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Definately not a redtail. I think it's a cooper's hawk. I believe sharp shinned hawks legs are not feathered. Great pictures Mike.

They not only buy them they buy "custom built " ice fishing rods. We come a long way from willow gads and simple but effective tip ups.

I have done it the odd time. The idea is to dribble a few small pieces into the hole every once in a while as a visual attractant. They will flutter on the way down. As to covering a patch on the bottom with them to improve visability , this I think is not a good idea. Fish instinctively avoid light coloured bottoms so that preditors will have less of a chance at spotting them.

He'll kill the walleyes with that jigging technique.

Holdfast I am disappointed that you did not get the point of my post #18. It was about how first level supervision ( much like sergeants in the Army) in large corporations ,both private and public, are put in situations where it's dammed if you do and dammed if don't. I would think you might have some understanding of that.

Congradulations Sir. Great fish. Your are a winner twice over. Once for catching a brute like that and twice for the live release. You put that fish back knowing full well that it open up your catch to critisizm and it shows what a true conservationist and sportman you are.

Hotrod don't try and talk sense to these guys when they are engaged in flights of fancy. I tried it 18 posts ago ( #40)and it was ignored because it much better to take an incident from a post office in Cornwall and turn it into dire warnings about the " New World Order" or complaints that Canada is just not WASP enough anymore. UNBELIEVABLE!!!

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This kind of situation is the result of the supervisory and management in that post office/depot being put in an untenable situation. They have probably been given contradictory commands from the higher ups. Or it could be the result of one of those zero tolerance dictates. They probably would like nothing better than to ignore the idiot that caused the trouble or fire him. They are probably not allowed to do either. So this is how they cope with it. They blindly follow through with an insane course of action until it blows up and then they will finally get sensible directives from those who made the stupid decisions in the first place. I would also like to say that I am very disappointed in the people that contributed to this thread that used it to voice thier anti-religious, anti-union, anti-gov't, anti-whatever personal agendas. Would anyone here want their tax refund, bank statements, mortgage statements and the like delivered by your paper-boy?

Roadkill the coyotes didn't get.

The question has been asked why we Canadians talk about American politics. There are several reasons. When I was a young lad in a b&w six channel universe American politics was some of the best stuff on TV. Past PM Pierre Trudeau said that "when you sleep beside an elephant, one cannot but help noticing every twitch". Also we are your neighbours. Don't you talk about the nieghbours next door? I think you would if they were as loud and boisterous as the US is. It's like being beside the worlds biggest out of control block party. Lundboy I believe you when you say that gov'ts try to control their populations. That's what we elect them to do. I also cannot help but wonder if all political factions are seeking to control our minds, don't they tend to cancel each other out. Corporations, companies, businesses all seek to do this as well. You can take management and supervisory courses that teach you how to manipulate people. Marketing is all about that as well.

Lundboy don't worry. Bill O'reilly will watch out for you. http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html One if by land, two if by sea.

For nine minutes I watched a man being tortured and I laughed. Does this make me bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLX6Ex0Wcmo I think he would rather have been water boarded.

What I also wanted to do but didn't was listen to the Rush Limbaugh show on the radio from Buffalo. I really wanted to hear his screams of agony as the socialist took the oath of office. Oh well I'll listen to his rant tomorrow.

At home today with a bad knee. I watched and it was great. I agree with mister moosebunk. I think that he has a very tough job ahead of him. The pentagon, the CIA, Wall St. and the rest of their institutions of power all view him as a socialist. He has a lot of enemies and a lot of their gov't institutions will deliberately do a bad job for him. Still if any one can overcome the situation there it is the American people. Over the last couple of years my opinion of Americans has changed as I have gotten to know more of them and about them. If they get their act together they will achieve the changes they are looking for. I wish them luck and hope that they succeed.

Here's an unphotoshopped one.

I don't see how the fish he saw was a common carp. Commons and Asians are completely different looking fish. Different head, different scales, different fins and different body shape.

Just heard that that plane has an emergency system that closes all bottom compartments when the "ditch switch" is flicked on. Good thouhtful engineering.

Were we the most prosperous nation a hundred years ago? Did the middle class even exist? I know that in 1909 Ford came out with the model T and so here we are today. Oh and it was one of the 50 worst cars of all time a real lemon.

That's what I thought too. No white spot on the tail and a different colour pattern.

Any news about Old Cut?

FD and F. Yup just like you. Oh and Europe and Asia are continents not countries.

Put down several layers of newspaper. Dump a few handfuls of rock salt ( the stuff you throw on the sidewalk). Spead the minnows out over the salt. Check daily to see how dry they are. You can actually overdry them this way and they'll float. Put in a jar or plasic bag a keep in the fridge.

He took a doe.

We have a long standing tradition of eating the heart and liver. We use my brothers mother in law's recipe. There was some stuff I read years ago about high Cadmium levels in some deers liver. But I think were safe with our deer down here as they eat a lot of crops and less "natural" food.