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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 480.1 | Locals -always- have the biggest and the best! | SUBPAC::CRONIN | | Mon Feb 19 1996 16:26 | 9 |
| Tell the locals down there to look at a map... Okeechobee is
a big lake, but not that big... You could fit 4 of it in Lake
Ontatio, or a couple would tuck nicely into Georgian Bay on Lake
Huron... So that puts it about 6th in the U.S.... If you want
to count Canada then you knock it to about 12th-14th in size in
North America, and it wouldn't shock me to find out that a few
of the bigger impoundments like Lake Mead and Lake Powell were
bigger either...
B.C.
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| 480.2 | I'm surprised you needed a licence | RANGER::BAZ | Tom Bazarnick | Mon Feb 19 1996 17:04 | 7 |
| I don't know if Florida has separate licences for saltwater and fresh
water fishing, but I went out with a guide in saltwater a few years
ago and the guide's clients were covered by his licence. We were
also blown out by a cold front, and the only fish of the day was a
32" redfish that my wife caught. Big fish. Expensive fish.
Tom
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| 480.3 | It cost what? $15 a pound to catch it? | SUBPAC::CRONIN | | Tue Feb 20 1996 08:42 | 8 |
| RE: .2
Yes, they do have seperate licenses for saltwater and fresh
water, and yes, in saltwater the guides charter license covers
the customers. Remember, in the salt they need their captains
license and you are chartering their boat, in fresh you're
hiring a guide with a boat...
B.C.
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| 480.4 | | MKOTS1::MONBLEAU | | Wed Feb 21 1996 10:18 | 22 |
| By the time I was done with everything, the cost per pound was closer
to $28. Good thing I had other reasons to be there - adding in airfair
would have been brutal - not that $28/lb is any bargain.
Regarding the size of the lake - does anyone know the acreage and/or
square miles of the great lakes? I beleive that there are 620 acres to
the square mile. I've been looking at the map of the US off and on for
days now and I can't believe that Okeechobe is the 2nd largest lake in
N. America.
Based upon my atlas, squaring off the lake I get 30 miles by 24 miles =
720 square miles. The lake isn't square though so there must be some
swamp figured in to make up the balance to 750sq miles.
At any rate, the map of Ohio shows a piece of Lake Erie - only a
piece mind you, and measuring that, I get more than 13,000 square miles.
In fact, from Avon Lake, Ohio to Euclid, Ohio is 33 linear miles (vs
shore line) - longer than Okeechobe.
Those folks in Florida must have a real narrow view of the rest of the
planet.........
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| 480.5 | A Little Exageration maybe...... | MKOTS1::MONBLEAU | | Wed Feb 21 1996 10:19 | 2 |
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| 480.6 | Maybe not...... | BITZEE::CLAY | Indecision may or may not be my problem | Wed Feb 21 1996 12:08 | 5 |
| As far as fresh water lakes, completely within the U.S. borders
Okeechobe could be #2. Lake Michigan being #1 (key words are :fresh,
inside U.S. borders)
DC
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| 480.7 | Great Salt Lake | SPESHR::GSMITH | | Wed Feb 21 1996 17:54 | 6 |
| The Great Salt Lake is the second largest lake completely within the
U.S. borders.
Fresh water, I don't know....
Greg
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| 480.8 | L.O. is a very large pond | LEXS01::JOHNHC | | Wed Feb 21 1996 21:35 | 4 |
| Watch it, folks! If you continue this conversation, I'm likely to go
technical on the definition of lake size.
<g>
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| 480.9 | Do we have to do a list? | SUBPAC::CRONIN | | Thu Feb 22 1996 08:20 | 11 |
| RE: .6
The key words were "lake" and "North America"... Even dropping
Great Salt Lake you'll still find Okeechobee way down on the list.
RE: .8
Hey, go for it John, a little education won't hurt anyone.
Do they seperate lakes and ponds by depth or some other criteria?
B.C.
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| 480.10 | John H-C's shorthand definitions | LEXS01::JOHNHC | | Thu Feb 22 1996 09:53 | 15 |
| Pond:
Does not, cannot experience thermal stratification
Does not have a hypo- or mesolimnion
Is more than 50% littoral zone
Lake:
Experiences thermal stratification and biannual turnover
Has at least a hypolimnion as well as an epilimnion
Is less than 50% littoral zone
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| 480.11 | Won't pay big bucks for Bass fishin | STRATA::WOOLDRIDGE | Pleasure, Spiked With Pain | Thu Feb 22 1996 11:21 | 18 |
| Pond:
Where I catch fish
Lake:
Where I also catch fish
ps;
Both contain large volumes of water.
Lake O. in Florida:
Where I will not go and pay tons of money to catch
Bass with some crummy Roland Martin clone, when I can do it for free,
or worst case the cost of an out of state license.
I will however pay money $$ to go out to the salt water on a 4 man
charter to catch fish I do not normally get the oportunity to fish for.
(I don't get on salt water as often as I'd like) Priorities I guess..
NIGHTCRAWLER~~~~~~~~ experiencing hypo mescaline thermal stratocaster
in a 50% clitorial zone
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| 480.12 | Sounds Serious...... | MSBCS::MERCIER | | Fri Feb 23 1996 09:48 | 5 |
| Wow Nightcrawler!!!
Is it fatal????
:^o
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| 480.13 | I always wondered... | AWECIM::HANNAN | Beyond description... | Fri Feb 23 1996 13:49 | 5 |
| re: johnhc
Thanks for clearing that up ;-)
/Ken
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