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Same sentiments for you Ron.

I agree, nicely done Dave, nicely done!

No worries mate!

You're killing me Alan but don't you dare stop.

Hi Sam.

Crikey, me thinks I need a new puter.

Sheeeeesh, how many pictures you got in your post Joey? Every time I try to see 'em (3 times now) my ole puter freezes right up.

Perhaps a quick perusal of the classified rules would explain things.....just sayin. http://www.ofncommun...ction=rules&f=5

I believe you're right JB, but it would be a harrowing trip for her.

Deals are always available Lew, the two of you can split the cost of two rods right down the middle.

It's moving day for Mike and family so I expect we'll just have to wait.....patiently.

Read this, this morning. "The epicentre of the quake is located on an active fault known as the West Quebec Seismic Zone, a region Godin describes as one of the more quake-prone regions in the country." Hamilton Spectator

Declining smallmouth bass population gets attention of DEC June 13, 2010 LEO ROTH / democratandchronicle.com The sharp decline in the quality of smallmouth bass fishing on Lake Ontario has caught the attention of state aquatic biologists. And they are casting a net for help as they begin an extensive study as to why a smallmouth fishery that produced an average of 13.4 catches per boat trip during the early 2000s had dropped to 3.08 catches by 2008, and continues to slide. "Smallmouth bass fishing on Lake Ontario used to be fantastic. Anywhere from, say, Sandy Creek all the way to Oswego you could catch a lot of bass and catch them easily," said Matt Sanderson, Region 8 senior aquatic biologist for the Department of Environmental Conservation. But the smallmouth fishing has been in sharp decline since 2004, about two years after the documented arrival in great numbers of the round goby, an invasive species that eats bass fry but also has become a primary food source for adult bass. Well-fed bass are less likely to bite an angler's artificial lure or live bait. Meanwhile, the voracious gobies seemingly bite anything, frustrating many an angler who used to be able to catch smallmouth bass with simple worm rigging. Some bass anglers have experienced better success by changing their techniques — bigger swim baits, suspending live baits farther off the bottom, trolling small stickbaits. In 2008, however, more than half of the boats targeting smallmouth didn't catch a single fish and the catch and harvest rates were the lowest on record. "The past two years, even guys who changed techniques weren't catching them," Sanderson said. "We have limited data about smallmouth on Lake Ontario so we're taking measures to see exactly what's going on out there." In addition to conducting netting surveys this summer to determine the relative abundance of bass and their health, the DEC is launching the Lake Ontario Black Bass Angler Diary Program to enhance their study. From opening day June 19 to Sept. 30, volunteer anglers are being asked to keep a detailed diary of their bass fishing activity (from a boat or from land). The data will be crunched after the season and each participant will receive a report. The lake's goby population is said to have peaked but like many invasive species is here to stay. In places such as Lake Erie and the eastern end of Ontario, goby-fed smallmouth are growing to trophy size and the quality of fishing hasn't suffered. If there's an imbalance around Rochester — more gobies than bass — the DEC wants to know. Anglers interested in participating can send their name, address and e-mail address to [email protected]. Or go to www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/65533.html or call (585) 226-5343

Downward trend for water levels continues GEORGIAN BAY June 23, 2010 DOUGLAS GLYNN / midlandfreepress.com The Georgian Baykeeper has warned that water levels of Lakes Michigan, Huron and Georgian Bay are on a critical downward trend. Mary Muter says the latest forecasts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicates water levels could drop below chart datum by October. "At the end of May, Michigan-Huron levels were about five inches above chart datum, which is the reference point used on navigational charts to measure the depth of water throughout the lakes," Muter says. "We could be setting record low levels by this fall. "What's unusual about the latest graphs for Michigan-Huron-Georgian Bay is that the normal down-up-down line has been replaced by almost a flat line. "Anyone who has looked at the water level graphs over the years notices a familiar pattern. Water levels start off low in the winter, go up steadily in the spring and then start dropping off gradually from July until the end of the year. "But this typical rise hasn't happened and the Corps is predicting only a very slight rise in June and July, followed by the usual late-season decline." She says Michigan-Huron water levels in May were 10 inches below those of last year and the Corps report indicates they were 14 inches below the long-term average. "All the other Great Lakes were also below the long-term average, but none as much as Michigan-Huron. "I've have never seen water levels flat line like they have been doing since January," she added. "Lakes Michigan and Huron are suffering a double whammy. There is no control of the outflow from Michigan, Huron and Georgian Bay, while the outflow from Lake Superior (into Michigan- Huron) has been reduced because Superior's levels are down. "Without any control of the outflow and the reduced supply from Lake Superior -plus the dry winter with little runoff -we are getting hit from all sides. Muter says water levels have been hovering around chart datum for about 10 years. "The International Upper Great Lakes Study Board likes to compare this past decade to the 1930s and says it has happened before; it's no big deal. "The reality is," Muter says, "that in the 1930s they dredged, deepening the St. Clair River channel -Detroit River channel by five feet. They knew that they were lowering lake levels. During that decade there was a severe drought in the Great Lakes area. "Those were two compounding factors that caused the 1930s low water levels. "But, we have not had anything like that! "We've had some dry years in late 1990s and 2001. But we recently had two years of above average precipitation and cooler temperatures. But we've not had droughts, or the channels officially dredged five feet deeper. "Yet, we have been hovering around chart datum for 10 years. And now it looks like we are in very serious trouble." "The reality is we could be facing the perfect storm by the end of the summer. "Researchers from McMaster University recorded a temperature of 22 to 24 degrees in Georgian Bay a month ago. "Normally, around the long weekend in May the temperature is 10 to 12 degrees." Muter says the combination of low water levels and high temperatures will have an impact on enclosed bays. "We are going to have much more algae than in previous years and that will affect water quality, fish life and recreational activites. Boaters will also be affected if water levels drop below chart datum," she said. "The Canadian Coast Guard establishes channel depth at 176 meters. At that depth," she points out, "there is a minimum of two meters depth for navigation in small craft channels along the east and north coast of Georgian Bay. "In the past decade we have had several years where channel depth has been below chart datum. When that happens the Coast Guard puts white markers in the the channels indicating low water. "It's scary for boaters because they don't know how deep the water is. They have to go slow and tilt up their boat's motor. Large sail boats can't navigate the small craft channel because a lot of them have a two meter keel. That affects the local economy big time." Georgian Bay Forever, a Canadian environmental group, has been urging the International Joint Commission to act to stop the loss of water from Lakes Michigan and Huron. The IJC held a series of public meetings earlier this year to hear comments on the December 2009 report of the International Upper Great Lakes Study Board. Muter noted the Study Board report acknowledged the outflow of Lake Huron into the St. Clair River had increased compared to 1962, lowering the levels of Lakes Michigan, Huron and Georgian Bay by about five inches. But the Board called the loss of water too insignificant to justify any action to prevent further loss." The International Join Commission (of which Canada is a member) is reportedly still deliberating. " We are supposed to have some sense of where they are going early in July." However, she adds, the appointment of the new U.S. chair by President Obama is being held up by the Senate.

Potential World record Wels June 21, 2010 / www.great-lakes.org Guided by IGFA Certified Captain Alberto Bartoli MERGEFIELD "CaptGuide" and using shrimp for bait,Roberto Godi of Arcole Veroma, Italy landed a potential IGFA All-Tackle record after catching a wels (Silurus glanis) on February 5. The giant fish weighed 113.5 kg (250 lb 3 oz) which Godi caught while fishing Italy's River Po. He said the fish fought for 45 minutes before he was able to pull it to shore onto a smooth surfaced mat where it was weighed, photographed and released alive. The current IGFA record is 242 lb 8 oz (110 kg) caught February 2009 also from the River Po.

Millions of litres of pollutants dumped in cities: analysis June 13, 2010 Steve Rennie / www.thestar.com Far more sewage has been spilled in Canadian urban centres over the last six years than any other harmful contaminant, newly released figures show. An analysis by The Canadian Press reveals hundreds of millions of litres of sewage, as well as many other dangerous liquids, have been dumped right under Canadians' noses. This never-before-released information has been kept in a classified government database called NEMISIS. The acronym stands for National Enforcement Management Information System and Intelligence System. Federal enforcement officers use the database to go after polluters. It took The Canadian Press two years and a complaint to the information commissioner to pry the data from Environment Canada under the Access to Information Act. The news agency then created its own spills database using the government information, which covers the period from January 2004 to this past April. The analysis looked at spills in 18 cities and metropolitan areas across 10 provinces. They include the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, and the cities of Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor, Ont., Quebec City, Fredericton, Moncton, N.B., Saint John, N.B., Charlottetown, Halifax and St. John's, N.L. The database lists 6,555 spills in those parts of the country since 2004. Some spills are minor, while others run over hundreds of millions of litres. The most frequently spilled contaminants are petroleum products. They account for 3,596 spills, or about 55 per cent of all entries. The database contains 538 sewage spills. That's eight per cent of all spills in the database. While sewage doesn't appear as often as other contaminants, more of it is spilled each time. The largest spill was at Calgary's Bonnybrook wastewater treatment plant, which handles much of the city's sewage. The database says a storm and flood led to a 300-million-litre sewage spill on June 17, 2005. Heavy floods hammered southern Alberta that spring. Edith Phillips of Calgary's regulatory affairs branch said the floodwater overwhelmed the city's sewers and treatment plants. She said the flooding damaged ultra-violet lights used to kill bacteria, so treated wastewater flowed into the Bow River. Phillips noted the sewage had gone through two stages of treatment before it spilled into the river. By that point organic materials and nutrients would have been removed from the wastewater. "It wasn't raw sewage," she said. "It certainly had been treated to the secondary stage, which is equivalent to what most treatment plants in Canada do." In Edmonton, an equipment failure at the Gold Bar wastewater treatment plant caused 160 million litres of sewage to be discharged on April 18, 2007. The city did not respond to a request to comment. Environment Canada said a power outage shut down the Edmonton plant's ultra-violet lights for eight minutes, so 160 million litres of wastewater was only partially treated. "Otherwise, the effluent was properly treated," the department said. Meanwhile, the government database cites a 2,191-day sewer leak in Ottawa that discharged 190 million litres of sewage. It shows the spill began Jan. 1, 1998, and wasn't reported until Sept. 10, 2008. The entry baffled Michel Chevalier, Ottawa's manager of wastewater and drainage operations, who said his figures don't jibe with the federal government's. "I've had problems in the past with databases from the feds," Chevalier said. "They're entering the data in a funny way, and it's not necessarily reality, or it leads to conclusions that are false. Like in this case, it looks like it's been flowing for 2,000 days. No. I don't know where they get that 2,000 days." He said city records show 190 million litres of sewage was spilled into the Ottawa river over a four-day period in 2004. A faulty sewer gate was to blame. He cited even larger sewage spills — such as more than a billion litres in 2006, 19 million litres in 2008 and 26.5 million litres last year — which aren't listed in the federal database. In each case the untreated sewage flowed into the Ottawa River. Chevalier said the city has replaced the faulty gates and significantly cut down on sewage spills. Little is known about a 116-million-litre sewage spill in Richmond, B.C., on Dec. 20, 2009. The responsible party, reason, cause, source and clean-up time are not given. The government database cites another 64-million litre sewage spill in the Vancouver area on July 5, 2009, at the Lions Gate wastewater treatment plant. But Metro Vancouver officials dispute Environment Canada's reporting of the spill in its database. Paul Lam, the municipality's wastewater treatment plant division manager, said the spill was not of sewage but rather treated effluent, or wastewater. He said a ruptured valve in the plant's chlorination system was to blame. "That resulted in the release of 64 million litres of treated, but unchlorinated, effluent," Lam said. "So that volume of discharge had been treated through the plant." He added environmental testing found no ill effects from the spill. Environment Canada said "evidence provided by Metro Vancouver clearly demonstrates that the unchlorinated wastewater effluent discharged from the (wastewater-treatment plant) … was not acutely lethal" and didn't violate the federal Fisheries Act. Faulty equipment is also to blame for a 50-million-litre sewage spill from Saskatoon's sewers on July 19, 2008. The city also had a 10-million-litre sewage spill on Sept. 15, 2006, due to a "storm, flood." City officials were not immediately available to comment. The database also lists spills of other contaminants. More than 1.4 million litres of a chemical called acrylonitrile was spilled after a marine tanker caught fire and exploded in Saint John, N.B., on Nov. 1, 2005. Environment Canada's website says "acrylonitrile is considered toxic to human health because of its potential to cause cancer." It has been declared toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Close to 76,000 litres of hydrochloric acid leaked from a train in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., outside Montreal on March 17, 2005. Hydrochloric acid can irritate the skin and cause chemical burns. A pipe leak at Edmonton's municipal mobile equipment services branch on Dec. 11, 2006, released two million litres of chlorinated water into the city. Chlorine can react with organic matter found in water, such as decaying vegetation, to form a group of chemicals known as disinfection byproducts. Some of these byproducts are thought to raise the risk of cancer and cause other health problems. The database lists Areva Resources Canada Inc. as the responsible party in an Oct. 25, 2007, spill of 10,000 litres of "radioactive material." The company says a road to a uranium mine site was flooded by heavy rain, and contaminated mud and rainwater leaked through a raised barrier. Areva spokesman Alun Richards said the mud and water contained "low levels" of radioactivity from vehicles that pass over the road to and from the uranium mine. Richards said company records show 100 cubic metres, or 100,000 litres, of radioactive material was spilled — 10 times more than Environment Canada lists in its database. He added the spill was cleaned up immediately, and there were no lingering health or environmental effects. In another case, a company called IMTT-Quebec Inc., which handles bulk liquids, is named as the responsible party in a spill of 126,000 litres of jet fuel on Oct. 4, 2007. Marc Dulude, the company's executive vice-president and chief operating officer, didn't respond to questions about the spill. Environment Canada said the jet-fuel leak occurred in a tank dike and nothing leaked out. The contents were pumped out and stored in another reservoir. The city spills troubled one environmentalist. "It's the sheer number of different kinds of pollutants being spilled here that's striking," said Rick Smith, the executive director of Environmental Defence. "We're talking about bacterial pollutants, cancer-causing pollutants, hormone-disrupting pollutants. All of these things being spilled accidentally, or in an unplanned fashion, in an illegal fashion into the environment on a regular basis." A spokeswoman for Environment Canada said the sewage and wastewater spills are unacceptable. "We need to stop dumping raw and under-treated sewage into our waterways," Ashleigh Wilson said. "Today we have about 400 facilities dumping at least 1.5 trillion litres of raw sewage directly into our waterways every year causing impacts to everything from our beaches along waterways to commercial fisheries including shellfish. Under our new regulations this will stop." She was referring to new wastewater-system regulations that set timelines and baseline standards for sewage spills. In the past, Environment Canada has defended the NEMISIS database, which is riddled with missing, incomplete and inaccurate entries. In many cases the type and amount of contaminant spilled isn't known. But the department insists it has all the information it needs to track and prosecute polluters.

They're heeeeere!!! Carp breach electrical barrier at Chicago; 20-pounder found six miles from Lake Michigan June 23, 2010 / G reatlakesecho.org Bighead carp found just six miles from Lake Michigan. Photo: Illinois Department of Natural Resources A 20-pound bighead Asian Carp was fished out of Lake Calumet in Chicago, the first one found to have breached an electrical barrier designed to keep the voracious invader out of Lake Michigan, federal officials said Wednesday. The fish was found Tuesday during routine sampling, according to the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, a group of government agencies trying to keep the fish out of the Great Lakes. Agencies are working to remove any additional carp from Lake Calumet, just six miles downstream of Lake Michigan. Fishery experts fear the prolific carp could dramatically alter the Great Lakes ecosystem by outcompeting native fish for food and habitat. Environmental organizations used the discovery to renew calls to permanently block the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal which allowed the carp to travel from the Mississippi River watershed to the one that drains into Lake Michigan. "Asian carp are like cockroaches, when you see one, you know its accompanied by many more you don't see," Henry Henderson, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Midwest Program said in a news release. "Now we can stop arguing about whether the fish are in Chicago's canals and start moving as quickly as possible toward permanently separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. Andy Buchsbaum, director of the Great Lakes Office of the National Wildlife Federation, said there were no more physical barriers to keep the fish out of Lake Michigan. "If the capture of this live fish doesn't confirm the urgency of this problem, nothing will," Buchsbaum said in a news release. "We need to pull out all the stops; this is code red for the Great Lakes." An Asian carp was found on Dec. 3 in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal below the electric barrier system and just above the<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Lockport Lock and Dam, federal authorities say. Intensive sampling began on February 17 to find the carp above the electrical barrier. Sampling throughout the past four months did not produce the carp until now. "We set out on a fact finding mission and we have found what we were looking for," John Rogner, assistant director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said in a news release. "This is important evidence and the more information we have about where Asian carp are, the better chance we have of keeping them out of the Great Lakes."

First Asian carp found beyond barriers to Great Lakes June 24, 2010 / http://www.ap.org/ CHICAGO - An Asian carp was found for the first time beyond electric barriers meant to keep the voracious invasive species out of the Great Lakes, state and federal officials said Wednesday, prompting renewed calls for swift action to block their advance. Commercial fishermen landed the 3-foot-long, 20-pound bighead carp in Lake Calumet on Chicago's South Side, about six miles from Lake Michigan, according to the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee. Illinois officials said they need more information to determine the significance of the find. But environmental groups said the discovery leaves no doubt that other Asian carp have breached barriers designed to prevent them from migrating from the Mississippi River system to the Great Lakes and proves the government needs to act faster. Scientists and fishermen fear that if the carp become established in the lakes, they could starve out popular sport species and ruin the region's $7 billion fishing industry. Asian Carp can grow to 4 feet and 100 pounds and eat up to 40 percent of their body weight daily. In Michigan, officials renewed their demand to close two shipping locks on the Chicago waterways that could provide a path to Lake Michigan.The U.S. Supreme Court has twice rejected the state's request to order the locks closed.

Bay Shore plant not only Erie fishery foe June 13, 2010 Steve Pollick / toledoblade.com You cannot compare apples to oranges, and therein lies the rub when it comes to assessing the impact of fish kills at Bay Shore Power Plant on Maumee Bay. It is known as the fish-killingest plant in Ohio, more than all other power plants combined. And that sounds pretty damning. An environmental coalition recently contended that the kills cause nearly $30 million a year in economic loss to northwest Ohio, that the plant took out 46 million "adult" fish and 14 million juvenile fish based on sampling in 2005 and 2006. That raises serious questions, especially when it will be electric rate-payers - all of us First Energy customers - who eventually would pick up the tab for a $100 million cooling tower, which is what the coalition seeks as a way to eliminate 95 percent of fish kills. Would it be worth the cost, that is, will it "save" Lake Erie fisheries? Say "Lake Erie fish," and what image forms in your mind's eye? A 15-inch or better "keeper" walleye? An eight-inch, fish-fry-ready yellow perch? A 14-inch smallmouth bass? Thought so. Weren't thinking about emerald shiners, gizzard shad, white perch, white bass, spottail shiners, and freshwater drum [sheepshead], were you? Yet those species constitute 45 million of the 46 million "adult" fish that were killed by Bay Shore during the 2005-2006 sampling.The breakdown of the fish totals include 24 million emerald shiners, the ultimate Lake Erie baitfish, some 14.3 million gizzard shad, and 4.7 million white perch, the latter two, by the way, being invasive species. White bass amounted to 1.5 million, spottails 313,000, and sheepshead 225,000. There are 93,000 round gobies, another infamous invasive pest, listed as victims of the plant. For perspective, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission estimates that there are at least 2.5 billion forage fish - the shad and shiners and a few others - in the western basin of Lake Erie alone. Are these losses worth paying for a $100 million cooling tower? Moreover, are these losses significant in solving Lake Erie water-quality and fisheries ills? Run down the kill list to walleye, you find nearly 78,000 killed. Weigh that against an annual hook-and-line kill by sport fishermen in Ohio waters of about a million, for fish at least 15 inches long, not pint-sized juveniles. And Canadian gillnetters take another million walleye. The yellow perch number for the plant is 123,000, and that must be weighed against a sport and commercial Ohio catch between four and five million and a Canadian take of eight to 10 million. Nor do those numbers tell the whole story. For walleye listed, 60 percent were less than two inches long and 22 percent were less than four inches. Fisheries biologists will tell you that a keeper-size walleye simply will swim away from the plant's intake. Fully 20 percent of yellow perch were less than four inches and 53 percent less than six inches. A case has been made about losing some 4,400 smallmouth bass at the plant. Of those, 44 per cent were less than four inches and 50 percent under six inches. In the wild the mortality on such young fish itself is high. The plant also is listed as killing 14 million juvenile fish in the sampling period; those would be under two to three inches. And two billion larval fish [most of which First Energy contends are dead already]. Here is some perspective from Ray Petering, executive administrator for fish management and research for the Ohio Division of Wildlife: The state raises a hybrid sauger-walleye cross in its hatcheries for stocking in inland impoundments. Optimum conditions are maintained in a hatchery to maximize survival and production - in the wild, untold billions of hatchlings and fry die right off the bat and never even reach the 1 1/2- to 2-inch fingerling stage. Fingerlings are considered stocking size. But just two to five out of every 100 stocked grow up to catchable size. In other words, a very, very low percentage of fish that hatch ever reach keeper size. That's why fish broadcast so many thousands of eggs so that some survive to reproduce. But each stage of development sees a given year-class decimated by the elements. It is one survival strategy from evolution, the other being to take very good care of very few young. When it comes to fish losses at Bay Shore, "we're not talking about adult fish here," stated Petering. As for applying state restitution values to Bay Shore-killed fish, such as the juvenile smallmouth bass at $50 a pop, it doesn't wash, the fish administrator said. The reason is, Bay Shore has a permit to operate. A farmer polluting a creek and killing fish with liquid feedlot manure, and poachers who exceed the daily creel limit do not have permits to do that. That is why they get nailed for restitution under the state administrative code. Plant opponents might frame that as a license to kill fish, and in a sense it is true. Just like every factory with an outlet pipe in a river or a smokestack in the sky has a license to pollute water and air - within limits. Such permits recognize a damage and a liability in trade for the products, such as electric power, that factories produce. Bottom line, as far as Petering is concerned, "Bay Shore could be doing better and we need to keep holding their feet to the fire. But the plant's effect on Lake Erie? Not there." Mike Shelton, chief of external affairs for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the wildlife division's parent agency, notes that the department is "paying attention to the issue" of Bay Shore and fish kills. But he notes that the authority over the plant and its operating permit lie with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, not the ODNR. Shelton said that OEPA is seeking a 40 to 80 percent reduction in fish-kill impact via conditions it plans to attach to the Bay Shore permit, which is up for renewal. If that is achieved, the situation would be "much improved," the chief said, noting that this is the first time the OEPA has "stepped up" with fish-kill conditions in the operating permit. But Shelton took note that in its 55-year history, the lake's fisheries have had good years and bad, and the fishing has cycled good and bad. So, "[bay Shore] overall does not seem to have an impact on the average fisherman." Even First Energy acknowledges a need to reduce fish-kills. "We realize there is a problem at the plant but we want to focus on a workable solution..." said Mark Durbin, a company spokesman. The company solution is to try installing "reverse louvers" on the water intake for $500,000. It is asking for a year's trial and three years to build and fully operate if the trial is a success. Overall, Petering is much more concerned with strategic problems, ones much more subtle and broad, revolving around water quality and habitat and minimizing the influx of such invasive pests as zebra and quagga mussels, gobies, and lampreys. These are subtle issues and not an easily fixed target, like a fish-killing power plant. "With the walleye we have a species that has thrived for a long time. If we take care of the lake, then they'll do just fine. We have to focus on water quality and habitat. Then everyone wins," said Petering.

Sorry, I'm just being an ass.

No one needs to see that Terry, nor should they be exposed to it without warning.....LOL "Just saying".......

Thanks for the the kudos (all). The rod in question is only as good as the blank, I merely assembled the components. For note the blank was a Rainshadow RX7 (IS660) rated for 2-4lb test and priced under $50.00.

Would you like me to build you a custom musky rod for perch fishing.

Best fishes (you knew someone had to say it) to both of you in your new endeavours.

Man you are a whiz with a camera Dan. Fabulous shots. Thanks for bringing me up to speed on Dan's world.