John Bacon

Get a pet civet. Feed the beens to it and pick them out of it's excrement. People pay BIG bucks for that. Believe it or not, I am not kidding. That really is considered the best coffee by many.

No to mention that the hoop that holds the mesh will still be visable in the water.

My 1994 cable steer Minn Kota has served me well. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one.

I think after you catch the exact same fish that way eight times in six different lakes in two different provinces it becomes legal. Last I saw of that fish my niece's boy friend showed me an email with pictures of the new Ontario record pike from Rainy Lake. Too bad he is not hear to see this thread.

Do you have a neutral on your motor? The prop won't smack it if the engine is not in gear. As for placement; they muffs need to cover the water intakes in order to function. Make sure that water is coming out of the tell tale hole on the motor so that you can be sure that you are getting water trough the pump.

I have never purchased a refurbished fish finder; but I did get a few years of use out of a refurbished scanner.

I'll second both of your points. One time Barkley's actually wrapped by brother's line around the spool backwards. Reeling in would remove the line from the spool instead of putting it on. So the tackle shops are certainly not infallible. I have also had a lot of success removing twists by trolling a line with out any tackle behind the boat for a couple of minutes. One helpful tip to avoid loops on your line is to point your rod toward your lure after a cast, then reel in only enough to trip your bail (or flip it by hand as Zib suggested) then snap your rod back as if you are setting the hook before you begin your retrieve. This will tighten the line and remove any loops before you reel them onto your spool.

The production of Hydrogen without creating carbon emissions requires large amounts of electricity. Wind and solar power have their place; but I doubt that they can meet our current needs and have enough left over to generate our hydrogen requirements. Nuclear power could be the answer, but nobody seems to want to have any nuclear plants built.

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There's not a whole lot you can do when you have a McCabe's type salary tied up in McCabe quality player in a salary capped league. That's one of several contracts that have screwed the team for a long time to come.

Creating a lot less carbon output than Gore for onething. The guy's house uses 20 times the amount of electricity than the average American house. He owns a private jet. And he goes around telling everybody else that they need to reduce their carbon footprint on the world. He spoke out against the Kyoto accord while he vice president. The government failed to make significant reductions to carbon output while he was vice president. Now he tells other governments that they need to do something about carbon outputs. Its the hypocrisy of the guy that bothers me.

Clockwise when viewed from above; counter clockwise when viewed from below.

That doesn't sound right. Wouldn't they have to have a lien on the boat in order to take possession of it for unpaid bills. I wouldn't expect a marina to have a lien on the boats that are stored or repaired there. I am not sure what the boat is worth, but the story sounds a little suspect.

Where is proof that it is ", defenitely not a bear"? The quality of the video is way too poor to rule out a bear, a human (he wouldn't even need a costume for a video of this quality)... it could even be squirrel. If he studied them so much and repeatedly show that his methods are scientifically repeatable, or something to that effect, shouldn't he have something better than this to show us?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/844435/steph...bert_vs_canada/

6 die from brain-eating amoeba in lakes By CHRIS KAHN, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 28, 2:18 PM ET PHOENIX - It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it's killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future. "This is definitely something we need to track," said Michael Beach, a specialist in recreational waterborne illnesses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better," Beach said. "In future decades, as temperatures rise, we'd expect to see more cases." According to the CDC, the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri (nuh-GLEER-ee-uh FOWL'-erh-eye) killed 23 people in the United States, from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials noticed a spike with six cases — three in Florida, two in Texas and one in Arizona. The CDC knows of only several hundred cases worldwide since its discovery in Australia in the 1960s. In Arizona, David Evans said nobody knew his son, Aaron, was infected with the amoeba until after the 14-year-old died on Sept. 17. At first, the teen seemed to be suffering from nothing more than a headache. "We didn't know," Evans said. "And here I am: I come home and I'm burying him." After doing more tests, doctors said Aaron probably picked up the amoeba a week before while swimming in the balmy shallows of Lake Havasu, a popular man-made lake on the Colorado River between Arizona and California. Though infections tend to be found in southern states, Naegleria lives almost everywhere in lakes, hot springs, even dirty swimming pools, grazing off algae and bacteria in the sediment. Beach said people become infected when they wade through shallow water and stir up the bottom. If someone allows water to shoot up the nose — say, by doing a somersault in chest-deep water — the amoeba can latch onto the olfactory nerve. The amoeba destroys tissue as it makes its way up into the brain, where it continues the damage, "basically feeding on the brain cells," Beach said. People who are infected tend to complain of a stiff neck, headaches and fevers. In the later stages, they'll show signs of brain damage such as hallucinations and behavioral changes, he said. Once infected, most people have little chance of survival. Some drugs have stopped the amoeba in lab experiments, but people who have been attacked rarely survive, Beach said. "Usually, from initial exposure it's fatal within two weeks," he said. Researchers still have much to learn about Naegleria. They don't know why, for example, children are more likely to be infected, and boys are more often victims than girls. "Boys tend to have more boisterous activities (in water), but we're not clear," Beach said. In central Florida, authorities started an amoeba phone hot line advising people to avoid warm, standing water and areas with algae blooms. Texas health officials also have issued warnings. People "seem to think that everything can be made safe, including any river, any creek, but that's just not the case," said Doug McBride, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services. Officials in the town of Lake Havasu City are discussing whether to take action. "Some folks think we should be putting up signs. Some people think we should close the lake," city spokesman Charlie Cassens said. Beach cautioned that people shouldn't panic about the dangers of the brain-eating bug. Cases are still extremely rare considering the number of people swimming in lakes. The easiest way to prevent infection, Beach said, is to use nose clips when swimming or diving in fresh water. "You'd have to have water going way up in your nose to begin with" to be infected, he said. David Evans has tried to learn as much as possible about the amoeba over the past month. But it still doesn't make much sense to him. His family had gone to Lake Havasu countless times. Have people always been in danger? Did city officials know about the amoeba? Can they do anything to kill them off? Evans lives within eyesight of the lake. Temperatures hover in the triple digits all summer, and like almost everyone else in this desert region, the Evanses look to the lake to cool off. It was on David Evans' birthday Sept. 8 that he brought Aaron, his other two children, and his parents to Lake Havasu. They ate sandwiches and spent a few hours splashing around. "For a week, everything was fine," Evans said. Then Aaron got the headache that wouldn't go away. At the hospital, doctors first suspected meningitis. Aaron was rushed to another hospital in Las Vegas. "He asked me at one time, 'Can I die from this?'" David Evans said. "We said, 'No, no.'" On Sept. 17, Aaron stopped breathing as his father held him in his arms. "He was brain dead," Evans said. Only later did doctors and the CDC determine that the boy had been infected with Naegleria. "My kids won't ever swim on Lake Havasu again," he said. ___ On the Net: More on the N. fowleri amoeba: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/na...gleria.htm#what

You would need to be able to predict the future to be certain whether it will save you money. Most of the agents have been trying to sign me up at fixed rates around $0.40 while the floating rate has been around the $0.30 rate for quite some time. I definitely won by not signing up for a fixed rate for the last few years. That doesn't mean that the floating rate will be the better option for the next five years. However, if I was a betting man, I would put my money on the floating rate saving you money. As Corn Nug pointed out; these companies don't plan on saving you money. They expect the floating rate to be lower than the fixed rate so that they can make a profit. If the floating rate rises above the fixed rate, then they lose. Also, be sure to read the fine print. When hydro rates were deregulated a few years ago many customers on fixed rates saw there costs rise along with the people on variable rates ... it turned out that the fixed rate didn't apply to electricity that had to be imported from the US. Who knows how many other loopholes are out there for them to exploit.

Making people from southern Ontario wash their boats; or making people from Alabama and Tennessee take a bath?

My understanding is that the hulls are made in the USA by SmokerCraft and only the trim is added in Canada. If buying Canadian is a priority then I would suggest MistyRiver. PrinceCraft is also made in Canada but they are American owned.

Metro East Anglers has taken over the raising and stocking of Chinook salmon from the MNR. We stock both directly into Lake Ontario and into the rivers. To the best of my knowledge, this has not changed from when the MNR did the stocking. Only salmon that are involved in the pen rearing study are clipped. This is only a small percentage of the total Chinook stocked so this should not have a significant impact on the total results. As far as the size of salmon, fewer salmon stocked should result in large salmon because there would be more food per fish. The MNR limits the number of fish stocked in order to avoid depleting the population of bait fish leading to a collapse of the fishery. Invasive species can definitely impact the Alewife population which controls the growth rates of salmon. Weather conditions will also impact the growth rates.

Keep in mind that since four strokes have only recently become popular, most four stroke are quite new while many people are driving two strokes that are over 20 years old. I think that we need to wait another 10 or 15 years before we can make a fair comparison in the long term reliability of four stroke versus two stroke motors. Especially for the larger horsepower motors, which haven't been available too long.

I'll second the recommendation for Alumacraft. Mine has served me well for close to 15 years now.

Interesting techniques http://www.metacafe.com/watch/814516/bunge...ept_on_fishing/

I honestly do believe that John Tory is different than the other politicians. He's got my vote.

You cannot rely on fin clips to determine if a fish is stocked or not. I am not familiar the clipping practises on Georgian Bay; but very few of the fish stocked into Lake Ontario are clipped. For Chinook salmon, only salmon involved in pen rearing projects are clipped. Metro East Anglers do not clip any of the browns, bows, or atlantics that we stock. I am not sure if CRAA clips any of the fish they stock. By no means does a lack of a fin clipping mean that a fish didn't come from a hatchery. I don't believe that there is significant reproduction of coho in Lake Ontario. When coho stocking has been suspended, people stopped catching coho's. Had there been natural reproduction, there would still have been significant numbers of coho caught if they had been reproducing on their own. Rainbows definitely do reproduce on their own. Duffins Creek for example is not stocked but receives strong runs of rainbows. I am not sure how much natural reproduction of Chinook occurs; but there is definitely some. Smolts have been found exiting rivers that have not been stocked.