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  1. in great condition no issues at all 730 or best offer 4163011110 text with questions
  2. if your garage is inslulated on all 4 sides then on the coldest day of winter you wont protect it from freezing a 110 1500 watt heater may do the job but it may be a bit sketchy I had to eventually intall a 220 to keep my garage above 10 in the winter and now have a 75000 btu gas heater in the new house. if any part of your garage is uninsulated from the outside a 110 wont work
  3. if I can get an update on 75 if you go through it on the detour Im leaving next week also and towing a boat. Im familiar with the area just not the detour. thanks
  4. Cheesy there is no point making a call I've asked mnr to hold a public meeting here and nothing comes of it. To the other readers don't get confused that the ganny will get all this great bank stabilization work tree planting habitat restoration. Based on past results on the credit OFAH will do minimal work that achieved nothing more then a photo opportunity This will be a train wreck, remember there was discussion to remove resident brown trout because of their Predation on Atlantics. Why don't other native desirable fish species get this free passage? OFAH mnr and the dictators behind this will utterly mess this up and will endure to change it.. OFAH has done some great work but can't they fire their staff managing this and go back to projects that have hope
  5. The reproductive capacity of the credit and all its tributaries far outstrips any river on the north shore in orders of magnitude This shift is due to the dysfunctional nature of aurora district OFAH realizing that unless the barriers are open in the credit and free passage is restored their program won't work Rather then open both fish ways they move the program I'd really like to know who has this immense power over mnr to actually stop fish passage on the credit There will be a time when this Atlantic program will compete with any reminent native population as a result restrictions will be placed on non native fish passage. Mnr and OFAH will deny this but trust me based strictly on past behaviour this isn't a matter of if it happens but when in fact it happens Craa and hundreds of anglers and other groups and stakeholders would have been pleased to open the fish ways and allow free passage for this and all species sadly trout unlimited driven by their current ceo Greg Clark chapter and Isaiah Walton used an outdated plan and who knows what additional tactics to ensure the credit Atlantic and by the nature of their tactics the credit proper never lives up to its potentials Too bad lots of smoke and mirror coming at this meeting and a feel good mentality all aimed and messing up a great fishery
  6. interesting read from many of you. CRAA has injected over 5 million dollars both cash and inkind within the Credit watershed. We have achieved our 1/2millionth tree planted and just completed a multi year funding grant at habitat repair and reforestation. We got the Ladder built at Norval by raising almost 1/2 the money MNR needed, of interest the majority of it came from a US funding source, I'm sure they would be shocked to see its not being used for anything. CRAA for the most part has lowered temps in the vast majority of the river below the cataract to a point that there is mile after mile of suitable habitat, currently devoid of fish. I on behalf of the club petitioned MNR years ago to allowed a virtually unlimited transfer of Adult Rainbow into two up stream tributaries. Mnr via Trent genetics determined brown migratory and resident fish are one in the same and the MNR biologist started moving them above Norval, life was good and we all had lots of fish to catch on the Credit, that was also ended without any justification what so ever, which leads us to believe there was inside pressure from stakeholders within the group We operated the streesville fishway for decades without incident as agents of the crown and as many of you are aware we recently saw record breaking rainbow trout production on the Credit as a result of the transfers. Norval was built and all of a sudden the other stakeholders somehow felt we shouldn't run a transfer program any longer, put pressure on MNR and we now no longer run the program are simply minions of the MNR, we all at the club wonder why as all the legal requirements are still valid and in place within the club, we demonstrated decades of success without incident, so we now watch fish brake their noses at Norval while we wait days on end for the MNR biologist to make time. We provided a 5 year study to allow all fish species to utilize the new habitat and new fishways it was a solid scientific study peer reviewed by our own biologists , quietly reviewed by MNR staff outside of Aurora and was deemed a valid experiment. It was shot down by OFAH CVC TU the MNR quietly even said it was valid but the stakeholder apprehension wasn't worth the effort( yes an MNR manager said that exact wording to me) In the interim the management plan which was up for an overhaul was on the table with species segregation or barrier passage a contentious issue. CVC all of sa sudden out of no where did a study via electric shocking where a minimal brook trout population was found and created a document that EVERY and literally every biologist shown it laughed, some within MNR said it was a career ending document others said the author killed any job movement possibilities with it, yup he is on here and I'm sure will read this, I welcome his rebuttal. It was skewed and filled with so many errors, its only aim was to not allow migratory trout within this one river, when in fact their own data supported no change to brook trout density ( WE ARE TALKING LESS THEN A DOZEN BROOK TROUT IN TOTAL) and in fact the data showed that they all peacefully co existed. CVC Trout Unlimited and Issiac Walton used this smoking gun to finally have the MNR Aurora district raise their hands of the entire matter and move to the native argument, theoretical fisheries and in the end these very MNR EMPLOYEES FOCUSED ON JOB PRESERVATION rather then continue the course. We have asked repeatedly why one of the truly native fish species from the ice age cant use the ladders for fish passage the small mouth bass and the answer is no answer and a refusal to even discuss that native fish species passage As a result MNR aurora moved to this native thing, we wrote a very long rebuttal again reviewed by our biologists and our friends in MNR not in the aurora district, about the dangers of theoretical fisheries, asked why bass a native fish aren't allowed free passage MNR dismissed it and here we are. We have a new district manager, when we went above his head to his boss's boss he quickly met with us to hear the concerns, he left saying he will provide answers and will work with us to achieve some common goals. That was last spring and to date we have no response other then I ll get back to you. For those that follow our facebook stream you can see the apprehension of our many supporters we have asked MNR repeatedly to listen to the resource users to no avail, and her we are. The Salar program on paper is great a new fish to catch is always welcome those running it and the mythology of how its being run are flawed. Sadly I think they have seen the ladder opening issue for salars free passage as a no go opening the ladder on the Credit for salar passage would allow other fish into the not so special brown trout waters so rather then open the Credit up the OFAH and MNR and others will move it to the ganny, and in turn damage it and that resource hopefully not beyond saving. Its sad that someone or some group has so much influence within Aurora that this happens. Open the damn fish ladders at Norval and Streetsville and let the fish swim.........sadly I doubt I see this in my lifetime Hope this provided some insight as to why this move on the ganny
  7. Im sitting on the side lines just observing this, before I grow a set and post a three page answer that tells it like it is from the inside looking out
  8. I have a 19 1 boat with a swing tongue I tried every conceivable way to do it bought go jacks to move it side to side, no use at all, ended up doing an addition to make it fit
  9. crepres candied cedar planked salmon and a beet arugala salad
  10. secondary stage latch bring it to aikmans
  11. I sorta organized some stuff tonight, the boat is still stuffed with about 8 more plano boxes and about 8 rods
  12. The manufacturer is soley driven by your budget and the feel of a rod in your hand, dont get caught up in price point or anyone promoting a brand. If your looking for a bait casting set up then a good 7'0 Med or med/Hvy. both with a Mod/Fast Action the med or med heavy really depends on the size of Jerk bait your throwing. If its on a spining reel and you want a more agressive retrive then a 6-3 med fast shorter rod for a quicker snap on a spinning reel If its large mouth then a rod more suited to crankbaits like a 7-0 7-2 glass rod with a med -fast action is more suited for a slower jerk and longer pause for large mouth
  13. ohh god thats anempty wall of fishing rods, there are a dozen pplus off the side. the garage door is a 16 footer building is 22x27
  14. hi there here is the view facing the house, there is a storage loft about8 feet out that id like to put doors on to enclose it. the ceiling is above it here is the front view again with a loft built into it One side of the garage and the other side
  15. thanks for the replies, as soon as I get outside today I ll post up pictures I built an addition effectively bumping the garage out 5 feet to accomadate my boat todaya dn any larger one in the future. I currently keep it at my shop in the back but would like it home. I dont want it in a freezing environment, hence the insulation question. It seems that blowing in cellulose without a vapour barrier is a major issue as is the batt in the ceiling. I ll put up pic and see what you think
  16. Maybe someone can help with an insuation question The goal is to basically have a garage that will remain above freezing +1 or +2 as a minumum. The side walls are not backing onto a house and have drywall with no insulation between the studs open soffits and brick exterior. The garage is a 2 inch insulated door and the back wall is attached to the house. the celing joice are open and exposed with sheathing I can put some pics if need be I was thinking of putting batt insulation and a vapour barrier between the roof rafters touching the roof decking, and using a blow in cellulose into the walls by cutting a hole and injecting it with the cellulose. My question is, has any one done this and do you think I ll be able to keep the garage above freezing. With the extreme cold we had the coldest it got was -11 at he front entrance of the garage. thanks
  17. Costa we were in the 6 man, full limits here
  18. Really good conditions here at smittys both ice road and fish!
  19. reducing angler harvest from a 5 - 2 with rainbows had about minimal drop on overall population dynamics in Lake O. With Brook Trout even a more fragile fish while it will be a drop in harvest meaning more fish due to less harvest still does'nt resolve the other habitat related issues and in certain creeks the piss poor genetics. I can site about 20 creeks that have great thermal regime but have a severely depressed brok trout population due to water chemistry makeup. Obviously im not about to post it in public, but I can say the Upper Credit would certainly be one great example of a cold water stream with a declining brook trout population
  20. Brook trout are declining in many watersheds in southern ontario outside of zone 17. Climate change, water volume/quality, habitat loss due to urban encrouchment and food web decline are all major contributors to this loss. Angling technics or restrictions are a stop gap measure that will not adress the overall matters above, but MNR in its convoluded do nothing approach to things thinks it may work. I dont believe that a regulatory change to angling should be decided unless the above matters are looked at. One other solution may be to find genetically pure brook trout strains within these watersheds and have community groups begin a stocking program with these pure strains in an effort to establish a put delay fishery, recognizing that we have to have Trent do the genetic work to make sure they are pure. The final optinon would be to recognize the naturalized fish brown and rainbows and work to increase thier population. There are many diemetriclly opposing papers that discuss how these native and naturalized speices co exist in harmony. I akin this entire survey to flogging a dead horse, while the temporal componant would be great for a published paper, the anglers of ontario want increased catch rates. If we look at a successful rainbow fishery the Credit river, through the efforts of a community group its run has increased 5 fold, and with it angling effort, tourist dollars etc have also increased. Now MNR has all but stopped Adult transfers ( the overwhelming reason the rainbow trout population increased) and now with less avaliable fish there are less avaliable fisherman.The new urban fisheries plan calls for methods to increase angler liscense sales in the urban centers. I believe allowing a proven successful fish species to florish would be one way Sadly while brook trout are a great indicator of good water quality, we here in Southern Ontario for the most part have lost water chemistry for this fragile fish species to florish.
  21. How Man Killed A Lake The sad demise of lake Eugenia The lake was man-made in the early 1900s as a reservoir for a hydro-electric dam on the Beaver River built in 1912. In 1913, the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario bought 1,900 acres (7,700,000 m2) of land from farmers. This land was then cleared and flooded. After being flooded, the edge of the water was full of twists and turns with bay and inlets. Beginning in the 1950s, the lake became very popular amongst locals as a get-away. Soon cabins were built along the edge of the lake and word began to spread. Beginning at the end of the 1900s, cabins began to develop into cottages. These cottages are usually large and grand. When the lake began to grow in popularity, fishers, swimmers, boaters and naturalists began coming in droves for holidays. I recall my father speaking to visiting the lake shortly after his arrival into Canada in the late 50’s, he talked about its utter lack of people on it other than the local’s. He bought a 57 crest liner and although with great difficulty he would manage to launch it in the lake. As a young man I spent many a day at the lake enjoying it for its clarity and fantastic swimming and awesome fishing. Over the years I spoke to many people including my dad who all spoke to the lakes cleanliness, its great fishing, because back then it was literally teaming with browns and rainbow trout, there were largemouth in it but no one really targeted them, they weren’t the dominant species. It wasn’t an issue of if but when you were catching dinner, many back then deemed it a sustainable fishery. Sadly it more than likely wasn’t as these browns and rainbows while still there, your chances of a 6/49 draw are better, chalk one up to man starting to kill a lake. Its small size just couldn’t handle the pressure, and the bass now could get a bigger foothold. Wikipedia lists it as the following Eugenia Lake attracts recreational fishers both local to the region and those visiting due to the range of fish in the lake. The main species of fish that can be caught in the lake include Rock and Largemouth Bass, Perch, Sunfish, Pike and Bullhead catfish. Unfortunately, these fishers and boaters have brought invasive species into the lake, namely the zebra mussel which is now throughout the lake and considered a major problem. Back before the lake became inundated with cottages, the main species was trout. If you got a bite, it was only a question of was it a Brown or Rainbow. In the 60's someone must have dumped a bait bucket, because Rock Bass appeared by the thousands. On the opening day of Trout season, the MNR would put a couple of 45 gal. drums on the causeway bridge, and by the end of the first day they were both overflowing with Rock Bass. Hawthornes Cabins at the south east corner of the causeway, would rent you a rowboat for $1.00 a day, and fishermen could rent a cabin for $1.50 a night. You were always assured of a good feed of Rainbow Trout at the end of the day. It only confirms what I have heard over the years. For many years the lake was a quiet get away that was a true hidden gem. Fast forward to the 80’s, the trout are virtually gone (some will argue the point but my experience and research says they vanished.) There was a massive upright stump field at the back where the black river emerged, I’ve been told stories of and personally experienced how it wasn’t a matter of if but when you would get bit by a big largemouth, 5 pound green fish were virtually guaranteed on a day trip to the lake. The trout were gone and the bass fishing rivaled anything out there, all in a hidden undisturbed oasis. The water was clear the cabbage was as green as green could be and healthy, I would set a minnow trap as a young man and in the morning would have dozens of crawfish and minnows to see. You would jig for perch and catch jumbo’s rivaling Simcoe or Erie perch in size, and even an uneducated angler like me would catch bass until I was sore by throwing a spinner bait across the top of the weed flats. Opening day for bass would see less than 10 boats parked and all had a fill of bass. The dam and causeways would rarely have a mass of shore fisherman. The lake was at its prime. Back to the stump field, in the 80’s OPG required work on the dam that entailed dewatering much of the lake, the flats were emptied the shallow weeds died off and the cottagers in their infinite wisdom walked out and cut the stump field down, making it now laydown habitat. Due to its fertility the lake rebounded fairly quickly and it was back to its glory. For many years it remained a gem. A while back the internet and an article in Ontario Out of Doors came out talking about the Lake and its great fishing. I didn’t think anything of it really until the next summer I went up, now it had and I counted 45 boat trailers parked. I recall visiting that summer on vacation and saw dozens of cars on the causeway and dozens more people fishing on the dam. I took my small kids to the dam and walked talking to people and watching their catch, what I saw appalled me. A family had a bucket and it was filled with hundreds of 4 inch fish, I recall my young son ask “what are you going to do with those” the answer “fish soup” I also saw full limit stringers at the launch consistently the fishing pressure and habitat change I knew was something the lake won’t survive I knew right then and there that the lake was doomed. Chalk another one up to man killing a lake. The following year I again fished it, and as I went to the bank I saw these fairly large cruising fish, I thought it strange to see bass like that and the size threw me off. When I looked closer it wasn’t bass but common carp I saw, it was another step to this lakes demise. Largemouth and carp just don’t co-exist great, and the carp have a tendency to displace the bass, yet I continued to enjoy this lake, although it was now pressured with anglers it still was a magical place. I didn’t fish bass tournaments back then but one day I was at the boat launch leaving and I saw a bunch of bass boats and a weigh in, having never experienced it I watched and was amazed at just how many really big fish were in the lake, I came to understand that 5 fish for 20 pounds was possible and was accomplished many times, love the lake was all I thought, little did I know what was about to happen in the years to come. Let’s fast forward a few more years, I arrived one opening day to a parking lot overflowing with traffic, I launched my boat and went fishing. I noticed that the cabbage wasn’t as abundant as before with lots of bare spots in the lake, and I noticed that the once crystal clear lake now had sediment in it, again I though nothing other than the fishing was getting tougher and the fish were smaller, but what really shocked me was the hammering and sawing, the replacement of quaint cottages was being replaced with 3000 sq foot plus mini mansions and the abundance of larger carp everywhere. There was an MNR boat on the lake that day doing a survey and I asked what’s up with the carp, they promptly stated it was another invasive species that was introduced, more than likely by a bait bucket. With no natural predator they said it will get worse before it gets better, caulk another one up to man. You see as we know carp uproot the substrate of a waterway, as a result aquatic vegetation can’t take hold, and a sediment load is created, cabbage sadly can’t handle a larger sediment load on its leaves, photosynthesis cant occur and death occurs, with that death aquatic animals living on the bottom slowly die off to lack of habitat. Much of the dead cabbage has now been replace by eel grass that still retains its scrub and clings to bottom and a metamorphosis starts to occur. The good part is that now the lake has zebra mussels and I was told a goby was caught; ohh joy caulk another one up to man for the new invasive. Let’s talk about the last 4 years of the life cycle of Lake Eugenia. Consistent angling pressure, phosphate load from the cottages, invasive species, habitat loss, have all had a drastic effect on this small lake. Today we see the cabbage all but gone, we find very few smaller bass, yes there are still some large big bass in the lake but a troubling sign when year classes of fish disappear, what is left does get larger, but their life span is limited. Very little smaller fish are left, the smallmouth that began to colonize have vanished this year suckers now swim with their course fish relatives. We see a sediment load that reduces clarity and visibility, we see zebra mussels on what weed is left, once where there were weed flats the size of a football field now have been reduced to postage stamp sizes of clump weed that is dead or dying. Carp the size of small ships cruising the shallows, perch that have all but disappeared and a general lack of life in the lake as you cruise the shallows. The metamorphosis is almost complete; caulk another one up to man. What promoted this was that sadly I spent my last ever vacation on the lake recently and saw these massive changes, as I always have I set a minnow trap to show my kids the various fish, and other life on the lake, once upon a time it was full with life, now it was empty, no crawfish, no minnows nothing, and that’s what prompted this. We as humans have altered a lake and pressured it in all ways possible in a short span of time we have helped to kill a lake. I know some will argue it is only evolving, like it did when the trout disappeared and that eventually the eco system will rebound, my only question is what does it rebound to?
  22. it happened in Mercer county about 80 miles south or Erie PA
  23. its different there in good ole mercer county. they don thave trafic agents like here, I have to engange a lawyer to simply ask this question.
  24. ah flashback to Nakina is right....lol that was funny, until I got home and showed the wife Mike I recal uou and I got one one in NY a few back, did it ever show on your insurance in any way? No question Im paying the ticket, its the recriprical agreement stuff thats Important. I did contact a lawyer in Mercer county, anf for 25 he is going to call me Monday. If they do report to Ontario im going for a trip to Mercer.......Speaking of the internet, there is not a single yes answer to this.
  25. Yup got a ticket to the policemans ball. Im going to pay the ticket but before I send money I wanted to know does thespeeding ticket I got in Pennsylvania show up on an insurance abstract or with the MTo after being paid here.I haver been trying to see if there is a recripical aggreement but cant find a definative answer on my questio.n It means the difference between going there/hiring a local lawyer or just paying the fine. I figure there are so many people here someone has had this experience.
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