enjoying my balcony and the fresh air. Waiting to suck up all my allergies. Usually she makes two every other day but now I'm getting sick of it so once per week as needed. $1.39 LB for the small cats, that what these ones are. $1.99lb for the mediums. dsn

I was out a few times this year already saw some small ones. But no takers yet. I'll be out and about this week or so... DSN

It shall not come near thee

Ha ha sounds familar. Happend to me twice in a life time. But no more! I tie my rod with a anchor rope to a thick solid tree!! I didn't get my rods back either, it went out too far. Saw the bubbles come up from the bottom of the lake while it was being dragged out. (Sewage water) DSN

This is not only up his alley, soon they'll say you can't buy or sell anything unless you are chipped. And somewhere the 666 will come into play All this to weed out the terrorists.

Microchips in Your Passport and Drivers License Dear friends, Here's more progress on the plan to microchip all citizens. The key word to watch for is "Smart Cards." These cards are being sold as the wave of the future, devices that will make our life easier and smarter. Yet they also will allow anyone with the technology to monitor where we are at any moment, and to obtain personal information stored in these cards. Used for the right purposes, these could be great assets, but they could also be very effectively used to quash any dissent towards the government. I very much support ever greater transparency in our personal lives, but I'm not sure I trust government in its current state to use this new technology without infringing on our freedoms and liberties. The quotes immediately following are from the ACLU and Washington Times, with a full story by the Christian Science Monitor. Please help to spread the word by forwarding this message. Take care and have a good day. Plan for smart chips in licenses opposed Virginia lawmakers, hoping to stem identity fraud, are considering whether computer chips that can store personal information should be embedded in the state's driver's licenses — a measure civil libertarians say threatens rights to privacy. "In general, we have endorsed the concept," Sheriff Brown said. "No question smart cards are the future." Pocket ID readers could be used by government agents to sweep up the identities of everyone at a political meeting, protest march, or Islamic prayer service," Passports go electronic with new microchip Next year, new US passports will have a chip slipped under the cover, containing biometric and personal data. But privacy advocates worry about surveillance. By Susan Llewelyn Leach | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The US passport is about to go electronic, with a tiny microchip embedded in its cover. Along with digitized pictures, holograms, security ink, and "ghost" photos - all security features added since 2002 - the chip is the latest outpost in the battle to outwit tamperers. But it's also one that worries privacy advocates. The RFID (radio frequency identification) chip in each passport will contain the same personal data as now appear on the inside pages - name, date of birth, place of birth, issuing office - and a digitized version of the photo. But the 64K chip will be read remotely. And there's the rub. The scenario, privacy advocates say, could be as simple as you standing in line with your passport as someone walks by innocuously carrying a briefcase. Inside that case, a microchip reader could be skimming data from your passport to be used for identity theft. Or maybe authorities or terrorists want to see who's gathered in a crowd and surreptitiously survey your ID and track you. Suddenly, "The Matrix" looks less futuristic. The State Department maintains that such scenarios are outright fiction. "A person can't be tracked," says Kelly Shannon, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department. "It's not as if the information is going to broadcast and anyone with a receiver can be picking up that signal. There isn't a signal." The passport, issued to officials and diplomats in early 2005 and to the public by the end of the year, is accessed using a reader that "pings" the microchip in order to release the data, much like proximity cards used for workplace ID badges. What prevents surveillance is that "the passport can only be read at a distance of 10 centimeters or less," explains Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance, an industry association that represents the four companies that produced prototype chips for the State Department. Concerns of privacy advocates have "no validity," he says. "The purpose of the passport is to create a more secure travel document. The introduction of contactless chip technology has accomplished that." The response of technology experts and privacy advocates is simply: "Rubbish." "It's perfectly reasonable that the government wants a machine-readable photograph," says Bruce Schneier, a security guru and author of "Beyond Fear." "I just worry that they are building a technology that the bad guys can surreptitiously access." The idea that the chips cannot be read beyond 10 centimeters (four inches) doesn't fly with him. "There is no impossible," Mr. Schneier says. "So they [the manufacturers] guarantee that there will be no technological advances in the next 10 years that will change that? It's absurd." In fact, data skimming is already common in other arenas, says Richard Doherty, research director for the Envisioneering Group, a technology-assessment company out of Seaford, N.Y. "Bluejacking," where someone with the right equipment can hijack your phone, grab your directory, history of calls, and electronic serial number just by walking past you while you're on the phone, and "war-driving," where an individual drives down the street with a computer that maps all the networks that are free along with their IDs - these are already significant security issues, he says. "This whole world of wireless is one that, yes, it has tremendous convenience, but it's increasingly threatened by a cloud of easy-to-exploit criminal means," Mr. Doherty says. But why not choose a contact chip, where there would be no possibility of skimming, asks Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project. "You don't have to have a 'contactless' integrated circuit," he says. "There was another way to go, which was to put an electronic strip in the passport that would require contact. It would make theft far less likely." The State Department says it's just following international standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), under the umbrella of the United Nations. In May 2003, the ICAO specified the RFID and facial biometric or digitized head shot now being adopted by other countries at the behest of the United States. All countries that are part of the US visa-waiver program must use the new passports by Oct. 26, 2005. Mr. Steinhardt calls the State Department's approach "policy laundering," and says the US pushed through the standards against the reservations of the Europeans. "Bush says at the G8 meeting, 'We have to adhere to the global standard,' as though we had nothing to do with it. It was masterful from a political perspective," he says in exasperation. But even the ICAO, in the small print of a document published last May titled, "Use of Contactless ICs in Machine Readable Travel Documents," acknowledges the new RFID chips won't be foolproof: "... it is unlikely that unauthorized reading will occur. However, this cannot be completely ruled out." Although the data on the chip will not be encrypted, for the sake of easing "interoperability" across international borders, Ms. Shannon says, the government does plan to incorporate a security feature that will largely prevent skimming. Embedded fibers in the front and back covers will shield the passport from electronic probing, at least while it is closed. Other security features in the new passports include a digital or electronic seal that will ensure the document is authentic and smart-card technology that renders the chip inoperable if it is tampered with using energy waves or radio waves. http://www.wanttoknow.info/microchippassport

Should have taken that pic out earlier ah ha ha ha. dsn

Yeah lots of rain and boy where there alot of worms on the ground already. If you're a picker better start. DSN