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    What State/Teritory [OLD POLL]

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    Out of the port of burton:confused: only an hour to the nearest launch. Rayman 96, I fished Erieau one time in July, and I love fishing there that time of year. Steelheading was awesome, and to bring in a bunch of eye's to go along, it just doesn't get much better.....

    July may be hot but the first two weeks of August is even better. In a normal year, fish are concentrated till middle of September. After that they are around but generally scattered.

    08 should be great, with the 03 class of walleye coming in at trophy size. Perch fishing has been consistent and should be awesome for another year.

    Glad to hear you had a good time.

    Comercial Fisherman Irresponsible On Lake Erie

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    Caught by fishing net, Jiimaan ferry out of service.

    Sonja Puzic, The Windsor Star

    Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007

    The Jiimaan ferry to Pelee Island is out of service after one of its propellers got caught in a fishing net in Lake Erie, causing an engine shut down Wednesday afternoon as the vessel attempted to dock in Kingsville with 21 passengers on board.

    The Owen Sound Transportation Company (OSTC), which runs the ferry service, sent divers to examine the damage Thursday. They determined that a fishing net became entangled in a propeller, causing the shafts to seize. As a result, the port engine shut down and the ferry ran aground as the captain attempted to manoeuvre it, said OSTC general manager Susan Schrempf.

    "(The fishing nets) are a huge problem," she said Thursday. "Sometimes the local fishermen leave the nets where they're not supposed to be, or they drift into the channel in the wind."

    It was windy when the Jiimaan left Pelee Island at 4 p.m. Wednesday with 14 vehicles and 21 passengers on board, including Township of Pelee Mayor Rick Masse. The ferry was scheduled to dock in Kingsville at 5:30 p.m., but got into trouble around 5:25 p.m., Schrempf said.

    "When the port engine shut down, the captain had to back out, but while trying to back away, he went into the ground," she said.

    Because of the way the dock is configured in Kingsville, it was impossible to dock without use of the port engine. The captain had to decide whether he would request a tugboat or attempt to dock in Leamington, where he could dock using only the starboard engine.

    Eventually, the decision was made to steer the vessel toward Leamington, using the working propeller and the starboard engine. The wind was also blowing the ferry in that direction. By 8:30 p.m. the Jiimaan docked in Leamington and all the passengers were on the ground.

    "We're very happy that no one was injured," Schrempf said, adding that the cost of repairing Jiimaan will be "significant."

    "There was never any risk (to the passengers)," the Pelee mayor said. "Just the inconvenience of waiting a couple of hours."

    A local commercial fisherman, who did not want to give his name, said most fishermen follow the charts outlining the ferry's path and never put their nets in the channel.

    "It's not in our interest to do that. It's a loss to us when the nets get cut up," he said, adding that it's possible the Jiimaan steered from its usual path because of the gusting winds.

    Schrempf said the Pelee Islander, a smaller ferry, will now transport passengers to and from the island. She said the Jiimaan was supposed to be out of service for the season a week ago, but it kept running because of a late harvest season on Pelee Island. The Jiimaan was needed to transport crop-carrying trucks which cannot fit on the smaller ferry.

    One truck remains on the island and Schrempf said alternative plans are being made to bring it and its load to the mainland.

    © The Windsor Star 2007

    Nov 22, 07 at 11:21 PM

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    Scary Science

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    I can't believe where this world is headed. Instead of finding cures they are making freaks!

    :mad: Salmon spawn baby trout in experiment :mad:

    By LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press Writer

    Thu Sep 13, 7:57 PM ET

    Papa salmon plus mama salmon equals ... baby trout? Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish.

    Idaho scientists begin the next big step next month, trying to produce a type of salmon highly endangered in that state — the sockeye — this time using more plentiful trout as surrogate parents.

    The new method is "one of the best things that has happened in a long time in bringing something new into conservation biology," said University of Idaho zoology professor Joseph Cloud, who is leading the U.S. government-funded sockeye project.

    The Tokyo University inventors dubbed their method "surrogate broodstocking." They injected newly hatched but sterile Asian masu salmon with sperm-growing cells from rainbow trout — and watched the salmon grow up to produce trout.

    The striking success, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, is capturing the attention of conservation specialists, who say new techniques are badly needed. Captive breeding of endangered fish is difficult, and attempts to freeze fish eggs for posterity so far have failed.

    "They showed nicely that ... they produced the fish they were shooting for," said John Waldman, a fisheries biologist at Queens College in New York.

    "Future work should look to expand this approach to other fishes in need of conservation, in particular, the sturgeons and paddlefish," he added. "We have a lot of species of fish around the world that are really in danger of becoming extinct."

    The Japanese researchers' ultimate goal: Boost the rapidly dwindling population of bluefin tuna, a species prized in a country famed for its tuna appetite.

    "We need to rescue them somehow," said Goro Yoshizaki, a Tokyo University marine scientist who is leading the research.

    First, Yoshizaki's team started with "salmonids," a family that includes both salmon and trout, and one of concern to biologists because several species are endangered or extinct.

    Initial attempts to transplant sperm-producing cells into normal masu salmon mostly produced hybrids of the two species that didn't survive.

    This time, Yoshizaki engineered salmon to be sterile. He then injected newly hatched salmon with stem cells destined to grow into sperm that he had culled from male rainbow trout.

    Once they were grown, 10 of 29 male salmon who got the injections produced trout sperm, called milt.

    Here's the bigger surprise: Injecting the male cells into female salmon sometimes worked, too, prompting five female salmon to ovulate trout eggs. That's a scientific first, Yoshizaki said.

    The stem cells were still primitive enough to switch gears from sperm-producers to egg-producers when they wound up inside female organs, explained Idaho's Cloud.

    Then Yoshizaki used the salmon-grown trout sperm to fertilize both wild trout eggs and the salmon-grown trout eggs. DNA testing confirmed that all of the dozens of resulting baby fish were pure trout, he reported.

    Moreover, those new trout grew up able to reproduce.

    Those first experiments, funded by a Japanese research institute, used still fairly plentiful species to develop the technique. Now comes Idaho's attempt to prove if the method is really useful in trying to produce the endangered sockeye salmon.

    Last January, Yoshizaki helped University of Idaho scientists collect and freeze immature sperm tissue from young sockeye salmon being raised at a state-run hatchery. Next month, he'll be back to help Cloud thaw the tissue and implant it into sterile rainbow trout.

    In Japan, Yoshizaki is focused on bluefin tuna, noting that standard "marine ranching" techniques are difficult for tuna that can reach man-size.

    He has begun experiments into how to produce baby tuna from mackerel, which are nearly a thousand times smaller than adult tuna. If it works, "we can save space, cost and labor," he predicted in an e-mail interview.

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    What's worse?

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    Believe me when I say I feel your pain. Did the same thing many years ago. I was in too much of a hurry to set rods and I lost a personal favourite trolling fly I had made myself. Dumb-dumb-dumb. Was a lesson learned the hard way.

    Landing Big Fish

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

    Posted

    First I'd like to say this is a great thread. In many areas barbless hooks only rules apply. Line angle and pressure are the only reasons keeping the fish hooked until netted. Barbless hooks also make a smaller hole going in and penetrate easier. They are safer to use and I'm trying a few setups.

    Having said that, the majority of my rigs are regular trebles and siwash. For small spoons I like trebles and for bigger lures I prefer single siwash as wide as the spoon itself but not so big as to change lure action. Very few of my spoos are mags.

    On Erie my main targets are walleyes and bows. On the riggers, releases on the tight side and load up the rod. With divers, leadcore, braid and inline boards I like a drag on the light side. To prevent reel creep use a pich-pad release to hold the line. Trebles do less damage most of the time allowing for safe release of some small bows while we target walleye.

    I guess there is no hard and fast rules just some precautions we can take.

    Good luck and tight lines.

    Nitro Spoons

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

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    Hey there MM;

    This is what I've found. Lures reach a point of saturation and charging longer has no effect. At least non that I could see during use.

    I use a camera flash. Hit it once or twice and set out. You can also use a portable black light, which I think works better. Use a white towel or sheet as a background. This will maximize the light hitting the lures during charging.

    These mentioned devices have a broader spectrum of light than a regular flashlight and more brightness.

    Good luck.

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