Quick Quip...
Fall - The Big Bait Season... It's often been heard that "bigger is better" when referring to baits, but no other time is it true than when fishing for Walleye in the fall. However, what do you do when you only have smaller minnows for your jig? The answer is to double up the minnows on your jig. Lip both of them through the lips and send your jig to the depths. The volume and commotion of the two minnows will provide enough commotion and bulk to get those hungry 'Eyes biting.
What's New...
After moving much of the system to our own server, we've spent a great deal of time recently making corrections and debugging - but we're almost there. We've also found that with as many as 20 of you on the system at one time, we're stretching the capabilities of the 486 (even with 32 Meg of RAM, so we're having to reset the system once or twice a day. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hopefully we'll soon have enough sponsors to afford a new Pentium Server (if anyone would like to provide us with one in return for advertising, email us at
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). In the meantime, if you experience any serious slow periods, or happen to log in when the server is down, try again in about 5 minutes, and things should work better. Thanks.
We've had a number of requests for images of fish, so we spent some time time combing the net and have started our own collection in the Reference Center which you may download at no cost and use on your own site. All we ask is that if you do, you also place the small "TFN Clipart" icon (provided on the clipart pages) and link back to TFN. Thanks in advance.
This Issue...
This is a bit of a 'lite' issue while gearing up for the fall, but there are some good how-to's as well as other information.
Comment...
Once again, the joint houses in the United States have chosen to bite off their noses to spite their faces and affect anglers in the process.
The proposed tough the U.S. immigration laws go out of their way to remind Canadians in particular (such as myself), that even though our joint borders are undefended, they are still militarily guarded.
For those of you unaware of the situation, the proposed legislation stipulates that Canadians will have to present a current passport just to enter the U.S. for the first year, and then will have to produce a specially encoded "smartcard" thereafter.
Perhaps the politicians should be reminded that 52 MILLION Canadians crossed over to the U.S. in 1996 for shopping and vacations, and that over $300 MILLION worth of trade crosses these same borders DAILY!
Canadian anglers often cross over to the U.S. to purchase equipment and take charters that, with the substantially lower American tax applied, cost about 25% less than north of the border &emdash; even after converting the dollar. In addition, many Canadian anglers choose southern U.S. destinations for their winter vacations due to the promise of great fishing for bigger game than available at home.
In fact, millions of Canadians cross the border for no other reason than to spend dollars - millions of them - all the time.
So if you're an American business-owner that relies on Canadian traffic for part of your sales, I strongly urge you to get in touch with your federal representatives to voice your displeasure at this overbearing legislation.
On the other hand, maybe these new rules should be applied. After all, we nasty Canadians do have a well-known history of illegally running drugs, slaves and prostitutes across the border.
On a previous matter...
You may recall my earlier tirade against the Helms-Burton Law. Well, I thought you might want to take a look at this label I recently removed from a beer bottle. I've had Hatuey Beer (very good!) in Cuba every time I've been there (it's the national brand). Now this beer is available in Canada.
Incidentally, I thought perhaps Sen. Jesse would be particularly interested in the highlighted portion reproduced below.
Until next issue...
(tight lines, get it wet, good fishin', see you on the water, etc., etc.).
Scott M. Binnie, Managing Editor
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