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I started out with gulp attractant and i dont think it helped or hurt. Then i switched to berkleys scents and i really like the bass one, which i find works better for walleye then anything else lol. Imo they work but i think a lot of that is because it masks the scent on your hands. I can tell ya one thing, if you don't smoke you'll catch more fish. I really believe fish are turned off by that crap

...experience from Cuba...cigars and suntan lotion are repellents. You have to learn how to apply suntan lotion with one hand only.

I can't imagine the loss...so sorry to hear.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/senators-still-struggling-ticket-sales-season-opens/

 

Hundreds of tickets available minutes before puck drop on home opener... and 1500 plus covered by tarps.

Ottawa doesn't deserve a team...give it to Halifax! They would adore a NHL team.

That was a tight game at first...and then I was sort of busy so couldn't sense the flow of the game...and then it looked like shooting ducks in a barrel. I started feeling sorry for WInnipeg.

The thirty seconds of pike fishing was interesting as was the scenery!

If you have a bucket of marbles and 40 % of them are blue 20%green and 30 % red and the final !0 % are yellow. The quickest path to separating them is to remove the blue then red, green, and be left with the yellow. However when you are trying to just reduce the amount of marbles you will pick out the easiest ones to recognise which statistically are the red ones. We often apply this "logic" to life where we look for the solution that is the easiest path so we aim for the red marbles or the public masses who are least able to effectively mount a legal challenge. The logical solution is to go after the worst offenders and work your way back to the lesser offenders. This gives you the greatest bang for your efforts expended.

 

 

Art

( A beauty pie chart that illustrates where the original figures come from with three more pie charts )

The analogy about the marbles...it doesn't really work because choosing any single marble doesn't have a hope of being the "silver bullet" that solves the problem. There is no justification in picking only one solution. Electric cars and trucks doesn't solve global warming. You gotta deal with all of the marbles and each marble will likely require a different solution.

Now you can say then why are we dealing with the red marble because it doesn't solve anything and it costs those who don't have a lot of extra money? The answer is the answer my drunk friend once got from a bouncer in the bar where they wanted him to leave, "you can choose to do this now or the choice will be made for you with bruises".

I can't quantify it right this minute. We were told by a well renowned environmentalist by the name Suzuki that a cross country flight in a passenger jet airliner emits as much C02 as a modern integrated steel plant does in a month. Multiply that with the massive numbers of passenger jets in the air every minute of everyday. That was at an AISI conference I attended many years ago. We are all good stewards of our environment as long as it is convenient and economical.

I'm not sure of the validity of your comment because steel plants burn coal to get the heat needed to melt the iron. The comparison seems far fetched.

Looking at the graphs below aircraft make up about 3% of CO2 emissions (the second pie chart is an expansion of the transportation from the first pie chart) . Like electrical cars, things are being proposed to decrease aircraft emissions....but the easy target is coal fired electrical generation plants. See graph below.

The level of CO2 in modern vehicles has greatly improved....

 

How much of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are associated with electricity generation?

In 2016, emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by the U.S. electric power sector¹ were 1,821 million metric tons, or about 35% of the total U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions of 5,171 million metric tons.²

CO2 emissions from U.S. electric power sector by source, 2016

 

Source Million metric tons Share of total Coal 1,241 68% Natural gas 546 30% Petroleum 21 1% Other³ 12 <1% Total 1,821

 

• Electricity production (29 percent of 2015 greenhouse gas emissions) – Electricity production generates the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions. Approximately 67 percent of our electricity comes from burning fossil fuels, mostly coal and natural gas.2
• Transportation (27 percent of 2015 greenhouse gas emissions) – Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation primarily come from burning fossil fuel for our cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes. Over 90 percent of the fuel used for transportation is petroleum based, which includes gasoline and diesel.

 

If we believe a reduction in CO2 is necessary to save the world as we know it then any reduction is good.

Per capita we are right up there with the leading emitters of CO2 but if you look by country China easily eclipses our emissions. When the overall goal is to get every country to significantly reduce CO2 emissions I don't think we can go with the argument that we have lots of trees so we have done our part.

Your quoted facts are for the US, which energy production wise pollutes a lot more than Canada. Worse, Trump is pushing for the creation of more coal plants.

Ontario no longer has coal fired generating plants so our emissions are down significantly... which is a good thing and is a fine example for the rest of the world. If we understand that the possibility of rising global temperatures is a threat to the world as we know it, then China and the rest of the world will have to lower and eventually almost eliminate the dependency on a carbon based economy

(this graph is for Ontario)

It is a valid argument that there are better targets then cars/trucks to reduce emissions ...like coal fired electrical generating plants. Canada has about 15 of them with most of them in the west. Compare that with 500 in the US and about 2000 in China.

To end on a positive note, the world focus on CO2 emissions has drastically cut into the production of new coal plants in India and China.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/coal-power-plants-green-energy-china-india

Very cool

I think this will have a worse showing as the new E VW mini bus. The idea that E vehicles are emission free bugs me since they really aren't.They are using electricity that has it's own emissions issues just out of sight out of mine i guess.

 

 

Art

Scientists in the field state the issue is the probable catastrophic and lasting damage to our civilization caused by global warming. The solution is less CO2 in the atmosphere which means a reduction in world wide CO2 production. If the electricity for your electric car is produced by nuclear energy, solar, or wind...there will be a major overall reduction in CO2 pollution that your car will produce compared to a combustion engine. I'd hazard a guess that even electricity produced by natural gas generators for a electric car creates less CO2 then a combustion engine.

Targeting fish out of season isn't the same as forgetting your license at home. One is on purpose, the other is an accident.

Couldn't both be accidental or on purpose?

1) You are not sure where your license is but think it must be in your home...so you fish anyways thinking you could produce it if you had too.

2) You fish bass out of season catch one, move much deeper into weeds and catch another.

I never thought of that, but yeah, great idea, totally makes sense in this age of social media, why not. I hope an MNR guy or CO is reading this thread. It wouldn't cost much time or money to have the offenders names and offences posted online.

 

There is an MNR busted guys page for Ontario but they only post the big busts.

So you want it all reported?... anyone catching bass out of season or anyone who forgot to have their license with them? I think they have it right now....I wouldn't mind increased fines and if the fishing community thinks that poaching is a real problem to have more MNR officers hired.

I respectfully disagree that those most or secondmost charged with fishing (or hunting) violations are from a couple of cultures. There are quite a few Canadian sounding names in the reports in the link below.

 

http://mnrwatch.com/category/offenses/

 

Jon

Last names only on those charged from the website above: Slough, McCormick, Mr. and Mrs Terry, Galliott, Gauthier, four US fishermen from the north central US, O’Kelly, Welsh, The Funks, Marr, Zhang, Mihailovic, Martin, Lui, Yu, Wen He, Wu, and Luu.

While I have seen "white bucket" fishing there is nothing that makes this illegal. Generally they fish in groups which would allow for larger catch limits. It is their right to keep as many fish as their license allows. The only poaching I have ever directly witnessed was by a older Polish immigrant and twice I have seen American tourists at fishing camps filling coolers with excess fillets destined for the freezer.

Isn't it racist to unfairly single out certain ethnic groups only when it comes to poaching?

why in the heck is there such a double standard when it comes to these guys vs others?? is it because they are white canadians that should know better?

 

these fines are slightly closer to what should be charged against these A holes...but the last story I heard the white bucket brigade was out in the kawarthas fishing without licenses in a fish sanctuary keeping out of season fish and they got like a $500 fine...what a joke.

Any links to actual news stories about the reverse discrimination being proposed here? ie ...White folks being nailed to the cross and other groups handled with kid gloves by all Conservation Officers. It's got the makings of a conspiracy theory!!!

Drifter you live in the town of Yellowknife? I actually bumped into Moosebunk in Yellowknife on his way out from up north. If there is better pike waters then Talston I'd like to fish it. This place is remarkable for the amount of 33 inch plus fish per km. At other spots I have known large pike to gather in strategic ambush spots under specific conditions...but just the amount of large Pike that blanket this area is pretty remarkable.

Catching a 50 inch fish there is not uncommon and happens every season from what I saw looking at the records. In our group of 6 we had 4 pike at 46 inches to 48 inches for the week...and that was below the average of other weeks. I think there have been a few 51, 52 inch pike caught over the years and I saw a pic one of these chunky fish that absolutely had to be 50 plus inches.

This was a lodge I had looked at for many years but balked at going to because of the price. Come retirement it was now or never. So off I went solo and as luck would have it the 5 other guys there were a great group of guys. Where is this lodge? Great Slave Lake in the NWT.


One thing that sort of kept me away was the bravado of the website. I guess if you got it flaunt it but it seemed like they could be overselling there product and that was a personal red flag for me. Talking to them personally I was told for a 1st timer I'd boat at least thirty 40 inch pike. I doubted that and they seemed incredulous. Yet there I was on the first day and on my first cast...a 37 inch pike. Hello Talston!


I partnered up with "Doc". For the most part he used a muskie killer in black and silver. For an older man he was a machine until he broke down the last two days of the trip. He would fish right up to the last minute. His break would be to sit down to cast and he only changed lures when I started catching more then him!!


This Len Thompson #4 was the one go to lure for me. When coming to a new spot I'd throw it first, when the action slowed I'd put it on. For sure I was under armed. I had brought stuff for all possibilities but most was for late spring fishing. I mainly fished my big stuff off the bat and that which wasn't big I made bigger with plastic. Later in the trip I was buying or trading for bigger lures. **Hint** - bring premium beer on a trip, it never loses it's value!


That first day Doc got several trophies in the low 40s. For the most part we were just blindly casting over weeds. I got a 40 but Doc had trouble working my camera so no pic. The action was steady and I became the king of 33-38 inch pike. I seemed to be able to draw them out at will. Since I followed Doc's lead on robo casting we never really were not into big fish....when it got hot we trolled. It was the sort of trip that when one of us were flagging and trying goof lures the other continued. Soon we were back into fish and the other person switched back to a good lure. I took a break from night fishing that first day but heard the others got into several trophies including a mid 40 inch fish.


Most of our fishing took place within this photo because other spots were too shallow or the weeds were mostly all dead. Why is the fishing so good? Limited exposure. Most weeks don't have more than 8 people there and I hear few fish July. Weeds and reeds seemed to be everywhere. As limited as the spots we did fish, I wondered what other off season areas would have produced. The few times we strayed into other areas the fishing wasn't as good.


Day two saw the big lake whipped up with heavy winds so we went up river. Not a lot of fish were caught for the pounding we gave those areas but a few trophies were caught.

It was the night fishing of "beautiful chaos" that I will always remember.


The night started out with the most beautiful sunset that seemed to stretch out forever and then transitioned into a full moon with northern lights...but as it got darker the action picked up dramatically and unlike the day most of the fish were trophies.


"Bullwinkle" hooked into a beaut but we had little time to admire it. We ourselves had just hooked into a double with a 40 and a 41 incher with crossed lines. All three fish were caught within a few dozen yards of each other. And the PANIC never let up because the action continued but now we had deal with these sharp toothed slabs in the dark. There never really was a full minute to sit down and exhale because another fish was on.


Doc caught his biggest fish of the trip that night. We never got a good pic of it or a measurement because it was deep hooked and needed a lot of revival time after being out of water extra long. When she perked up Doc was tired and was happy enough that it swum away. I'd very conservatively put that fish at 45 inches.


As the days went on the others were doing well. Paul topped out at 46 inches and he had a number of trophies.


The father son team of Rocky and Bullwinkle did very well. Rocky topped out at 45 inches also.


He was competing with his son but couldn't keep up to him.


He caught several mid 40 fish with the best being 47 inches long.


He wrote me later, Rocky and I totaled 51 trophies which was down from our last trip up. It was a "hot" week. The daily average temperature is supposed to be 12 but it never got anywhere near that cold. We were into the low to mid-20's some days and even wore shorts some days. On those hot days heat definitely slowed down fishing.


I was the laggard of the group with my best being 43 inches.


I made a few rookie mistakes also all which call for another shot down the road.


It just seemed to be one of those trips where I had the opportunities but couldn't cash in. All in all I probably caught about ten 40 inch or higher fish. Well short of the prediction but still the fishing was remarkable.


That number is inconclusive because on that last night of fishing Doc and I were after personal bests. At the start of the night we wouldn't pull anything out of the water that looked to be around 40 inches.


Doug had a slow start as I did but really poured it on towards the end of the trip.


Doug hamming it up.


Not the longest fish of the week but by far the chunkiest.


Overall impression

This is not your typical flyin. First the cost is significant but it has to be for it's location. Don't come expecting anything to be high end...in fact, it is remarkably informal. A few regulars help promote the place and it has a loyal following. You give nothing up on meals for the excellent fishing. Accommodations are decent with three rooms that could sleep 4 each although only one is best suited for 4. This is one fishing lodge where you do actually come back for lunch because you rarely will be more then 5 minutes away. The relative area normally fished is unusually small, basically the extended river mouth. Having said that it is amazing how many large and trophy pike are packed in that area. We saw no other species of fish although walleye is there other times of the year and whitefish also. You don't come here for any other reason but to fish pike although I hear the walleye fishing can be good when they come in. There is decent Lake Trout fishing about an hour away at extra charge and extra risk to your life in that you will have to cross open water! It sounds like few ever take that side trip.

Three days from retirement and I was physically sighing reading the report. It was enough to put my mind at peace tonight. I will dream of of those spec patterns and that behemoth Nipigon that I had briefly explored 10 years ago!

There should be a warning sign on typed reports for the smartphone generation:This fishing report has words on it!

Alas this is not my own original joke.

https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/TimThomas-11.jpg

I'm not sure how old the roof is. I'd guess 10ish years.
- the one pic is of the south side so it is the most weathered and probably looked less weathered pre-wind storm.

- the roofer said three sides were damaged and he filled a report. I looked and saw no tiles missing on the third side but some tiles look tweaked. It's hard to describe but just don't sitting flat.
- the hope is that they would pay for two sides which would cover about 40% to get it redone. They are offering $1500 for the one side only

- I can't remember once hearing if one tile is ripped of one side of the roof that whole side should be replaced. To offer nothing for that side doesn't seem right.

I have Intact insurance. As you can see in the pics above we had wind damage to our roof on the west and south side in a March windstorm. Three months later I've finally been given the name and number of an insurance adjuster from Intact.

Naively I didn't pay too much attention to the situation. Someone was going to come and assess the roof, a roofing company was going to file a report and give it the insurance company. He thought a money from the insurance claim would pay for most of the cost of replacing the whole roof.

The claim was given to Cunningham Lindsey by Intact Insurance which, "is a global loss adjusting, claims, management, and risk solutions firm". https://www.cunninghamlindsey.com/global/

They outsourced the assessment to an independent contractor who my roofer believed, "wasn't qualified to assess roof damage". To make a long story short the independent assessor has come out several times but couldn't find the secondary damage. After sending pictures CL has budged from, "we are not sure if there is secondary damage on another side of the roof" to the secondary damage can be "patched up" but they will only pay for the damage on the one side.

I'd be interested to hear if I do have a case that the 2nd side of the roof should be covered and if anyone else has experience with this new style of "insulated" insurance claims.

OI! They will never legislate packaging! ...IT's a cycle we can't get out of.

 

Packaging is regulated in several countries in Europe. When you live in a small landmass it's remarkable what you can do. Not one tree grows wild in a forest in Germany. All forests are harvested continuously one small section at a time. Anything can be done if there is a need and the nation is behind it.

I work in the industry and will tell you outright, the reason garbage is getting so expensive is that they are forcing your hand to recycle. The large majority of packaging and printed paper materials are recyclable, and your food waste is entirely compostable.

 

The idea is that it is to encourage you to recycle, not throw trash into a ditch...Because if you are that type of person it doesnt matter if the bag of garbage costs 20 or 100 dollars to dispose of, you are still going to throw it in the ditch.

 

Recycling is always free because the material has value. Municipalities are maximizing the amount of recyclables that they can collect because they can then in turn bail it and sell it.

As I understand it also recycling is monetized. Perhaps at first when recycling was new some of this material went into the landfill because no market had developed, but it would be an urban myth that a large part of our recycling goes into the landfill anyways.

Garbage is getting expensive because averting it is expensive. New landfills with massive liners are expensive and it's questionable if landfills are the way to go forwards anyways. No one wants a new landfill in their backyard. NIMBY.

Old landfills are a serious problem because some had no liners and the issue of contamination wasn't even a design issue back then. Basically find a depression near your town and that is the landfill, those spots chosen were some of the worst locations possible. Doing without knowledge or planning always has consequences.

New landfills claim their liners are leak proof but are only as good as the design and installation of the liner. All liners are designed to leak because they are not designed to last forever. They work only as long as leachate is pumped out of the out of the landfill. Companies that run landfills are only responsible for these pumps for a set period of time at which point in theory the contaminants have been neutralized. The leachate pumps can then be turned off a few decades after a dump closes. As soon as the pumps stop the soil within the dump becomes waterlogged like a massive diaper. The shear weight of the rainwater and groundwater getting into a closed landfill will tear all liners over time. The long term goal is simply to minimize contamination. The whole issue is very complicated but over time best practices have greatly improved the environmental consequences of what we did in the past.

Easiest of all to do is to whine and complain. I'm actually impressed this time around by how well informed a majority of the posters are.

Misleading title, you might have also called it, Remains of Franklin's lost crew found on Pike trip to Napken Lake, on the James Bay Lowlands, report LOL

In Kipawa old school is with sutton spoons, they work

I thought it was a good game...very competitive all the way through