ITO Flies

OK done thanks guys they will be there way on Monday.

Still 1 to go! So who wants the last free unrigged fly from ITO Flies?

2 down and 3 still to go! There are no strings attached just a free unrigged fly!

OK so the first 5 people that PM me there address I will send you a sample Unrigged fly in a green color since I know you guys like the color green over there! Shade you do not count since you are already getting "Hooked" up!

Yours are on the Andy and I threw in a extra fly so you can see what my regular flies look like compared to the glow flies.

Hey shade send me your address so that I can send you some stickers and some free flies for flying my stickers. Ryan

They have found the DNA of the silver carp in Lake Michigan!

Shade the state of ILL will not close the locks so there is no way they would build a Dam. The canal is not natural it was built to divert sewage from lake Michigan down the Mississippi! Now the shipping industry uses it and that is why they will not close it. Again the lobiest win out over the good of the people. Thanks Washington!

Salmonboy I know all of these facts and I would not deny any of what you said I am just trying to bring up the point that most people only see the doom and gloom and do not even realize that the "Experts" have said we really do not know for sure what is going to happen! IMO we should fill in the river below the electric barrier and be done with it!!!! And my brother is a charter captain on lake michigan and that is his only means of living so he would be SOL!!! I just want people to have as much information as they can and that is why I posted in thei thread to make people look at all sides of it so that they dont think if they get in that you might as well just sell you boat and fishing gear!

And I agree with you longline. It will cause a lot of damage I was just trying to make people aware that it is possiable that there might still be a fishery. Sure it will be not the ideal situation but I think there would be some type of fishery! And I guess when I said nets I should have said the live trap nets not the gill nets. And I heard they were going to start calling them by a different name so that they may be able to market them more.

I live about 40 miles from the locks on the Southern Edge of Lake Michigan. I work for the national park here and I have been doing a program on exotic species for a while and one of the things that I have found is that the Illionis River is not the only way for the Silver and Bighead Carp to get into the lake. A professor in Wisconsin did a study and found 26 possiable routs for them to get into Lake Michigan. So even if they close the locks the darn things are still going to find a way in. It is going to be a bad thing when they get in that is for sure but I do not think it is going to be as bad as they are making it sound. For one thing the carp need river type current for them to spawn! There eggs can not lay on the bottom they have to keep moving. If they lay on the bottom and get covered with anything the eggs will not hatch. Also there are fish like the goby, another exotic, that will just love eating there eggs. Second they will want to stay around the warmer water like the shad. So once you are a mile or two off shore there should not be many carp out there. Now given you will have to keep you head down on the way out but once you get out you should be good. Also when these fish are jumping it is at higher sppeds, trolling speed they will just swim away from. In My Opinion we need to start looking at what do we do when they get in the lakes! Commercial netting for them, remember they are the #1 farm raised fish in the world. Major stocking program of native predatory fish, the northern pike would be a good one! I am sure there are other things that can be done but it is NOT going to be the end of our salmon and trout fishing. Maybe they will majorly increase in Salmon and Trout stocking to help control them!

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