Clean up your mess, Mark your gosh darned hut holes

Year round garbage cans don't work, because of the high number of a$$holes who will either: ( a ) ignore them or ( b ) bring their household garbage down to the cans and dispose of it there rather than paying a couple bucks for an extra garbage tag. The pigs will be pigs unless there's a way to track 'em and fine 'em.

Unfortunately you are correct....


I have been seeing it get worse every year very sad, cause it's so easy to leave any area clean

Tickets need to be handed out for these losers to learn.

a bit like the old saying----Cannot make stuff idiot proof---idiots are too smart for that.

I'm no biologist but every fish has a lateral line which is responsible for recieving (and sending) electrical current signals from other living creatures. Scientists aren't up to speed yet but it is a unique sense/communication system that fish utilize to self realize. It is a lot more complicated than that but IMO it is how all fish in a waterbody can identify and communicate with each other regardless of species. I presume to say that the curving around behaviour of these trout (seen twice during this winter) is an attempt to "feel" fishing line, the sinker, hook, and distinguishing from the living minnow. I'm crediting very advanced reasoning behaviour for this, but maybe a biologist knows better. It's as if the fish was 'looking back' at the minnow after passing by about 8" from the minnow. These were lakers just short of 2' or so, I thought I was seeing things , but was witnessed by others in the hut. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, ended up fixing boats for a living, shoulda listened to my younger self. All this might be bro-science, but I've been reading and watching for a few decades, started back when humans were "the only" creature capable of: reasoning, emotions, language, empathy, murder, homosexuality etc. etc. etc. WE have a ton to learn about our scaley friends, their downfall is their willingness to tug of war and their healthy and delicious taste. Cheers.

huh?

Fishes have Livescope sonar units installed, and know how to operate it, Google Lateral Line. I'm contacting an MNR biologist to report/ask about this...has anyone else seen fish cup their back while passing prey? Neither of the 'smart ones' bit. Lakers and most fish can see just fine almost 360 degrees, so it really wasn't a visual thing IMO. Like they were trying to gather more info by curving their back as they slowly swam by, it wasn't like a posture for just circling around them. Seemed just like when we put a hand over our ear to hear sound better? I dunno it was fascinating. I'll get out of this thread sry.

While trolling with steel line, I constantly jerk (jig) the rod forward and back, and I’ve caught enough lakers by the side/belly/tail/butt hole over the years to somewhat believe what you’re saying. They just swim along with the bait, dancing and dodging around it, and the odd time, it seems they’re above, or in front of it as I yank forward and Bam!... foul hooked. They feel giant when they’re out on 400 feet of wire coming in sideways. Seems logical to me that they could be checking things out a bit too close with their lateral line when this occurs.

I would be quite interested in following this topic on another thread.

OMC....here is a interesting read for you......there is a lot of reading to do on this subject.

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/9/jeb191411

Arnie