If you are looking for adventures in pike fishing, you will find Canada fishing trips a real deal. The pike you can catch can weigh as much as twenty to thirty pounds and you need the gear and bait to catch these sneaky fish. You will want heavier bait casting rod, reels with an open face or a spinning reel. Your test line is going to range between fourteen to thirty pounds. The fish you are going to catch can be over forty-five inches long and your rod and reel along with your test needs to be right in order to hook the big fish.
You will be fishing for these fish in the weeds, shallow waters, around rocky areas, in open water by jigging, trolling and casting. Because of the different areas you may fish, you will wan to have hair jigs, bigger spoons, bucktail spinners, and crankbaits and stick baits as well as buzz baits and topwaters. Armed with this entire arsenal, you should have no problem catching the biggest pike you have ever seen. You will always want to be prepared for all types of fish, but if pike is your pleasure, you will have everything you need.
Depending on the area, you visit while in Canada, you can enjoy some deep sea fishing if you take a boat ride into the Arctic Ocean. Here you can fish the big fish such as shark, tuna, barracuda and all the other big game fish. This is truly a spectacular event in anyone’s life. Imagine hooking a barracuda and working the fish in and out until you finally have it close to the boat. You can access this type of fishing from Quebec and Ontario. This is not the only place that is popular for fishing in Canada.
Saskatchewan and Alberta are known for fly-fishing. You can do fly-fishing for trout while enjoying the seclusion. In Saskatchewan, you will also find the best places for walleye and pike fishing. The camps and lodges are a distance from the seclude waters and are only reachable by floatplane or a boat. These waters are so untouched by the world around them, that they have the best fishing around. Nunavut is also another area of seclusion and you will need to access fishing waters by plane. If you are searching for the best places, you want to check these out for great fishing adventures.
Many of these areas are known for being only French speaking. What this means to the average angler is that you need to have a book or know the most important words to get you by in the area. You do not want to have any miscommunications when you are that secluded. Other areas of Canada are English speaking and you will not have any problems with language barriers. You do however need to follow the laws of the land. Canada is very particular about its lakes and fishing activity. If you restrain from trying to pull a fast one and take more of a catch then allowed, you could find yourself in hot water with the law.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 01, 2009
Obtaining a U.S. passport
A passport is documentation of your status while traveling abroad in another country. This is to get you through customs when you enter or exit the countries. You can apply for your passport at any given time if this is your first time applying for a passport. You’re advised to apply for your passport at least 90 days before your scheduled travel date, and that’s because you need to give yourself as much time in advance to go through the application process and to get a recent photo made to accompany the application since immigration doesn’t take photos for passports you have to get one made by one of those small photo booths or at a drug store like CVS or Walgreens who charge about $5-8 for a set of 5 ID sized pictures.
You can apply for a passport either through the post office, county courthouse, public libraries, city or village halls, State and other government municipal offices. In recent events there have been major delays of processing application for first timers and renewals of passports. The state department estimated that applications for renewal and first time passports has gone up from 12.1 million in 2006 to 18 million in 2007, and from the normal 6 week processing period the wait could go as long as 12 weeks. The delay is due in part from a new law that went into effect in January requiring those who traveled abroad to Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, and Bermuda to produce a passport upon re-entry into the United States.
According to news reports that in early 2008 it will be required to show a passport when re-entering the United States from Canada and Mexico by land and the Caribbean by ship. In the recent months that the passport application processing time was down from 12 to 10 weeks and was working to get the turn over time back to the standard 6 week waiting period. This new law was to enforce better security when people entered the country from foreign lands. Those who did apply for passports didn’t have immediate travel plans versus those who were traveling within a specific amount of time when they got their passports in the mail. Homeland security had stated that this was aimed to better monitor who enters and exits the country and to verify the identities of those who come in and out of the country through air, land, and sea ports of entry into the United States.
Some attribute the surge in passport applications because of the fear of terrorism and a backlog of having hired nearly 3000 more employees in the past 3 years to the State Department to handle the demand of applications for passports and other matters within the department. Politicians have gone on record and said that their offices were flooded with calls from angry citizens to why they haven’t been able to get their passports in a timely manner, yet they couldn’t do anything about it because it was out of their jurisdiction when this was an issue that was to be directed to the local state department office so the individual(s) can get the appropriate response to their questions and inquiries to why there’s a huge delay in getting the passports that were applied for or renewed to be returned. The State department is working towards getting the return rate on passports back on track so people can get on with their travel plans and not have any further delay in getting their passports returned as a first time applicant or renewal. Eventually this problem will improve with time so backlogs like this won’t happen again.
You can apply for a passport either through the post office, county courthouse, public libraries, city or village halls, State and other government municipal offices. In recent events there have been major delays of processing application for first timers and renewals of passports. The state department estimated that applications for renewal and first time passports has gone up from 12.1 million in 2006 to 18 million in 2007, and from the normal 6 week processing period the wait could go as long as 12 weeks. The delay is due in part from a new law that went into effect in January requiring those who traveled abroad to Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, and Bermuda to produce a passport upon re-entry into the United States.
According to news reports that in early 2008 it will be required to show a passport when re-entering the United States from Canada and Mexico by land and the Caribbean by ship. In the recent months that the passport application processing time was down from 12 to 10 weeks and was working to get the turn over time back to the standard 6 week waiting period. This new law was to enforce better security when people entered the country from foreign lands. Those who did apply for passports didn’t have immediate travel plans versus those who were traveling within a specific amount of time when they got their passports in the mail. Homeland security had stated that this was aimed to better monitor who enters and exits the country and to verify the identities of those who come in and out of the country through air, land, and sea ports of entry into the United States.
Some attribute the surge in passport applications because of the fear of terrorism and a backlog of having hired nearly 3000 more employees in the past 3 years to the State Department to handle the demand of applications for passports and other matters within the department. Politicians have gone on record and said that their offices were flooded with calls from angry citizens to why they haven’t been able to get their passports in a timely manner, yet they couldn’t do anything about it because it was out of their jurisdiction when this was an issue that was to be directed to the local state department office so the individual(s) can get the appropriate response to their questions and inquiries to why there’s a huge delay in getting the passports that were applied for or renewed to be returned. The State department is working towards getting the return rate on passports back on track so people can get on with their travel plans and not have any further delay in getting their passports returned as a first time applicant or renewal. Eventually this problem will improve with time so backlogs like this won’t happen again.
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