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Yeah, soon we'll all be reduced to this..

There once was a girl named Twilight Who fell in to the limelight She asked a comely chap If perchance he would chance To go carp Fishing some night Jed

Oh, big time!

That's too late. You need to be on the water by 6:15 AM. GCD, you better get on this, this guy's gonna screw up. I kin feel it.

No wonder yer still single, gawd, man. take 'er out!

Anyone remember Berhardt Goetz? In the early afternoon of December 22, 1984, four black men — Barry Allen, 19; Troy Canty, 19; James Ramseur, 18; and Darrell Cabey, 19 — boarded a downtown No. 2 express train on a stated mission to steal money from video arcade machines in Manhattan. Goetz entered the same subway car at the 14th Street station and sat down near the four young men, who were then located at his right. According to Goetz's statement to police, approximately ten seconds later Troy Canty asked him, "How are you?" Goetz responded "I'm fine". According to Goetz, the four men gave signals to each other, and shortly thereafter Canty and Barry Allen rose from their seats and went over to the left of Goetz, blocking Goetz off from the other passengers in the car. Canty then calmly said to Goetz, "Give me five dollars." According to the young men's testimony, Canty was panhandling, although eyewitness testimony given at Goetz's criminal trial generally agreed that the four men were aggressive and threatening. Goetz told police that he thought from the smile on Canty's face that they wanted to "play with me," and he decided on a "pattern of fire" that he would use to shoot them. Goetz, pretending not to hear them, asked Canty, "What did you say?" Canty calmly repeated, "Give me five dollars." Goetz admitted to police that he "snapped" and that his intention at that point was to "murder them, to hurt them, to make them suffer as much as possible." At the criminal trial, Goetz's defense attorneys, Barry Slotnick and Mark Baker, claimed that this and other extreme statements by Goetz were the product of an overactive imagination. After the second demand or request for money, Goetz rose from his seat, and from beneath his blue windbreaker fast-drew a .38 Special five-shot Smith & Wesson revolver and fired five shots with speed shooting. (Speed shooting is a very fast technique, primarily effective at close range, where the shooter initiates trigger pull prior to the sights being aligned on the target.) In media interviews, Goetz, who had prior firearms and target shooting experience, described how he discharged all five rounds in less than 1.6 seconds. (Some eyewitness testimony stated all shots were fired within one second.) The first shot hit Canty in the center of the chest; the second shot struck Allen in the upper rear shoulder while he was turned about 90 degrees from Mr. Goetz. The angle of the bullet suggested that Mr. Allen was ducking[1]; the third shot hit the subway wall just in front of Cabey; the fourth shot hit Cabey in the left side, severing his spinal cord and rendering him paraplegic; the fifth shot went through Ramseur's arm and lodged itself in his left side. Goetz then immediately looked at the first two men to make sure they were "taken care of." Goetz then saw Cabey moving on the bench and confessed to approaching Cabey and saying, "You don't look too bad; here's another," and then attempted to shoot Cabey again in the stomach, with an empty gun. Cabey, who was briefly standing prior to the shooting, was sitting on the subway bench during all attempted shots. In his subsequent police statement, Goetz explained, "If I had had more [bullets], I would have shot them again, and again, and again." In a 2008 interview, Goetz denied having actually made the statement "You don't look too bad, here's another" in the subway car, but said that he did try to shoot Cabey again, after which he knew he was out of bullets[2]. All four men survived, though Cabey was permanently paralyzed and suffered brain damage as a result of the bullet that severed his spine. Goetz claimed that at the moment of the incident he experienced severe distortion of his visual depth of field, one of many known significant physiological effects of epinephrine (adrenaline), a fight-or-flight hormone released by the adrenal medulla. He also apparently suffered a combination of loss of hearing and audio exclusion, in part from the adrenaline rush and also from the tremendous decibel level of the gun discharge reverberating inside the confined space of the subway car with its carbon steel walls and fiberglass benches. In media interviews, Goetz has described in haunting, vivid detail, the incredible high-pitched ringing in his ears as a part of his overall state of mind at the moment of the incident. Goetz claimed he suffered this hearing loss and audio exclusion after the first shot and up to the point he noticed two women who he thought were unintentionally hit by his bullets. These women in fact fainted outright in response to the trauma of the incident. After the shooting, the only other passengers of the original 15 to 20 that remained in the subway car were the two nearby women who had fainted. After talking to the two women to determine if they were injured — they were not — Goetz was approached by the conductor who had been in the next car. Goetz refused to hand over his gun to the conductor, stating "They tried to rob me", and a few minutes later left the train which had halted because of the incident, a common practice on the New York City subway system during certain emergency situations. Due to the tremendous decibel volume of the shots inside the confined space of the subway car, there were initial witness reports after the incident that suggested the gun involved was a .44 Magnum or other large caliber handgun. Goetz alluded to these reports in a December 2004 media interview on the Opie and Anthony radio show that the volume was in part due to the fact that the shots he fired that afternoon "cleaned the barrel" of the small-frame .38 revolver he used. In other words, those shots were purportedly the first time he had ever fired that particular gun. Goetz fled the subway system at the Chambers Street Station. He then rented a car and drove to Bennington, Vermont and buried the gun and the blue windbreaker he wore at the time of the shooting. He walked into the Concord, New Hampshire police station to turn himself in on December 31, 1984. While he was away, police had already tried to contact him at his Greenwich Village apartment. After the incident, rumors spread that Goetz had been threatened with sharpened screwdrivers. This rumor was published as fact by some newspapers; however, neither Goetz nor the young men made any such claim. In fact, during his subsequent statement to the police Goetz expressed a belief that none of the young men were armed. Paramedics and police did find a total of four unsharpened screwdrivers on two of the men, which they explained were to be used to break into video arcade game change boxes. Goetz's confession to shooting Cabey twice, first in the left side and later in the stomach, and Goetz's use of the phrase "You don't look too bad; here's another" was made public by the DA prior to the second grand jury. This was reported as fact in the media for 18 months up to the time of the criminal trial, when Cabey's medical records were released indicating he was shot once in the left side.

Take into consideration also, a hull's thickness, which will allow more pounding in the heavy seas.

I normally wouldn't give a hoot, but i am getting fed up at the seeing the gradual escallation of gun related incidents involving totally innocent people. Twice that I can recall, retired residents within the confines of their home, were subjected to bullets coming through either the windows or the walls! Imagine sitting down, enjoying a quiet evening with your family and the bullets are flying into your living room! I guess the point I missed was that all the gun crimes are accomplished by guns that are not registered to legal owners, is this correct? And that imposing a ten year sentence within city limits on anyone caught, should be ammended to those in possession of an unregistered firearm.

Maybe, God forbid, you or someone you cared about, was the victim of a gun crime you would feel differently. Have you ever had someone stick a gun in your face? Must be a rush! And when they do, it's like they have all the power. A coward with a gun. You just want to grab him by the throat and squeeeeeeeeeze, but you can't cause............................................. he has a gun.

That'd be 5 1/2 lbs.

Right on bottom. That's prolly where it is warmest, until the water warms, then they will rise.

Many of our lakes and waterways are becoming busier with each passing season. It doesn't take much error to make a fatal mistake.

I just knew you would say that. I would have been surprized had someone not. I agree, it's a tough call fer sure, but (within city limits) wouldn't it make sense to ban handguns even if it would inconvenience a small percentage of legal gun owners? That way we would be inconveniencing the illegal gun owners. If everytime someone is found with a handgun within city limits, they get the slammer, the problem would dry up in a hurry. That's just my feeling on the matter, and I understand that verybody has a right to feel different about it, but ultimately, aren't laws supposed to be made to protect the innocent law abbiding,honest, hard working, taxpaying citizens.

Here are the specs, note the hull thickness, and compare to other mfgr's hull thickness. Might have some impact on wether the boat can be "sea" worthy when it gets rough. To crack or not to crack. Manufacturer Lowe Model Year 2008 Model 175 Fishing Machine Color Platinum Length (feet) 17 Length (inches) 3 Length (meters) 5.25 Length (LOA) 17 ft. 3 in. (5.25 m) Beam 92 in. (2.33 m) Width (transom) 80 in. (2 m) Height 40 in. (1 m) Height (transom) 20 in. (.5 m) Weight (dry) 1,130 lbs. (512 kg) Maximum Capacity 1,600 lbs. (726 kg) Maximum People 6 / 960 lbs. (435 kg) Hull Type Deep Vee Hull Material Aluminum Hull Thickness .100 in. (2.5 mm) Drive Type Outboard Engine(s) (std) 90 ELPT 2S Mercury Engine (Max) 115 hp (86 kW) Fuel Type Gas Fuel Capacity 27 gal. (102 l)

5.25 lbs. Because I am the same height, and caught a smallmouth of that weight, and it looked sorta like the same size as yours.

The only ones who will really put up a stink, are those who spent a good chunk o' change on handguns and associated memberships. They will be put out somewhat from their hobby. The other one's who will be upset are those who feel they need a gun to protect themselves from the gun toting villains. And finally, the illegal gun owners, will put up the greatest fuss. The thing is..where do illegal handguns come from? I understand a significant number of them are stolen from law abiding permit holding citizens. Take away that source, and what is left?

I there are no handguns, you will not need one either.

InFisherman's Walleye Insider Guide.

I've got some of those, and yours look just as good. You must really like them, to have made so many. I like the toaster oven idea.

Wall, my neighbour Niaz, began asking me all kinds of questions about fishing, in Canada as he is from Bangladesh. He purchased a fishing license last long-weekend , and never fished here b4, so I thought, what the heck, let's go an try an accessible shore spot, mentioned here. We got a line in the water by 3:50 P.M., and within 5 minutes fish on! A nice jumbo Perch. Niaz became quite excited, at this, and soon after he caught one too. The rest is history, we caught a total of 24, nice sized keepers, with a few double headers caught on our two hook pickerel rigs!

Today is the Pike Derby start fer two days, with decent prizes, anyone participating?

I've never been, but this link may give you some idears.. http://www.fishnz.co.nz/

Oh, I should have mentioned, while you were out in possibly the worst day of Spring (?), my better half and I spent a leisurely afternoon visiting one of the various attractions the city has to offer... Casa Loma, here are few pics.. http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008003.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008006.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008013.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008015.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008020.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008027.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008033.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008034.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008037.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008041.jpg http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Je...aMay2008047.jpg

That reminds me of a time once.., there was this heavy fog, an me an the guy's were camped on Garden Island, so we decided to make the short (1/2 mile) boat ride to Pickerel Rock to do some Walleye fishing, so off I go, I have the compass on the boat seat, and take my final bearings, then slowly motor into the fog...