MJIG

http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?playlistId=1.3704992

 

These appear to be on sale again today using the link in the original post, 45% off. 

I went through a three day outage a few years back in May. Prior to the event I had gone for the most economical generator I could find. Having been through it now, I can tell you the following:

- Dont discount what people are saying about the noise. It was very, very annoying by the second night having a noisy engine running outside your house and it impacted our sleep. The quieter the model, the better you and your neighbors will sleep.

- You will need to have Jerry cans of fuel on site and if the fuel capacity on the generator is too low, you will have to set an alarm to get up and fill it before my morning. Not fun, but better than losing a freezer full of food.

- You wont be able to find the model you want anywhere near you following a local event, so make your purchase when the weather is nice, the forecast is good, and stocks are available.

- Get your good quality extension cords of suitable length that youll need at the same time you purchase your generator and know where you are keeping them.

- I dont know if anyone mentioned sump pumps, but thats another thing you may want to power if you have one, especially since the power-loss event may have also been a heavy rain event.

Very sorry hearing this.

Arent there alternative ways of constructing ladders so that the steps and pools maintain a certain depth of water in the case of a situation where the flow stops?

Looks like the water is starting to recede.

Seems there are now some vehicles with prop marks on their roofs!!!!

 

With prop marks probably being just one of those vehicle's many problems, is there a way to properly salvage a submerged vehicle so that it will actually run again? I've wondered the same thing about vehicles that have dropped through the ice, or got stuck around the lower Don after a severe thunderstorm.

 

I'm trying to wrap my tired old brain around this, why would looking at the sun during an eclipse be any worse for your eyes than looking at it on a normal clear day?

It wouldn't, but there's normally nothing going on to make some people want to fix their gaze there. People are curious, and curiosity leads to risk-taking.

 

In the path of totality during the eclipse (not in Canada this time) it will actually become fairly dark during totality and your pupils will dilate in the darkness. If you aren't careful with the timing, the sun is then going to instantly pop back into view from behind the moon, and you can certainly experience eye damage under those conditions.

The path of totality nearest to us will be from Nashville over to South Carolina. It will actually get dark like night there for a couple of minutes.

 

Around here, where it will be a partial eclipse, an approaching dark thunderstorm probably has a more dramatic effect on the fishing. Please do let us know if you notice any change though.

 

Another cool one I remember having was a small, native catfish called a Tadpole Madtom.

I grabbed a madtom once while catching minnows as a teenager. That was the most painful spine jab I ever received, way worse than that from a bullhead. Ouch.

I'm not sure about the rainfall amount ( it poured ) but each successive lightning overlapped the previous one, so the thunder was non stop for about 40 minutes. That was in the Kawarthas.

It's called oblivious to your surroundings and events. Some drivers are just plain brain dead.

 

 

Yes, this ^

 

More and more of them all the time. Drives me crazy!!

 

S.

 

Philosophical thought: What if we are all becoming like that and only the person trying to get our attention knows about it? None of us would know because we'd be...um...oblivious.

This has been hashed out here before:

http://ontariofishingcommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=63600

The water is chilly: between 8 and 11 C most places I checked today. The good news is that means the best is yet to come, likely.

very cool! Which drone did you get?

 

http://ontariofishingcommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83987

That is what I am afraid of. Also places to launch. If anyone is going up this weekend let me know how things are.

 

In the current rainfall warning for Peterborough (available at the time of writing here: http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?on8#142333685242956370201705040503ww1171cwto)

Come to think of it last year I was fishing for walleye one night after work and one of the walleye spat up a stickleback. Maybe those little guys aren't such a bad walleye bait!

 

For your reading enjoyment:

http://fishlab.ucdavis.edu/2009/04/10/stickleblog-spines-hurt-according-to-predators/

I'm pretty sure I saw a walleye with a lamprey attached this morning. I don't think I've every seen that on a walleye before.

There's some hefty female walleye passing by on the live Wolf River fish cam this morning, so spring has definitely arrived there.

 

http://www.wolfrivercam.com/wrc20171a_002.htm

 

Others:

http://www.wolfrivercam.com/

 

 

I find it strange how many people ask the reason the boat is for sale?

 

I think some people ask to try and gauge the amount of pressure the seller is under, or how urgent it is that they make the sale. That way, they hope to get a feel for how likely it is that a counter-offer will be accepted.

What jumped into my mind was that you could set up a line in that gap between the disk and the rest of the lake and troll a lure.

• Without your name, address and phone number marked on the drone itself.

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Put my name/adress/telephone # on it.....are you kidding me? Now any psycho conspiracy theorist ( not you Manitou .....lol) who finds my drone will be at my door step claiming I was stalking them....guess what loser.....fish and scenery are far more interesting to me. At least with an anonymous registration system (not required here in Canada) if someone finds my drone they contact the authorities and the authorities contact me...BUFFER ZONE DUDE!

 

A similar rule is in place for a minnow trap which requires "license holder's name and address." Since you have to have a recreational fishing license to legally trap bait, I don't know why they just don't require the license # on the trap, rather than force people to place personal information there.

 

If drone's don't require a license/registration, then there is no cross-reference database to identify the owner the way there is for a fishing license. On the other hand, if a license/registration were required, no doubt it would cost money. Drones probably don't have a heritage argument going for them against license or registration.

So you are stating that during regular / open season that walleye are closed on the Sturgeon Lake side of the lock in Lindsay?

 

No, I'm not stating that and I made no mention of Sturgeon Lake at all, only Scugog.

 

Regulations: "Lake Scugog, including waters south of Highway 7A, Blackstock Creek, Nonquon River; as well as the Scugog River to the Trent Severn Dam in Lindsay, Mariposa Brook and East Cross Creek. - Walleye Closed All Year"

 

Sturgeon Lake is below (downstream of) the dam in Lindsay and the Scugog River flows from Lake Scugog to Sturgeon Lake.

 

The Scugog River on the Sturgeon Lake (downstream) side of the Lock in Lindsay, however, is closed for an extra week beyond the regular open season for walleye in Zone 17. That fish sanctuary doesn't open until the 3rd Saturday in May.

 

Do your own due diligence in checking the regulations.

I can't help but wonder about boundaries for a year round closed season exception such as this. Will the Nonquon River be included, or East and West Cross Creeks? How about the Scugog River between Scugog Lake to areas above the dam in Lindsay?

 

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but the 2017 regulations have cleared this up.

"Lake Scugog, including waters south of Highway 7A, Blackstock Creek, Nonquon River; as well as the Scugog River to the Trent Severn Dam in Lindsay, Mariposa Brook and East Cross Creek. - Walleye Closed All Year"

 

People were witnessed catching and keeping walleye in 2016 at three locations that have now been clarified as closed for walleye fishing in 2017: Above the dam in Lindsay, underneath the "iron bridge" in Lindsay, and at the Cross Creek bridge south of Lindsay on River Road (East Cross Creek).

The 2017 regulations are more explicit on what areas are included in the "Closed All Year" walleye closure. The regulations now state "Lake Scugog, including waters south of Highway 7A, Blackstock Creek, Nonquon River; as well as the Scugog River to the Trent Severn Dam in Lindsay, Mariposa Brook and East Cross Creek."

 

The baseboard heating really does put it out of reach for the common man!

 

What do you figure...about $682,000.00 to insulate, install duct work and convert to gas?