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I'm sure you'll being hearing about for some time Shawn.

Time to give it a rest Ryan.

As yet Brian many questions, no answers. Lets wait for more details before making assumptions. Sad anyway you slice it! http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3228336

Guilty here too.

Top drawer Mike! I've been inspired by the umbrella set up, gonna have to investigate a similar set up just for my dog.

Check the link I provided Emil. Can't go wrong with having a number of different releases on hand, saves time on retrieving the boards.

Good stuff Edwin, nice to see you filling in the time before the silver start to run.

For releases I prefer Off Shore. http://www.offshoret...dsreleases.html No opinion on boards as the ones I used to use were home made.

Excellent Cliff! Always nice to fish with experienced anglers both on the water and at the ramp. Seems I always end up launching/retrieving behind the unknowing......

Cool, thanks for letting me know Dan.

Oh, so this is what you look like Dan when one of us is sober......

Thank you, honestly it was my pleasure to be able to help Ryan in the best way possible from my end. I hope whoever has it gets much use and happiness from it.

Some great pictures Juli, my thanks to you and of course to you as well Frankie for taking the time to get 'em up.

Outstanding Ryan. Kudos to the organizational team, the participants and all those who donated the many prizes. Well done!

I've been using the Ultra V high build for 2 years now with no yellowing issues (yet). But I have experienced finishes that yellowed in short order, not nice.

LOL.....Guess I'm just used to it, I've certainly used worse.

Things fishy in Dundas July 22 2011 / www.thespec.com Matthew Van Dongen It's the kind of project that turns fishing into a spectator sport.Bemused Dundas residents watched from atop the Osler Drive bridge as workers in rubber overalls waded into Spencer Creek with a huge net, scooping trapped fish into buckets by hand. Scattered applause greeted "ghostbuster" Karen Buchanan, otherwise known as a fisheries technologist, as she entered the deep pool under the bridge wearing a backpack-mounted electrofishing machine. As Buchanan zapped pulses of electricity into the water, Shari Faulkenham scooped up stunned fish that floated to the surface. Believe it or not, the fish will be grateful for all of this later. "We're getting rid of a major barrier to fish passage," said Faulkenham, an ecologist with the Hamilton Conservation Authority. "But to do that, we need to dry up this whole area (under the bridge). So we needed to start with a kind of fish rescue mission." The conservation authority and the city teamed up Thursday and Friday to eliminate a long-standing man-made barrier to fishy travellers trying to swim upstream in Spencer Creek to spawn. The $300,000 construction project created a "fish byway" — a kind of rocky ramp dotted with deep pools of water — designed to bypass two large, metal weirs under the Dundas bridge. That's important, said Faulkenham, because Spencer Creek is part of "one of the most important spawning grounds in Lake Ontario." Faulkenham said the creek empties into Cootes Paradise, the aquatic equivalent of a maternity ward. "When you think about all the fish in western Lake Ontario, most of them were probably born in Cootes Paradise and Spencer Creek," she said. "It's a very, very important area." The project actually opens up a second breeding highway, because Spring Creek joins Spencer Creek just upstream of the bridge on the edge of Dundas. Beating the barrier was a complex trick. Construction workers had to dry the area under the bridge by rerouting creek flow into a large pipe. Faulkenham and her team also had to round up the underwater locals before heavy machinery started tearing up the creek bed. Workers rescued dozens of fish, large and small, as well as an endangered American eel, and released them downstream on Thursday. Faulkenham expected most of the heavy construction to be finished Friday, or early next week. There is more work to be done, however. Another seven "major barriers" block Spencer Creek between the new project and the escarpment, said Faulkenham. A looming environmental assessment is expected to offer solutions for the remaining barriers.

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Great portrait Lew! Maureen, you have some amazing artistic skills, I'm way impressed.

Crooks' Hollow Dam demolition goes to tender July 22, 2011 http://www.thespec.com DUNDAS The Hamilton Conservation Authority is hoping to issue a call for tenders on the demolition of Crooks' Hollow Dam by the end of this month. If all goes according to plan, work will begin by late August and take about two months to complete, said Hazel Breton, the project's manager. Early stages will focus on removing 4,000 cubic metres of zinc-contaminated sediment and returning a 400-metre stretch of creek upstream to a meandering route. A new bridge over the creek will also be built about 30 metres upstream from an existing one, she told members of the authority's water management advisory board. "The physical removal of the dam will be one of the last things that we do," Breton said, noting rainy weather could delay replanting until next spring in an area by the creek's banks where the contaminated sediment will be deposited and capped. "I'll warn you, it won't look great to start with because it's quite soupy and has to dry out," she said. "The vegetation will take awhile, a couple of years, to come into its own." The authority has held three open houses since February to keep neighbouring residents apprised of the $1.2-million project's progress and Breton said there has been general acceptance of the plan — so much so only nine people attended the latest one on June 28. She said the sediment poses no health risk and public input has led to some changes to the project, particularly to retain some of the dam's features to acknowledge its historical role. Completed in 1916, the dam and its reservoir served Dundas with potable water until 1959 and provided flood control until the Christie dam took over that function in 1971.

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