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I know somebody who works on ACM's contract for Honda's brake rotors and drums. They were told maybe 1-2 months ago car production would be cut in 1/2 and that meant the same or more of a reduction for their incoming ACM parts. And they're seeing an actual slowdown in a big way and it was still slow as of yesterday. Why doesn't that jive with your plant's steady production? just wondering.

Finding a suitable guarantor was the problem for most people since it was such a short list of qualifications and it couldn't be somebody paid to do it so a notary public woudln't work. The renewal process that came out about a year ago is definitely better. It's basically 2 new pictures and a short application where it was essentially the full application before. the simple renewal still charges full fees, of course. We're still getting burned compared to US citizens since their passports are good for 10 years and cost about the same as our 5yr passport. talk about a cash grab..

my whole family has one. The last one was a sister who got it just a few years ago. It all depends on if you ask people who fly often or not. Anybody who flies to the US regularly likely applied for theirs a few years ago when they first announced that passports would be required for all flights and crossboarder travel. They later changed that to exclude land crossing and now i don't know exactly where it stands because it's been changed a few times.

There isn't a single fisherman who didn't start there. have fun.

it's hard to tell from the picture. The mouth is longer than most atlantics but that's not always the giveaway to identify them. The same goes for tail forking, a lot of atlantics have fairly flat tails so it's not a reliable way to identify. The sure way is inside the mouth which we can't see here

that's a good rant. ...of epic proportions.

I havn'et tried the insect patches. One thing i wanted to get but forgot about is the super glue stuff being sold along the inside wall. I don't know which fishing booth you went to but left hand baitcasters are available for probably over 1/2 the reels on the market. You can buy left hand conversion kits for some big conventionals which are traditionally right hand only. I was looking for a daiwa (s o l) in lefty but the forum changed it to "outta luck" The best reel deal i saw in there was the TD Zillion, this vendor had a left and a right. Their price beats anything you'll see in any store or online anywhere. Which reel did you end up buying?

A lot of places have regulations for single-hooks only for fishing and BlueFox's biggest market is Alaska which has that policy at many popular fishing destinations. I don't trust the siwash though after have too many of them twist off in the middle of a thrashing fish fight so i've switched to split rings and single gamakatsu. I use the oval split rings that come to a bit of a point at both ends, i find the had fewer hook/lure tangles.

probably protecting territory with their established distributors. Gloomis is the same way with their rods. New stores only get the low end stuff, if anything, until they can push so many rods out the door. That's why you can't just walk into any fishing store and find IMX and GLX bass sticks on the racks. I'm with Sinker. I try to buy locally ffirst. The store that i was ready to buy the reel from at the show is a local to me.

As i was leaving the show, i saw a woman on the cot at the massage area about get her feet rubbed. On my way by, I overheard the female masseuse say "nice shoes" to the client. Was that you? It was just an okay show for me this year. I did notice a few vendors missing from this years lineup. I went there looking for one thing only, a lefty daiwa outta luck baitcaster and only 2 vendors had 3 all together but they were right side. They were priced well, Natural Sports, where you got your rod, had the reel for $20 less. I'm on a mission to balance out the number of left and right reels in my collection so no more righty's for now. I left with six 3" balsa crankbaits...total cost, about $100. ahaha Ardent must be pushing their reels hard this year, they had product everywhere. Their flipping reel is interesting, to say the least. It has no line guide or pawl/wormgear, extremely low line capacity, no drag wheel because it's set up with a full time 50# drag.

call Catch 'Em bait and tackle to see what they have. they're down in the south end of town. as far as the net, I wouldn't have a problem myself. You should probably ask before you start fishing rather than assume they'll help after you have a fish on. I've fished many places where people bring nets for anybody to use, particularly in pier fishing where the drop can be 25' or more depending on the tide. I'm sure there will be helpful people around..

If you're on a tight budget, it won't be possible to go absolutely weightless with a baitcaster. There's no trick to weightless rigs on baitcasters. You need to go the smallest reel sizes and you must go high quality otherwise the spool tuning and bearing quality just isn't good enough. 3 reels that'll toss weightless rigged plastics are Daiwa Sol, Pixy and Presso. The Shimano chronarch 50/51Mg isn't bad with lightweight presentations but not as good as the daiwas. There are some technique specific aftermarket spools available with very low startup inertia, but they also have very low line capacity. Anyways, all of these casting reels will be in the $300+ range. If you want to add a little weight, the options start to open up, but if you're talking about tossing a 4" senko on a bare hook with a baitcaster, you need small AND high quality. Your best bet is to get a nice spinning reel with a wide shallow spool and put on some light line.

A friend bought the Nextar camera/gps combo unit from CTC around Nov/Dec before heading down to the US to visit relatives. He was in total darkness on an unfamiliar freeway following the GPS route and drove right off the road into a tree. If the tree wasn't there, it would ahve been another 40 foot drop for him and his family. Apparently, the gps maps showed a straight road where there was a near 90 degree turn. I know he still should have seen the turn, but i think a lot of us would have been caught off guard also if the gps line showed a straight path ahead.

I suppose it's possible but it doesn't make sense to go through the expense of getting the booth space there and having total strangers there who were hired at the last minute.

how much weight are you putting on there? I'm thinking a 300 size of any model is too much reel to cast those lighter plastic rigs and nearly impossible if it's a weightless rig.

I love the stealthed out mach1.

that's a pretty good win. I recently heard about a bit of a problem with a work group ticket on a US lottery. i think it was about 15 people who won a lottery over $200M and they were trying to cut out 4 people from the win because they weren't there the day that particular ticket was bought but they are normally part of it. I think the 4 left out were taking legal action on the grounds that some of the small winnings from previous tickets carried over to buy the new tickets. I wonder how that turned out.

Is that a proper float blank or a 15' spey blank? I didn't think the glx floats were sold as blank only.

In the pre-www era, the same thing only it was due to usenet posts. Famous people posted in usenet during their college/university days then, low and behold, dirty secrets from their distant past would come back to haunt them. ...tidbits of info people found by running searches on archived usenet servers. Although you can get messages deleted from a particular server where YOU woudln't see it anymore, other server in its newsfeed do not have to honor delete requests and continue to propagate the original. Every usenet message is effectively permanent and spread worldwide once you put it up. The bad part about posting anything these days is not only is the info on the originating server, even if it's permanently deleted there, it still sould have been found by web spiders and stored indefinitely in caches by search engines. I have a pretty bad example of this..A friend of mine at a university put a class list with grades on his web server that had no direct link to the file. One of his students who was searching his name one day came across that file with the entire class list and their grades. Not only did the spider find the class file (google's in this case), it also read the PDF and cached and categorized all the info on its own (google's) servers. After being notified of this, my friend removed the file from his own server but it was too late, it didn't matter because google searches could still display the document by pulling out its own cached copy. Nice... history will repeat itself. The moral is, of course, do not put any info online that you wouldn't be willing say on the jumbo screen at the superbowl.

I don't use it myself either but I do know they're very popular with the bluewater fishermen down the west coast, across the gulf in the south, and over in australia. It's far from being an obscure product. I read in a magazine not too long ago that sufix has captured around 1/2 the US market in total superline sales. That stat could also be skewed a bit if it's determined by the yardage since their fans are coastal/offshore fishermen and some of their bigger reels will hold 1000-2000 yards of line, if you know what i mean.

Hmm.. my post this afternoon didn't make it for some reason. Anyways, I think it looks very Pinnacle SilStar (aka silver star) which is a huge OEM manufacturer of many things including fishing equipment for other fishing companies as well as big-store house brand stuff like bps and cabelas. I said this going by the big fat pinnacle style bail, the bent handle style, and the antireverse switch on the body behind the rotor. Pop out the drag stack in the spool, the drag discs are probably an off white plastic looking material. +10 bearings to compensate for (smooth out) the low tolerance body casting.

I can't tell from the picture if it's a factory ice tire but we used to do this to our bikes and 3 and 4 wheeler tires all the time. All you need is a few hours, a few boxes of cap screws, and a socket on a drill to turn them into the knobs. If i remember right, it usually takes 3-500 for each tire depending on how big it is. There are proper hardened screws for this too but we never bothered... talk about grabby traction.

Off the top of my head, it could be sarah mclachlan's new business venture catering to her east coast roots. Do you have any pictures of it and did it come with boxes and manuals or nothing? I'm thinking it's an unbranded OEM reel that wasn't picked up by a major brand and some small business or person decided to market it on their own.

"Original" braid or the Stealth fusion stuff? I was planning on checking out CTC today after i hit the computer store. I'm guessing you went to the waterloo location.

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