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Spring fishing was the best we've seen in a long time after more of a traditional Western New York winter. The top 21 salmon in the spring Lake Ontario Counties Trout & Salmon Derby came off the shores of Niagara, with the winner a 29-6 lb. king. There were a couple 30 pounders reported, but they weren't in the derby! Summer fishing was off because of weather inconsistencies, but some nice catches of salmon and trout were reported when waters stabilized. The fall action for staging salmon was very good and the winning salmon for the Fall LOC derby was a 39-8 lb. Chinook taken out of Olcott. Several 40 pound fish were recorded but, again, not in the derby. Lake Ontario Sport Fishing Promotion Council

Tributary action was arguably the best ever, with piles of browns, steelhead and salmon showing up below Burt Dam in October and continuing through the month of November. A local conservation officer with more than 30 years on the force commented it's been the most fish he's ever seen there - ever! At least one line class record was applied for, a 12 8 lb. brown taken on 2 lb. tippet.

I had another great year fishing north and south twin lakes in Vilas County, WI for muskie, walleye and smallmouth bass.
Productive baits for muskie are bucktails and crankbaits. Since the lake gets a lot of pressure, I like to throw lures that they may not have seen. Bright colors and smaller sizes usually produce. For walleye, standard seasonal presentations were fine. Slip bobbers and leeches or minnows, as well as jigs worked well.. For the bass, large redtail chubs are my favorite bait. They accounted for many large fish, including a 20 ½" in the spring. Night fishing is often overlooked but can be some of the best fishing of the year. Large crankbaits take both muskie and trophy walleye all season long. Andy Cameron

The fishing on the western end of Lake Superior this summer was extremely good and highly productive. This was the first fishing season in my memory where anglers were able to catch all the listed species of fish (lean Lake Trout, Chinook, Coho, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and Walleye). These species were available throughout the summer and fall fishing season in the waters of the western end. Whether you were a novice angler or the highly experienced, you caught fish and the catch of fish was a diverse bag. Capt Dave Koneczny www.visitduluth.com/KDK

Western New York river fishing is great at the end of the Fall season! With water feed from the Erie Canal, especially in the Oak Orchard River, there is a great flow of fishable water. All the brown trout still in the Oak Orchard at the end of the Fall spawn will remain most of the winter if flows are good. Steelhead are entering WNY tribs now too, as well as some coho salmon. Another new twist to the fishery this year is the presence of some lake trout. Where else can you fish a mid sized trib and get hookups with brown trout, steelhead, cohos and lake trout?! Ron Bierstine, Orleans Outdoor Tackle Shop

Watchdog Group Files Scathing Report
OTTAWA - The Prime Minister's Office is conducting a full-scale assault on the public right to scrutinize how it is governed via access to information, the Information Commissioner, John Reid, said yesterday in a blistering attack on the conduct of the Liberal government.
In an unprecedented report, he accused Jean Chrétien's administration of threatening commission staff who tried to uncover hidden government documents. Reid said senior bureaucrats were threatening the careers of those charged with protecting the public's right to know.
"There is a full counterattack in progress against the office of the Information Commissioner," led by the Prime Minister's Office, the Privy Council Office, Treasury Board and the Department of Justice, Reid wrote in a report. Members of his staff have had their careers threatened by bureaucrats bent on stalling or preventing the release of information to taxpayers, he alleges.
Coming on the eve of the publication of the Auditor-General's report, expected to be critical of the government's handling of several issues, including the "$1-billion boondoggle" at the Human Resources department, the Information Commissioner's blast against allegedly systemic cover-up attempts could damage some politicians.

Your Government at Work
   In a response to a House Subcommittee on Environment inquiry, Charles Fox, Ass't. Administrator USEPA, admitted that after more than fifty years of fluoridation at least tens of millions of Americans could be adversely affected by fluoridated drinking water.
Existing data indicate that subsets of the population may be unusually susceptible to the effects of fluoride and its compounds, and Fox acknowledges these "populations are unusually susceptible". Fox added "These populations include the elderly, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium and vitamin C, and people with cardiovascular and kidney problems. Poor nutrition increases the incidence and severity of dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis."

   These are the "at risk" populations compiled for the House Committee inquiry by the USEPA:
· 55 years and older population--52,000,000
· Cardiovascular disease--22,000,000
· Kidney (renal) disorders--2,000,000
· Vitamin C deficiency--27% of the population
· Magnesium deficiency--37% of the population
· Calcium deficiency--44% of the population

   EPA also concedes that fluorosilicic acid and fluorosilicates, the preferred chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water are captured pollution waste products from phosphate fertilizer industry. No safety testing has ever been done with the products.

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