L&M

Last I heard a few days ago. It's still wide open up there.

Great new's Lew.

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Don't run it Sean (copper) so I can't vouch for that. Andy will be up in a couple week's and I'll show him what & how they work and send a few your way.

Yes they are the same as Amish sells but they don't have to be purchased there, nor are they used with a rubber band as they show. Very simple & efficient release at a reasonable price. No need to bring them in, let them slide down & send another behind it or if you want to switch a lure in the middle of a spread just pop the rod tip to release & send another lure out.

Sounds like a perfect recipe for a permanently floor mounted fish box ta me.

Welcome aboard.

Change it in your profile 82.

By David Figura/The Post-Standard March 16, 2010, 5:37AM The following is a press release. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today invited hunters to submit recommendations to regional Waterfowl Hunter Task Forces for the dates of the fall 2010 duck hunting seasons. DEC will evaluate the task force recommendations in setting waterfowl seasons, which must comply with federal rules. New York is divided into five waterfowl hunting zones: Western, Southeastern, Northeastern, Lake Champlain, and Long Island. DEC recently appointed task forces for each zone (except Lake Champlain, see link below) to solicit recommendations for the fall 2010 hunting seasons, including opening and closing dates, split seasons and a special hunting weekend for youths. Each task force includes representatives from the New York State Conservation Council, established waterfowl hunting organizations and individual waterfowl hunters who were chosen to provide input. The recommended dates must be within federal guidelines established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). For fall 2010, DEC expects the USFWS to allow a 60-day duck season, split into no more than two segments per zone, opening no earlier than Sept. 25, 2010, and closing no later than Jan. 30, 2011. Waterfowl hunters can participate by providing duck season suggestions to any task force member on or before March 25, 2010. Names and contact information for all task force members are listed in alphabetical order in the attached table and on the DEC website. Comments can be provided by mail, telephone or e-mail. The comment due date is important because the task forces will meet in late March and April and DEC plans to announce tentative duck hunting season dates in June. Input on hunting seasons for other migratory game birds, including Canada geese, snow geese, brant and woodcock, may be submitted also to any member of DEC's season-setting team. However, due to greater uncertainty about federal regulations for those species, decisions and tentative dates will probably not be known until later in the summer. Waterfowl seasons in the Lake Champlain Zone will continue to be set by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Management Board, with input from DEC and waterfowl hunters in New York and Vermont. Although there is no formal task force for this zone, hunters can send their suggestions to any DEC season-setting team member on the attached list. Descriptions of New York State's waterfowl hunting zones can be found on the DEC website and are also listed in DEC's Waterfowl Hunting Seasons and Regulations brochure. The tentative waterfowl hunting season dates will be posted on the DEC website and announced by news release in June. http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/42364.html

Big block or Small?

Clipper Releases Tom. No rubber band required.

Never say never. A standard transducer will, in most instances shoot thu & work ( altho with varied results ) in a smaller single layer aluminum hull boat. Radarsonics also makes a transducer for exactly that purpose. http://www.radarsonics.com/AlumaDucer.htm As was asked I would try with that unit first and see what the results were and if not adequate go with a different mounting option. Silicon would give that option.

Hum. Did ya catch the bandit ?

Half hitch band around main line at the point you are going to put it in the release. The resulting loop in the band goes inside the curtain hook & hook clipped around plainer line.

Clear silicone should do the job for ya Rick. The least amount with no air bubble's, to hold it in place the better.

Your both correct Tohatsu & Nisson are one in the same. Tohatsu also manufactures many smaller engines for other name brand company's as-well. Excellent quality engines all the way around.

Welcome George

Happy Birthday there teach. Have a good one Bud

Obama intent on ending recreational fishing in America? Column generates a strong reaction -- and a correction. By David Figura/The Post-Standard March 13, 2010, 9:29AM I've received more than a dozen emails from concerned local outdoorsmen this past week saying Pres. Obama is intent on ending recreational fishing in this country -- directing my attention to an ESPN.com column written by Robert Montgomery of ESPN Outdoors, entitled "Culled Out. Public input for federal fishing strategy has ended." The Field and Stream web site, however, described Montgomery's piece and the message it carried as "a farce." In addition, the ESPN.com editor this week issued an apology and posted a correction concerning Montgomery's column. Montgomery's piece begins: "The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters. "Fishing industry insiders, who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force, had grown concerned that the public input would not be taken into account." One reader said he heard Glen Beck mention the column this week on his show. Read the complete version of Montgomery's column. ESPN Outdoors Executive Editor Steve Bowman's statement in regard to Montgomery's piece follows: "ESPNOutdoors.com inadvertently contributed to a flare-up Tuesday when we posted the latest article in a series of stories on President Barack Obama's newly created Ocean Policy Task Force, a column written by Robert Montgomery, a conservation writer for BASS since 1985. Regrettably, we made several errors in the editing and presentation of this installment. Though our series has included numerous news stories on the topic, this was not one of them -- it was an opinion piece, and should have been clearly labeled as commentary. And while our series overall has examined several sides of the topic, this particular column was not properly balanced and failed to represent contrary points of view. We have reached out to people on every side of the issue and reported their points of view -- if they chose to respond -- throughout the series, but failed to do so in this specific column." The Obama administration has since issued a statement saying it has no such plans to end recreational fishing.. And Trout Unlimited, the Field and Stream web site reported, on Friday issued the following statement: "Dear TU Supporters: "We wanted to take a moment to respond to a number of you who have written to us this week concerning an ESPN piece that appeared on the ESPN Outdoors website about the draft proposal recently published by the President's Ocean Policy Task Force. The first sentence in the piece said the following: "The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters." "...The confusion over the ESPN article led the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the coordinating entity for federal environmental efforts, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), to issue the following statements (from Eric Schwaab, NOAA's Assistant Administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service) "The Ocean Policy Task Force has not recommended a ban on recreational fishing. The draft reports by the Ocean Policy Task Force do not contain a zoning map and do not establish any restrictions on recreational fishing, nor make any judgments about whether one ocean activity or use is better than another. Instead, the reports set up a policy and framework for effectively managing the many sustainable uses of the ocean while upholding our responsibility to be stewards of our oceans, coasts and Great Lakes. As a member of the task force, NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco, has said, and I echo her on this, that saltwater recreational fishing is vital to this nation and NOAA is committed to building a strong partnership with America's saltwater anglers to ensure that Americans have opportunities to fish sustainably for generations to come." "Saltwater recreational fishing matters to me on a personal level as a recreational fisherman, it matters to millions of Americans who enjoy this great sport and it matters to our economy. Our most recent economic report shows it supports a half million jobs and generates $82 billion in sales each year. NOAA is committed to adopting policies that will ensure that current and future generations have the opportunity to enjoy the great tradition of recreational fishing." "In our view, there is no evidence that the Obama Administration intended to use the work of the Ocean Task Force to undercut marine sport fishing." The Field and Stream web site concludes: "At least one good thing might have come out of this farce: if the administration wasn't paying attention to the concerns voiced by recreational anglers before, you can bet it is now. And that's a good thing regardless of who's in office." http://blog.syracuse.com/outdoors/2010/ ... creat.html

I think you misunderstood the # of leg's Bob. ps: You also missed the part where ya need a permit to carry dogs onboard.

C&P from an earlier post. L & M: I noticed your reply referenced Parks and Recreation....so I looked on their site....here is the regulation they referred me to: Navigation Law Updates Life Jacket Wear Requirements Beginning November 1, 2009, Section 40, Subdivision 1 of the Navigation Law shall be amended by adding new paragraph (e), which reads as follows: No owner or operator of a pleasure vessel less than twenty-one feet, including rowboats, canoes, and kayaks shall permit its operation, between November first and May first, unless each person on board such vessel is wearing a securely fastened United States Coast Guard approved wearable personal flotation device of an appropriate size when such vessel is underway. Failure to wear a lifejacket on such vessels will be considered a violation under Section 73-c if the Navigation Law and is punishable by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100, applicable to either the operator and/or the owner of the vessel. *** So I called them, specifically to clarify the "underway". They said while the vessel is at anchor you do not need to keep the PFD on (except as it applies to children). Also, it does apply to Lake's Erie and Ontario, also as I suspected it did. Thanks for the replys. Guess I have my answers. John _________________ Capt. John Forbes Times Two Charters

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