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On a side note. Enforcement of the water rules used to be the exception rather than the rule. These days, with all the drones, a lot of violations will be on camera and on record. I could think of some people not only having to pay fines, but also of having their boat impounded.

I took the Boat USA course a few years ago. I really enjoyed all the learning and reading. Specially all the flags that different types of boats are required to fly and the right of way rules. It was great medicine for cabin fever. As for the course not helping stupid people who drink and do drugs while boating, at least they can't plead ignorance anymore. I'll dig out my online diploma and put it in my cabin window. Oh , for all those people who think that this is just another way for "The Emperor" to get your hard earned money, the course is free through Boat USA https://www.boatus.org/newyork/

In Washington state there are a lot of places where people stand shoulder to shoulder while fishing (kind of like 8 mile creek here). That makes it almost impossible not to come into physical contact. Nobody in their right mind should do that now (or any time).

Lol, this may be the year when I will finally get my garden cleaned out and the vegetables and flowers planted in time

Is she going to veterinary school in Guelph?

MMM. I hear that they have female mounties these days

Those are commercial rigs not sports rigs, but just as disgusting. At the time they had a 10 fish limit, so they fished all day and kept the 10 heaviest fish. the rest was thrown out.

That is what happens when the regulations set limits but do not punish this sort of attitude. Anyway, that was in 2010. I wonder if it still happens.

The big problem is the political power that allows the commercial porgy fishery in Chesapeake Bay (for the cat food industry) to scoop up all the bait fish that stripers need.

Same here Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

While leafing through Craig's List last night, saw a 20 horse and a 9.9 Coleman 4stroke for sale for cheap. My first reaction was that the advertiser probably had his info wrong, but as I read farther into the specs, it turned out that these outboards are made by a company called Watersnake. I googled "Coleman 9.9" and both on Amazon and Walmart these engines are for sale for a few hundred dollars less than Tohatsus. So I tried to find out what this Watersnake company is and every time I went a bit farther into this search it seems that these are Suzuki made outboards.. Does anybody have any information about these outboards?

Oh, you will get plenty of it. When all that water mixes into Lake Eerie it will flush all that nutrient rich water right down the Niagara falls and at least the West side, but probably also the center and east end will get more green water. Dependent on how much water they can let into the Saint Laurens, the green water will reach farther east.

With all that water coming our way, at least we will get a cleaner lake, but that is one of the very few good side effects of too much water coming our way

I have a 1993 9.9 Johnson that I rebuilt in 2001 and it has been in my garage ever since. It has a charger and electric start. It is a kicker without tiller. I can come to St. Catharines. This engine has very low hours. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Red hooks and line were very popular a decade ago when there were a lot of opinions about which color becomes invisible at what debt. At he time the magazine "In Fisherman" did some testing with the spectrum and what bass sees at what depth. The end conclusion was that, as Spoonfed already mentioned, The fish did not care about the color red of the line or the hooks and the fishing fad about the color red ebbed away again.

The MMSI number is a very good thing and I strongly suggest you get one. As for not getting a peep. That is not so amazing for at this time of year. There is hardly any boat traffic at all. Just make sure that all your connections are strong and tight and dial onto the weather wavelength. Not hearing anybody, may have to do with the fact that ship to shore is used very little anymore. Everybody just uses their cell phones these days.