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RiverEco - good explaination. They're generally recognized as good for your garden but a major problem in hardwood forests, especially those full of hard/sugar Maples. Not the trees but the ground cover can be greatly affected. Follow some of the links for UofMn explanations. Kind of neat that here's "another" that can be blammed on ship ballast. Apparently years & years ago, ships used dirt & rock as ballast so UofMn thought is that the soil may have contained worm eggs. All I really know is that (1) they're squirmy/slimmy (2) they're expensive (3) Fish love them (4) girls generally don't love them. Tom B. (LongLine)

Invasive worms :?: http://www.nrri.umn.edu/worms/forest/people.html Guess I don’t feel so bad about drowning so many of them when I was younger. :roll: Tom B. (LongLine)

Does it look like one of these FuzzyBear - Dreamweavers :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: The suspense is Freek-N killing me guys Tom B. (LongLine)

Luhr Jensen makes the Coyote spoon. Lord knows how they doctor it up at the Oak. Tom B. (LongLine)

Got’ta "love" the Feds for ignoring ballast water. :evil: Especially when you see articles like this where the ships coming into Lackawanna has gone up 4X this last year. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20 ... 021937.asp Tom B. (LongLine)

For anybody that’s looking for Nautical Topo’ charts on-line and lost the site from the P.H. era (pre-hacker) here’s 3 neat sites that are all printable: NOAA Charts Online. 1st is the index so you can pull up any map that NOAA has around the Great Lakes, including Finger Lakes, canal etc. http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/OnLineViewe ... rTable.htm #14804 is a familiar stomping ground. You can move around, zoom-in etc. http://205.156.4.52/cgi-bin/EyeSpy.dll? ... =1&aligY=1 This one shows that there IS bottom structure in the Great lakes. Zoom in on Big-O by click/drag a rectangle then check the visible layers “Lk Ont Bathymetry,â€Â

WTG Jeremy. Great pic. Tom B. (LongLine)

Tom B. (LongLine)

Hey YT Isn't amazing what those guys up East can do with Photbucket. I mean to take a simple Blk/Slvr lure and cut/paste those Grn/Yellow ladders on it so delicately on a photo is amazing... Fishstix must be holding classes or something. :mrgreen: Tom B. (LongLine)

Toon – Wind is the easy answer. I offer this to “complicate matters.â€Â