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Evolution would work; ....if we let it.
Topic Started: Feb 8 2009, 12:45 PM (207 Views)
dumblonde
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This strikes me as one of the strangest sports ever. Huddled in a smelly shack over a hole in the ice trying to catch a bony fish.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020800459.html


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Officials: 1 dead, 134 rescued from Lake Erie ice
The day began with fishermen setting down wooden pallets to create a bridge over a crack in the ice so they could roam farther out on the lake. But the planks fell into the water when the ice shifted, stranding the fishermen about 1,000 yards offshore.

"We get people out here who don't know how to read the ice," Ottawa County Sheriff Bob Bratton said. "What happened here today was just idiotic. I don't know how else to put it."
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Main Man
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Seems like evolution has already worked with talk radio so now the libs want to defy evolution because they didn't get the result they want.
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dumblonde
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Yadda, yadda, yadda. Which radio talk show host got all you cons worked up? You are such obedient little lap dogs! :ROFL:
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I lived much of my childhood on the north shore of Lake Erie.....near Dunville, Ont. We would watch the ice fishermen go out every Monday morning, in trucks, vans, carrying the makings of shanty towns and setting up to spend the week catching what they could. In their defense...many were commercial fishermen and when the access to the shipping lanes closed with ice, this is what they did.

the prevailing winds on Lake Erie are from the SW....so ice will jam up on the north shore making good stable fishing towns, on the American shore ice will indeed break off and go where? north to canada. Rarely does Lake Erie freeze absolutely solid. Anyone familiar with ice on that lake knows that though thick and heavy, it will move with the winds....best to be where the winds will take you home, not the other direction.
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Main Man
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http://www.fishandgame.com/kingcrow/
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archer
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Leave it to someone to ruin the art of building a fishing shack from practically nothing
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Gringa
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I think guys do this to get away from the old lady -
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Gringa
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Oh, and thanks for info Archer. That's interesting, I didn't know that it was anything but a bunch of guys going out and drinking all day.
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Mtnman
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the prospects of a BIG fish will always throw caution to the shitter..
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The Punisher
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"Evolution would work; ....if we let it."
It worked well for manna's linage...
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