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You can also call the city as it would be a violation of the Flood and Fill Lines. The NPCA doesn't have much teeth anyway. The MNR and others do, though.

Property is bordering the 2 municipalities. The house is St Caths, the pond is Lincoln, and Lincoln and its council are as clueless as it gets. They regularly cut down growth along the water's edge and drain down the pond to better facilitate the Canada Day fireworks. They also permit beach bonfires that are destroying the root systems of the bushes and scrub that hold the dune together.

Contact the DFO they have the highest juristrition and can and have charged other levels of the government including CA's and the MNR.

Already have the DFO interested

I love my Ford Freestar as a family vehicle. Unfortunately Ford is not building family vans any longer. It has been very reliable on long trips, towing the boat and 4 heavyweights. Not necessarily the purdiest things on the road but great family vehicles, have the tow rating, hold the gear, but my neighbour swears by his Honda van.

A few years back I was interested in buying a bait and tackle business. It wasn't viable.

I did learn some important things. The cost of obtaining the retail permit was getting more expensive while the limitations on what one could sell were killing the value in that license.

Secondly, the ministry was not issuing new harvest licenses. The only way to obtain one was to buy the business and licenses of an existing harvester.

We finally heard back from the NPCA and they have taken the 'hands off' approach.

According to them, the damage was done over 6 months ago and there is nothing they can do about it now. Sounds like the "3 Monkeys" are on the job.

Should know by now that most government agreements aren't worth the paper written on. Abiding by any agreement is a matter of convenience and expedience. Obviously it is no longer financially expedient to continue to follow the no competition guideline.

I've sent my e- mail.

I'm noticing that some replies get dropped right tp the very bottom of the page leaving a huge blank space tween the last post and latest reply.

My reply to last walleye trip.

Dr S's reply to perchin.

Nice collection there. Good to see you got to enjoy some late ice.

The lake run fish came in last year in very large schools. Huge schools of shiners ( food for the bigger fish ), yellow and white perch, sheephead, carp, channel cats, even some bows.

Water looks fairly dark with mud most times, but so does the Grand, and it's teeming with life.

Shutting the site down gave me lots of good fishing time today. Met up with my buddy, the Smerch, and we had a blast. Took a little while to figger out what the little buggers wanted, but once we did. WooHoo!

We kept 2 dozen as dinner guests out of the hundred odd caught.

I played camera man today. Didn't want to bust the lens on my mug

Going to go to sleep soon. No OFC for 2 nights had me bouncing off the walls.

Thats a big no-no here also.A guy cut down a bunch of trees to get a better "view" of the Potomac a few years back.Monster sized fines for him.Good job,do you have any before pics?

Joe

The area was verdant and lush. Just teeming with life.

the beaver den

Wow!! Looks pretty sharp. Being as I am not so computer literate, this might take a little while to figure out.

Where is the machine that goes "Ping"?

But I ain't done poop disturbing

i can hardly wait to hit the Grand. Well done.

A call to the local news may fix that.

Let's give the authorities some time to work. This was only reported to them this morning.

Call the press in and the property owner will be hiding behind a wall of lawyers slowing everything down.

Despite all the poop I've been disturbing, the pooch and I got out for a couple of hours to chase some cats. Nothing large, but they seemed to like my left over salties.

Darned fish thieving dog kept jumping in the water trying to grab the fish as I was reeling in. What a hoot

Who is going to bring some fresh baked bread?

You know I'd love to Cliff, but it just isn't in the cards right now.

Ringwood hatchery

There are ways and means by which a land owner can make waterfront improvents that are beneficial for all concerned. That is not the case here. Along that bank was a thick shoreline growth of dogwoods, scrub willow, wild rose. Beneath was an under layer of marginal water grasses, weeds and a couple of pockets of water lily. Along that bank was the den of a river beaver. During the warm months, kingfishers, orioles, blackbirds, cardinal, etc... would nest there. Herons and bitterns would perch on some of the standing dead wood looking for their next meals. There were painted turtles in among the shoreline wood. Loss of the spawning bed will gradually mean the loss of those schools of lake run fish that spawn there.

I have worked on a few waterfront projects and I still can't believe the shortsightedness of this landowner. No responsible landscaper should ever be so careless. I've seen it happen a few time up in the Muskokas and Haliburtons, and the consequences were huge. On one lake the cost to restore the habitat drove the offender into bankruptcy. He had dumped some 30 truck loads of sand into a grass marsh to build the perfect beach.

The MNR has begun investigating.

Left messages with NPCA. DFO is steaming. I'm chasing MNR red tape. Think a call to the media may be next on the agenda.

Many of you will remember my slew of springtime posts from a Niagara honey hole. It held an abundance of transient spawning fish, and varied wildlife. Well it seem the one landowner decided to destroy the shoreline habitat for his viewing pleasure. All the shoreline structure, plant life and habitat has been bulldozed and destroyed as well as part of the spawning bed.

THis area was teeming with life last spring. Nothing will be living here for years to come. I accept the landowners right to alter/improve his property. I have a problem when such action causes serious damage to our public waterways and resources. There are no silt and erosion barriers in place so the topsoil just silts up the spawning areas of the shallow bay. Every tree, limb or snag in the water has been removed. Put simply he altered the bed where schools of lake run perch, drum, cats, shiners, etc... come in to spawn.

They may be rich but they is stoopid!

My condolences to you. You were a lucky man to have such a father and I am certain his passing hurts deep. Pass on what he passed on to you and a part of him lives on forever.

Had the coonskin cap. Loved watching Fess. Have the video set of the shows.

He was one of those reluctant hero rolemodels that were such a big part of the frontier legend. As kids we loved going out to shoot coons and, with the adults, hunt "barr". Dougt I could grin a "barr' to death like Davey

If you don't mind the coin, Zeiss lenses are the best in the industry. It all boils dwn to your specific needs as to what size and magnification range you require.

It will eventualy escape from a fish farm and then contaminate the natural gene pool.