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Kids – An Easy Fun Way to Fly-Fish For Big Bluegills

Posted by admin in Tie One On For Safety on May 12, 2011

Bluegills eat hundreds of Mayflies and other floating insects. They are easy and fun to catch with artificial fly baits. Any rod or pole will work well.

What are bluegills?

Bluegills are members of the sunfish family, which includes several pan-sized species that thrive in the shallower or warmer waters of lakes and rivers. Bluegills have dark blue lobes on the upper-rear tips of their gills. Generally, they weigh less than 1-pound each. But some of them will grow to one pound or more if they have plenty of food to eat.

Where do they live?

Bluegills live in the shallow warm-water parts of lakes, rivers, and ponds, often near underwater plants at the shorelines. They like to hangout under the tree limbs extending out over the shoreline. Insects fall from these leafy limbs onto the water. Also, bluegills must be careful where they hangout because larger fish like to eat them, too. They must stay near water brush, grass, reeds, weeds, lily pads, or moss, where they can hide among them.

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Forklift Safety Training Videos and CBTs – They Should NOT Be Your Stand-Alone Training Solution

Posted by admin in Tie One On For Safety on May 12, 2011

As corporate profit margins get tight and companies begin to squeeze their labor dollars, one will find that the first line item of scrutiny for any financial officer is the amount of money spent on a training budget. Experts on both sides of the issue argue daily about the indirect financial impact of well-trained employees vs. the direct expenditures of having them trained. For many companies, the trend of relying on video training and computer-based training programs (CBTs) has been the perfect blend of information dump and cost-efficiency.

In many cases these media provide maximum information in a minimum amount of time. They are usually well-made, presented by articulate narrators and possess the added leisure of being able to train at will without chewing up trainers’ man-hours.

But in the realm of forklift and other industrial safety subjects, they are a ticking bomb.