Is anyone watching the Yankees vs. Cleveland Baseball Game?? They are being attacked by a gigantic hatch of flying ANTS!!! :shock:
Doug
Not just ants but Canadian Soldier flying ants. They bite! My question how the heck did you guys in Ohio pull that one off with the Canadians?
Strange things happen in Cleveland!! Spent a week there one night!!
Thanks Gnu Bee Flyer & Chris and the Canadian Secret Service, for trying to RUIN OUR Nation’s National Pastime!!! 
You GUYS BUG ME!!! :lol:
Doug
GO TRIBE!!! Yep, they were our tenth player on the field. Those Canadian soldiers are midges and actually they don?t bite. In fact they don?t have a mouth. They’re more of a bother than anything else. They swarm around the lakefront every year usually in the spring and everything close to the big lake is covered with them. They only live out of the water for a few days and during those couple of days they participates in the mating flight. So basically those guys were playing baseball in a swarming bug orgy.
Hurray for the flying ants!! Go Tribe!!! Yankee Go HOME!!!
I just watched Sports Center and the Flying Soldier Ants Saved the DAY for the Tribe!!!
YANKEES Ambushed by ANTS!!! :lol:
The Highest Payroll in Baseball Destroyed by Flying Ants!!! :lol:
Doug
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Thanks Gnu Bee Flyer & Chris and the Canadian Secret Service, for trying to RUIN OUR Nation’s National Pastime!!! You GUYS BUG ME!!! :lol:
Doug[/quote]
Um! Dougie…
Instead of whining about it you should be out on the lake casting caddis flies at the fish. We heard you weren’t feeding them properly so we sent them a treat. It really had nothing to do with baseball.
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Thanks Gnu Bee Flyer & Chris and the Canadian Secret Service, for trying to RUIN OUR Nation’s National Pastime!!! You GUYS BUG ME!!! :lol:
Doug[/quote]
Um! Dougie…
Instead of whining about it you should be out on the lake casting caddis flies at the fish. We heard you weren’t feeding them properly so we sent them a treat. It really had nothing to do with baseball.[/quote]
Gnu Bee Flyer,
UM! I didn’t have any size-32 Flying Soldier Ant Patterns!!
YOU SABOTEUR YOU!!! :lol:
Doug
Toothless midges or Canadian soldier ants it doesn’t matter as long as the Yankees and ARod lose. GO TRIBE! And thats from a Mariner’s fan.
Actually, when the game started I was on Lake Erie with three friends perch fishing. There were NO BUGS on the lake at all! I tried the EHC’s & GRHE’s, but my sink tip was having a problem with the 47’ depth. So I was forced to go over to my custom ultralight spin outfit with a perch & crappie rig and a 3/8 oz sinker. We all got our limit of yellow perch…30 each. When I cleaned my cache, I had 4.5 pounds of fillets!!! We’re having a big fish fry on Sunday with the neighbors (not the whack jobs) and our kids. C’mon over JC & LF, there’ll be plenty to go around. Bring some Corona’s and a lime.
Joe
Must have been different bugs on the Pa side of the line the last time I was involved in one of those hatches. Got eaten alive!
Joe;
Lake Erie Yellow Perch, mmmmmmm GOOD!! Some day I’ll tell you how to catch’em when the fishin’s slow!
Midge hatches on or around the Lake can be huge. I can remember a Put In Bay “T” shirts saying “I survived” with green splotches all over them! That was back in the early 80’s when I was racing sailboats.
I remember a time when eating anything out of Lake Erie would make you very ill, perhaps even kill you. Hatches were almost nonexistent at the time. What an amazing recovery the lake has made!
Eric;
I think it was in the 60’s that Lake Erie was declared a “Dead Lake”! That was about the time the rivers were catching fire and a lot of green stuff was flowing into it. By the 80’s it was becoming a top notch fishery!
I think Lake Erie is a good example of what can be done restore our invironment. We just need more!
Jack,
Yep the 60’s and 70’s were very tough times on all of the Great Lakes. They are a great example of what happens when nations and people make the effort to put differences aside to work together for the good of everyone. Hats off to the Canadians and Americans on the recovery of these great fisheries. 
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Jack,
Yep the 60’s and 70’s were very tough times on all of the Great Lakes. They are a great example of what happens when nations and people make the effort to put differences aside to work together for the good of everyone. Hats off to the Canadians and Americans on the recovery of these great fisheries. :D[/quote]
Don’t be to quick to laud the Canadians, Their gill netters took over 8.1 million pounds of perch from Erie in 2006, versus 2.7 million pounds by Ohio’s commercial & sport fishing industries. All that glitters is not gold. The Canadians have an insatiable appetite for Lake Erie’s bounty, including perch, walleye and 100% of the smelt harvest. INterestingly, some of our country’s leaders want us to become more like the Canadians. Not on my watch…
Joe
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Jack,
Yep the 60’s and 70’s were very tough times on all of the Great Lakes. They are a great example of what happens when nations and people make the effort to put differences aside to work together for the good of everyone. Hats off to the Canadians and Americans on the recovery of these great fisheries. :D[/quote]
Don’t be to quick to laud the Canadians, Their gill netters took over 8.1 million pounds of perch from Erie in 2006, versus 2.7 million pounds by Ohio’s commercial & sport fishing industries. All that glitters is not gold. The Canadians have an insatiable appetite for Lake Erie’s bounty, including perch, walleye and 100% of the smelt harvest. INterestingly, some of our country’s leaders want us to become more like the Canadians. Not on my watch…
Joe[/quote:47260]
I was referring to the effort it took just to get the lake habitat to support the fish populations that it supports today not the current fishing regulations. I grew up in Mercer County, Pa and never realized the terrific fishery that Lake Erie is until I moved away just over ten years ago. Show me any other inland waterway where you can catch those numbers of decent sized perch in a day let alone the folks with you catch that many as well.
I know we don’t have Soldier Ants in Canada so I googled them and Viola! I found that They are not Canadian secret weapon of mass annoyance but are in fact a figment of Cleavlanders Imagination.
Canadian Soldiers Baffle NY Yankees in Game 2
Canadian Soldiers is the nickname Clevelanders give to mayflies, those tiny, pesky insects that thrive in warm, muggy weather and flock to moisture–like that found on the skin of sweaty athletes. The Canadian soldiers have been aiding the Indians for many years, flying off of Lake Erie to buzz around athletes heads. (They are also called fishflies or flying ants, the latter possible because of their tendency to assemble in large number in ways that irritate the hell out of humans.)
They could be seen buzzing around the heads of players (and umpires) all night, but they seemed to have a special liking for Yankees phenom reliever Joba Chamberlain. You could see them all around his head, and on the back of his neck. Chamberlain was clearly distracted, and had the Yankees staff come out to spray bug repellant on him. Other players and the umpires took some too, but the Canadian soldiers had already rattled Joba Chamberlain.
George Steinbrenner , the Owner of the Yankees, is MAD at the Head Umpire for not stopping the game because of the Flying Soldier Ants harassing his defenseless Yankee (Well Paid) players!!! I’m not saying God isn’t a Yankee Fan , but it’s a little suspicious!
It’s too bad for George, that Money doesn’t buy success or happiness!!
Go Tribe!!!
Doug
Did you happen to notice that the flies were not bothering the Indians players? :shock: Real he-men there in Cleveland. GO TRIBE!!! 8)