Captain Art's thought for the day

Well Captains'........ have you heard about the new regulation and upcoming changes for your charter captains licenses? We had the Toledo Coast Guard at the conference last week. They encouraged anyone within 1 1/2 years of their Merchant Mariners license renewal to get their processes started asap.

Some REC's will be closing their licensing processes and many who went to certain places will in the near future have to go to a national center. One national center they told us about happened to be in WV!

Combine that with REC's taking our finger prints.......seems they do not trust police departments who took them before and the new Twic identity cards which will definately cost us more $$$.....it certainly doesn't get any easier. You can read more about the new Twic at:
www.tsa.gov/twic

If you'd like to speak to Captain Art to learn more about the regs you can visit him on his website at http://www.LakeErieCaptain.com

Until then........tight lines and tighter wallets! Captain Art

Captain Art's thought for the day

Back to the walleye outlook for 2007 - During the charter captains conference the other day in Sandusky Ohio it was good to hear a positive note about the 2007 walleye outlook in Lake Erie. The Ohio DNR was present with speakers who have banner expectations once again for the Lake Erie walleye population. If you happened to miss 2006 it was nothing short of spectacular fishing on the big lake.

If a fishing charter on Lake Erie may be in store for you during 2007 please visit the captain's website at http://www.LakeErieCaptain.com for more information.


Tight lines & fair weather........Captain Art

Captain Art's thought for the day

Well winter just does not want to let up. Temperatures dropped again along with some snow flurries. I took a ride yesterday & visited the Ashtabula River & Conneaut Creek. There was some open upstream water which was ugly & muddy. Downstream in both areas were huge ice jams. So for the time being the only fishing taking place will still be through the ice in the harbor areas.

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Captain Art

Captain Art's views of the day

Back from the charter captains conference & was enlightened to some new federal regulations which affect charter boat captains as well as people in other industries (more on this later) As suspected the streams in northeast Ohio are near flood stages flowing huge pieces of ice, debris & logs. It will be a few days before anyone should attempt to fish it.

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Captain Art

Captain Art's views of the day

What a rain last night! I'm sure it is going to blow the ice off the streams and keep us off the ice in the harbors. But afterwards we will probably be able to wade again. I'll post you after I get back from the charter captains conference.

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Captain Art's views of the day:

I'm going away this weekend to a charter captains conference in Sandusky Ohio. I will post news I find out there about the Lake Erie walleye outlook for 2007. Fished on the ice yesterday for steelhead trout. The bite was slow but the company good.

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