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Casey seems to like smelts more than perch.

Gonna have to find some real soon. That's almost the end of last year's haul.

OK... How about this..... 26 years ago when I worked at the Shell Station in Sturgeon, Gas was 45 cents a litre and Min wage was 3.85 an hour. Minimum Wage is now 10.25 an hour or 2.7 times as much as I got back then. If we multiply the price if gas then by 2.7 times we get the equivalent of $1.22 a litre now when using min wage as a comparison. So my point is that its not the cost of gas thats increased, (compared to wages) its everyones disposable income and the ability to pay for the gas amongst everything else we get dinged for thats the problem.

When I first started working, Minimum wage was 2.25. Back then a pack of smokes was 0.80. A mickey was 1.85, or 2.15 for good stuff. A loaf of bread was a dime.

Today, the pack of smokes is avg of 7.50. A regular mickey is 14.00, and a plain loaf of white bread from 1.99 to 3.00!!! a loaf. Against today's minimum wage, the working man's buying power has certainly shrunk. At McD's I still remember their boast of buying a meal and getting change back from a buck.

Both goverments need to work on this passport crap.After all,we are neighbors.

YOu know the old saying...."Fences make the best neighbours"

True story

 

I find it interesting that the US economy suffers along with ours and both our govenments are focused on fixing the US economy and no one is fucused on Canada. How can allowing Canadians to spend more money in a foreign country tax free help the Canadian economy in any way?

It doesn't

I'll bet you were one of them guys that used to love extra trips running the assault course.

Shimano does not have immunity from producing lemons. I've seen a lot of stradics fall apart in under a year as well.

I guess the problem is simply one of cutting costs as popularity and demand rise. As Pfleugers are now very popular, increased production usually results in less QC monitoring.

Same thing happened to Mitchell. Great reel until they moved production to the Pacific. They've produced nothing but disposable crap ever since.

who's was the third ...... lol .

Mine

Dashing through the snow.....

At the rate things are going I'll be back to driving a horse and buggy in 10 years time, Lew.

Great shots.

Hopefully, someone will give the cabbie a "gelding" as payment for the anguish caused.

Hard thing to live through, then be told it was a misunderstanding.

Depends on location. East or west of Toronto, Niagara?

Judging by the deafening silence, I gather Ontario anglers prefer to cower.

the trouble with ofah is that they have become a toothless organization IMO.

The OFAH is very careful about the fights they pick. They specialize more as a lobby group and stay out of open fights with government. In the 2 fights over resource management I have been a part of, the OFAH was advised and kept informed, but all the OFAH did was sit quietly and observe.

All the same, I asked the same question of the OFAH. Do we stand up or cower?

The point I am making is simple. The MNR is supposed to manage our resources, and also represent our resource interests with the DFO. The MNR has been continually gutted over the past 3 decades, thus they are less and less capable of fulfilling the mandate. Why else do you think CO's have almost become an endangered species.

Put simply it comes to this. We argue in circles, then meekly and quietly accept the losses, over and over again. Personally I think it's time to stand up and act or be quiet. We cannot always wait for a brave single individual to do all our fighting for us.

So we have all this discussion about safeguards to fisheries being removed, and the MNR being gutted, yet again.

As a few have mentioned it has to be made an issue. For that to happen, Queen's Park and the media needs to see a crowd of unhappy people at the doorstep before they take notice. Do we have what it takes here at OFC to make such a thing happen?

Letters to editors get buried. Letters to MPs and MPPs get ignored.

Besides burying our heads in the sand, what other alternatives do we have?

We have members from numerous different clubs, organizations and angler communities here to reach out to their groups to put more pressure to bear.

Make the environment an election issue... why can't folks wanting accountability for resource protection and stewardship.

Because most victims/the public don't like to admit they've been raped.

Funny thing is fishing for millions of salmon either commercially or running operations for recreational fisherman constitutes business too. Sustainable business, utilizing the definitive sustainable resource , massive salmon runs. I know it's happening I just can't fathom why our government's would pick a foreign agribusiness with a sketchy past, poor profitability and a minute employment base over a traditionally lucrative business run by some of Canada's wealthiest businessmen. Why would these businesses allow this to happen. I really don't get it.

Today's corporate business plan looks for quick profits. They do not see long term strategies. The same reason that most family businesses have sold out by the 3rd generation. They want the reward without the blood, sweat and tears, and really don't give a hoot about tomorrow, so they simply sell out.

Politically, as long as the party coffers are kept full, neither the Grits or Tories are going to care about the long term consequence.

Streamlining, downsizing, simplifying.... Sounds like more excuses for watering down environment and resource protection for the benefit of corporate interests/ More clearcut logging, pit mines, tailing ponds and quarries.

Does anyone know if you need the Harbour Licence if you are docked in Outer Harbour marina and are only going straight out into the lake from the docks and not into the inner harbour? It's a little unclear to me.

Area of jurisdiction extends from the eastern beaches to the Humber island area . All are part of the greater "Port" waters and require the harbour license.

Also back from them good ole days...

And my favourite.....

Here's the video.

I still remember, as part of the football team, streaking through the school dance with this playing.

Maybe some oil execs need to take a swim in their own ooze.

One time is an incident. No you should not trust the dog as if nothing had happened, but it is not enough to put the dog down. You need to reassert the rules and change the way you and the family behave with the dog so to modify the dog's behaviour.

If there is a second biting, well, you know what needs doing.

It is no easy thing to put a friend down, and I have been called a murderer by my children for putting down one of our dogs after repeat attacks.

There are no clear answers. Just do, what in your heart, is right.

Hybridization of sunfish stocks are a big business in the U.S., so it could also be an hybrid.

Even here in Ontario, hybrids of bluegill/pumpkinseed can get quite large.