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Good stuff, huge hatch last fall too, more than I have seen in 10 years in Jeff Cty Never hurts to be conscious of all Lake Ontario biology Tom

All invites have been sent out: If you did not get yours please contact us [email protected] Deposits are due May 1 Tom

Invites will be out early April Tom

A-TOM-MIK @ LOTSA A-TOM-MIK LOTSA 01/20/17 -01/22/17GREATER NIAGARA FISHING EXPO *Big Lake Gear Here is what A-TOM-MIK will have at LOTSA -Copper: Bulk 3500', Marked 2000', all other sections 200-600' (20) spools each, just a few bulk and marked -Fly Bodies: 120 colors (5) 2 Pk's each color (Only 10 total fly bodies per color) Except the new UV190/Gold and Goldilocks, we did (20) Pk's each of them -John King/A-TOM-MIK 3-Fly Style Meat Rigs-24 colors (6) each -Rhys Davis/A-TOM-MIK 3-Fly Style Meat Rigs-60 colors (6) each -All our flied meat rigs use 40# Gamma Fluro and have replacebale leader ends with tied in Rosco swivels -John King/A-TOM-MIK Clean Meat Rigs-25 colors (6) each -Rhys Davis/A-TOM-MIK Clean Meat Rigs-12 colors (6) each -Twinkie Teasers 3-Pks 36 colors (6) each -Twinkie Teasers Rigged on 40# Gamma Fluro 30 colors (6) each -Die cut tapes 27 colors (6) each -Lure eyes 3/8" 10 colors 12 pks each -Bead Chains, Hooks, Rattles, Harnesses, Chart. Opaque Beads -Hoping for 12 cases of cut bait (?) (6) cases each size -A total 160 Sq ft of stock ***We will offer a very wide selection of color patterns in all our products, however a very limited amount of each, this is out of respect to our many dealers. It is our ultimate goal to showcase our diversity and color selections first. Hope to see you there Tom

2 buy in options for 2017

Jerry: This was truly a cartel: Have a read when you get some time http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_caviar_kings/P1/ Tempotech, run by George Jackson and Robert Gehl, obtained a contract to harvest salmon and salmon eggs from Lake Michigan, where, because the waters were considered relatively uncontaminated, salmon (and its roe) was deemed fit for human consumption. Tempotech maintained two egg-processing facilities—one at its headquarters in Hart, Michigan, and one in Pulaski, New York. However, Jackson and Gehl decided to use the Michigan contract as a cover to launder Lake Ontario salmon eggs, which could only be legally sold as fisherman’s bait. Tempotech’s own analysis of the eggs showed high levels of polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs) and mirex—a banned pesticide linked to cancer, stillbirths, and reproductive disorders—but still Jackson and Gehl sold nearly one million pounds of the contaminated eggs, most of them to Gold Star. The eggs would have an eventual market value of $16 million. The salmon eggs processed at the Pulaski plant were packed into 45-pound buckets clearly labeled with the warning stickers. But once in Michigan, the eggs were repacked, this time without the “bait†label, and then shipped to Gold Star, where they were resold directly to the public for consumption as caviar. Caspian Star’s records indicate that each bucket was referred to as a “piece†of caviar. A typical shipment contained ten pieces—450 pounds. A Tempotech manager confirmed to DEC investigators that “all Pulaski caviar went to Gold Star.†DEC tests performed on Gold Star’s salmon eggs confirmed high levels of mirex. One investigator noted that Jackson had personally delivered the contaminated caviar to Gold Star. Panchernikov paid for the shipments with shopping bags and attache cases full of cash—payments which totaled, according to court papers, “cumulatively many millions of dollars.†As a result of the DEC’s investigation, Gehl and Jackson were convicted in February 1995. Gehl was sentenced to 87 months in prison and fined $250,000, and Jackson was sentenced to 70 months. Tempotech itself was fined and forced to forfeit funds totaling nearly $1,500,000. While no criminal charges were filed at the time against Gold Star or Panchernikov personally, the company was identified as an “unindicted coconspirator†in the Jackson and Gehl case, and the DEC instead pursued a civil action against Gold Star. The company admitted violating New York State’s Environmental Conservation Law by improperly harvesting and selling contaminated salmon eggs, and got off the hook with a $230,000 fine. Koczuk may have been on the top of his world for many years, but climbing to the top always pisses off someone. By October 28, 1998, he had clearly pissed off somebody very close to the heart of his organization. The tip-off call came in to a US customs office in Frankfurt. The anonymous caller gave specific information: the airport, the flight, the date of arrival, the names of all the smugglers, and what they would be carrying. The customs agent dialed his counterparts at JFK, who in turn placed a call to their colleagues at the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The call was answered by FWS Special Agent Ed Grace, member of an elite investigative core at the heart of the FWS that trains alongside the FBI. Many Special Agents are biologists, and all are armed. One of their jobs is to take down smugglers of endangered species. Grace wrote down the smugglers’ flight arrival time and looked at his watch. There were only two hours to go. “Look, how are we supposed to fight corruption when a police lieutenant doesn’t make enough to feed his family?†one lieutenant colonel in the Astrakhan fisheries police says bitterly. “I have served 25 years and earn less than $300.†But despite the police’s professed economic woes, nearly half of the cars in the parking lot of the dusty fisheries police building were BMWs or Volkswagens. When asked whose cars they were, the department’s senior officers claimed they belonged to “visitors.†The cars were in the same parking spaces three days in a row. Although 1,400 people were caught for poaching last year in the Astrakhan region, police admit that not one of them received a prison term, which could be up to three years for a convicted poacher. Most were instead fined between $40 and $2,500, the maximum penalty.—The Moscow Times .....continued on the link I posted, I knew these guys and still remain friends with Rick Boeve from Muskegon MI, who operates out of Pulaski each fall like noted: everyone knows everyone, even us innocent guys trying to bang out a buck in the fishing indusrty Tom

Ontario also has some eggs for us to if we need them (: