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Niagara Region Fishing August 21, 2008 Fishing Line /By Will Elliott / buffalonews.com Lake Erie Wave action often outdoes fishing action on Erie waters. When boaters can get out, deeper water proves most productive. Both walleye and perch seekers find fair numbers over deep drop-offs and suspended sites. Perchers out of Cattaraugus Creek did best at 63-foot depths this past week. Limit catches are rare, but some buckets (coolers) have seen 20-plus catches from the deeps east and west of Cattaraugus Creek. Trollers have bottomed out at depths of 70 feet or more between Cattaraugus Creek and Dunkirk Harbor. Down rigs did as well as side planers and lead-core line rigs. Take along a mixed bag of trolling tricks. One boater swears by harnesses with the freshest of worms (nightcrawlers); another vessel’s crew shows an assortment of body baits (Rapalas, Renoskys, Thundersticks, etc.). Deep-water drifters continue to work walleyes well off the Buffalo and Lackawanna shoreline. Most ’eyes go for spinner rigs bumped along bottom at depths of 40 feet or more. Bass take up feeding depths from near-shore rock structures — as shallow as 13 feet some mornings — to suspended depths where walleyes roam over bottoms more than 100 feet down. Drop-shot rigs work best, but a good jig caster can still have tons of fun with smallies right now. Berkley’s new series of Gulp minnows and crayfish sometimes outfish the live-bait versions. Niagara River Gulp baits also connect on bass in the lower Niagara River. Drifters occasionally hook a walleye, but bass dominate the drifts from Lewiston down to Fort Niagara. Walleye drifters do better with spinner rigs. Lake Ontario The Niagara Bar can be good-to-great from bass bites — when winds settle down and move in from the south or west. Out deeper, kings roam off the Niagara Bar. A salmon, taken near the bar, currently leads the LOC Derby. Olcott Harbor also draws good numbers of incoming kings. Most trollers begin at 55-foot depths and do well running spoon rigs close to bottom at depths of 60 and 70 feet, according to Wes Walker at Slippery Sinker Bait & Tackle in Olcott. Shore anglers and all recreational fishing folk can find a good variety of fish within casting range at either Wilson or Olcott or Point Breeze. Northern pike have begun moving around Olcott as well as Wilson Harbor. Yellow perch have been plentiful, but the bass bite has been best at all three ports. Early morning casters reach brown trout chasing bait into harbor waters. Heavy casting spoons (Little Cleos, Wabblers, etc.) work well. A silver body with either a blue or green side color gets their attention.

....I thought this post was going to be a instructional seminar on lead?

Shades Of The Simpsons! Freak Fish Found In Alberta Lake August 20, 2008 / The Canadian Press Information about a mutated fish caught downstream from Alberta's oilsands region will be sent to a joint government-industry group that monitors the health of rivers and lakes. The 2.5-kilogram goldeye caught last week in Lake Athabasca has two mouths, one beneath the other. Two boys pointed the deformed fish out to Stuart Macmillan, Parks Canada's manager of resource conservation at Wood Buffalo National Park, who studied it before handing it over to the Mikesew First Nation. "We had just pulled up to the dock and some kids came over and said, `Hey, we've got a fish over here with two mouths," Macmillan said Tuesday. "It was really unusual. The fish has an obvious abnormality. I had never seen anything like that myself before. I can't speculate on what might have caused it." Macmillan said Parks Canada has not tested the fish, which was caught outside the park boundary, but he will forward a report on the mutation to Alberta's Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program. RAMP includes Alberta Environment, the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Health Canada, oilsands corporations and aboriginal groups. It was established to identify and address the potential impacts of oilsands development. The two-mouthed fish created a stir at the Keepers of the Water conference on the weekend at Fort Chipewyan, about 600 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. Aboriginal communities downstream of the oilsands have expressed concerns about how industrial development is affecting the animals that they eat and their drinking water. Elders believe pollution is responsible for high cancer rates and other health problems in the region. George Poitras of the Mikesew Cree said he quickly froze the fish and later put it on display for 20 minutes at the conference on a bucket of ice. "It was important for the fish to be displayed at the conference to show people what we have been claiming all along," Poitras said. "People were in disbelief. Here they saw a fish that we suspect is very much linked to tarsands development and contamination of the Athabasca River. Our elders tell us that what happens to the animals and the fish is just a sign of what is going to happen to human life." A federal fisheries official acknowledged the department is a member of RAMP but doesn't get directly involved when mutated fish are reported. Alberta Environment officials and RAMP chairwoman Janice Linehan could not be reached for comment. Health Canada and the Alberta Cancer Board said earlier this year they plan to study cancer rates in the Fort Chipewyan area. Poitras said the Mikesew plan to send the fish to an independent lab for testing. He said the band will not send the fish to RAMP, of which the band is a member, but plans to withdraw from, because it doesn't trust the organization to provide an objective assessment. "It is very heavily represented by industry and government and we feel that it doesn't do any justice as far as accurately representing any data to the community," Poitras said. "This is evidence and we need to ensure that is preserved." According to RAMP, it is normal to occasionally find deformed fish and that physical injuries or increased water temperatures in the egg stage can cause mutations. Abnormalities can include growths or tumours, lesions and missing or additional fins. Two-mouthed fish are not listed on the RAMP website. A two-mouthed trout was caught in Nebraska in 2005 and sparked headlines around the world. Nebraska fisheries officials speculated the deformity was caused by genetic mutation. The angler who caught the two-mouthed trout cut off its head and donated it to Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. The man said he kept the body, which he ate. He later said he wished he had kept the fish intact and had it mounted for posterity.

Cigarette butts biggest scourge along Canada's shorelines August 20, 2008 GREG JOYCE / The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — While the plastic bag is often vilified as the prime polluter of Canada's coast, a nationwide clean-up effort has found that a type of trash many Canadians toss without a second thought is piling up on the country's shorelines. Cigarette butts — by the tens of thousands — are the No. 1 item recovered during the annual TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Eric Solomon, vice-president of conservation, research and education, at the Vancouver Aquarium, said few Canadians seem to recognize cigarette butts are trash. “Many people who would never throw, for instance, a plastic bag on the ground, would go ahead and toss a cigarette butt on the ground and step on it and leave it there,” he said. The annual cleanup was initiated by the aquarium more than a decade ago and TD Bank signed on later as a sponsor. A recent survey done in advance of this year's cleanup next month shows only 18 per cent of Canadians believe cigarette butts are the top blight on our shorelines. But during last year's cleanup of shores across the country, volunteers collected well over 270,000 cigarette butts, Mr. Solomon said. That's 21/2 times more than the next most common item, which was food wrappers. Mr. Solomon noted it takes anywhere from five to 15 years for the filters in the butts to break down, providing lots of time for clueless birds, fish and marine mammals to mistake them for food. “Because there's no nutritional value, when an animal eats a cigarette butt or several cigarette butts, they feel full and can actually starve to death,” he said. The results of the shoreline cleanup survey were released Wednesday and indicate that 49 per cent of Canadians believe plastic bags are the major pollutant on shorelines. The annual cleanup is scheduled for Sept. 20-28 at more than 1,000 sites across the country. Last year 50,000 volunteers removed almost 90 tonnes for garbage from streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. This year, organizers are anticipating about 70,000 volunteers will get involved. Matthew Fortier, regional manager of the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, said volunteers essentially pick up everything that shouldn't be there, including tires and shopping carts. “An antique sewing machine was found last year,” he noted.

....Now that there's what Canadian weekends are all about.

....I thoroughly enjoyed that Mike (parts 1 & 2), thank you.

off to part 2.

....Here's a few old posts I dug up on it, may be of some help and a few lodges. http://www.ofncommunity.com/forums/index.p...ic=7142&hl= http://www.ofncommunity.com/forums/index.p...mp;#entry166039 http://www.ofncommunity.com/forums/index.p...c=11181&hl= Temagami Riverside Lodge Mountain Home Lodge

Body recovered from river August 18, 2008 ERIN FITZGERALD / thepeterboroughexaminer.com -A Markham man drowned while fishing with a friend along the Trent River in Hastings early Sunday morning, Northumberland OPP said. The victim and his male friend, from Scarborough, were fishing near lock 18 along the Trent River, south of Bridge Street, when he landed a fish and slipped from the edge of the water. "There is a fast current in the water there from all of the rain fall this summer," said the investigating officer, Const. Dave Pewtner of the Northumberland OPP. The friend put a call in to police around 4 a. m. Sunday morning. Emergency responded with members of the Northumberland OPP Detachment, assisted by the Marine Unit, the OPP helicopter and the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit. Trenton Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre also provided assistance with the search, police said. Pewtner was unsure whether the friend tried to assist the victim saying, "I don't think he realized his friend went in right away." The man's body was recovered around 12:30 p. m. Sunday, said Sgt. Paul Murray from Northumberland OPP. Police were not releasing any details about the victim or his friend and said more information would become available today.

It's not for everyone.

Congrtaulations, a magnificent example of the species.

.....Tis sad indeed and I'm in mourning Garry. Where will I go for all my custom rod needs now?

....Nonsense, I lost 50+ lbs the easy way, got sick, real sick! And you Brian, awesome, simply awesome. Now get off the smokes you stupi...

....I'm not 100% certain but if memory serves me right it's located near the dam on the west side. According to a map I searched it's may be off Pellisier St. Which runs off Beaver Valley Road (Grey Rd. 13)

....On a more serious note I spent most of the day down there (today) assisting all the up and coming young anglers with baiting hooks and hook removal (lots of dead gobies!). Many clubs were present and all the kids were getting fish and having fun. Kids who showed up with no rods were given one and were able to keep them or trade them in for prizes at the end of the derby. There certainly was plenty to see and do and I know I'm looking forward to next years event (I'll be better prepared ). Kudos to all who assisted in making this a great day for the kids. denisk, hope you have a great turn out for the event.

PROTECTING ONTARIO’S NATURAL RESOURCES McGuinty Government Keeping Outdoors Safe August 15, 2008 Ministry of Natural Resources / NEWS Five new conservation officers will soon be protecting Ontario’s natural resources and keeping the outdoors safe. The protection of the province’s natural resources is also being improved through increased ground patrols, patrols using aircraft, boats and other mechanized transportation, and new mobile technologies. These enhancements are being supported by a $2.5 million provincial investment. The new officers will focus on lakes Ontario and Erie, as well as other priority areas within the province. Ontario's conservation officers patrol an area of more than one million square kilometres, protecting fish and wildlife, ensuring that anglers and hunters follow the rules, helping to safeguard species at risk, and more. QUOTE “The investments we are making in enforcement will help strengthen the ability of our conservation officers to do their job, including inspecting, enforcing, educating and working with other agencies,” said Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield. “Ontario’s conservation officers protect our natural resources from abuse, and keep our great outdoors safe.” QUICK FACTS • The additional $2.5 million for the enforcement budget is an increase of 10 per cent over the previous year’s budget. • Ontario's conservation officers have powers of inspection, arrest, search and seizure under the various statutes they enforce. They work closely with the Ontario Provincial Police, other police services and federal enforcement agencies in the delivery of the public safety mandate of the governments of Ontario and Canada. LEARN MORE Find out more about how Ontario’s Conservation Officers protect our natural resources. ontario.ca/conservationofficer. - Stefanie Millon, Minister’s Office, 416-314-2198 ontario.ca/natural-resources-news - Jolanta Kowalski, Communications Services Branch, 416-314-2106 Disponible en français

.....A goat's eyes freak me out, strange critters. Cool bike though.

and that there is a fine way to end this one on!

119 CHARGES LAID IN WINDSOR AREA ILLEGAL FISHING INVESTIGATION Ministry of Natural Resources NEWS August 14, 2008 A 16-month investigation into illegal fishing has resulted in 119 charges against three Windsor-area people and a Windsor business. On May 15, 2008, Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers executed search warrants on residences in the Town of Lasalle and a commercial establishment in the City of Windsor. Conservation officers seized two vehicles, one boat, fish processing equipment, fishing gear and a quantity of fish. The 119 charges have now been laid against two individuals from Lasalle, one individual from Woodslee and a commercial establishment in Windsor. The charges include catching overlimits of fish, buying and selling fish illegally, transporting illegally caught fish, and illegally possessing a gill net and hook line. Conservation officers allege that the offences took place between April 2007 and May 2008 when large quantities of fish were taken from the Detroit River and the part of Lake Erie adjacent to Essex County. In order to harvest and sell fish in Ontario, a commercial fishing licence is required from the Ministry of Natural Resources. Fish retail outlets can only purchase fish for the purpose of resale from fish processing plants or holders of commercial fishing licences. It is also illegal for anyone to purchase or sell any angler-caught fish. To report a natural resources violation, call 1-877-TIPS-MNR (847-7667) toll-free any time or contact your local ministry office during regular business hours. You can also call Crime stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS 8477. Kevin Sprague, Lake Erie Management Unit, 519-825-3168

....This is giving me a headache. Lundboy perhaps you could find another site to post all this, I've got no time nor patience for your rants. Get out and go fishing before the sky falls!