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Welcome to the site Neale! There is a ton of information on this site that will help any fisherman no matter where they reside or what waters they fish. Enjoy the site and thanks for stopping by

Guys - I'll be happy to look into this for you. Give me a bit of time and I will let you know what I come up with. I just have to be careful about how this is handled if you we talking about exchanging personal information. We might have to use the private messaging system built in and maybe combine that with a "buddy list" for easy access to memebers you are friends with. Something like that.... In the mean time, enjoy a couple new features I added... 1.) "Link to Us" - Top right of the site 2.) Quick Reply in the Private Message area. This one was a long time coming and I had several requests for it as members always complained that they couldn't remember what the other person wrote after hitting the reply button. 3.) A cool LOU Logo for the text area background (bottom right - just hit reply to see). 4.) LOU Game Room for Pro Members 5.) Snow flakes on the site for the holiday season. The snow storm at LOU stops the day after Christmas for those wondering. Enjoy

Hey Bob - Henk is right. I put some snow on the site just for the holiday season. It will only last through Christmas so enjoy Hopefully it won't start pilling up at the bottom of your screen.

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Hey LOU Members, Just an FYI that we have added a new section for LOU Professional accounts. The new section is called the "LOU Game Room". This is a collection of online fishing games available for you to play via the LOU Pro website. The games are in both Flash and Director (so you may need to download a plugin in order to play them if it isn't already installed). Either way, if you are a pro member simply sign in and enjoy.... if your not a pro member yet, sign up now and start enjoying... but remember that you only get a half hour for your lunch break! Happy gaming! Chad

Enjoy the following gift good for $10 OFF $50 purchase. Use code HOLIDAY2007 at checkout Check out our store and order soon to ensure delivery by the holiday . CHRISTMAS @ LOU

Here is the DEC report without the PDF hassle... =================================== LOCAL SPORTSMEN ASSIST DEC WITH EMERGENCY SALMON EGG COLLECTION EFFORT FOR LAKE ONTARIO SPORTFISHING For Release: Immediate Contact: Megan Gollwitzer Thursday, November 21, 2007 (716) 851-7201 Thanks to the assistance of local anglers and fishing groups, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is pleased to report that nearly 792,000 Chinook Salmon eggs have been collected from Eighteen Mile Creek in Niagara County. Egg collection was initiated as an emergency effort to help achieve New York’s salmon stocking goals for Lake Ontario. Located in Altmar, Oswego County, DEC’s Salmon River Fish Hatchery normally collects around 3.5 million Chinook Salmon (also known as King Salmon) eggs from the Salmon River. The eggs are collected in the fall, and are hatched and reared to fingerling size at the hatchery. In spring, the fingerlings are transported from the hatchery and released into Lake Ontario’s tributaries, including Eighteen Mile Creek. This stocking program is an essential component of the Lake Ontario Chinook Salmon sport fishery opportunities, drawing many thousands of anglers annually to Lake Ontario and its tributaries. Surveys indicate that Lake Ontario’s sportfishing industry generates over 50 million dollars to New York State’s economy annually. This year, extremely low water levels in the Salmon River during the spawning season resulted in significantly reduced numbers of salmon moving up the river to spawn. Consequently, there were less spawning salmon from which to collect eggs, making it impossible for the Salmon River Hatchery to meet its standard egg collection goals. By late October, less than one million eggs were able to be collected. In an urgent effort to supplement the low number of eggs collected, DEC Fisheries staff initiated egg collections from other Chinook Salmon spawning areas in addition to Salmon River, including sections of Eighteen Mile Creek. Teaming up with local anglers and sportsmen fishing groups, a week-long cooperative egg collection effort successfully yielded a total of 792,000 additional Chinook Salmon eggs to add to those initially collected from the Salmon River. As a result of this effort, the Salmon River Hatchery’s total Chinook Salmon egg count is now 1.9 million. Participants cooperating in the egg collection effort included Region 9 DEC Fisheries Staff and Environmental Conservation Officers, Niagara County Fish Advisory Board members, the Niagara River Anglers Association, the Lake Ontario Trout and Salmon Association, the Town of Newfane, and countless local anglers who graciously gave up their catches to assist. Some assistance from anglers and staff was also provided in DEC’s Region 8 along Oak Orchard Creek.

Dear Santa, This year for Christmas I would like to find under my fishin' tree... (you fill in the rest)

Hahaha! Well done fellas. LOU taking NYC by storm.

Try this link Tom. Also, this link and many more are always available to PRO members if your interested. We have a growing collection of all our favorite fishing related web links. Hope this helps.

Keep your kids out of those waters! Oh my gosh that is a big toothy critter! Nice catch man!

Chris - Sign up for an LOU Pro account and you will never lose your favorite fishing sites again because all the best ones are listed there on the left hand column. We add more all the time but this way you will always have one spot to go for all your favorite fishing links. Here is the link to find out more: http://www.LakeOntarioUnited.com/LOU_Pro.php Cheers,

Glad the lab was found. Sorry to hear about your loss.

Hahahaha - you crack me up Skein.... now we need one of your cool graphics to better display your point

Haha - I can already tell this is going to be a fun forum spot with many interesting conversations to come

MANY of our members here on Lake Ontario United are from Canada and this forum was created as per their request. This is after all Lake Ontario UNITED right? I didn't want the fishing reports section to become too long in the tooth with reports from both sides, leaving others with an ocean of posts to search through so I broke up the forum (as per one of our Canadian members request) into two sections. Here's to you North Country

Hunting season approaches and even though I do not do any hunting, I thought this to be kind of interesting.... $12,000 Dollar Deer Hunt? You will also notice that for the next two weeks, LOU auctions will display hunting relevant ebay items on the main page. So to all our hunters who are also fisherman on this board, enjoy and here is to a successful season - no matter how much money you spend on the hunt...

Haha - sorry about that Tank! The image posts in true resolution format and doesn't get re-sized cause it posts as an HTML Doc and not a picture format. Some people like this and some people don't, but I personally don't mind it. You can always right click on the image and select "View Image" and this will open the image itself in a new window and depending on your browser (IE, Firefox, ect.) will be resized appropriately. Let me know if that helps. Thanks again Tank!

Hey Henk - You can use either system/method of posting pictures that you prefer. They will both always work on this board. Does this answer your question? Thanks - Chad

Welcome aboard Brian! We got lots of good fishermen from Hamlin on the board. Enjoy your visit!

Very interesting Pat - thanks for sharing!

Hahahaha - Scott - we always tease him about that. You can always tell when dad has been on vacation cause his knee-caps will be sun burned (thats it!).

UPDATE: New image upload mod installed. Simply click the link, select your image and thats it! Your done! Doesn't get much easier than that.