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the fish (and their future business) would be so much better off if he just cut the hooks....no need to drag it up on the boat.

There isn't much there...the odd trout but there are much better fisheries.

That is a beeeee-eautiful ride. Good for you, Lew.

You: Some people say that it isnt true and talk about the hook thats still inside them not corroding away. I think it has to do more with the acidity in their fluids, and constant exposure to circulating oxygenated water coroding the hook, which says takes about a week. Most fish can usually go that long without eating if they are hooked bad. Me: I really doubt a hook corrodes in a week....maybe a year or two You: post an article that say "The study further noted that dissected hooks exhibited minimal corrosion after 20 days" Me: Not sure what your point is....that article says that the hooks exhibited MINIMAL corrosion after 20 days. Which part am i missing? Also, drop your tone a bit.

No, unless i'm missing something. I don't think that article says anything about hooks corroding out in a week.

Not sure what your point is....that article says that the hooks exhibited MINIMAL corrosion after 20 days.

I really doubt a hook corrodes in a week....maybe a year or two. The fish i keep are usually the ones that are hooked badly.

Sure wish there were an online community where i could go and share stories about fishing and learn from others. That would be fun/helpful/productive.

Not to get in on the big argument(s), but some friendly advice for everyone in the future..... Fish on the grass - especially if the grass is wet - isn't that bad. Try to avoid the dirt if you can. Aside from time out of water, the most important thing is their slime which protects them from bacteria/parasites/etc. Consider their slime to be like our skin (in terms of protection against bacteria and viruses).....without it you can run away but you don't get very far before getting sick. Just like you should wet your hands before grabbing a fish, you should try to not set it in dirt (or sawdust, or paper towel, or oil soak-up sweeper powder) :-)

We'll see how this plays out. I know no one not in mexico has died from it yet, but i also don't remember (in my lifetime) the world health organization freaking out like this. Also know that the worst pandemic (1918) didn't kill many people on its first wave either (was the second flu season when it went nuts)...it only killed 2% of infected at its peak, and it ended up killing 50-100mm people (i have heard both #'s...not sure the difference btwn how they're counted). I'm not saying this is the spanish flu or anything close...just saying that i don't think its "nothing" yet. The normal flu may kill 35000 a year, but those that die are almost always elderly or the immune-compromised (i.e from AIDS). If this one is killing young adults its very different.

Stopped sports for awhile. The bone was outside-front'ish.....basically the outside of my front "pad"...if that makes sense. It did hurt to walk on for a bit, but went away relatively quickly. Also, the bone in question was relatively tiny.

I had a stress fracture in a little bone in my foot (outside'ish). Went to a sports doctor and he told me its.... - common - something he can't really do anything for...just rest No way of knowing if its the same bone, but shoes could make a difference. And if it is the same, only thing that you can do is rest it. Heals relatively fast.

I think its unconstitutional. Impaired driving is .08. This is implementing punishment for 0.05....but its not illegal to drive over 0.05....if that makes sense. Its like getting a speeding ticket for going 90 in a 100 zone because the policeman thought you were likely to go faster than 100 somewhere down the road.

Kemper -- that's a good one. Have never seen that. My weirdest/funniest experience -- fishing with my dad on a little smallmouth lake. A mouse pops up on the boat seat (its a boat we leave in the woods chained to a tree). I brush the mouse into the lake and it starts its swim to shore. As many of you would anticipate, its a goner -- the water explodes and its gone. A few (20?) mins later I hook into a bass and am bringing it up, and just like when you see a bass puke up crayfish/baitfish/whatever, this bass pukes out the mouse. Funniest thing - the bass was *maybe* a pound. I expected that the fish that took that mouse to be very big. This was barely adolescent. Second weirdest -- sitting on shore with friends (not even fishing...just having a beer) and a little (as in, 7 or 8 inch) pike flies out of the water and lands on shore....like, 2 or 3 feet from the water (where it'd be a goner if we weren't there to put it back in). I assume it was fleeing from something.

That's a lot of fish......can you eat those? I always thought the lake ontario salmon were toxic.

If anyone is thinking of going, consider.... - even if the mortality rate is only 1%, do you want to risk someone in your family catching it? - do you really want to visit a mexican hospital if you do get sick? (or break a leg or something that requires you to go to the hospital) - if you do get sick, i doubt they let you leave mexico - as irishfield said, what if you are there and a travel ban is implemented....you're stuck there. - there's way better fishing in other parts of the caribbean. Its also a great time for pike and walleye in Ontario :-)

I was in st lucia a month ago and it was the most impressive place i've been to -- tropical, but unlike other caribbean places very mountainous and lush with rainforest. People were very sweet as well.

Many stocked lakes are really isolated......and sometimes very sizable fish. I remember a particular little lake (more like a pond) in Algonquin that had a bunch of 3-4 lb specks dumped into it one spring. Unfortunately it was fished out pretty quickly.

Read this page and you will not go to Mexico. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm

Based on what we know today, i would not go. If you go to bbc (the best news source, i think) its pretty scary stuff. Mexico is a crapstorm right now. Look up the mexican accounts on bbc's website....a doctor talking about how many hospital staff have died. If you catch it here you'll get first class hospital treatment. If you catch it there.....

Day out on the water WITH a stripper serving beers in the boat. My buddy did it on the golf course (got her to be the caddy).......good times.

maybe just a rights thing -- keelshield could have granted US rights to cabela's but not Canada? I think they ship other products here, right?

Legal-to-keep muskies are also very old and probably toxic.......besides, i doubt they taste very good. Pike on the other hand taste fantastic. I still wouldn't eat a big one though (taste, toxicity, plus just like to throw the big ones back)

I'd cheer that......very exuberantly.

Also, Dr......tell me -- is the cormorant growth in ontario over the past 10 yrs more like that of a native species or an invasive one? I think the cormorant is effectively invasive now since it hasn't been here for so long.