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Several items marked sold, but others still available.

Only a couple things left. The modem/router combo is current and retails for serious change. If this stuff is not sold by the weekend, it's going bye-bye. 1. Costa 580G Apalach with Tortise Frame. Near perfect condition. $50 - SOLD 2. Hobie glass lenses for a narrow face. $10 -SOLD 3. Native plastic lenses, narrow face. $0 4. Outboard motor lock. $10 SOLD 5. Truck steering wheel lock. $10 6. Wireless GPS module - works for iPad, etc.. $10 7. Muddy lumbar support for tree stands (x3). $20 total. SOLD 8. Browning waterproof, insulated bibs, large, great condition but elastic suspenders have some Ozone stretching lol. $25- SOLD 9. Guide series fishing vest. Large. Unused. $10 10. Hendrix Outdoors wading jacket. Gore Tex? Unused, large, neoprene cuffs. $25 - SOLD 11. Shooting vest. $0 12. Turkey vest with detachable seat. Great condition. $20 - SOLD 13. Netgear Modem/Router combo C7000 v2. Only two years old, but will NOT work with the new symmetric network Spectrum is rolling out (same upload and download speeds). $30.

I was actually out in my kayak until the wind picked up, but on the ponds rather than the lake. It looked great out there.

Somebody playing hooky lol? Nice morning, nice fish.

Awesome reporting, Pete. Thank you.

Nice pics! And Happy Birthday. I was torn yesterday between hitting the lake or Honeoye. Chose the later and didn't regret it

I hope there's resolution soon and not too many folks are impacted.

Disagree about The Fish Thief. IMHO, they did a great job. Many interviews with families that historically made a living fishing. I wasn't watching explicitly for anti-fishing sentiment, but usually that sort of thing would set off my radar pretty quickly. I mean, they even talked about how king salmon were the savior of the lake after the alewives got so bad they needed to use bulldozers to clean up the beaches. Anyway, I went in thinking it would be schlock and ended up really enjoying it. Everybody should watch it and figure out for themselves what they think!

x2! I think I'd mentioned at some point here or elsewhere that the lampricide belongs to a class of chemicals that was used as weight loss drugs in the last century - until folks started dying from heat exhaustion! Dinitrophenol uncouples your mitochondria and wastes energy in the form of heat. Makes them work harder, ergo the weight loss, but - just like non-shivering thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue - generates heat instead. Lovely. The things people do. At least they're used now to exploit a selective vulnerability in lamprey. Still toxic to other species at high enough doses though. Interestingly, these drugs are currently being applied at very low doses in therapeutic trials to combat Parkinson's disease, since they can elicit a mitochondrial stress response that helps prevent the consequences of a problematic quality control system. Cool, right?

All good points! I was of course just using hyperbole to illustrate the point that it's always easier to offload the burden on someone else's shoulders. We are all in this together. And I, like you, think that the national debt is one of the largest problems facing us. But I want to make sure before hack and slash cuts that we are actually making the problem better not worse. I think that one of the words in DOGE is "efficiency", but I'm not seeing it. There's a great article in NY Outdoor News regarding the recent cuts to the Park Service. I agreed with the final take that the intent is to limit services to the point where privatization becomes necessary. And there goes the neighborhood. Our National Park system is the envy of the world. It would be a shame to lose it.

Put your money where your mouth is and donate your retirement to reducing the debt. After all, you are asking that other folks shoulder the burden by taking away the future that they've worked their whole lives for. Do it!! I still won't agree with you, but at least I will respect that you back up your opinion with action.

1. If we wait for a problem to become a problem, then we will be behind the eight ball in formulating a solution. Got to think ahead. 2. Some solutions are too extreme, no matter the debt we owe. Thanos snapped his fingers and wiped out half the population of the universe, silly as that was, in Avengers. See my leadoff statement. We need to weigh juice for the squeeze and minimize collateral damage. 3. A big thanks to those posting information rather than opinions. I will contact my representatives.

I give a sh$t. It's a fascinating scientific issue, and there's a wealth of theories. Unfortunately, with grant funding declining and the cuts reaching far, even NOAA, I suspect that it will remain a topic for conversation on this board for a long time. Just not enough juice for the squeeze. Maybe when I retire next year I will spearhead an initiative. My guess is that it's a lack of manpower and resources. Fisheries isn't my game (despite having worked in a Cornell ADK field station during college), but you're either always learning or never learning.

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Some St. Croix rods are made in Wisconsin, but many are manufactured in Mexico, as are all RodGeek blanks, which is their custom counterpart. Still, better than most rod makers. Many are made in Asia, with a few still located in the States, but sourcing materials and outsourcing production of certain runs - Loomis comes to mind. Unless it's from a small custom manufacturer, the most recognized brands are all part of multinationals. And I can confirm Gambler Rigs are made in America. IMHO, he should recruit some "child labor" to help him; make the kid earn his keep lol.

FYI, good article in the latest issue of Outdoor News on the impact of COVID on lamprey populations. It wasn't good.

Love the terms. TDS, libtards, woke left. Can't folks have a simple exchange of ideas without trying to belittle or demonize the other side? These things started out as a snickering kind of loopy joke, Now they're buzz terms used mainly by folks who didn't seem to get that it was a joke in the first place. And don't start telling me how the left does the same thing. It does. MAGA republicans. Huge insult lol Somehow I manage to have conversations with my right wing friends, many of them on here, without feeling like my opinions are totally dismissed and I'm a dumb ass. And I hope that I in return never make them feel that way. And at the end of the day, it's all about where we're fishing or hunting tomorrow. Maybe it's just that the interweb sucks. Ignore me - I'm just watching years of work go up in flames. Meli-frickin-ora.

Thanks for clarifying. Hopefully the same holds true as we move forward.