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    Two interesting polls: http://www.economist.com/debate/debates/overview/217 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le2226443/ I know how I voted. (NFW!) Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Maybe the sprocket is on the wrong end of the counter and the counter is installed backwards????? Just guessing. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    That's really neat. Thanx for posting the results of your search. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    I have no problem with anyone breaking that law of not wearing a PFD provided I don't have to pay for the search & rescue team to find him, the ambulance, the police, the coroner, hauling his boat out, etc. My taxes get wasted on enough other things. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Welcome to the board. Assuming Lake Ontario & your after Salmon/trout, in the tiller style, I'd suggest aluminum in the 14-16' range but must have a "V" style hull. NOT a flat or round bottom boat! Preferably a lap-streak design that's deep & fairly wide, with minimum 25 hp. Rivers such as the Oswego, Genny & especially the Niagara can have some mean flows at times so you want something with real good stability. Must have a good set of oar locks & sturdy oars. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    One of the things I noticed early on in "wind campaigns" is that the "promoters" are more concerned with putting on a positive spin to their "schpeel" rather than base their proposals on sound scientific evidence on the subjects that the affected people have. When questions are raised about local studies, they always point to other countries and/or to other environments where there are only questionable" studies that they have previously paid bigbucks for. They always place the onus on the affected people to come up with their own studies and of course when the affected people do, they are always denounced as "NIMBY'S." Jobs, home values, health effects, environmental impact, electricity/maintnenace/grid costs, generating capacity...it doesn't matter, they do it to all areas. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Yes greater change in pressure yields great velocity of flow - no question about it. This guys 'gizmo" will increase the wind speed that drives the blades. However greater speed = greater noise. Also greater pressure difference yields greater avian kill. Studies done at landbased windfarms showed very high numbers of dead bats & birds found behind the turbines which you wouldn't expect if they flew into the blades. Autopsies on bats found majority died from the sudden pressure changes that their lungs could not withstand. I like how he says the openings can be used for fishing. Launching looks like it'd be a real trick. I agree on geothermal - I find it hard to believe with all the drilling technology currently available that they can't drill deep enough; pump down some water then add just a little more energy to make steam to turn electrical generators - for a whole lot less money than is currently being squandered on wind turbines. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Cornelius - The difference in air pressure above & below the wing is what lifts the plane. (due to wing design) The engine/propulsion system provides the speed of the plane. That runways face the prevailing winds or that aircraft carriers turn into the wind for take off, only allows for planes to take off in more stable winds. i.e. no wind shear, no down drafts, etc. The wind does not "drive" the airplane. Yes headwinds slow the plane slightly & tailwinds help to push it along but only due to resistance/frictional effects. The windwill on the other hand is purely driven by the wind. For this turbine to be 100% efficient, the wind must transfer all of its energy to the windmill, which it doesn't, hence this guys 59% maximum figure. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    20 miles puts them just about in the shipping lanes. I imagine the freighters would love them, especially at night. Couple weekends ago they registered sustained 19 ft waves out there. That'd be kind of interesting - a runaway barge is one thing, a runaway turbine would be whole another world. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Good observation. One theory is that when bait is suspended & tightly packed, it is because bigger fish are driving them upward as they are feeding on them. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Always best to ask permission if you're going close to someone's property. Head up the road a bit toward Russell station. You won't have any access problem there. Even tho the plant has been shut down a while, some decent fish do stray in there. You also may want to give I-Bay channel & mouth a shot. (Nice parking lots both places) Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Welcome to the site Paul. Sounds like you're located around the ponds. Try tossing a few cleos around the mouths early then late in the day. There's a few Kayak-rs on here that have been doing pretty well. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Frm – Both USGS & USF&WS are in different divisions of the Dept of the Interior. USF&WS is brother to the National Parks Service & USGS is brother to the Bureau of Reclamation in the Water & Science division. The USGS reputation you allude to about earthquakes comes from renown Hollywood disaster movies such as Volcano, Earthquake, etc. Actually USGS is highly involved with Land use, Core Sciences, Ecosystems and Natural hazards. They’re more “hard-core†science than USF&WS & have some tremendous research & researchers. USGS has been actively involved with Lake Ontario and its restoration for many many years including monitoring the “health of the lakeâ€, lake levels, micro-organisms, Chemistry, water movement...you name it – they’ve been into it. Prey fish studies and the stocking of fish (Lakers & Atlantics) is directly related to the ecosystem & the “health of the lake.†I.E. fish abundance is one of the measures of a lakes health, hence USGS involvement. Differences between the two orgs can be seen from their mission statements: Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Although we need clean energy, it's folly to ruin & rape virgin, pristine territory for it, especially a national treasure such as the great lakes. The power companies need to do a lot more homwork on their projects. They need to apply more real science to the projects and less marketing "spin." When the decision was made , Lechase (1 of the trusties) was quoted as saying "we're going to release this with a positive spin...right?" Their marketing push with which they gained social & political support for, was environmental ie. "Go Green" & "Be the first", yet their real motivation, which is all they ever cared about, was the money. They didn't care about what the taxpayer or ratepayer had to pay but rather what they had to pay. With Germany, one point to consider, which NYPA didn't want to address, is the grid. Germany has a relatively new grid (old one blown away in WWII). Another is that the average wind speed for the majority of Germany is over 5 m/s. The wind rating of ther Baltic & North seas are over twice what they are for anyplace in the Great Lakes. It wouldn't bother me if every building in the city of Rochester had solar cells on it, or if they lined the entire thruway median with solar cells from Buffalo to NYC. However, I'll fight putting a Mega-acre solar panel farm out in Lake Ontario. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Cornelius - OFAH, CRAA & others have done a great job cleaning up trib habitat up there and more projects are in the works. I did some searching and found that there used to be 14 tribs stateside that reported good A.S. runs years ago. Also that in addition to what Gill-T said as issues, is the history of de-forrestation. Trees held back sediment and provided shade for the water, hence they didn't get as warm. Much higher than 70F is lethal to them. They have very difficult summers in the tribs. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Here’s a few pic’s before the wind came up View of the Summerville pier from Durand. (normally, you can see it) View of the Charlotte pier. (standing South of the CG station) Every 10 min or so a ricochete would come up onto the fishing access deck. View of the Summerville pier (Standing across from the CG station) Looks like all the garbage was washed off the piers. CG moved all their boats south of the turnsty. Believe it or not: there were 4 boat trailers in the lot. Bet they had fun retrieving. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Sorry for your loss Ray. We currently have 3 pooches, all rescued. A Nova Scotia "Troller" (obviously a favorite for a Lk O fishermen), a Golden & a "freeking" Beagle appropriately named "Sonic." All 3 aggressively protect the house from squirrels. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Looks like a revision: 12-16 ft'rs directly out of the North tomorrow late. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Steve - You refering to Maplewood falls? High falls is up by the inner loop. Lake fish can't get up there as they'd have to swim up Maplewood. Stay away from the mouth tomorrow. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    With 10-12 ft'rs out of the NE, fishing between the genny piers would be pure lunacy. They'll be coming straight in on you, bouncing off the walls & growing even bigger. I'll bet the CG moves their boats way upstream. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    The original post was not intended to start any kind of urination contest. It was intended to show that the Feds have some people studying it, which I found to be kind of interesting, and that it may extend the fishing season in some areas. Also please remember that it took a while for the Pacifics to develop. (The first ESLO was won with a 5 Lb King.) Serious stocking of Atlantics was given up by the US side many years ago. It was only about 4 yrs ago that the wine company started putting serious numbers of them on the Canadian side of the lake and still those numbers are less than 60% of the US King stocking. No one can expect a "tremendous" fishery to spring up overnight. It's taken 40 yrs, some up - some down, of hefty stocking numbers to get what's there now. Although some of our canadian collegues believe they put in inferior strains that never grow, you have to admit some nice size Atlantics have been caught in the last couple years. "Thiaminase" affects other fish besides Atlantics, and they seem to be doing pretty well out there. People always assume that Atlantics will only gobble alewives like the Kings do, however alewives are not on the top of their favorite foods list. Gill - I somewhat disagree with "None of these problems are going away." Please name a few dams & the headwaters because we do have King nat repro occuring with the current geography. Over harvest was done by the commercial fishermen (i.e. salmon trawlers with nets which no longer exist on the US side) not the sportsfishermen with 1 fish creel limit, lake is cleaner now than it's ever been in our life-times. The issues you mention may not have gone away but they have been greatly reduced. Question is: Have they been reduced enough? Tom B. (LongLine)
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    You can buy a decent trolling rod for 35 bucks. Unless you place great sentimental value in it as I do my snoopy rod, buy a new one. (or put it on your Christmas list, then go buy a new one & you'll have 2 new ones) Tom B. (LongLine)
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    Tunison raises the Atlantics. (Feds) If Altmar (NYS) did raise them then some pacifics would be displaced. NOTE: This is a fall stocking, not the normal spring stocking. Tom B. (LongLine)
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    6 at 5:38pm 4 at 6:03pm 8 at 6:42pm 12 at 7:15pm 4 at 7:30pm 16 at 8:09pm 2 at 8:17pm 13 at 9:12 14 at 9:45 . . . .
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