John Bacon

I don't think any of the sport fishing laws apply to store bought fish. You can posses as many store bought fish as you want... limits and season only apply to the fish that you catch yourself. You are correct, rainbow and steelhead are the same species. Steelhead is usually used to refer to migratory fish while rainbow trout refers to non-migratory fish. You would need a pretty big farm to have a migratory farmed fish.

I like to keepp two casting lengths between me and another boat. That way we both cast in any direction without or lines tangling.

Will you be there during a weekday? If so, drop by the MNR office and get a stocking list. Splake are a put and take fishery; of the lake isn't stocked then it doesn't have splake.

I don't have specifics on 'stray rates' for salmon. I would assume that stocked fish are more likely to stray than naturals. The stocked fish have spent more time in the hatchery than the river they are stocked in. That is just my opinion though, not based on any study.

I guess you didn't watch the video...

The site for Hamilton is listed as the Burlington Canal. I assume that either is, or is close to the the Skyway Pier. I guess they would search for near by creeks and rivers when they don't find suitable spawning habitat there.

Isn't BMW German? Wasn't Volkswagon the first to use fuel injection? I believe ABS brakes were also introduced by German companies. Regardless of who invented most of the modern features on new automobiles, the Japanese companies to seem to be way ahead of the north american companies when it comes to assembling them into a vehicle that doesn't contantly need to be repaired. That is probably why Toyota is now selling more vehicles than GM.

MEA stands for Metro East Anglers. We have operated the Ringwood Hatchery for the last five years and were responsible for all of the Chinook and coho stocking on the Canadian side of Lake Ontario. MNR will now be taking over the Chinook stocking. MEA plans to continue operations of Ringwood hatchery on a smaller scale. The details are still being ironed out. The future plan for MEA is to raise coho, browns, and rainbows out of Ringwood. Other species may be added in the future. Metro East Anglers also assists MNR in the operation of the fish way at the Milne Dam. In the past Metro East Anglers has raised rainbows, browns, atlantics, and some Chinook and coho out of a small hatchery on Parkview golf course. It was Metro East Anglers who revived the coho stocking program for Lake Ontario after the MNR ceased stocking of cohos.

Yes, the Americans are clipping their fish as well.

Starting with the spring of 2008, all Chinook stocked into the Lake Ontario watershed have their adipose fin clipped. Theoretically all stocked fish in Lake Ontario should have had their adipose fin clipped; while natural salmon would have an intact adipose fin. The fish stocked in the spring of 2008 were from eggs collected in 2007. The normal life cycle for Chinooks is four years so any salmon stocked prior to 2008 should have already spawned. One thing we at MEA learned last year was that most of the males spawned after three years. And I am not referring to Jacks. Last year when we collected eggs from the credit, the males were clipped (ie stocked in 2008 or later) while the females were unclipped (stocked prior to 2008). It is possible that some fish will spawn on a 5 year cycle. We didn't know about the 3 year cycle for males until last year... so who knows what else we don't know. I wasn't involved in the egg collection this year but I understand that the vast majority of fish in the credit were clipped. So there doesn't appear to be significant number of 5 year old fish in the credit. In summary, you should be able to determine if the fish are stocked or not by checking to see if they have an adipose fin. The adipose fin the small fin located just in front of the tail on the top of the fish. Many of the the Chinook salmon are stocked directly into Lake Ontario and there has been a significant increase in pen reared salmon in recent years. These fish would not have a 'home' river to return to, and may seek other rivers to spawn. Stocking sites, and the number of fish stocked in each site has remained mostly constant over the years. However, in some cases extra fish are stocked at the mouth of the Niagara to make up for short falls on the U.S. side. The main change in stocking has been an increase in pen projects. The pens are located near the previous sites but pen reared fish are believed to have better survival rates and a stronger urge to return to the same area. These factors could account for an increase in particular rivers. Weather can also account for changes. Rainfall and water temperatures will impact the timing and size of runs in the fall. Favourable conditions can impact the survival rate of fish in the spring. I suspect that natural salmon would be subject to greater variations in numbers from year to year. I hope this helps.

The protest thread remined me of this... The Stockbroker Goodman was a moderately successful stockbroker who dreamed of making the big money someday. He took his friend out for a drive, and he chose the route carefully in order to impress on him the possibilities of the brokerage business. "Look at that yacht," he said as they drove slowly past a marina. "That belongs to the senior partner at Merrill Lynch. The head of Goldman, Sachs, owns that one over there. And look at that huge yacht out there. That's the pride and joy of the top seller at Prudential-Bache." His friend was silent. Goodman turned to look at him and saw a pained look on his face. "What's the matter?" Goodman asked. "I was just wondering," his friend said, "why there aren't there any customers' yachts?"

There was a list of the 10 worst vehicles on Rogers home page a while back. The Nissan Titan was the loan entry from any of the Japanese companies. I have never owned one myself so I don't have any personal experience to comment on.

I hope you do catch some. I live right by Port Union as well so I would love to hear about fish being caught there.

Are you referring to the area by Port Union Rd.? I have tried casting off the rock piers a couple of times. No, luck; but that doesn't mean they aren' there. To the best of my knowledge there is not significant muskie population between Hamilton and Oshawa. I have heard of muskies in the area but not in numbers worth targetting. Pike, bass, trout and salmon are possible. Highland creek is stocked with Chinook. the Rough is stocked with rainbows and browns.

There is a side consol version of that boat in the OFC classifieds right now. I do have the side consol version and I am very happy with it.

Actually I think they all have nitrogen in them... well 78% nitrogen anyway

The credit is still stocked with Coho's. This is through MEA, not the MNR. At this point we do not have permission to stock other rivers.

If that is true then when my tire lost pressure would it be because the oxygen leaked out... and the nitrogen would still remain? If so, would the nitrogen content increase and approach 100% as I continnually replaced the lost oxygen content with and 80/20 nitrogen/oxygen mixture? That would be cheaper than actually paying for the nitrogen. Just asking.

My son was in marial arts for several years and attained a green belt in Karate and in Nerkin Ouj before he lost interest. I would recommend visiting a few locations and speaking to the instructors. It is quite likely that you can get a free lesson or two. See which intructors you feel most comfortable with. I think the overall approach and philosophy of the instructor is more important than the specific style that they teach.

Thanks, the 235-70-15 may be standard on a base Jimmy. I have the off road package; the 265-75-15's that I am running now are the original tires. I assume that the speedometer would set accordingly. I tried checking Costco on line and they didn't list 265-75-15's... I may try dropping by the store to see if they stock more sizes.

I will be replacing the tires on my GMC Jimmy soon. One dealer that I have emailed is recommending Dean Wildcat A/T tires at $153/tire installed (P265 75R15). I had not previously heard of Dean tires before. I beleive they are made by Cooper. Is anybody familiar with these tires? Are they a good tire? Is the price reasonable? I have a GMC Jimmy, most of my driving will be on pavement but I do like to go off road once in a while. Are there any particular tires that anyone can suggest?

Yes, absolutely, definitely, go through insurance... do think the other drive is going to pay your girl friend's salary if she has to take time of work? Also best to report the accident as soon as possible when it is clearly the other drivers fault. Also, there is no 24 hour period for reporting an accident. It must be reported right away.

Have you filed a police report? Do you have collision insurance? This sounds like a major repair, you may want to consider going through insurance.

I understand that their eyes were larger and more upward looking. They didn't have the white tips. But they were smaller than 'yellow' walleye so a 5-6 pounder may be too large to be a true blue walleye. Could it have been a saugeye?