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Welcome to the 32nd Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular Scott Grimoldby, President Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association

The Sportsmen’s

OUTDOORS ANNUAL is published by the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association,

P.O. Box 264, Stn. Main Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada N4K 5P3 Phone: (519) 376-7177 www.sydenhamsportsmen.com Editor Chris Geberdt

Once again it is my pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association to the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

take time to enjoy all the great shopping, dining and tourist attractions available.

2019 is the 32nd year for this annual event which has grown to become one of the area’s biggest festivals. It is ten days filled with fishing competition, entertainment, good eating and activities for all ages to participate in.

Most of all stay safe on the water and best of luck to all contestants.

Wishing you an enjoyable Salmon Spectacular experience.

It would not be possible for us to host this annual conservation fundraising event without the continued support of our many sponsors and our dedicated volunteers who set up, take down and perform all the various functions for the duration of the derby. I extend our heartfelt thank you.

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Glad you are here for the 32nd Annual Salmon Spectacular The Salmon Spectacular Co-Chairs On behalf of my fellow Co – Chairs, the Derby Committee and some 600 plus members of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association, I would like to welcome and thank you for being part of our 32nd Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

This magazine and the Derby itself represent a culmination of months of planning and support from our many volunteers and over 250 business and corporate sponsors.

Early in the year, members of our derby committee start our traveling road show attending numerous trade fairs throughout Ontario waving our Salmon Spectacular banner. While our major project is to sell our boat draw and Derby tickets for conservation projects, our yearly participation in these public events has made us into emissaries to promote the City of Owen Sound and surrounding areas as well as recreational angling in general.

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In terms of Derby angling, 2018 was one of our best years for Salmon and Trout entries.

Every day was a record day. A total of 2845 fish were entered comprising 2056 salmon and 789 trout (99% Lake Trout ). While the ice existed in the bay this past winter, fishing was good and the month of April saw a hoard of boats catching Salmon and Lake Trout in deep depths. Let’s hope the trend continues this August.

The number of derby tickets sold; the number of boat draw tickets sold; these are things we can add up financially, but there are numerous hidden values created from the presence of this Family Fishing Festival that you just cannot put a dollar value on.

We continue to be committed to enhance family values by being involved in the support of our environment through conservation. Pass on your experience and

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knowledge to our younger generation. Be an example and a mentor.

Have a safe and enjoyable time at our 32nd Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

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FEDERAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Hello everyone, It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the 32nd Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular. Year after year, I am amazed at the support that this event receives – not only from our local community but from across Ontario, Canada, and North America.

This will be the last year that I will be attending the Salmon Spectacular as the Member of Parliament for BruceGrey-Owen Sound. It is a bittersweet time. While I will certainly miss working for you as your MP, I am looking forward to having more time to do some fishing of my own. You can rest assured that I will still be out on the water for the Salmon Spectacular for many years to come!

I would like to offer my sincere thanks and congratulations to the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association (SSA) for their tremendous efforts over the years and success in making this event what it is today. This is truly one of North America’s finest fishing festivals and I am incredibly proud of all the work that you have done to get to where you are today. Congrats to the SSA. Recreational fishing is a family tradition. I take my grandkids out on the water every chance I get. Events like the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular encourage our young people to get involved and participate in outdoor activities. This is incredibly important, and I am always happy to see an increasing number of young people out with their moms, dads, grandmas, and grandpas, etc. at this event.

In closing, I encourage everyone to take part in all that this year’s Salmon Spectacular has to offer. Whether you’re out on the water, fishing off the harbour wall, or simply coming down to the fish tent to enjoy some fresh fish, good music, and even better company, I hope that you will take part.

I have no doubt that this event will remain a staple in our community for generations to come. For one final time, I wish all anglers the best of luck in the quest for this years ‘big catch!’

Safe boating and happy fishing.

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PROVINCIAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Congratulations on 32 years of putting on a terrific fun-filled family event that highlights and promotes the amazing sport of fishing!

A great event like this does not happen on its own. It takes the dedication of the organizing committee, hundreds of committed volunteers, generous sponsors and all the enthusiastic men, women and children who love fishing. It is truly remarkable that this little derby has blossomed into the biggest family fishing festival in North America.

The Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular brings in visitors from all over Ontario, throughout Canada, as well as our friends and neighbours to the south in the United States and international guests. I have spoken with many who have been participating in the derby since the first year until now. The Spectacular gets better every year and has become a major economic driver in our community. The event has become so popular and such a great experience, many people plan their vacations around the Salmon Spectacular in order to come back and visit the ‘Sound.’

It is very gratifying to see how the Salmon Spectacular has grown over the years. Fishing continues to be a core activity (with lots of fish being caught to the delight of everybody who enjoys the fillets at the popular fish fry’s) and the event has also expanded to include a kid’s day, a ladies day, a fashion show, Elvis gospel, bingo, raffles, contests and many more fun activities. There is no doubt this is a family festival of fish, fun and fellowship.

I extend my congratulations to everybody involved in making this event so special. The organizers, committee members, many volunteers (with special acknowledgement to the Bruce Peninsula Sportsmen Association for their support), performers and sponsors all deserve credit for their continued efforts and dedication. And, of course, all the anglers who bring their gear and expertise and venture out onto the water looking for the big one (and the big prize!).

It has been a pleasure to attend and volunteer at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular Fishing Derby each year since I have been elected as MPP for the great riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. I look forward to seeing everyone there again this year, and to ‘continue to serve.’

Good luck to all anglers and a warm welcome to visitors and friends, both new and old!

Bill Walker MPP Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound

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OWEN SOUND Greetings from Ian Boddy Mayor, City of Owen Sound As Mayor and on behalf of City Council, I welcome you to our beautiful City and to the 32nd Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular!

Owen Sound is a proud supporter of this annual festival as we welcome thousands of competitors to our friendly community. Our community involvement and volunteers are a big part of what makes the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular a success.

If you are visiting our community, I hope that you will take time to enjoy our sights and hospitality.

We love our boating, fishing, and swimming at our waterfront beaches. We love our arts and culture.

We have unique shopping and restaurants in our heritage downtown. We are closely entwined with our pristine natural environment with great views of the Niagara Escarpment and the blue waters of Georgian Bay. There is something here for everyone!

I hope you enjoy your time with us and return again soon.

Have a Spectacular Time!

His Worship Ian Boddy Mayor, Corporation of the City of Owen Sound

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COUNTY OF GREY Greetings and welcome to the 32nd Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular!

Each year we are delighted to host this marvelous event, as it continues to bring passionate individuals to Grey County - like you! The Spectacular is much more than just a derby, it’s a reunion of community, family and fun memories! Whether this is your first year, or your 32nd, we wish you all the best out on the fresh waters of Georgian Bay. When you’re not searching for the ultimate catch, I hope you’ll take the time to experience what Grey County has to offer. Check out our fantastic tourism website www.visitgrey.ca to learn more about our wide selection of culinary experiences, holiday rental locations, outdoor attractions and so much more! Visit our local towns and villages, adventure out on a trail, hike to our many waterfalls and scenic lookouts or check out Grey Roots Museum and Archives just outside Owen Sound. There is always something new to discover in Grey, we hope you will Colour it Your Way! Finally, for all their hard work and dedication, I wish to thank the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association.

Their unwavering passion and efforts are the reason why the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular continues to be one of the most successful events of the year.

Best of luck, stay safe, and enjoy the derby!

Selwyn “Buck” Hicks Grey County Warden

TOWNSHIP OF GEORGIAN BLUFFS On behalf of the Township of Georgian Bluffs, I welcome you to the 2019 Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

The Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, through the countless hours of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association volunteers, continues to attract anglers and families to participate in this ever popular event.

The Township of Georgian Bluffs is honoured to have the fishing derby within the waters surrounding our entire waterfront from the boundary of Owen Sound to Wiarton.

While in the area enjoying the pristine waters of Georgian Bay, please ensure that you take in the other fine attractions that the Township of Georgian Bluffs and the Grey-Bruce region have to offer.

Stay safe while on the water and good luck fishing.

Dwight Burley Mayor, Township of Georgian Bluffs

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TOWN OF SOUTH BRUCE PENINSULA As the Owen Sound Harbour bustles with activity for the 32nd Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, it is my pleasure as mayor of the Town of South Bruce Peninsula, to welcome participants, residents and tourists to a much-anticipated annual summer event. This fun and exciting angling competition, organized and hosted by the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association continues to grow in popularity thanks to the creativity and dedication shown by its members and the hundreds of volunteers, sponsors and participants who contribute to its success.

The Salmon Spectacular has reached beyond the angling community to include so many other facets of the population. People who love good music, good food, the thrill of friendly, sportsman-like competition and a chance to connect with others in the community, are never disappointed with the variety of events provided throughout these lively days.

The Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association is truly a unique organization with one foot placed in historical tradition and the other foot placed firmly in ecological concerns for the future. Members continue to foster interest and participation in the time-honoured skills of hunting and fishing, which were such an integral part of life in the past. They also recognize the need for environmental consideration of future generations and fulfill this recognition in several different ways. The Salmon Spectacular is an important fundraising event which allows them continued community outreach through education, conservation projects and the encouragement of skills which are still valued for their connection to nature, sport and self-sufficiency – skills that just can’t be learned on a computer! The SSA is a special community which gives back to the community and also reminds us to be self-aware in this wonderful, wild, natural world of ours that we sometimes forget to “see”!

I hope that visitors and residents alike will take advantage of the holiday atmosphere created by the Salmon Spectacular to explore the Town of South Bruce Peninsula as well – come to Sauble Beach to play and swim at the shore and enjoy a spectacular, colour-splashed sunset over the horizon. Hike and bike our many beautiful trails or meander through picturesque Wiarton along the waterfront and through our shops and cafes. We live in an incredible corner of the world and we want to share it with you!

Enjoy the Salmon Spectacular!

Janice Jackson Mayor, South Bruce Peninsula

MUNICIPALITY OF MEAFORD The Municipality of Meaford is so pleased to be part of the 32nd annual Salmon Spectacular.

Each year as this event grows, it brings more and more anglers to the shores of Georgian Bay for an unparalleled fishing experience. Visitors keep coming back every year with the hope of reeling in the catch of the day and to enjoy everything our area has to offer.

When you’re not on the water, there are many parks, trails, and activities to enjoy. Learn more about the area with a visit to the Meaford Museum, or take in a show at our iconic Meaford Hall. There is no shortage of great restaurants and farm-to-table dining experiences, giving you a taste of what Meaford is all about. Find out more at www.lovemeaford.ca.

The Salmon Spectacular brings together friends, family and visitors to enjoy the beauty and bounty of Georgian Bay, and none of it would be possible without the dedicated volunteers who make this event happen. Thank you to the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association for your hard work in organizing this event and making it bigger and better each year.

Barb Clumpus Mayor, Municipality of Meaford

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ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS HUNTERS P.O. Box 2800, 4601 Guthrie Drive, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 8L5 Phone: (705) 748.6324 • Fax: (705) 748.9577 • Visit: www.ofah.org • Email: ofah@ofah.org

Once again, it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to the 32nd annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

For more than 30 years, this popular event has been a first-rate experience for attendees, thanks in large part to the time and effort of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association and the hundreds of volunteers that work tirelessly on this each year.

Who would have thought some 30 years ago that this event would have grown into the biggest of its kind in North America? It is simply amazing.

Each year, the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular does great things for the area, supporting the local economy; promoting recreational fishing; and raising crucial funds for many local conservation projects.

The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters is proud to call the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association a member club and we can’t say enough about the conservation work they do in the Owen Sound region, as it greatly benefits fish and wildlife in this area.

On behalf of the 100,000 members, subscribers and supporters, and 740 member clubs of the OFAH, our heartfelt congratulations goes out to all of those involved in making this event such a success year after year.

Yours in Conservation,

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OWEN SOUND SALMON SPECTACULAR SUMMARY COMMENTS This is the 32nd year for the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, quite an accomplishment. It continues to be one of the major entertainment events that is held in the City of Owen Sound. Also, it should be noted that this event continued to be the single major fund raising activity for the conservation account of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association.

A committee of thirty-six SSA volunteers worked over a period of ten months in organizing this event.

More than 50,000 people pass through the site during the ten days of the Salmon

by Fred Geberdt, Spectacular, and over 6,000 people attend SSA Member the two gigantic fish fries during the two Saturdays of the event. Each year between 4,000 and 5,000 anglers register in the fishing part of the event.

In addition to the ten days of fishing, Seniors Day, Ladies Day, Kid’s Day, Sponsor’s Day, Yamaha Day, and Loonie and Toonie Afternoon, and Sunday Breakfast with Elvis are a few samples, of the special event days held at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

The 32nd Annual OSSS has over 250 sponsors and advertisers. In addition to sponsoring the event, many sponsors also volunteer to work at the numerous areas within the structure of the event. Some of these areas include; the weigh-in station, the merchandise booth, the information booth, the food booth, the bar, the fish cleaners, the site workers, the daily prize draws, the computer programs, registration sales, fish entry prizes, and the two fish fries.

In addition, over 400 of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s members and sponsors volunteer at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

By our records, eighteen thousand, eight hundred eighty, (18,880) man hours are volunteered during the ten months it takes to organize the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, and then, to run it for the ten days.

As a result of this year’s event, we are hopeful to raise needed funds for our fish and wildlife conservation account.

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Editorially Speaking How Time Flies-32nd Annual Salmon Festival As I sit on my front porch in Dashwood, Ontario, I thought to myself “how am I going to complete the task at hand of being editor for the next Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular Outdoors Annual Magazine?”

I want to express my sincere thank you to Jack and his many years of dedication toward the betterment for conservation.

TRIBUTES TO LOVED ONES WE HAVE LOST Losing a friend or a family member is never an easy thing to deal with. However, honouring them allows us to feel connected to those we have lost and will cherish forever.

by Chris Geberdt, SSA Member

In my opinion, the best editor ever has been Jack Osadzuk with his in-depth experience and professionalism. Jack is a lifetime member of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association and has served many years as an Ontario Federation of Angler and Hunters director at large.

Jack Osadzuk with another one of his great catches Jack has finally decided to take some time for himself to enjoy the great outdoors and complete some of his bucket list items that he so wants to experience with his lovely wife, Elaine.

If you haven’t already noticed, the front cover of this year’s Magazine is a picture of Jack Osadzuk with another one of his great catches at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

Jack and Elaine Osadzuk in the PR Booth at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular

We have had the opportunity to read many of his articles about the history of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association and his true passion for pheasant hunting on Pelee lsland.

On Monday August 6, 2018, Denis George Bester passed away with his family by his side in Owen Sound at the age of 63 years.

He was treasured by his wife Kathryn Bester and father of Luke (Cassie) Bester and Cate Bester. Denis will always be remembered for his love of the outdoors and his enjoyment of fishing. Oftentimes he would be featured on the Going Fishing TV show with his good friend Darryl Choronzey. Denis and son Luke even purchased one of the past winning

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Craig Geberdt, Fred Geberdt and Jack Osadzuk hunting at Pelee Island with Fred’s dog Fergi leading the way.

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Steve James Hartnagle 1959-2019

derby boats to go after those elusive big Chinook salmon at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular. Denis was also a retired Hydro One employee and was instrumental with getting Hydro One as a major sponsor at our Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular. He served many years on the OSSS derby committee as prize chair. Denis would bring his son Luke down to the derby to volunteer every day for the 10 days. I can still remember Luke and his Dad helping out at the weigh-in station.

If you visited the tent on Thursday or Friday evenings, you would see Denis working behind the bar with his fellow co-workers as the night was sponsored by Hydro One. Denis will be missed by many and will be forever cherished by his loving family.

Ken Smith pictured with the boat he won in the Salmon Spectacular Recreational Draw.

After a long and courageous battle with cancer, Smith; Kendal “Ken” Leroy 1936-2019 of Owen Sound passed away on Friday, April 12, 2019 at the age of 83.

Ken was the loving husband of Isobel (nee Love) of 60 years and father of Lisa (Dave) Hoffman. Ken was a character to say the least and had a great sense of humor.

He worked for Bell Canada for 32 years. In retirement, he enjoyed his time as a member of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association.

I have fond memories of Ken and John Ford cresting logos on over 3000 giveaway hats for all the derby entries. This was a daunting task and it felt like you would never get done. I recall when our giveaway derby shirts were too small for me. This doesn’t imply that I was too big, just well built. Ken had a heart of gold going out of this way and purchasing 3 -XXXL shirts for me to wear. I still remember Ken at Christmas time selling Vidalia Onions and Christmas Cakes.

It didn’t matter if he got your money right away as the Christmas cake and onions were dropped off at my parent’s residence only to pay him weeks later. He served on several local charity groups and his volunteering and community service work will be forever missed. He was a great person as well as a good friend and will be someone who will never be forgotten.

Steve with his wife Kathleen and son Matt with the Blackfly Lure display at one of his outdoor shows.

Andy and Lucille Van Dolder with another great catch at one of the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular derbies.

A year ago at the age of 59 Steve was diagnosed with cancer. Steve cherished his wife of 32 years Kathleen (Dills) and sons Joseph David (JD) and Matthew Dean.

On Monday March 4, 2019 at the age of 71 years. Andrew (Andy) Van Dolder of Annan 1947-2019. Andy was the husband of Lucille Van Dolder (nee Robbins) for 50 years and father of Kris Van Dolder and Tim Van Dolder.

I have to go back 10 years to when I first met Steve at the Sudbury Sportsmen Show in the Garson Arena. I knew immediately that Steve loved the outdoors and cherished his hunting and fishing opportunities just by the way he spoke of his experiences.

Steve was at the Sportsmen Show proudly promoting his hand painted Blackfly lures that he was so eager to get into the hands of every avid angler. I fondly remember talking with Steve about a sponsorship with the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular. Before I could get any more information out to him, he immediately replied “I am in.” My mouth dropped open as I was speechless and lost for words. My reaction must have been priceless as obtaining sponsorship for our event is very difficult at the best of times.

Steve went on to describe his love for the outdoors and promoting conservation. That was the beginning of a long partnership for

Andy was a great supporter of the community, and was involved in many great initiatives for the community and area. Andy and Lucille were never strangers at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, frequently participating in the derby. When speaking with Andy at the big derby tent, he would reply “Lucille caught all the fish again.”

She even took a major prize in the 2002 Owen Sound Salmon derby making Andy very proud of her. The Van Dolder family has been the back bone of our community being sponsors for our event for over 30 years. Andy will be missed by many in the community, his friends and most of all, his family. Go to page 36 to see more on Andy Van Dolder.

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continued from page 17 well over 10 years which now will be taken on by his son Matt. More than anything, Steve was so proud of his sons JD and Matt for what they have accomplished in their lives. Steve actually refers to his 2 families, his own and the friends he formed at the outdoor shows. His fishing outdoor friends are going to be lost without him, and he will be greatly missed by all who have crossed paths with Steve. In the 10 years of knowing Steve, I can’t say enough about the man as he was a great outdoors show friend and an incredibly nice guy. His lovely wife Kathleen has at my request put together a great article about Steve. Steve taught everyone many lessons about life and what is important.

Please go to page 92 to read more about what a great individual he was for his love of the outdoors.

They were like the dynamic duo.

Words cannot express the overwhelming appreciation and thanks we owe these two wonderful individuals. They did so much for the betterment of conservation and the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association.

The Doherty family can be so proud of both Jack & Donna and what a lasting legacy they have left with all to enjoy. We miss them tremendously and thank them both for all the great memories. Go to pages 38, 39, 41 and 43 to read more on the life of both Jack & Donna.

Jack Alford Doherty July 5, 1935 - September 30, 2018 Donna Mary (Martin) Doherty April 14, 1937 - December 24, 2018 I can honestly say it was an honor to have known both Jack and Donna Doherty. Sadly, in 2018 we lost two of the most amazing people I have ever met.

As Jack Osadzuk describes them on page 38 of the outdoor annual “A Volunteer Team who made a Difference during their Lifetimes!”

Oh how we miss these two remarkable people. Jack, full of his ideas and Donna right beside him helping him all the way for whatever cause they were supporting.

I had the opportunity to work alongside Jack many times. One day in particular was the June live auction at the Sydenham Sportsmen’s club house, an event which is held each year. Jack put his cowboy hat on and would start to auction off many items donated by club members. On one occasion, I didn’t even realize I was bidding on the item and ended up with a $40 loaf of cheese bread.

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Donna was a jewel always working hard to make things better. If it wasn’t at the derby selling tickets with her best friend Lois Gallon, it was working hard at the conservation dinner making the table arrangements look their best each year.

Chris Geberdt, Donna Doherty, Martina Linseman and Jack Doherty in the PR booth at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

2019 Committee planning for this year’s event The Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular committee of 36 people are made up of a variety of talents, everyone from electricians, plumbers, teachers, and construction workers to enforcement officers and all forms of business folks. Each year, these folks work tirelessly to present the best derby possible.

It cannot go without mentioning the Wiarton Sportsmen Club and the 50 plus members that help raise and take down the tent each year.

It really takes an army of volunteers and the commitment of so many sponsors to put on this amazing event for the people who flock to the derby each and every year. We cannot thank these individuals enough and the 250 plus sponsors that see the value of this event. We thank each and every one of you for your commitment and true support for an event that is well known around the province as the Owen Sound Salmon festival.

Thank you to the Wiarton Sportsmen Club for helping with the raising and take down of the Salmon Spectacular tent.

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I am sure I have missed someone and if I have, I want to say thank you to everyone that has a part to play in this amazing event.

In closing and final remarks

Janice Campbell buying tickets from Doug Van Horne We must tip our caps to the volunteers that start selling boat draw tickets at the beginning of January each year. From Timmins to as far south as Toronto and stretching west to London, the team made up of 15 volunteers participate in well over 30 outdoor shows across Ontario.

We can’t forget the huge group of volunteer ticket sellers at all of our local stores in Owen Sound, something that Al Smith works on non-stop to ensure it runs smoothly.

At the beginning of this column I said how time flies. It was just like yesterday that I can see so many friends and family that aren’t with us anymore.

In October of this past year my best friend, hunting buddy and Dad was confronted with some serious health issues. It has been hard, but like so many others, dad has taken the approach to fight hard and stay involved with everything.

take some time to have fun, enjoy every moment, and hug that person you love so much. It seems like we are only here for a mere blink of an eye and it is over for another year.

I leave you with a picture taken this spring on Georgian Bay by my cousin Don Clark. It is a picture of my dad Fred and brother Craig fishing on the bay. Take a close look and see if you can figure it out! Enjoy and be safe.

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2019 School Salmon Project

by Ted Furness The Owen Sound Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association in co-operation with the Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry and Bruce Power of Ontario currently work together to provide our local schools with an educational program that takes learning to a new applied level.

This educational program involves the deployment of a complete aquarium into various grade school classrooms. During the fall salmon spawning run, and in co-operation with the Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry, a license is issued that allows the Owen Sound S.S.A to deploy salmon eggs in clear plastic hatching trays to classrooms throughout Owen Sound. The clear plastic allows the children to watch the eggs develop and grow. This then becomes the responsibility of each classroom to work together with their teacher to raise the young salmon from eggs through the hatching process to the point of releasing the fish into our local Sydenham River. At this point the salmon fry will disperse into Georgian Bay and continue to grow into adult fish. This program allows the children to be an integral part of nature’s process and witness how our various fish species flourish in our waters.

Ontario Bruce Power Generation (O.P.G.) supports this program to function by providing a key element critical to program performance. O.P.G. donated the refrigeration or Chiller units for each classroom. The chiller unit is responsible for maintaining water temperature at a pre-selected level critical to sustain the incubating salmon eggs as they hatch and grow.

Also, Gardel Pet Supply store in Owen Sound provided support for the program

and free water sample testing whenever we may need to analyse water for bacteria that may be harmful to fish development.

In 2019, we outfitted six classrooms in four different schools in Owen Sound. Montessori Private School, Alexandra Elementary School, East Ridge Elementary School and SaintDominique-Savio Roman Catholic French speaking school.

Following is a description of the program implemented at:

Saint-Dominique-Savio School: Person in charge: Michel Jacques-Gosselin EAO Direction Adjointe Two tanks Installed: Tank #1 Main Lobby Tank #2 Lunch room Tank #1 is maintained with supervision by Grades 4 & 5 students ages 11 and 12

East Ridge Elementary School: Persons in Charge: Tank #1: Nadine Osborne Tank #2: Rod Moore Tank #1 located in Nadine’s Classroom The children in this classroom are Kindergarten ages four and five and again are very involved in the process. They keep a daily eye on the tank and immediately get Nadine involved should they see anything out of place or different.

Tank #2 Located in Rod’s classroom This tank is on the second level of the school.

This provides an equal opportunity for the higher grade students to be involved in this process. Once again the children are very involved in the whole process and the age range is 9 and 10.

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It is our hope to be able to continue the applied learning project and provide the local children with access and insight into the natural progression of how our waters maintain and replenish the local population for fish survival in the aquatic ecosystem.

One Tank was installed, located in the central lobby of the school. The Lobby area allows all the children of the school to view and watch the evolving stages of fish development.

Our success rate is approximately 70 to 80 percent whereas in a wild natural environment the success rate for fish survival is approximately 5% or less.

The children of this school range in age from 6 through 9.

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Sharpening has come a long way! How is it really?

Many sportsmen and sportswomen believe that sharpening a fillet knife to a lasting razor sharp edge is an art that only a few people have mastered. Well, it’s really not that hard. I don’t know why people are so intimidated about sharpening knives, scissors, loppers, axes, chisels and anything else that cuts, but, I do know that many people would rather just buy a new pair of shears or have someone else sharpen it for them. Sharpening does require some practice which is ok. Most things that you want to be good at require some practical experience. As with all endeavors, having the best tools for the task can make a huge difference in the outcome. I don’t necessarily mean the most expensive tools, but, in some cases this is also a factor. A good Diamond sharpener is hard to beat.

that a perfectly flat edge is not maintained initially or shortly after the first few sharpening’s. Whetstones can be imperfect to begin with and certainly dish over time (concave) this uneven surface begins to distort the fine edge of your blade.

To maintain a perfect edge you must have three things: 1. Ensure you have a perfectly flat surface.

2. Ensure you match the exact angle of the original grind 3. Ensure you sharpen both sides of a knife edge with equal pressure, equal stroke length and equal repetition Short cuts to these rules include old worn down stones (dished), V shaped carbide pull through sharpeners which tear the steel and may not match your edge, electric wheel sharpeners which hide wear on the stone and may not match the angle of your knife and belt sharpeners where pressure on a belt can cause the surface to flex ( concave). It’s really that simple. Match the angle exactly, and you will end up with a terrific edge.

Let’s start with the basics and keep this simple. A cutting tool has a sharp edge.

It is comprised of at least one angled edge. As you use the tool, you begin to change the shape of the edge at a microscopic level. As usage continues, the edge degrades further until the instrument no

by John Ward longer functions properly. You Many sharpening systems may choose to maintain your have a guide to help lay the knife edge at edge frequently like a butcher or Sushi Chef. the correct angle (a guided system). This In this case, a light honing (straightening is certainly helpful if you set the guide or deburring) may be all that is required to precisely to your knifes edge. Sharpening bring the blade back to its original form. At your fillet knife and then sharpening your some point however, an edge will need to hunting knife without changing the angle be sharpened more aggressively. Hunters, is likely ruining one or both of your blades. anglers, woodworkers and others often use The hunting knife will be more obtuse while their tools until they have lost the original the fillet knife will have a more acute angle. symmetry. In this case, it’s time to reBut not all hunting knives are the same. In establish the angle. fact, even the same brand knife can have a slightly different edge angle as many knives In the recent past, natural stone and are still hand made by skilled individuals and leather was used to grind and polish an not precise machines. edge. The core issue with both of these is

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For Example, Hunting knives and butcher knives can range from 18-26 degrees, Fillet knives can range from 12 – 18 degrees and replaceable blade knives ( yes, you can sharpen these too) range from 7-12 degrees.

So……… how do you know if you’re sharpening your particular knife at the correct angle?

The easiest method may be to colour the actual cutting edge (secondary grind) with a black Sharpie marker. Then use your sharpener on the edge.

If you only remove the marker off of the very tip of the edge, your angle is too obtuse.

If you only remove the marker off of the shoulder or you are touching the primary grind, your angle is too acute. Make adjustments as needed.

As you perfect your stroke, you will quickly learn that a bench stone is ideally suited to find an edge and then maintain that same edge through each stroke. This is where the practice part is important. Get a few old kitchen knives to practice on. Make your mistakes

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Jack & Donna Doherty Jack Alfred Doherty

July 5, 1935 – September 30, 2018

Donna Mary (Martin) Doherty April 14, 1937 – December 24, 2018

A volunteer team who made a difference during their lifetimes!

by Jack Osadzuk I don’t recall many couples I have known, who were surrounded by such an enormous friendship base during their lifetime as Jack and Donna Doherty.

While Jack had a working career as a teacher at West Hill Secondary School, Donna with her outgoing and pleasant nature began a variety of work and volunteer related activities beginning in 1968 when the family moved to Owen Sound from Hamilton.

Donna took great pleasure in her role as Owen Sound’s Welcome Wagon hostess and for many new residents Donna was the first person they met in their new home in Owen Sound. She was involved for many years with Owen Sound’s long-running Winter Carnival and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6 where she served on the branch executive for many years. She was also a long-time member of the Owen Sound Commerettes and the Georgian Yacht Club.

Donna owned and operated a specialty clothing store “The Maternity Shop” and later obtained her real estate licence and began a

real estate career. She was elected as a City of Owen Sound councillor and following that served on a committee investigating the logistics to propose a fish hatchery in Owen Sound’s Bay.

Jack served as a member of the Grey & Simcoe Foresters and was also a member of Branch 6 Royal Canadian Legion where he served on the Legion executive and as a member of the Legion Colour Party.

Jack and Donna’s interests and passions in life were many and varied, and brought them into contact with colleagues and a variety of groups and people sharing their interests.

Despite hard lessons learned in his military training, Jack was always amongst the first to volunteer. And without a doubt, it was his positive attitude and outlook on life that made him such good company and an outstanding asset to any organization.

One of their passions was sailing which they began in the late 1970’s. For the first 10 years they sailed all Georgian Bay during the summer months aboard “Defender”, their Georgian 23 out of the Georgian Yacht Club in Owen Sound. They then bought and continued to sail aboard a 32-foot Grampian Motor-Sailer named Moonspinner 2 which Jack sold shortly before his passing.

Jack served as Commodore of the Georgian Yacht Club. During one of Owen Sound’s Homecoming Celebrations, Jack convinced his fellow yacht club members to decorate their boats with Christmas lights and perform a night time sail around the inner bay and throughout the harbour. It was a pretty impressive display and an example of how Jack’s mind continually worked to create new ideas. I often wondered if the idea was inspired by the lights of the fishing boats out on the bay at night and early morning during the Salmon Spectacular.

It is difficult to put into a few words all that Jack accomplished and contributed towards conservation and the organization, as a willing and hard working member of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association. He served on the SSA Executive and several committees including as committee chairs.

For many years, right up to the last year of his life, he assisted John Ford with the SSA awards and recognition committee.

Jack and Donna were easy to make friends with and I am both pleased and fortunate to have been one of them.

Until recently, Jack had for many years along with his side-kick Stan MacLean, worked a weekly shift in the SSA fish hatcheries. Jack also assisted with trout and salmon egg collecting and fish stocking activities. About seven years ago Jack organized a meeting of all the Lake HuronGeorgian Bay volunteer run Community Fish Hatchery managers. Ever since then, with the assistance of the OFAH and OMNRF, this group has been meeting annually to discuss issues and share ideas pertaining to the operation of volunteer hatcheries and the rearing and stocking of cold water fish species.

Our friendship really began when Jack retired from his teaching career and became actively involved with the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association (SSA). And when Jack Doherty decided to get involved with something, he jumped in with both feet!

Involved in many fish & wildlife projects, Pitch-in litter campaigns and fundraising BBQ’s, Jack was also well recognized as a faithful ticket seller of OFAH lottery tickets and Salmon Spectacular boat draw tickets at various locations around town.

The Dohertys also supported the Scenic City Order of Good Cheer in that organization’s fund raising events by donating a sailboat cruise to their auction sales.

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A long-time SSA member commented to me that knowing Jack has changed the way he now looks at everything, including life in general.

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Prior to their passing, Jack and Donna served as committee members for all 23 years of the Annual SSA/OFAH Conservation Fundraising Dinner. The 2019 Dinner Event was named in their memory and their dedication to conservation. To honour their parents, Donna and Jack’s family requested to volunteer in their place.

Jack was a key member of the SSA’s Owen Salmon Spectacular Committee and Donna was a familiar presence volunteering each year at the Information and merchandise booth.

with six lovely ladies and I need you to come down to the dock and catch a line.”Donna arrived to find Jack wasn’t kidding, and immediately had six cameras thrust at her to take photos of the happy group. Jack wrote a wonderful article describing the occasion for the 2012 Sportsmen’s Annual Magazine, entitled “The Visitors”. The very appreciative ladies all referred to him as “Captain Jack” and every time I see a Captain Morgan Rum commercial on TV I think of Jack.

Anyone who knew Jack is aware that he earned a reputation as an idea man and someone who liked to have a good time. For those that were there who could ever forget his goldfish races?

As previously commented, “Jack was an easy man to make friends with”. An example being six Asian ladies who dropped in at the Salmon Spectacular one day in 2011; who Jack used his positive attitude to breathe were completely bewildered and wondering new life into many SSA club member at what was going on there. Fortunately Jack social functions that had become tired and was working the Information Booth that day lost their lustre, such as the club’s annual and approached beef BBQ. Jack them asking if they reinvented the John Ford,Director SSA, Co-Chair Owen needed assistance. event as a “Soup Sound Salmon Spectacular, President Only one of the & Chowder Canadian Wildlife Federation: Jack had ladies understood Pot-luck” that many good traits, but one of his best was his English. During SSA members positivity. When I couldn’t figure out how to do the interpreted bought into something, I would call Jack. Usually, I would be conversation, Jack first speaking with his secretary/wife Donna and whole-heartedly; managed to find out expanding it to then listening to Jack’s advice on how to solve they were visiting include salads, the problem. I believe that knowing Jack has Grey-Bruce so he made me a better person and I suspect the same breads and invited them to is true for a great many others. desserts so that take a sail up the it has become a shoreline in his 32’ sailboat, which they did.

Chili Night Social that many look forward to.

Upon arriving back towards the Yacht Club, A number of years ago, Jack decided that Jack phoned Donna, who asked “where are the last monthly SSA general meeting in you?” and Jack replied “I’ve been out for a sail

June before the summer recess, should also be a special event. One which everyone could have a little fun at and perhaps make a little money for the club. He asked members to donate any hunting, fishing, sporting equipment, tools, and household items not being used or baking goods towards a fundraising auction. Jack served as auctioneer and the late Dave Hartrick as his assistant, while Donna was his treasurer.

The event was a lot of fun, and an enormous success. Last June, Jack’s son Guy acted as auctioneer on behalf of his Dad. Jack was an instigator and idea man and there are many other Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association projects and events that Jack initiated . . . often as a committee of one. He also inspired many others to think outside the box; get on with the job and have a good time doing it.

Perhaps Jack’s greatest coup and one that has had a tremendous impact and has another “Jack” story attached, is the Fishing Machine at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

In 2000 Jack and I (both retired), manned a SSA booth on behalf of Owen Sound & Grey County Tourism on the opening day of the Spring Fishing Show at the International Centre in Mississsauga. During the show, Jack went for a walk to stretch his legs and discovered the fishing machine at another exhibitor’s booth in the row behind our own.

He returned quite excited, insisting I go have

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Needless to say, the machine and what we could do with it was the topic of Jack’s conversation for the next week.

Jack finally reached the manufacturer only to learn that they no longer made that machine and there were none available.

continued until his passing to keep the rods and reels filled with line and in operating order; often in an emergency situation during the Derby.

Jack then took it upon himself to canvas the business community and sign-up ten daily sponsors of the Fishing Machine so there was no cost to maintaining its operation.

To date, even after 18-years of use at the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, the ever popular Fishing Machine continues Not to be undone, Jack had the name of to provide major fun and entertainment the exhibitor from the show. He obtained during the event. Not only has the machine their phone number and proceeded to provided us the opportunity to put a fishing attempt to purchase their machine which rod into the hands of thousands of people they informed Jack was not for sale. After of all ages, but also over the years, hundreds many calls and telling the owner what he of school students who have volunteered wanted the machine for . . . Jack, on behalf to operate the fishing machine during of the SSA and the Salmon Spectacular, the derby, have achieved their required was finally the new owner of the Fishing academic volunteer Machine. He then hours . . . all because approached late Angelo Lombardo, Executive Director of Jack Doherty!

SSA member OFAH: As some of you may be aware, it is with Jack was also Lorne Fletcher, sadness that I advise you of the passing of one of the original owner of Fletcher our friend Jack Doherty. Jack was a long-time organizers and Sports who member as well as a valued member of our worked on the donated rods board of directors. His passion, dedication, and annual Grey-Bruce and line-filled commitment to conservation has left a lasting Youth Expo. This level wind impression on all of us who knew him. Jack’s reels to make long-running enthusiasm, positive attitude and humor will be the operation event hosted by sorely missed by all of us. complete. Lorne the Sydenham

Sportsmen’s Association at the club’s facilities, continues to provide opportunities for young people who otherwise might not have had the opportunity to experience a wide variety of outdoor related activities.

The Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association (SSA) is a proud member club of the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters (OFAH) and every SSA member is a Zone H member of the OFAH. Jack Doherty served on the OFAH Zone H Executive for 10+ years . . . last serving as the OFAH Zone H, First VicePresident and representing not only the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association, but also the Meaford Rod & Gun Club and The Bruce Peninsula Sportsmen’s Association.

Jack also served provincially on the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters Board of Directors and the OFAH indigenous Relations Liaison Committee.

At the OFAH 2006 Zone H Annual General Meeting, Jack was presented with the Os McArthur Memorial Award as the OFAH Zone H 2006 Conservationist of the Year.

In March of 2007 at the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Annual General Meeting and Wildlife Conference in Mississauga, Jack was presented with the Gord Blake Memorial Award as the 2006 OFAH Provincial Conservationist of the Year,

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Continued from page 41 well deserved recognition of Jack, and pretty impressive to be singled out for recognition in an organization with more than 85,000 members.

In 2016 Jack was also recognized by the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association and presented the SSA Sportsman of the Year Award.

As a colleague and friend, I have missed Jack’s presence alongside me at the OFAH Board and SSA meetings and our visits. I have missed Donna’s cheery greetings, her conversation and coffee accompanied by her latest baked goods . . . and just as many others are, I am missing their presence in my life.

Jack and Donna truly were an amazing couple. Throughout Jack’s long and painful

battle with his cancer, we had many conversations. The centre of his concern was for Donna who was involved in her own struggle with stage-four cancer.

Donna in turn, was more concerned with Jack’s problems than her own. I saw two people who shared a loving relationship of 62 years of marriage, still deeply caring for each other . . . while with the love and support of their family, they strived to enjoy whatever pleasures and normalcy their complicated lives would allow.

During my role as editor of the Sportsmen’s Annual Magazine, Jack never disappointed me as over the years he contributed many stories published in the magazine.

His final story was for inclusion in the 30th Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular, 2017 edition. Entitled “A Sportsman’s Life” .

Stu Paterson, Bruce Peninsula Sportsmen’s Association: Two Former OFAH Presidents, a dozen OFAH directors and several hundred friends and relatives, gathered October 21st in Owen Sound to celebrate the life of Jack Doherty. Jack, a member of the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association and former OFAH Director, died at age 83 on September 30, 2018 after a two year battle with cancer. One of Jack’s former students told me he joined the hundreds of others at this tribute “because Jack was such a special guy”. Another ex-student said “it isn’t often that you respect a teacher, while at the same time you LIKE that person as well”. . . Jack Doherty tells his own story of his life journey with family he loved and friends he cherished . . . and in Jack’s own words . . .

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As a matter of fact we do fish like girls!

by Debbie Thompson Women in Fishing is alive and well in Ontario. This article highlights 3 women who love to fish and yes they are pretty good at it!

Deb Thomson lives in Waterloo, Ontario and works for Big Rock Sports - a major distributor for fishing and hunting products.

She is their only female outside sales rep in Canada. Deb loves to fish and regularly takes her son fishing and for the last two years has competed in bass tournaments with her good friend and business associate Crystal Brown from Carleton Place, Ontario.

Deb fishes for many species of fish and her exposure to the hottest tackle products certainly helps with her success.

Crystal Brown is the owner of Bait Casters, Eastern Ontario’s most unique outdoor store. She has been running this business for 17 years with her husband Mike and occasional help from her daughter Michelle.

Crystal grew up fishing off the dock on the Big Rideau Lake when she was just a child.

This love of fishing has carried over into adulthood and she has been involved in running tournaments and fishing in them for over 20 years. Crystal is the only woman to have won the Renegade Bass Classic and a new Ranger bass boat! This year she will

be fishing the BAA tournaments on local lakes with her husband Mike as well as doing numerous open bass tournaments on her faviourite bodies of water.

Michelle Chevrier got her love of fishing from her parents. She has been fishing since an early age and for two years fished the Renegade Bass circuit with her mom Crystal Brown. They were and still are the only female team as well as the only mother and daughter team involved in the tournament scene.

ice shack fishing for walleye, out crappie fishing in the spring, chasing the spring and fall walleye and also catching the occasional perch, pike, muskie, trout or salmon. Taking part in this great sport is a big part of their lives! They encourage all women to grab a rod and reel and GET OUT FISHING!

Crystal, Michelle and Deb also team up and fish several of the opens in the SFL – Shootout Fishing League.

They are the only two women team to participate!

Way to go Ladies! Good looking, can drive a bass boat and can fish! That’s a winning combination!

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by Ted Lawrence A highly collaborative effort has restored Denny’s Dam on the Saugeen River, an important weapon in the efforts to control the invasive sea lampreys from destroying the Great Lakes fishery.

During 2017, after determining that Denny’s Dam was deteriorating, posing a sea lamprey threat to the $7 billion Great Lakes fishery, the Saugeen-Ojibway Nation and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF) and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), partnered to rehabilitate the dam.

Sea lampreys invaded the Great Lakes through shipping canals in the early 20th century and quickly became, and remain, the most destructive invasive species in the Great Lakes, killing six-out-of-seven fish they attack.

Denny’s dam blocks over 100km of mainstream habitat with the potential to produce more than 30,000 sea lamprey per year, each of which could destroy 18kg (40lbs) of Great Lakes fish, causing

significant ecosystem disruptions. A breach in the dam would have permitted expansion of the larval sea lamprey population and threatened the rehabilitation of native fish species in Lake Huron and throughout the rest of the Great Lakes Basin.

Denny’s Dam, originally built in 1870 by John Denny to supply power to his grist mill, was purchased by Ontario Hydro and reconstructed, but it became uneconomical and the site was abandoned. In 1970 the Great Lakes were seeing the devastating

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Subsequent to reconstruction of the dam in 1970, sea lamprey catches reduced from 420 in 1971 to 2 in 1974. Likewise, incidence of scarred steelhead using the fishway fell from 24% in 1971 to 8.5% in 1974 – the barrier worked and resulted in decreased use of the selective, but expensive, lampricide TFM (3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol) that

Dimitrious Karamanlidis shows off the 5 lb. pike he caught while fishing near Lucknow in June.

was used to eliminate larval sea lampreys prior to the reconstruction of the dam.

Since 1971, assessments of the Saugeen River and Denny’s Dam verified that Denny’s Dam was functioning as intended. However, by 2000, it was discovered that areas of the dam had begun to deteriorate and were in need of repair.

Through a highly collaborative partnership, a careful process of assessment, surveys, and plans for reconstruction of the dam, culminating in the project starting during 2017. By October 2018 the dam was reconstructed and stood again as a bastion of sea lamprey control on the Saugeen.

Sea lamprey control has continued since

1958, conducted by the GLFC, DFO, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, who annually treat streams where sea lampreys live as larvae and ensure dams, like Denny’s Dam, continue to prevent upstream sea lamprey migration. Without sea lamprey control, Canada and the U.S. would not have the fishery we enjoy today. Today, control has knocked back sea lamprey populations by 90 percent in most areas of the Great Lakes.

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What does learning about salmon look like in Kindergarten? are there as part of our I have participated in learning environment) the Sydenham Sportsmen’s and observe the Association salmon raising changes as they occur in project with my class for real-time. the last three years. When Kindergarten students It is amazing to see have the opportunity them pick out individual to raise salmon in the salmon from the vast classroom it gives them number in the tank direct experience with how and give them names. salmon develop. However,

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Fishing with crayfish

by Brook Schryer, ISAP Aquatic Program Specialist If you’re an avid angler like me, you’ve probably used crayfish before to catch some fish. Crayfish are a great choice when it comes to landing things like Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass and they make up a significant portion of their diet. That being said, we wanted to remind anglers about the rules and regulations around crayfish as well as being mindful of invasive crayfish that are present in Ontario’s waters.

Remember, you can only use crayfish as bait in the water where it was captured and any overland transport is strictly prohibited.

This means you are not allowed to transport crayfish from one waterbody to another and there are a number of biological reasons for this, from the risk of transferring diseases to the risk of transferring invasive species.

If you want to capture your own crayfish to use as bait, refer to the 2019 Ontario Fishing Regulations on page 19 where all of the trap limitations are highlighted.

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BOOK REVIEW

Something Spectacular: My Great Lakes Salmon Story New autobiography from Dr. Howard Tanner, father of the Great Lakes salmon fishery, is an important contribution to the annals of history and an engaging read.

January 24, 2019 – Author: Daniel O’Keefe Michigan Sea Grant,Michigan State University Extension It would be hard to understate the impact that Dr. Howard A. Tanner had on the Great lakes region.

Tanner was at the helm of the Michigan Department of Conservation’s Fish Division from 1964 until 1966. During this brief moment in time, Tanner set the course for massive change. Ultimately, his decisions were largely responsible for not only the introduction of coho and Chinook salmon, but also the shift in emphasis from commercial to recreational fisheries management on the lakes, the rise of state authority and decline of federal authority to manage these fisheries, massive changes to state hatchery systems, and the beginning of state involvement in Great lakes fishery research.

In the court of public opinion, Tanner’s actions were heralded as a great success.

Coastal tourism boomed, tackle companies flourished, and new property values soared as “coho madness” drew unprecedented numbers of anglers from Michigan and surrounding states. Beaches that had been littered with the decaying bodies of invasive alewives now bore witness to the birth of a word-class fishery. The small silvery alewives were nearly worthless to commercial fishermen, but their booming population provided ample food for salmon.

This 30-second story is common knowledge around Lake Michigan. It is one of those rare moments in fisheries history that transcends the community of anglers, commercial fishers, and fisheries professionals. The oft-paraphrased “line of dead fish 300 miles long” that littered popular public beaches and prime waterfront real estate was undoubtedly a key to public interest, but the booming salmon

fishery that followed also enjoyed broad appreciation due to its obvious economic impacts.

It would have been tempting for Tanner to focus only on the positive in this autobiography. Indeed, he is certainly cast as the hero of the story, but there is also a great deal of reflection on the salient criticism he received. By his own admission, he was well aware of the “firm dogma against introducing non-native species” that was based on the hard lessons and failures of the past.

Tanner’s rebuttal to his critics sometimes reads as realpolitik justification or contention that the ends justified the means. After all, we now have more resilience and stability in predator-prey balance thanks to the increased number of predatory species found in open water. However, Tanner is also very honest about his primary motivation to “do something … spectacular” and create a new recreational fishery.

It is fortunate that Dr. Tanner elected to write this book late in life (he is 95 at the time of publishing) because he was able to write with unvarnished honesty without risk to his professional position or the careers of colleagues. Of course, Tanner often references his membership in the “Greatest Generation” of WWII veterans and this

context is very important to understanding the attitudes and cultural norms that enabled these decisions. Even so, some of Tanner’s stories might be judged more critically by today’s standards.

Originally, his plan to do something spectacular for Michigan’s sport fishery involved three non-native fish. From an historical perspective, the discussion of all

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continued from page 63 three species that were considered was particularly interesting. Kokanee salmon (a landlocked form of sockeye salmon) were introduced to inland lakes in Michigan before coho salmon were stocked in the Great Lakes, based in part on Tanner’s knowledge of fisheries for stocked kokanee in reservoirs from his time in Colorado. In short, the kokanee program was a failure despite early predictions for their success.

Striped bass stocking in certain Great Lakes waters was considered in addition to salmon, and Tanner details the difficult decision to destroy striped bass broodstock after they were brought to a hatchery in Michigan from South Carolina.

these early chapters serve to remind us how much things have changed since the early days of fisheries management.

For example, Tanner initially hypothesized that fertilizing lakes would increase trout production. After adding nutrients to a lake, Tanner observed that trout growth increased over the first summer, but there was a large fish die-off that winter due to oxygen depletion below the ice. Today we take it for granted that fertilizing glacial lakes in the upper Midwest is a terrible idea because excess nutrients lead to decomposition and decreases in dissolved oxygen. Early research projects like Tanner’s provided the science that lead to our current paradigm of

seeking to reduce nutrient inputs to lakes, as opposed to increasing them.

Mindsets change slowly, but Dr. Tanner’s tell-all autobiography paints us a vivid picture of that moment in time where everything changed dramatically and almost overnight. Those times still factor into the psyche of today’s anglers. The mix of seemingly unlimited forage, the overnight sensation of a booming fishery in response to stocking, and the equation of “more fish stocked = more fish caught” that held true for decades left a deep imprint. Now, as we collectively look toward the future, Tanner’s book provides crucial historical context for our present situation and a thoughtful

At the end of the day, Tanner maintains his belief that the salmon introduction was “the right decision at the right time.”

A great many anglers, coastal residents, and small business owners along the Great Lakes shores would agree with this wholeheartedly. Among fisheries biologists and Great Lakes ecologists, I think it is fair to say that opinions are more nuanced while state-licensed and tribal commercial fishers have more negative views (which are explored along with sport fishing views in the book Fish for ALL (https://www.amazon. com/Fish-All-Multiple-Sentiment-Michigan/ dp/0870136542).

In addition to providing an insider’s perspective on the birth of the Great Lakes salmon fishery, Tanner provides readers with a look at his early life fishing for trout, deployment in the South Pacific, and his graduate research on lake fertilization. Along with providing context for his later work,

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exploration of the critical factors that led to his decision.

This book is available in hardcover from MSU Press for $39.95 US (or ebook $31.95) at http://msupress.org/books/book/?ID=50-1D0-44D9#.XD458ml7mM8 Author’s note: Looking back at my own life and career, Dr. Tanner’s influence looms large.

My decision to study Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University was based on two things: they offered a course in ichthyology (the study of fish – at the time I did not understand exactly what fisheries management entailed),and the fact that the Red Cedar River flowed through campus and supported a run of coho salmon. As a student at MSU, Dr. Tanner gave a guest lecture in a course on Great lakes issues and I began to use the example of his decision to explain to family and friends what the field of fisheries management is all about, and how it can relate to people who don’t necessarily care about fishing.

Now, as an extension professional working with Great Lakes charter captains and recreational salmon anglers, I can attest to the fact that Dr. Tanner’s legacy is very much appreciated by people who launched their own businesses, organized their social life and invested their savings on the promise of salmon in the Great Lakes. After half a century of salmon and the appearance of quagga mussels, spiny water fleas, round gobies, and other invaders, we are now grappling with the question of how to best balance the mix of salmon and trout species with shrinking (or at least changing) food resources.

Michigan Sea Grant (http://www.michiganseagrant.org/) helps to foster economic growth and protect Michigan’s coastal Great Lakes resources through education, research and outreach. A collaborative effort of the University of Michigan (http://www.umich. edu/) and Michigan State University (http://www.msu.edu/) and its MSU Extension (http://msue.edu/). Michigan Sea Grant is part of the NOAA-National Sea Grant (http://seagrant.noaa.gov/) network of 33 university-based programs.

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Many, especially SSA Members and local anglers, will remember that over 31 years ago – before there was a Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular – the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association and Ontario Fisherman Magazine hosted a series of Annual Great Lakes Sport Fishing Symposiums featuring Canadian and U.S. guest speakers from amongst the most renowned individuals of the day in the field of fisheries science, management and sport fishing.

Dr. Howard A. Tanner was one of those exceptional guest speakers at the 2nd Annual SSA Sport Fishing Symposium held in Owen Sound in 1986.

The well attended annual symposiums and tackle shows were held as early fundraisers for the SSA Fish Hatcheries and to educate the public in all aspects of the Great Lakes Fisheries including the introduction of salmon.

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Wisdom of the Elders Inside the mind of an Expert someone who is continuously As I stand in front of my Grade 5/6 class, they listen learning, even when he or she thinks their journey has come to more closely than ever as I an end. I explain how the best am speaking. Their attention way to become an expert is to is not locked on just another talk to an expert, and it comes piece of writing from a textbook, nor is it fixated without surprise when I began talking about my Poppa. on an unknown author’s blog post found somewhere Today, I tell of my adventure online. I have, once again, to the big city of Owen Sound by caught them, hook, line and one week earlier to visit two Lindsay sinker, on today’s story I tell very important people Geberdt-Maxfield of my Poppa. Like many days, - my Nanny I find myself, in some way or and Poppa. All thirtyanother, incorporating yet another one of two students listen his teachings into my daily lessons; lessons intently as I document I once learned which have stuck with me all my weekend outings. of my life.

It is as though they are Ironically, this particular discussion surrounds the idea of becoming an expert at something.

I begin by talking about the importance of the journey to becoming an expert, and how the very definition of an expert is being

living vicariously through my stories in the details I share.

I talk about learning from an expert in how to properly prune an old apple tree. I describe our visit to the fish Hatchery, and answer

the many questions that arise when I try to describe the magic that happens within the walls of the Hatchery. We all laugh as I tell of how our adventure made me feel as though I was ten years old once again, walking through the doors of the Hatchery, Poppa leading the way while I follow closely behind listening intently as he shares his unlimited knowledge about the world and all things within. I tell of the small buildings holding so much life, the volunteers, the holding tanks, the water levels dropping to clean the tanks once again. I paint a mental picture of a tank that has become a temporary home to fertilized salmon eggs, left untouched during the cell division stage. I describe the chinook salmon fry, the tediousness of collecting and documenting those that did not survive. Finally, I try my best to explain the discreet unique manner in which the fish are essentially ‘tagged’ to follow them throughout their life as

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continued on from 68 they return to the infamous Salmon Spectacular Weigh-In Station at the end of their life-cycle.

As I retell my account of that wondrous morning with my mind full of information, I sound like a genius in the eyes of a twelve year old.

This feeling I have is unlike any other - pride, excitement, nostalgia, and wonder all at once. It is in this moment that I become what he has spent his entire life being to so many - a teacher.

I share these stories with my students not because I have to, but because it is in sharing these experiences that I realize how fortunate I have been to have the guiding knowledge of an elder. My elder. To some, he may be known as Fred, others as Freddy or Mr. G. He is a teacher, a conservationist, a leader, a Scientist and an expert. Above all, he is known as Husband, Dad and Poppa.

It is around all of these names and identities that this one individual has created so much life, love and learning. Like a superhero, he has the ability to wear so many hats, yet hold that place as a North Star for so many, giving directions, answering questions, making changes and creating new experiences with every passing day. The work he has done and, to this day continues to do without fail, will never go unnoticed. The endless amounts of wisdom he has shared with me along with so many others will be passed on for generations to come, something I strive to do every day as I follow in his footsteps.

Now, as I drive past a homestead with an old apple tree and I see the sucker branches sticking straight out the top, I smile to myself and think “I know how to take care of that tree.”

All this because I spent a lifetime listening to the teachings of my expert, and learning from my Poppa.

Fred Geberdt with granddaughters Brittany and Lindsay Geberdt holding their first fish caught in Owen Sound Bay.

Lindsay Geberdt and Fred Geberdt enjoying a day of fun.

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Let’s All “PITCH-IN” SSA Annual River & Stream Bank Litter Cleanup Campaigns

The annual spring riverbank litter cleanup organized by the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association (SSA) along with the City of Owen Sound, Miller Waste, and Bayshore Broadcasting was held on Saturday, April 20, 2019. About 30 volunteers braved cold, wet and windy conditions to take part in the clean-up which is now held each year to coincide with Earth Week.

The SSA had for some years previous, performed annual clean-ups each spring, a few weeks following the opening of the fishing season, to pick up litter and debris at launch ramps, stream and harbour areas as well as around upper Sydenham

by Jack Osadzuk, River stream access parking areas. In SSA Member 1979, SSA Junior Activities Chairman Fred Geberdt initiated the club’s This year was the 30th year that the SSA first Junior members Stream Clean-up Day sponsored event has taken place since to get our young members thinking more the 52nd Annual Ontario Federation of about the environment.

Anglers & Hunters AGM and Fish & Wildlife Conference held in Toronto in March 1980.

That was when the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters (OFAH) with the assistance of Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment announced the staging of the first provincewide “PITCH-IN DAY’ to be held on Saturday, June 7th, 1980 in an effort to help “Keep Ontario Beautiful”.

Anglers and Hunters groups and individuals from all over Ontario bought into the 1980 province-wide clean-up effort, by organizing special environmental PITCH-IN projects to clean-up litter and junk from streams, shorelines, rural roads & trails, picnic areas, campsites and other areas.

While the original one day province-wide “Pitch-In” event faded away with time, it certainly accomplished what it intended by creating an environmental awareness that has made many individuals more conscious of their own habits, and spawned the creation of annual clean-up campaigns now held throughout each year by community and rural residents, schools, stewardships and many organizations and other caring groups that share the outdoors.

Since I can remember throughout my many SSA years, members have been encouraged not to litter during their outdoor activities and to pick-up litter left by others.

Many of us carry garbage bags in our hunting and fishing jackets to do clean-ups.

I can tell you from experience that much of the type of litter I have picked-up was not left by hunters or anglers. Having said that, I can recall many occasions when the top of my chest-high waders bulged with discarded fishing line, cigarette and food wrappers, empty bait containers and one of my pet peeves empty plastic shotgun shells.

The “No Trespassing” sign you see on a property you used to enjoy access to may be there because someone became upset with careless litterers.

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A History spanning 90 Years of Canadian Success Article and photos courtesy of Lucky Strike From a pre-depression hobby into a booming business Frank (Rusty) Edgar, the company’s founder, had graduated as a pattern-maker in the mid 1920s and had found work in the automobile industry, but with the onslaught of the Great Depression in 1929, he returned home to Peterborough, Ontario. Edgar spent countless hours in his workshop garage, where he began to improve some wooden plug baits that he had previously fashioned out of broom handles.

Asking the neighbours to save their old wooden broom handles, he later began to obtain broom handles culled from a local broom factory. Made of birch and maple, his wooden plugs were quite heavy and ran deep in the water. His success as a fisherman on the banks of the nearby Otonabee River attracted the attention of other anglers, who asked him to sell some of his lures, making his first sales at one dollar a piece. With a limited market by selling only from his tackle box, he obtained permission to place a wall display of his lures in a local barbershop. A representative from Direct Factory Sales of Toronto, who was receiving a haircut, noticed the lures and contacted Edgar, who provided him with a selection of his best lures.

In late 1931, Edgar was finally contacted once again by the agent, who gave Edgar an order for 10,000 plugs to be ready the following May at fifty cents each. Obtaining a seventy-five dollar loan, he purchased a shipment of cedar, hired two boys to cut the lumber, and then he turned it into plugs on his wood lathe and painted them.

Lucky Strike is born Working long hours, he was able to finish the order on time. With the money from that sale he was able to procure more machinery and began adding a long list of other lures to his selection.

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Needing a name for the company, Edgar held a contest and the name Lucky Strike was chosen. As sales continued to grow, the reputation for the wooden plugs soon spread across Canada. After adding two extensions to his garage workshop, in 1939 he was able to build a complete new shop, prospering and growing in the face of strong competition from the larger United States companies.

Growing in the face of competition Lucky Strike’s line of products was enlarged to include fly reels, split bamboo rods and landing nets, which sold at a rate as high as 30,000 units a year. A second factory was added in 1944 in Cobourg, Ontario to produce treble hooks, split rings and swivels, with practically the entire output designated for export. After World War II, an addition was added to the Peterborough plant, and in 1952, all production was consolidated at the Peterborough facility.

Plastic lures were soon added to Lucky Strike’s growing list of products, as was the submarine plug, which Lucky Strike perfected. The company’s continuing success began to interest the competition, who offered to purchase Lucky Strike, but the Edgar family steadfastly refused to sell the family business.

Unique production needs Needing more space and with no further room to grow, in 1987 the company relocated to a new site in Peterborough, with integrated production facilities designed and constructed for Lucky Strike’s specific needs.

Unable at times to find manufacturing equipment exactly suited for the company’s requirements, Lucky Strike has designed and adapted a number of machines over the years for its unique production needs.

—that its shiny and colourful surface catches a fish’s attention. In addition, the company has made all the dies for the designs it has developed over the years.

Fourth-generation family-owned business Lucky Strike has also evolved into an extended family business, now in its fourth generation of the Edgar family. Founded by Frank Edgar and aided by his wife Elsie, their son Bill has assisted at the shop since boyhood. After graduating as a tool and die maker, Bill Edgar and his wife Cora assumed the leadership of the business in 1979. Bill’s daughter and son-in- law, Mary and Kim Rhodes began working at the factory in 1985 and took over leadership in 1995. Bill’s youngest daughter Diane also joined the company in 1994. Kim and Mary’s son Dustin started working in 2005 and has been awarded position of President as of 2019.

Top-of-the-line products There are many Lucky Strike lures that remain a favourite, year after year. Kim Rhodes explains, “Our wide array of lures reflects both the company’s own judgment on what will sell, and the feedback we receive from fishermen.

With this unique knowledge and relationship with fishing enthusiasts, Lucky Strike Bait Works Ltd. has earned itself a place of recognition and respect among anglers across North America, and has assured itself continual growth in the future.

One such machine is the company’s automatic buffing machine, capable of polishing thousands of tiny parts a day and fulfilling a prime requirement for a successful lure—

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Building a Habitat...

The Demonstration Wildlife Management Area First I want to thank Murray Smart for his able and valuable assistance in researching information on this topic.

At one time, the SSA purchased the largest part of the Lymon Williton farm, which is now the SSA property. I believe this was done in the early 1970’s but do know that the mortgage was burned in 1979 when I was the President.

by John Ford, SSA Member

In 1991 or 92, the house where Lymon had lived, along with the field beside the SSA property was purchased by the Sydenham Conservation Foundation. This house is no longer present as it was sold and moved. In its location we have created the Blake Smith Memorial park complete with gorgeous Red Oaks in memory of those passed and with a wonderful bench created in our Maher Centre. This is a great place to sit and reflect in the good weather.

Shortly after that, the Foundation also

purchased the white house, now called the Gord Maher Memorial Workshop and the surrounding property. Some details of the house and field purchase were that they were transferred to the SCF from Chris Geberdt for $1 in August 1997. At that time, a lease agreement was signed between the SCF and the SSA for 99 years.

This is the workshop ably manned by Bob Hunt and Wayne Gallaugher where literally hundreds of Eastern Bluebird nesting boxes are made along with many other types of bird feeders, bat boxes, kestrel boxes, mouse nests, woodduck nests etc. The conservation programmes spawned from this little workshop will probably be described in more detail elsewhere in this publication.

The field that we used to call the front field but is now part of the Blake Smith Memorial area, at that time, was a depleted

pasture field that could not grow much.

The purpose of the DWMA was to provide a demonstration of something that rural landowners could do rather than cutting acres of grass and creating a “green desert”.

This area would be wildlife friendly. One of the first things that was done in this area, was an intensive fertilization programme.

We found that it needed much nutrition.

The original driving force behind this project was the late Gord Maher. Gord had

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created a magnificent youth programme and part of it was working on the front field. Gord had a gruff exterior but also a heart of gold. There are many young people, adults today, who received some of their conservation education from Gord working on the DWMA.

University of Western Ontario, Acadia University and the University of Guelph.)

This system is used to determine landscape use of flying migratory animals in Eastern Canada. In 2014, the Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association was asked to be part of this unique programme by allowing for the placement of a radio telemetry tower. This 24 ft tower is now on the site of the Blake Smith Memorial Conservation property and permits the tracking of radio tagged birds, bats and insects.

After we lost Gord , in 2002, Blake Smith took over. Blake was a retired Conservation Officer and his story has been told in previous editions of the Sportsmans Annual.

Blake and his wife Linda worked In 2017 and 2018, 12 birds The purpose of the tirelessly to representing 8 different DWMA was to provide plant trees and species were detected by our shrubs along tower. This is a very small a demonstration of with watering the number considering that in something that rural trees with unused 2017 they radio-tagged 111 landowners could do rather species and 3626 individuals gas cans to keep them alive. After than cutting acres of grass including birds, bats and Blake passed on, insects. Motus indicated that and creating a “green in 2008, there was even though the number desert”. a delay of several is small, it is still important years before and provides valuable data.

Verle Barfoot became chair of the Wildlife As Mike Prevost indicates, ”Conservation Advisory Committee and work continued. embodies a large spectrum of our Some of this included replanting and other environment. Big or small any Conservation maintenance activities. About 2011, I projects are worth our efforts and we have decided to co-chair with Verle as his health always tried to do our part.” declined. Unfortunately, shortly after Some highlights that have happened that, we lost Verle and I inherited the chair in the DWMA has been the numerous tree position. I’m hoping that I don’t meet the species planted over the years. A number of same fate as the other WAC chairs?? years ago, we planted wildflowers. Some of Several years ago, Mike Prevost learned you may remember the huge field of black about the Motus Wildlife Tracking system eyed susans. I took 2 of my granddaughters (a joint project of Bird Studies Canada, there and took their picture in the middle

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of this field. Later we were able to obtain Tall Grass Prairie seed and planted it in one area. At one time, we were able to obtain a hybrid species of American Chestnuts and planted them. I believe that one or more still are alive.

As you can understand, many trees were planted and more than a few died due to dry summers. We decided that we needed a way to water these seedlings. Some enterprising SSA Members designed a watering trailer.

This water tank on a trailer was hauled by our tractor and had 2 pumps. One large one pumped the tank full of water from the river.

The second smaller pump was connected to a garden hose and pumped the water on the trees. Wayne Gallaugher and Bob Hunt were instrumental in watering these young trees as needed.

At present we have an impressive display of Lupins in one central area. Over the years we have planted many tree species and have included some domestic fruit tree species.

Recently we were forced to trim pines, spruce and cedar in order to maintain the lanes through the area so that we can move equipment as needed. The trimmings were used to build new and existing brush piles for wildlife When I think of how this area looked just after purchase, I am still amazed at how good it looks today. Thanks Gord Maher, the many SSA Junior members, Blake Smith and the Wildlife Advisory Committee!

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Steve’s dad and brothers loved the out of doors and participated in every season.

He grew up eating venison, rabbits and turkeys as well as all the fish they caught – smelt, salmon, bass, trout, and the much loved walleye.

Steve moved to Ontario with his wife Kathleen in 1988. He found that perfect group of friends that introduced him to the magnificent lakes and rivers of the area and created memories and stories to last a lifetime. Over the years Steve developed his culinary skills and became well known as the best camp cook.

In 2001 Steve started Blackfly Lures because he couldn’t find quality spinner baits. He chose to use black wires to make them invisible under water and never wavered from his commitment

to quality. He experimented and over the years made many modifications and improvements. All the lures are still hand-made in the crowded garage which he outgrew 10 years ago with the help of Charlene and Corey.

by his wife Kathleen, sons, JD and Matt and their beloved Goldens, Pippa and George. Two days after Steve passed away his family gathered at the Blackfly booth at Spring Fishing Show ready for the 2019 season...just as he would have wanted.

As well as touring the province each spring selling his lures to fishing stores, he started going to fishing shows and getting involved in tournaments including the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

Over the years he met so many great friends and supporters and these shows and events were something he really looked forward to. Steve spent the last year working and passing on the secrets to his son Matt who is carrying on the Blackfly Lures business.

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The trail to my association roots in an association.

Even as a young hunter, I understood the basic purpose of membership organizations. An association (or Federation) is a group of regular people, like my Dad, who pull together to take charge of their shared values and interests. I got it!

I can take you to the exact spot on the partridge hunting trail where my Dad told me about his membership in the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters.

By Robert J. Pye, CAE “You see this Manager, OFAH Business Development crest,” my Dad said and Corporate Messaging pointing to the OFAH emblem I joined the OFAH when I was 12. Lately, I sewn to his hunting jacket. “This is what have been wondering if membership has lost protects hunting.” its meaning for the next generation ready I felt my Dad’s heart when he talked to make a difference, but perhaps not ready about his OFAH membership. My Dad called to ever join an association. Do most people hunting and fishing his “birthright” and he even consider why associations exist? told me that he proudly belonged to the I reach back to 35-year old memories, OFAH because, “if anglers and hunters don’t including that day on the partridge hunting stick together, we are going to lose it.” trail, to help retrace my earliest steps That simple truth started my passion for in awareness about the importance of the OFAH. It also shaped my respect for associations. anyone with the initiative to get involved

Every summer my friends and I played baseball. Our families never paid for uniforms, equipment or sports registration fees because, behind the scenes, were my neighbours who belonged to our little village’s sports association. They made baseball participation possible thanks to their volunteer time and year-round fundraising. I was also actively involved in public speaking, travelling across the province and throughout the United States for prepared speech competitions. Every dollar of my travel costs was sponsored by volunteers of our local Lions Club, Rotary International and the Royal Canadian Legion.

My first-year college tuition fees were subsidized with scholarships I received from more great community leaders and their respective associations. In many ways, I am the product of caring people who are the pillars of community service. Looking back, I guess I’ve known for years that volunteerbased associations drive civic achievements – achievements like the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular!

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Continued from page 95 Bridging generations Today, most membership associations are run almost entirely by the same generation of volunteers that have been working tirelessly since my childhood days at the ball diamond. That generation (baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964) urgently need new volunteers to fly the plane. However, associations are struggling with recruitment, particularly from my generation (Generation X born between 1965 and 1981) and the Millennials (Generation Y born between 1982 to 1995). The struggle is real and it seems generational differences are the reason why.

I have a humble confession. Several years ago, I had to back out of a promise (a promise that I made to myself ) to “someday” join a local service club. After being officially welcomed to the club, I admitted that the time and money involved in attending regular business meetings, committee meetings, and weekend club events, fundraisers and all of the other great opportunities “to give back” was not possible for this new Dad. My wife and I were balancing family life and our careers while managing a new mortgage, childcare costs and all the other pressures on the 30 and 40-something crowd. According to association growth strategists, my confession accurately reflects the realities of today’s middle-age interests, habits and expectations.

For instance, my family supports our local associations with event participation, donations and raffle ticket purchases. No, we don’t make time for membership meetings, but we enjoy being part of association’s online communities that keep us informed of when and how we can help. Through our personal family and friends on Facebook and email we have raised hundreds of dollars in pledges (aka “peer-to-peer” fundraising) as part of our involvement in campaigns like Movember, Relay for Life and the Kids Help Line’s Walk So Kids Can Talk. Personally addressed information we receive to recognize our donations to Ducks Unlimited Canada and the OFAH also motivate my family to give more to conservation.

The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters is presenting new ways to get all

ages involved in our organization. Some members belong to one or more clubs and others make a commitment to join and renew as individual OFAH members. The new $25 OFAH Paperless Membership has brought in thousands of new supporters from ages 8 to 82, and the average age is 47 (Generation X).

But there is more to the OFAH menu than just membership. Anyone who purchases OFAH branded merchandise, donates to OFAH programs through monthly giving, planned giving or buys our conservation lottery tickets is supporting the outdoors in ways just as meaningful as membership. The OFAH is also grateful to anyone who reads Ontario OUT of DOORS Magazine, watches Angler & Hunter TV, and engages in OFAH

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Beyond membership Sons and daughters of Boomers are not considered “joiners” but they may be prepared to contribute on other levels for associations that see beyond membership.

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Continued from page 97 topics and discussion through our e-news and social media. These communications vehicles help people consider the outdoor opportunities that simply wouldn’t exist without OFAH supporters.

This spring, I was asked to give a talk to Grade 9 students about the role of the OFAH as a non-government and not-forprofit conservation association. I started my talk in the same way I started this article. I told them that the OFAH was about people like my Dad, just everyday citizens who join together because they care about our natural resources and outdoor traditions. The students clearly understood the definition of an association when I rhetorically asked, “what is stronger, the united voice of 78,000-members or a single cry of an individual?”

My presentation included an overview of a long list of environmental achievements that were spearheaded by OFAH volunteer passion. The reintroduction of native species like elk and wild turkey, and tens of thousands of hands-on volunteer hours (invested annually) in local stream restoration, tree planting as well as salmon, trout and walleye stocking. I stressed how the majority always benefit from the minority that take the initiative to create change.

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The OFAH presentation inspired my audience of cyber-agers (Generation Z born between 1996 and 2009), and hopefully they will be inspired to support associations that represent their way of life. Generation Z also includes my two boys who have inherited their grandpa’s fascination for spring mornings on the trout stream and autumn evenings in the duck blind. There are now three generations of Pye boys putting their support behind outdoor associations that stand up for family traditions.

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The Good Old Hockey Game The place in Owen Sound where I spent 20 denim material and compressed paper knee of years and Billy had fished at relatives farms of the first years of my life, was in my mind pads. I still got lots of bruises and finally quit in the Bognor and Walter’s Falls area. Billie’s the best street a kid in those wearing them. birthday party was held at one of these farms times of the 1940’s & 1950’s and we caught a mess of horned chub which Many of my bruises were could be lucky enough to grow Mrs. McLean later cooked up for Billy and me. delivered by my next door up on. It was a neighbourhood I really like to eat fish, but that was the first neighbour and best friend comprised of friendly families and last time I tasted that dish.

Billy McLean. Despite his with lots of active kids, who for smallish size, Billie was a real I doubt I will ever forget the day a year the most part were pretty close tough competitor and played later, while walking along 9th Street West in age. Although the summers to win regardless of whether towards home, Dave Onclin, a friend on his were enjoyable; winter was we were playing hockey or any Sun Times paper route stopped to tell me when the street really came alive other game. my little pal had drowned. Ten year old Billie for the kids.

by Jack Osadzuk, McLean drowned while fishing only 20 feet Outside of the old Arena on Located on the south side and away from his parents, who were in the cabin SSA Member 2nd Avenue East, Billie and I at the foot of 10th Street West the family was staying in while vacationing sold programs for the Owen Hill; the 900 block of 4th Avenue at Huntsville.

Sound Mercurys Senior “A” West was a dead-end street with little traffic hockey games. The deal was, In my young life, Billie’s and had a small park and a well used sleighif we sold a certain number death was a first time riding hill at the street’s south end. of programs we got into the experience that both Kids from other neighbourhoods also game free. I don’t remember confused and affected me congregated on the sleigh-riding hill – so us ever not getting into the deeply, as I am sure it was many at times, that wait times between runs game as Billy was a good for many other of our young seemed long, and navigating back up the salesman. friends. I can’t speak for them, hill after a run could be hazardous. Some of but Billie and what he might One year for Christmas, the kids coming to sleigh-ride, toboggan or have become, remains in my Billie received a Munro ski, also brought along their hockey sticks, as thoughts even yet, seventy Wooden Hockey Game! An they knew chances were that a street hockey years later. amazing wonderful invention, game might break out at any time. with which we spent many My Mom and Dad, I’m sure Over the years I have been reacquainted enjoyable evenings facing in an effort to help console, with more than one person, who tells me each other across the McLean bought me a wooden hockey that they have great memories of joining in dining room table. game like the one Billy and on our 900 block street hockey games.

I spent so many nights There was only one year Billie McLean.

Note the playing. After about a dozen Most of us had our hockey heroes of that difference in our ages, so times playing, I wasn’t long Sydenham Sportsmen era from the NHL and also local players with besides hockey Billie and I in realizing that it wasn’t the and Dominion the Owen Sound Mercurys. When it was shared many similar interests. game I had enjoyed so much; Marksman crests on my turn to play goal, I was Leaf goalie Turk Before we were old enough it was Billie’s company. The Broda. Fortunately for me –and the players to go to school, we raced our Billie’s jacket and the game was relegated to stand on my team – Norm Long was usually in the bikes, scooters and wagons Boy Scout belt pouch. out of sight and mind behind net. up and down the sidewalks of my bedroom door.

4th Avenue. Later we attended Hockey sticks for the most part were all Dufferin Elementary School, traded and My Dad, who I knew as being one of the the equipment that most of us had. I had a flipped hockey cards and in season, played most gentle and kind-hearted people you pair of Maple Leaf hockey socks into which marbles on the way home.

We were also could hope to meet in your life-time came I stuffed magazines or catalogues – not to both Cub Scouts with St. Andrew’s Church to me one evening a few years later with a protect me from the puck, but often the Cub Pack, and Junior Members of the request. Dad told me that one of the chaps number of players “digging” for the puck Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association. he worked with at Russel Brothers was going exceeded the legal number allowed in a through a difficult time and the family with real hockey game, so accidental slashing We each liked fishing and when Billie young children was facing a pretty bleak was rampant. I remember getting my first turned 9 years old, we were allowed to pair of real shin pads for Christmas one year.

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continued from page 102 Christmas. He asked if I would mind if he gave the chap my like-new hockey game for his boys and of course I said yes give it to them.

In the late 1990’s, my wife Elaine and I along with three other couples were playing golf at the Tip O’ The Bruce course and afterwards went into the clubhouse for some refreshments. I noticed a wooden hockey game hanging on the wall and although it was slightly different than my old one, it caught my eye as it was the first time I had seen one of those old games in years.

A couple years later while at our next door neighbours, Bob and Loree Morrison for a BBQ it began to rain and we all moved inside.

I noticed a worn, well used old wooden hockey game leaning against the wall and commented “I hadn’t seen one like that in years and now in just the past couple of years I have seen two”. Loree informed me that she had just bought it at a garage sale in

Leith the day before, and I told her I had one just like that when I was a kid.

“Maybe it’s your old one,” she said.

I laughed, saying “I doubt that my game would still be in one piece after all these years, besides if it was mine it would likely have my name ‘Jack’ on the back.” as I explained my Dad had a habit of putting my name on my stuff. Picking up the hockey game, Loree electrified the gathering by turning it over to reveal my name written in pencil by my father Bill, which caused the hair on my neck to stand up and brought a flood of memories back to me. Naturally, I had to tell them the story in part that you read at the beginning of this article.

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Referred to as “the wooden game” by collectors, the first of these early hockey games were built by Donald H. Munro, Sr. in his Toronto home in 1932-33. The first recorded price for the standard model was listed at $4.95 in Eaton’s 1939-40 Fall and Winter catalogue. The deluxe version which is the model Billie & I owned was introduced in the 1940’s and were manufactured in Toronto by Munro and his partner Stewart Molson Robertson under the company name Munro & Robertson.

These early mechanical Munro wooden hockey games were produced every year until 1955 and during this 22 year period the playing quality and appearance underwent many improvements.

The Munro wooden era ended when the first of the modern-style games was introduced by the Montreal based Eagle Toy Company in 1954.

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Mike Winia Chainsaw Carver presented by Huron Tractor

We are thrilled to welcome back world class carver, Mike Winia to the 2019 Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular.

Mike Winia has had a chainsaw in his hands since he was 10 years old and it was clear from that early age that he was a gifted artist. Starting his own logging business, he encouraged proper bush management throughout south-western Ontario and like most carvers, Mike started chainsaw sculpting in his spare time.

Combining his knowledge of chainsaws and his artistic ability, he has demonstrated that it’s a perfect combination for creating some outstanding chainsaw carvings.

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TAKE ME FISHING! Being a part of the will pass that outdoors community knowledge and is so much more than experiences on catching fish and to their young filming shows, for me, ones. Can you it is rewarding to be imagine being involved in events, able to get out community gatherings, in the field and

by Amanda Lynn Mayhew Founder of Ontario Women’s Hunting mentoring and listening experience Association, TV Host - Just Hunt to others’ adventures, hunting and although I do love to fishing as talk about the fights a beginner the fish put me through and the number of on a whole new level? I enjoy my work at women smiling who take part in Take Me giving women a place and community to Fishing. meet others and join likewise events to further educate themselves on firearms, Take Me Fishing is an outreach program archery, hunting, and fishing. I want them to I developed to allow other women the participate in activities outdoors that provide opportunity to get out fishing (following them with the opportunity to expand their in the footsteps of Range Day, Take Me horizons and learn valuable life lessons that Hunting and Take Me Off-Roading) this will serve them well beyond their chapter in year’s event was a complete blast watching life. I want them to be able to have fun and two of my good friends fight for their fish enjoy the outdoors with their peers, but at of the day. Candace and Kelly competing the same time lay a solid foundation of skills with themselves to reel these big guys in and knowledge which they may build on for and then laughing about it later as Captain the rest of their life.

T suggested they only had about 400 feet of line to reel up.

The importance of introducing others to the outdoors is high as it is our heritage and a way of life, it is how I was raised and it gives you so much more to value in life.

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their time to such an amazing event. To say hi to over 5000 people in one area and hear their stories on the week or the last year makes me smile.

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I have been fishing the Salmon Spectacular since 2015 in many different boats and with many different friends who have left me with remarkable memories and big fish but my favorite part of the week is helping at the fish fry and getting to see all those who fished, watched and donated

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continued from page 108 From the first time I hit the water in 2015 on Georgian Bay in Owen Sound on a 20 foot Bayliner and just started learning about down rigging, and salmon fishing to joining the derby in my own boat, I have learned a lot and am a confident Georgian Bay angler

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and addicted to the derby. The first year I landed on the leader board with a lake trout and every year since then I have tried to beat my own numbers and while landing on the leaderboard every year, nothing has stuck since then. It is fun to get out there and compete against your friends and razz each other about the fish you caught or didn’t

catch and to see who is going to knock you off the board.

I sure have been having fun sharpening my skills with downrigging at one of the best locations in the world for fun and value, just outside my home.

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Moose cows were 53%, bulls were 41%, and calves were 6% of the illegal kills. One disturbing fact was that 322 adult moose were killed because they were mistakenly shot as calves. This worked out to be 20% of the annual illegal kills were adult moose mistakenly shot as calves.

759 illegal kills were left in the bush, and later found by MNRF CO’s, 76% of them found indicated human interference.

This study estimates that, 100,000 kg.

(220, 000 pounds), of moose meat was spoiled.

Illegal kills positively and significantly effects our moose populations. In the North Eastern Ontario study area, recruitment loss resulted in 4,190 moose lost in the regions WMU’s. The net loss from 1997 to 2014 was 5,931 moose.

MNRF’s Conservation Officers spent 197,000 hours with 238,000 contacts with hunters during the study period, this worked out be 1 illegal kill per 139 hunter groups contacted.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 23rd ~ Ontario Out of Doors Afternoon Chainsaw Demonstration by Mike Winia - 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

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MOONDANCE - Easy Listening Pop & Country Sponsored by Pete’s Auto Body

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“KID’S EVENING”

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FISHERMEN’S EVENING ENTERTAINMENT ~ 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

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GIANT FISH FRY

Tickets: Adults - $15.00 per single serving • Children under 12 - $7.00 per serving Advance Fish Fry tickets available at Salmon Spectacular Headquarters

Hosted by Sun Life Financial • 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Blackfly Beverage Sampling BIRDS OF PREY DEMONSTRATION • 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Sponsored by Pizza Pizza and Roy-Mar Demolition

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Chainsaw Demonstration by Mike Winia

AFTERNOON ENTERTAINMENT ~ 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

“Old Time Country”

EVENING ENTERTAINMENT ~ 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Fred Lewis Band

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FLINTSTONE LURES My name is Ray McKenzie, and along with my family we own and operate the company Skunked No More, Inc. - the suppliers of FLINTSTONE LURES.

Are you fed up with spending all your money on spoons that easily lose their paint, tape and eyes after only a couple uses? If you answered yes then you need to check out FLINTSTONE LURES. All our spoons are coated with “Tuff Gloss”, a professional, hardened, high gloss protective clear coat with excellent UV resistance and long term durability. “Tuff Gloss”, is sprayed on our spoons after the paint, tape, eyes, etc., are applied. “Tuff Gloss”, provides a durable finish that helps maintain a long lasting, sun protected, tarnish resistant, superior spoon, despite catching many fish.

We have a new line of spoons called Chameleon. Our Chameleon Spoons are covered with a transparent color changing tape. When viewed from different directions they will change colors and give off an iridescent rainbow effect, hence the name Chameleon. Many of them also have

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fluorescent paint or tape, which when combined with the Chameleon tape produces a very wide variety of outstanding unique color combinations. Fluorescent paint and tape in sunlight tends to be reflected and perceived as normal bright colors. Fluorescent paint will also absorb the Ultra-Violet light energy found in sunlight, producing a glow. This glow is most visible in low light conditions, such as overcast days, deep and dark water. This feature is commonly referred to as UV glow.

We also have our magnificent Extended Glow Spoons. They are painted with phosphorescent (glow-in-the-dark) colors.

The phosphorescent paint when exposed to light energy will glow in the dark for several hours. Because of Tuff Gloss and its sun protection, our spoons can be left in the sunlight to absorb great amounts of light energy, for a stronger glow, without any damage to their finish.

Quit wasting your well earned money buying the same spoons over and over again because the paint, tape and/or eyes keep coming off, instead, purchase a spoon you can count on to last and catch fish.

Being that our spoons last so long you will only need one of each kind, however we recommend purchasing a few since these spoons have been proven to hook into some monster fish and break away.

Don’t get stuck on the water wishing you had another one!

FLINTSTONE LURES, with the help of many friends and family, gets bigger and better every year. We owe a lot to our sales reps, pro-staff and retail outlets for promoting our products. With their help we will continue to grow and improve as a supplier of fishing tackle.

Our goal is to provide, to the consumer, AMERICAN made products, of the highest most durable quality, with the most reliable service, for a reasonable investment.

In closing, we consider ourselves to be very fortunate to be involved in the building of a company, in a field that we love so very much!

We are fishermen at heart!

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 25th ~ KID’S DAY

“BREAKFAST WITH ELVIS”

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KID’S DAY

Sponsored by McDonald’s Restaurant & Sun Life Financial

12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. Featuring: Rides, Games, Prizes, Free Draws plus DAN “THE MUSIC MAN”, BIRDS OF PREY DEMONSTRATION

Musical Entertainment by “THE FOUR PRINCESSES”

Chainsaw Demonstration by Mike Winia

ENTERTAINMENT ~ 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28th ~ THE SUN TIMES DAY

SENIOR’S AFTERNOON 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

SUMMIT PLACE

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VEGAS MCGRAW Adam D. Tucker as Tim McGraw Sponsored by The Sun Times

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29th ~ FAMILY AFTERNOON Country 93

BINGO WITH RADIO PERSONALITIES Rick Ringer & Guest Pepper Tournament - 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (entry fee applies)

Afternoon Entertainment -1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

BINGO AND MORE BINGO WITH PRIZES, PRIZES AND MORE PRIZES First 50 people through the tent at 1:00 pm receive a FREE Fish Crisp Sample Pack Sponsored by Bobcat of Grey Bruce, Country 93, Fish Crisp & Miller Waste

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ENTERTAINMENT ~ 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

“FRESH HORSES” Les Smith as Garth Brooks

Sponsored by MolsonCoors, Hydro One and Playtime Casino Hanover

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30th ~ GIANT TIGER AFTERNOON 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Mother’s Day & Back to School Afternoon with Fashion Show

First 100 mothers through the tent at 1:00 pm receive a Giant Tiger Gift Card

Sponsored by Giant Tiger McDONALD’S RESTAURANT & BELL PRESENT “KID’S EVENING” with Dickie Bird ~ 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. “RAFFLE PRIZES GALORE”

ENTERTAINMENT ~ 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Georgia Pines

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31st ~ CABELA’S DAY

2ND GIANT FISH FRY

Hosted by AM ROOFING SOLUTIONS ~ 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tickets: Adults - $15.00 per single serving • Children under 12 - $7.00 per serving Advance Fish Fry tickets available at Salmon Spectacular Headquarters

Pelee Island Wine Tasting, Blackfly Beverage Tasting APPRECIATION BREAKFAST for LARRY MILLER, MP Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

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CABELA’S DAY 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Giveaways • Come meet Amanda Lynn Mayhew

Reptilia Show - 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Sponsored by Zehrs Markets AFTERNOON ENTERTAINMENT ~ 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

THE ELASTIK BAND

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EVENING ENTERTAINMENT 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

ELTON LAMMIE BAND “Classic to New Country and Rock”

Sponsored by Thom Construction Inc. and Leon’s Owen Sound

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st ~ AWARDS DAY

BREAKFAST WITH ELVIS

with World Champion Roy LeBlanc 10:00 a.m. - Noon Sponsored by McDonald’s Restaurant

1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

PRE-AWARDS ENTERTAINMENT DORIAN GRAY “Classic Pop” Sponsored by Liuna Local 1059

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ALL ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMED ON THE GIANT PEPSI STAGE

DAILY BRADLEY SMOKER GIVEAWAY (determined by random computer selection) Sponsored by Hutten & Co. LAND and SHORE

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THANK YOU

The Sydenham Sportsmen’s Association would like to thank Playtime Casino Hanover for their continued support of the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular. Pictured from left to right: Mike Stortini Slot Operations Supervisor, Lisa Lina Assistant General Manager, Tom Carrick SSA, Rebecca Coveney, Customer Relations Supervisor, Chris Geberdt SSA and Ezra Anderson Audit Supervisor

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Fishing the Wall! The inner harbour becomes a small city with anglers lining both the east and west walls in search of the elusive winning salmon. Some anglers have been successful with the grand prize winning salmon being landed off the wall on numerous occasions!

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Watch for “Deadheads” One of the more insidious risks on our waterways is that of the deadhead – a log that does not float horizontally in the water, but that is instead so waterlogged that it floats vertically. Often these deadheads are barely visible, peeking out from a wave trough every so often.

Deadheads are dangerous because they’re difficult to spot, and because they are quite heavy. A boat that is pounding up and down in the waves runs the risk of coming down right on top of a deadhead and being holed. Hitting a regular log isn’t as dangerous as the log will often glance off the reinforced bow, or roll underneath the boat. Sure, the prop can be damaged, but I’d rather take that over a two-foot hole in my hull any day.

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Blast from the Past

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Spring Lake Trout on Lake Ontario line is required to As a cold water achieve a certain fish, lake trout are lure or weight quite often associated depth. It’s a good with deep waters and idea to keep a log downriggers. During of your results so the early spring when you can replicate water temperatures are your program still cool, lake trout have when you have plenty of room to roam success. About and chase bait with the

by Ashley Rae an hour into our cold water dispersed of www.SheLovesToFish.com first spring lake throughout the water trout adventure, one of the reel clickers fired column. This means they’re not confined to off but only for a brief moment. Not feeling the depths. Lakers are one of my favourites confident yet, I questioned whether we to fish for and I’ve had plenty of success had grazed bottom with the spoon. Shortly targeting them without downriggers over the years. During the summer months I enjoy afterward, I stood corrected as another line went tearing off the reel but this time it vertical jigging for them with blade baits didn’t stop. The first fish of the open water when they’re hunkered down deep. This season was hooked up! This chubby laker adventure took place last spring when my set the tone for a fun couple of days on the fishing partner, Eric, and I went on a spring water! lake trout mission on Lake Ontario.

Trolling on the Big Lake Although at the time neither of us had ever targeted spring lakers before out on the big lake, my fishing partner, Eric, and I, set out on this venture feeling optimistic.

Lake Ontario holds some beautiful trout!

When fishing on such a large body of water, trolling is a great way to cover water. The time of year was mid-April and we started off trolling in 30-40 feet of water with the water temperature reading 36 degrees. No major marks showed up on the Humminbird sonar initially but we sent some spoons out at various depths in the water column using the Offshore Tackle Guppy Weights (snap weights) along with the Offshore Tadpoles (resettable diving weights) and planer boards.

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The bite continued on throughout the day and it sure felt good shaking the dust off and bringing some nice fish aboard my Alumacraft. I must say, in comparison to trolling for walleye (which I spend a lot of time doing in the fall), lake trout sure give the arms a good workout while bringing them in! They can put up a good fight and can be quite heavy. Although it was a warm spring day back on land, we were decked out in our winter clothing as it was still breezy and cool out on the lake.

attention from hungry lakers. We trolled at a speed of 2 to 2.2 miles per hour.

Big Fish of the Trip I feel like there’s always drama when a big fish comes along and I have any involvement in the scenario. After a planer board went screaming backwards and Eric picked up the rod, he could tell it was big. When he finally brought this brute-of-a-fish to the boat, I reached out to net it and only managed to get half the fish inside the net before it FLOPPED back into the lake! It thrashed at the back of the boat, thankfully it was still hooked well. Talk about STRESS! I was able to quickly recover sliding the net underneath,

Spoon-Fed Lake Trout We brought along a bunch of different spoons and had success on the Williams HQ in a variety of colours. At first our hits primarily came on the Cajun Orange colour, but eventually all the colours we had out received some

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landing the whole fish this time. PHEW! All at once I felt extreme excitement and a bit nauseous. I was so relieved! Some say fishing is relaxing… well I think it took about an hour for me to stop shaking after Eric’s fish came aboard. I am so thankful I didn’t drop it. What a beauty!

Stunning Colours The colours on these fish varied quite a bit, some with beautiful bright orange fins. A majority of the fish we caught had clipped fins, indicating that they are stocked fish. This just goes to show how important the local stocking programs are in creating these angling opportunities for us to enjoy!

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Pelee Island Pheasant Hunt A great place to experience upland bird hunting The challenges that new “We welcome you to hunters had to face in the past Canada’s southern most to make arrangements in order pheasant hunt!” reads the to take part in the Annual opening line of the Hunting Pelee Island Pheasant Hunts, Information page of the have been greatly diminished Pelee Island Township’s by the Township’s new, all website. It goes on to say – encompassing and informative “This remarkable event has website. All the information been an Island tradition for regarding all of the hunt dates, more than seven decades.

by Jack Osadzuk, regulations, licensing and Thousands of hunters from SSA Member fees, including an Island map all over the world have containing release sites and attended the annual hunt in areas where hunting is not allowed, as well our unique community. Pelee covers over as 2019 featured accommodation contact 10,000 acres and is composed of hedgerows, information are easy to navigate through. an assortment of bush types and open fields. Pelee’s hospitality and the natural https://www.pelee.org/pheasant-hunts/ environment make our pheasant hunts a This year, the Township announced that, truly one of a kind experience.” for your convenience, 2019 hunt licences can I count myself as fortunate to be one of be purchased online. those hunters able to have experienced http://www.pelee.org/hunt-registration/ the unique Island’s annual pheasant hunt for many years; shared with wonderful APPRENTICE HUNTERS WELCOME two-legged and four-legged companions.

In a really positive way the Township is Especially those old friends who acted as helping to introduce a younger generation my Island Hunt mentors when I was first of hunters into pheasant hunting, is through introduced to the Pelee Island Pheasant their Apprentice Hunter/Mentor Licence Hunt some 30 years ago. If you are one as I incentive. If you are a hunter who mentors an am who enjoys the thrill of fast-flushing and apprentice hunter at one of the main hunts, high-flying, big birds – surrounded by the natural environment of a rural setting – Pelee you can purchase a Mentor Licence for a 10% saving over the regular licence fee. There Island is where you want to be this fall. is no licence fee charge for the apprentice

hunter, but you must register him as a member of your group. **This option is only available to Ontario Residents.

A resident of Ontario who is under 16 but over 12 years of age, may qualify under the Hunter Apprenticeship safety Program.

Information on this program can be found in the Ontario Hunting Regulations or by calling the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. Anyone qualifying under this program must provide proof of MNRF certification and proof of age to obtain a Special Municipal Pheasant Hunt Licence (No Charge). **A non-resident who wishes to hunt in Ontario must be 16 years of age or older.

Special Note: The Township of Pelee releases 2 Tagged Pheasants per fall hunt.

These tags are silver numbered bands, located on the leg of the bird and entitle the fortunate hunter to a complimentary licence for the next year’s hunt. Check your birds carefully and if you get one, take the tag to the Municipal Office.

Ferry schedules and booking information can be accessed through a link to the Transportation Company’s website. Visitors to the Island this year may enjoy a new experience if they find themselves booked aboard the new second ferry, which at the time of writing is already in service. The new vessel is much larger, so is able to carry more passengers and vehicles than the old faithful Pelee Islander which it replaces.

Transportation via the new ferry and the company’s larger ferry “Jiimaan” will make over-all traffic to and from the island move much quicker and be more dependable.

Last year saw a very positive move, when the three main 2018 hunts went from a two-day hunt (Thursday, Friday) to a threeday hunt (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). The one day increase removed a lot of pressure giving more time for arrival or allowing for bad weather and letting older hunters (like me) and older dogs pace their activities better, including more time for bird cleaning. Of course, the real bonus is one more day of hunting!

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Last fall, after an absence of a couple of years, I was invited to join long-time friend Fred Geberdt and his family members who I all consider as friends, for the third main hunt. Fred’s sons Chris and Craig, and granddaughter Kayley and her husband Dimitrious Karamanlidis made up the family group.

Like what sometimes happens on any hunt, the weather during last year’s third main hunt wasn’t on our side. But the wet and windy conditions didn’t dampen our spirits – we harvested enough birds and we all had a really good time. I especially enjoyed the hunt not only because as I mentioned I had missed out on previous years, but because I was in the company of good friends and hunting over Fred’s great little Brittany “Fergie”.

I was also being overly-well fed in comfortable new surroundings provided by our Pelee Islander hosts Darlene and Troy Wiper and it was the first time in many years that I did not have to cook and make any arrangements. An Islander asked Fred where we were staying, and when he told them Darlene and Troy Wiper’s, the fellow exclaimed, “I hope you guys have big appetites!”

If you have never hunted Pelee Island before, I heartily recommend you give it a try. You won’t be disappointed! Bring good

Geberdt Family Members and Friends 2018 Pelee Island Pheasant Hunt (l-r) Fred Geberdt, Dimitrious Karamanlidis, Chris Geberdt, Kayley (Geberdt) Karamanlidis, Craig Geberdt, Troy Wiper, Jack Osadzuk. footwear, lots of shells and a good attitude and enjoy the experience.

township operates a campground as well as a marina.

Many things on Pelee have changed over the years, but a lot has also remained the same. The main activity on the Island continues to be agriculture – with beans and grapes as the main and ever-expanding crops. Tourism continues to grow as does the development of summer residences. The

Although well known by many for the fall Pheasant Hunts, Pelee Island is also a great sport-fishing and bird-watching destination.

Cycling, interesting Island features and events, as well as entertainment at the Pelee Island Winery Pavilion, make visiting Pelee Island a good choice for a summer excursion.

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Aquatic Invasive Species: A Story About Collaboration

By Brook Schryer, Aquatic Program Specialist, OFAH The Ontario Story of Invasive Species I’m sure many of you reading this are aware of the threats invasive species pose, whether they are terrestrial or aquatic, in nature. You’ve heard the stories about giant hogweed and wild parsnip and their phototoxic compounds, about purple loosestrife and the threats it poses to wetlands, about the four species of Asian carps, including the jumping Silver Carp and the spectacle this has created, and about the sea lamprey, which are a prehistoric eel-like creature that feeds on the blood of our valued salmon species. Invasive species have become a focal point in Ontario and rightfully so. Today, Ontario has the greatest number of invasive species in comparison to any other province in Canada. The reasons for this are many, but it mostly has to do with our population density, the Great Lakes and their use for international trade, as well as many other factors. This has resulted in approximately 445 terrestrial invasive species and 20-30 aquatic invasive species calling Ontario home after their human-assisted trek across the Atlantic Ocean, across the Pacific Ocean, and in some cases, across the border from our friends to the south.

No matter the species in question, Ontarian’s are generally aware of the issues we conservationists and resource professionals face each day in combatting these nasty invasive critters. However, what I don’t think is as common knowledge is how collaboration and partnerships have led to some of the most successful, and positive, stories surrounding invasive species in Ontario today.

In this article, we’d like to take the opportunity to highlight the successes of our partnerships with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF), the

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Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC).

Finding Common Ground on Invasives In 1992, the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) entered into a partnership with the MNRF to deliver the Invading Species Awareness Program (ISAP).

For more than 27 years, we have worked together to engage Ontario’s public on the topic of invasive species. This has been achieved through online content, in-person presentations, workshops, news articles, newsletters, community events (e.g. garlic mustard pull), amongst many other forums.

On the ground, this collaboration and the support we receive from the MNRF has created programs like Operation Boat Clean, a program dedicated to educating recreational anglers and boaters on how to inspect their vessels when leaving a waterbody; Clean Boats, Clean Tournaments, a program dedicated to engaging with competitive anglers as they travel from waterbody to waterbody, sometimes in the same day, as they search for that elusive Bigmouth Bass; and Operation Bait Bucket, a program dedicated to educating ice anglers on the risks of invasive species hiding in their bait bucket and encouraging them to source their bait locally.

calls each year related to invasive species.

We have also established the Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System (www. eddmaps.org/ontario) for Ontario, which is a website and mobile app where the public can access information and report invasive species. In total, we have collected over 50,000 confirmed reports through EDDMapS Ontario since its launch in 2014.

Through our print and web, our signage, our attendance at events, amongst others, we continue to work alongside the MNRF to educate the public on the threats of invasive species and we hope this collaboration continues on for another 27 years and more.

Seeing Eye-to-Eye on Asian Carps In 2014, the DFO and ISAP entered into an official partnership. With the DFO Asian carps program focusing on four pillars (i.e.

Prevention, Early warning, Response, and Management), the DFO recognized the ISAP as a long-standing educational program with

Moreover, through this collaboration, we have been able to establish the Invading Species Hotline (1-800-5637711), which receives, on average, 1,000 phone

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Continued from Page 148 the tools to support their first two pillars: prevention through education and outreach, and early detection through the use of the Hotline and EDDMapS Ontario for Asian carps reporting.

ISAP works towards educating the public on the threats of Asian carps and one way we do this is through engaging Ontario’s youths, or future anglers. Between September 2018 to March 2019, our Education Liaison travelled to 14 school boards, spoke in 154 classrooms, and engaged with 3,499 students on Asian carps. Moreover, the ISAP engaged with boaters and anglers more broadly through our attendance at tradeshows. The ISAP attended 11 tradeshows between the summer of 2018 and March of 2019 and through this, reached over 300,000 people with Asian carps information.

As mentioned above, the ISAP helps DFO with early warning through our Hotline as well as EDDMapS Ontario. To date, we have received over 300 Asian carps reports to the Hotline and in 2016, a phone call resulted in the capture of ten Grass Carp in Lake Gibson, ON. This was the single largest capture of Asian carps in Ontario’s waters to date. But don’t worry, I know the number of reports may be alarming, but only a couple of those reports were actually Asian carps, and more specifically, each positive report was a Grass Carp. The majority of the reports were native or non-native lookalikes such as Common Carp, Creek Chub, Fallfish, and others.

Between our early detection tools and the great field work that DFO does each year, we’re on the lookout in Ontario for Asian carps and refuse to allow these species to establish in our waters.

Mutually Protecting the Great Lakes The GLFC was formed in 1955 as a binational commission that works cooperatively between Canada and the United States on sustaining the health of the fisheries in the Great Lakes. The OFAH and ISAP have been collaborating with the GLFC

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for over 20 years to ensure this sustainability.

OFAH’s own Fish & Wildlife Manager, Matt DeMille, sits as a Sportsfishing Advisor on the GLFC’s committee of Canadian Advisors to represent the perspectives of Ontario’s anglers.

To date, the GLFC is responsible for one of the greatest collaborative efforts to control an aquatic invasive species in the history of North America. The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) invasion into our Great Lakes began in the early 20th century with the construction of the Welland Canal, which gave Sea Lamprey a way to bypass the Niagara Falls and enter Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes unscathed. With their adaptation to fresh water, these lampreys began having catastrophic impacts on our fisheries. Then, in 1957, the GLFC implemented sea lamprey control efforts to drive down populations. These control efforts have been a huge success and in most areas of the Great Lakes, their populations have been reduced by up to 90%. Without this control and cooperation between Canada and the United States and all of the partners involved, the sea lamprey would continue to threaten our $7 billion fishery we have today in the Great Lakes.

Strength in Numbers Just as invasive species come in droves, finding their strength in their ability to

reproduce quickly and crowd out native species through direct competition or the creation of dense monocultures, we too, are stronger when we stick and work together.

Invasive species ignore boundaries, they ignore borders, and they ignore ownership.

They are made strong by inaction, they are made bold when they are ignored, and they find strength when we do not cooperate.

As such, though the war against invasive species is far from over, the ISAP wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge the great work that has come from action, from recognizing the threats, and from being able to find common values and goals at the local level, provincial level, and even between international neighbours.

As anglers, we each have a part to play in the stewardship of our waters. Whether you pick up that piece of trash floating on the water, or take the time to teach someone about Ontario’s biodiversity; stewardship actions come in many sizes. This stewardship includes keeping our eyes on the water for invasive species and making sure you report these species if they are encountered.

Take a photograph and please call the Invading Species Hotline 1-800-563-7711 or make a report online at www.eddmaps. org/ontario. If you would like to donate to the ISAP and help us continue the fight against invasive species, please visit www. invadingspecies.com.

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Doing More for Wildlife

By Heather Robison Canada is a nation of incredible biodiversity. Our lakes, rivers, coasts, oceans, fields and forests are teeming with wildlife.

So far we have identified 70,000 species, and counting! But with more than 600 of these species at risk of extinction, we all have to do more for wildlife.

Since 1962, the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has been leading the charge. Created by volunteers from across the country, CWF is now one of the oldest and largest not-for-profit conservation organizations in Canada.

From the beginning, CWF has prioritized a co-operative model, working with organizations, governments, corporations and members of the general public to conserve wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all. Our board of volunteer directors represent affiliates from coast to coast who bring diverse perspectives to the table. By taking a balanced approach, CWF has become a recognized leader in both conservation science and education.

This year, we are pleased to highlight three new achievements with our partners in conservation while also celebrating the continued successes of the historic programs you have come to know and love.

stakeholders and conservation organizations more effectively protect and restore healthy and resilient aquatic ecosystems.

Aquatic Habitat Canada’s work is delivered under four core themes: • Restoration Planning and Prioritization • Resources and Capacity-Building • Knowledge Synthesis and Transfer • Policy and Program Implementation The members of Aquatic Habitat Canada recognize the impact of ecosystem management choices on the health and sustainability of watersheds. CWF thanks all the organizations who are working together to do more to achieve abundant, high quality habitat for marine and freshwater species.

Canadian Conservation Corps Young adults are embarking on an adventure to change their lives and change the world. These 18 to 30 year old volunteers are part of CWF’s newest leadership initiative, known as the Canadian Conservation Corps (CCC). Supported by the federal government through the Canada Service Corps, this nine-month program

features wilderness training, field learning and service projects across the country. The goal of this immersive experience is to build a better Canada. With more than 35 national partners, winter and summer expeditions and countless species to support, this is a unique opportunity for youth of all backgrounds to explore new regions of Canada and contribute to conservation. Each journey is unique. Participants have helped bring back Atlantic salmon populations, track endangered American Eel and save fresh water turtles. And that’s just a start.

Many of these youth are now designing their own conservation projects and inspiring other young adults to get involved.

Preservation Paddle is one of the pilot programs that grew out of the Canadian Conservation Corps. Preservation Paddle

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Aquatic Habitat Canada CWF is a founding member of a new, national network for aquatic habitat protection and restoration. This project was undertaken with the financial support of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and is designed to help governments, local communities, Indigenous organizations, industry

Hanover’s Jeremey Harbinson began the Canadian Conservation Corps with a sea kayaking expedition in New Brunswick. This adventure was part of his wilderness training.

Jeremy Harbinson of the Canadian Conservation Corps receives a donation of gear from Mountain Equipment Cooperative (MEC). His Preservation Paddle project is supported by MEC through the Outdoor Nation grant.

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Continued from Page 153 was co-founded by Trevor Machmer and CCC graduate Jeremy Harbinson, a young conservationist from Hanover, Ont. Their program is designed to create a space for a wider audience to have the opportunity to access paddling equipment through exchanging an act of conservation/ environmental stewardship. This initiative, to be introduced on Lakes Huron and Ontario, will foster a space where a conservation based reward system will allow people to break any barriers holding them back from experiencing paddling on the open water.

CWF congratulates Jeremy, and all the participants in the CCC program for their enthusiasm, dedication and teamwork.

Visit CanadianConservationCorps.ca to read more about the program and learn about the participants and their adventures.

Applications are still being accepted and new teams are launching regularly. Anyone between the ages of 18 to 30 is welcome to apply and a range of applicants will be selected.

The iNaturalist Opportunity CWF is thrilled to report that there are now more than one million wildlife observations made through the iNaturalist app and the iNaturalist.ca website. This database of Canada’s biodiversity is free and easy to

are just a few of our success stories. CWF and everyday Canadians are doing more for wildlife in many different ways.

Protecting Pollinators, Aquatic Insects and Other Wildlife

use. Citizens of all ages and abilities can participate in scientific research simply by sharing their nature photos on the iNaturalist website or app. These “citizen scientists” are helping create a national inventory of our biodiversity. We extend our sincere thanks to the 28,000 Canadians who have provided images representing more than 18,000 species. Each of these photos have been analyzed by scientists across the country.

There are some new species in this database that have never before been seen in Canada, including the European Firebug and a crayfish called the Paintedhand Mudbug.

If you haven’t signed up yet, please check it out. New images are being added to the database daily. It’s exciting and inspiring to watch the iNaturalist.ca database grow and CWF is proud to be part of the team.

Thank you to the almost 100,000 Canadians who supported CWF’s Ban with a Plan by signing our petition to ban neonicotinoid (neoncis) pesticides that are harming our pollinators, aquatic insects and other wildlife. In Canada, neonics have been used on many of our foods, including corn, soy, peas, beans, fruits and vegetables. They remain active in the plant for many months, and in the soil up to several years. As part of CWF’s five step plan, we will be working to recover affected species, encourage research and development on safer pest management technologies, give farmers alternatives and incentives to use alternative techniques, and

While these new partnership programs demonstrate CWF’s impact and reach, they

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reform how the government protects our food supply.

Add your voice to the growing number of Canadians concerned about our pollinators at BanWithAPlan.org.

Connecting Canadians to Nature CWF offers many opportunities for Canadians to connect with nature. WILD Family Nature Club offers opportunities for young families to explore the outdoors together and connect with others doing the same. If you are an educator, consider planting habitat with young learners through the WILD Spaces program for youth aged nine to12. You can also become a certified WILD Education instructor and get access to our Project WILD, Below Zero and WILD About Sports activity guides featuring indoor and outdoor activities that focus on wildlife and conservation.

Gardening for Wildlife offers educational workshops, webinars and resources to help Canadians learn how to create wildlife-friendly habitat and reconnect with nature in any garden. You can also apply for Garden Habitat Certification and have your home, school, business or community garden certified as a “wildlife-friendly habitat”. Certified gardens raise awareness of the importance of gardening with wildlife in mind and inspire others to do the same. Medallion Plants has also created a CWF series of certified wildlife friendly plant kits, trees and shrubs designed to attract bees, butterflies, bats and birds to your backyard. Ask for these plants in your local gardening centers.

CWF and Watersheds Canada’s Love Your Lake Program provides shoreline property owners with valuable information about how to naturalize their shoreline and keep their lake healthy. Find out more at LoveYourLake. ca.

Canadian Wildlife magazine celebrates the country’s unique wildlife and habitats, and explores the conservation issues affecting

our natural world. Published six times per year, each issue is filled with stunning photography, in-depth features, and updates on important conservation issues. WILD magazine is jam-packed with fun wildlife stories, games and pictures for youngsters of all ages. It’s a great way to get the children in your life engaged in nature and share your passion for the outdoors.

With so many opportunities, we can’t wait to #DoMoreForWildlife with you.

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Left to Right: Lindsay Geberdt-Maxfield, SuAnn Geberdt, Marg Legate, Garry Legate, Margaret Hedges, Chris Hedges, Gord Hedges, Kory Maxfield, Dava and Chris Mottoo, Jim Glaves, Earl Jack & Chris Geberdt.

We had a visit at this years London Fishing and Boat Show from left to right Nick Legate, Jim Glaves, Garry Legate, Ashley Geberdt, SuAnn Geberdt Swamp Man “Troy Landry” and Chris Geberdt

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WE CONNECT COMMUNITIES HYDRO ONE IS PROUD TO SPONSOR THE OWEN SOUND SALMON SPECTACULAR With connections in every corner of the province, we are proud to be an integral part of the communities where we live and work.

Hydro One Networks Inc. | www.HydroOne.com

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Miller Waste Systems Inc.

“Waste Diversion Solutions” Material Recovery Facilities Hazardous Waste Treatment

WASTE SYSTEMS

Composting

Municipal Waste & Recycling Collection

High Rise Waste / Equipment Services

IC&I Collection & Disposal

2085 20th Avenue East, Owen Sound, ON, N4K 5P7 Office: 519-372-1855 Toll Free: (800) 268-1877 Fax: (519) 372-1439 www.millerwaste.ca

Surveillance Cameras & Systems Importance of Surveillance Cameras Surveillance is a key piece of security and key to your piece of mind. Current technology and affordability allows most businesses and home owners to view their premise live, or review previously recorded video, on site or on the road.

Cameras are also used for much more including quality control, traffic flow of people and vehicles, weather monitoring, business activity, or even proof of suspected activity around your business or property.

Taylor Electronic Services Inc. (TES) offers Sales, On-Site Service, In-House Repair, Installation, and Consultation to the Professional Audio Video, Lighting, and Surveillance industries. TES has been in business since 1995.

2075 - 16th Ave. E., Owen Sound, ON.

www.tescanada.com

519.371.7710 | 888.371.0779

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CHECK YOUR CAREER VISION Where do you see yourself in the future? If you pictured a stable, well-paid career balanced with outdoor leisure activities, the Labourers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 1059 has your career. Long-term, steady work prospects — 25 years — coupled with the opportunity to live in the natural wonder of Bruce County might be just what you’re looking for. We’re looking for hard-working, career-minded individuals to work as Pipelayers, Concrete Finishers, Concrete Formsetters and Sewer and Watermain Tradespersons. We’ll even provide the training for the right people. So isn’t it time to see what your career can be?

Submit your resume to: liunalocal1059.com/opportunities

The Union That Works

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