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Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year!
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Berkley® Expands its Cast for Cash 2020 Bait Contingency Program!
Berkley's® Cast for Cash will expand in 2020, bringing the successful tournament contingency program to even more anglers and more tournament circuits. On the heels of its successful 2019 launch, the Cast for Cast program will add nearly 300 new tournaments across 13 different tournament trails, including bass, walleye and bass kayaking competitions. Cash rewards for semi-professional and loyal weekend tournament anglers will be awarded to the top two finishers at each qualifying tournament.
To participate, anglers must be a member of the Berkley Cast for Cash program. Memberships for 2020 are $29.99 and come with an exclusive 2020 Berkley Pro Pack valued at $50. The Pro Packs include Berkley hard and soft baits, as well as a 2020 Cast for Cash hat and boat decal.
Prizes ranging from $100 to $1,000, depending on the tournament, will be awarded to the two top finishers at each Berkley Cast for Cash-eligible event, regardless of their place of finish. There is no cap as to how many times one can win.
"We recognize the pass for tournament fishing and want to do our part to reward anglers who put their trust in the science behind Berkley baits to help them catch more fish," said Jon Schlosser, Berkley VP of Marketing. "We saw success during the 2019 tournament season and, we are excited to expand the program for the 2020 tournament season."
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Busby Wins 2019 Bassmaster Classic Team Championship Fish-Off
Last Classic spot filled
By Andrew Canulette
(Photo: BASS)
Josh Busby had dreamed of this moment since he was a young boy.
So on Saturday, when he won the Bassmaster Classic Team Championship Fish-Off and secured the 53rd and final spot in the 2020 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk, he was overcome by the moment.
Busby pumped his right fist into the air, let out a holler and hugged a fellow angler. Then he fell to his knees on the Bassmaster stage, covered his eyes, and wept.
Such is the raw emotion that goes with earning entry into the biggest bass fishing tournament in the world. And the excitement is only beginning for the Rogersville, Mo. resident who is a 36-year old food scientist by trade, but now will go head to head against some of the world's best bass anglers when the Classic takes place on Lake Guntersville and in Birmingham, Ala. on March 6-8.
Busby fishes with the Ozark Mountain Team Trail, and he caught a five-bass limit Saturday on Lake Hartwell that weighed 16 pounds, 7 ounces. That was the heaviest bag of the two-day fish-off, and when coupled with the 10-5 limit he caught Friday, it gave him a 26-12 total.
Labels: 2020 Bassmaster Classic, Busby Wins 2019 Bassmaster Classic Team Championship Fish-Off, clear skys, no wind
2019 Bassmaster Team Championship Lake Hartwell Day 1: Lakeland Team Grab Lead with 17-15lbs!
Top Canadians are Chong and Brownridge in 15th
Kris Lockard and Michael Morse said they knew next to nothing about Lake Hartwell heading into the Bassmaster Team Championship, but they made it look like their local favorite spot on Wednesday.
Lockard and Morse, who compete on the Lakeland (Fla.) Bassmaster Team Trail, caught a five-bass limit that weighed 17 pounds, 15 ounces to take the lead on Day 1 of the final event of the 2019 season.
The Florida anglers said they weren't sure which strategy to employ on Hartwell, so they went "junk fishing" on Wednesday. Their limit (four largemouth and one spotted bass) was heavy enough for a 15-ounce lead over Adam Smith and Jayme Rampey, who live only minutes from Lake Hartwell and know it as well as any tandem in the tournament.
In all, 165 duos from 30 different states and two foreign countries are competing for a total cash purse of $87,200 in the two-day Team Championship portion of this event. The duo with the heaviest two-day total will earn a $20,000 Nitro/Mercury cash prize.
Lockard and Morse put themselves in good position to claim that cash. Their catches were spread throughout the day and covered ample water to entice their bites. That was the case for many teams, who scooted across Hartwell Wednesday, when skies were sunny and temperatures hovered near 50 degrees all day.
"We got lucky fishing this cold and deep water," Morse said. "We're from Florida, and there are no buggy whips or lily pads for us to flip here like we have back home. But we found some backwater spots that looked decent and were holding a little bait. We were able to get five good bites."
Labels: 2019 Bassmaster Team Championship Lake Hartwell Day 1: Lakeland Team, dave chong, december, Doug Brownridge
B. Lat Moving to BASS!
Brian Latimer is another FLW Tour pro moving to the BASS Opens for 2020.
Check out his video to his decision for his 2020 season.
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Geigertec Marine Products Team Up with Humminbird
Local company Geigertec Marine Products has teamed up with Johnson Outdoors to develop a mounting solution for their award winning Humminbird MEGA 360 transducer. This universal solution is designed to work on different boat hulls from deep v's to flats boats, as well as being able to mount almost anywhere on the boat including off of the transom. Most current Humminbird 360 users attach their transducer to the trolling motor. This new system allows more mounting options for anglers. Customer purchases a Universal MEGA 360 anywhere in the world there will be a GeigerTec Mega Mount in the box.
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Aaron Martens Teams Up with Shimano and G. Loomis!
One of the most consistent anglers in the professional bass fishing ranks, being 'in the money' in 75-percent-plus of the more than 250 tournaments he's competed in, noted angler Aaron Martens will be relying on G. Loomis' complete line-up of IMX-PRO and NRX bass rods in 2020. Now competing on the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour, Martens notes that similar to the performance he has with his Shimano Metanium and Stella reels, he'll be on the water with rods consistent in performance and that can enhance his known natural fishing ability.
"I've been a lifetime Shimano reel fan and came to realize I needed that same on-going quality, technology, innovation and performance in my fishing rods," Martens said. "With the G. Loomis brand being part of Shimano and being aware of how they have taken rod manufacturing to a next level, I had an easy decision once they asked me to fish with all the high-end G. Loomis rods.
With G. Loomis' expanding rod line-up for the bass fishing market, 'having someone with Aaron's credentials from both his fishing expertise and tackle knowledge shows bass anglers our commitment to continue to grow the sport," notes Blaine Anderson, field marketing manager for all the Shimano brands, including G. Loomis.
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Dave Bulthuis as the new President of Pure Fishing North American Operations
Originally posted in Angling International
Pure Fishing has named Dave Bulthuis as the new President of its North American operation
He is the former Vice President of Sales for Costa Sunglasses, where he has served in a number of capacities since 2003. A long-time champion of the sport and industry, Bulthuis has been hired to further establish meaningful relationships with key North American stakeholders, including customers, industry associations and governmental agencies.
Bulthuis was honoured in October 2018 with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) during the organisation's annual summit, in recognition of his 'extraordinary' leadership and lifelong commitment to sportfishing. He has served on the ASA's Board of Directors for eight years, including a stint as Chairman of the Board in 2015 and 2016.
Prior to 16 years at Costa, Bulthuis served as Director of Sales for several brands in the outdoor industry, including Fin-Nor Fishing Tackle, Jones and Company and several independent rep groups.
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Dudley and Thrift Move to MLF; Swindle and Palaniuk Back to Elites in 2020
Recruitment for 2020 already in full swing
By Luigi De Rose
As the G-Man and Palaniuk move back to the Bass Elites, under the legends exemption, MLF welcomes 2019 FLW Cup champ Bryan Thrift and 2019 FLW Angler of the Year David Dudley. Thrift and Dudley join several other top FLW pros who have abandoned the FLW Tour once the announcement that FLW and MLF have joined forces for the 2020 season.
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Wishing our American fans a Happy Thanksgiving!
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Win with Minn Kota!
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Scott Martin Moves to BASS Opens for 2020!
Scott Martin, a 20 year pro with FLW, decides to join the BASS Opens for 2020. He has not be given a free pass to the BASS Elites, so Scott will try to qualify for 2021 Elite season. The main drive for the move is to win a Bassmaster Classic for his dad Roland.
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2020 FLW Pro Circuit Schedule
Fishing League Worldwide (FLW), announced the full details, including rules, entry dates, schedules and the location for the 2020 Championship. The circuit will feature a field of 150 pro anglers competing across seven regular-season tournaments, which culminate to the FLW TITLE. A new event, the TITLE will showcase the top 50 pros from the FLW Pro Circuit regular season as they compete for an $820,000 purse.
The seven regular-season events will operate under a four-day, five-bass limit format with a full field of 150 anglers competing on days one and two. The field will cut to the top 30 on day three, and then the top 10 will advance to the championship round on day four. In the FLW TITLE, anglers will compete using the Major League Fishing catch, weigh, and instantly release format. The TITLE field will divide into two groups of 25 (Group A and B) whereas Group A competes on days one and three and Group B competes on days two and four. Based on the cumulative two-day weight total, the top ten from each Group (field of 20) will advance to day five. The top 10 pros after day five will advance to the sixth and final day of competition for the opportunity to become the inaugural FLW TITLE Champion with a top prize of $200,000.
Jan. 23-26 – Sam Rayburn Reservoir – Brookeland, Texas
Hosted by the Jasper County Development District
Feb. 20-23 – Harris Chain of Lakes – Leesburg, Fla.
Hosted by Lake County, Fla.
March 19-22 – Lake Martin – Alexander City, Ala.
Hosted by the Alexander City Chamber of Commerce
April 2-5 – Cherokee Lake – Jefferson City, Tenn.
Hosted by the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
April 23-26 – Lake Hartwell – Anderson, S.C.
Hosted by Visit Anderson
May 14-17 – Lake Dardanelle – Russellville, Ark.
Hosted by the Russellville Advertising & Promotion Commission
June 27-30* – Detroit River – Trenton, Mich.
Hosted by the Detroit Sports Commission
*Saturday-Tuesday event
2020 FLW TITLE CHAMPIONSHIP
Aug. 8-13 – St. Lawrence River – Massena, N.Y.
Hosted by the Town of Massena
2020 FLW PRO CIRCUIT PAYOUTS
Place – Payout
1 – $100,000
2 – $30,000
10 – $14,000
11-20 – $11,000
51-60 – $5,500
Big Bass (days one and two) – $500
2020 FLW TITLE PAYOUTS
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B.A.S.S. announces new national tournament series for kayak anglers
The popularity of kayak fishing is at an all-time high, just one of the reasons B.A.S.S., the world's largest fishing organization, has formed a new tournament trail aimed specifically at kayaking enthusiasts.
Today, B.A.S.S. officials announced the schedule for the inaugural Huk Bassmaster B.A.S.S. Nation Kayak Series powered by TourneyX presented by Abu Garcia. The trail will feature five regular-season events in 2020 on well-known bass fisheries across the country with a championship to be held in conjunction with the 2021 Academy Outdoors + Sports Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk.
"You don't have to look very hard these days to find a kayak in the bed of a truck or strapped to the roof of a SUV," said Bruce Akin, CEO of B.A.S.S. "People are bass fishing from kayaks all over the world — and they're doing it everywhere from big lakes and rivers to small creeks and ponds.
"With this new trail, we wanted to give those anglers an opportunity to show what they can do from a small craft."
The inaugural tournament will be held in conjunction with the 50th edition of the Bassmaster Classic on Logan Martin Lake in Pell City, Ala., on March 5. Classic competition kicks-off on nearby Lake Guntersville the next morning. Other events will be held on Lake Fork in Lake Fork Marina, Texas (March 14), Chickamauga Lake in Dayton, Tenn. (May 23), the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wis. (Aug. 15) and Clear Lake in Lakeport, Calif. (Aug. 29).
Entry fees for all of the events will be $250, and each will pay 30 places. Based on a full field of 150 kayaks, the total purse for each event will be $30,000.
"Huk is proud to work with B.A.S.S. on this exciting new tournament series designed to push the limits of kayak fishing," said Melinda Hays, Freshwater Community Manager for Huk. "Bass fishing is an integral part of our DNA here at Huk and we endeavor to inspire anglers to explore their home waters by kayak."
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Hollen Wins 2019 BASS National Championship on Lake Hartwell
By Andrew Canulatte
Cody Hollen had a feeling that his favorite lipless crankbait would be a difference-maker during Friday's final round of the TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Championship.
Boy, was he ever right.
The 35-year old angler from Beaverton, Ore., caught the heaviest bag of the tournament — a five-bass limit that weighed 13 pounds, 12 ounces — to vault from 10th place to the tournament title here on Lake Hartwell in the northwest corner of the Palmetto State.
Hollen finished with a three-day total of 32-12, and he reaped a wealth of spoils with the victory. Not only did he grab a berth in the 2020 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk, he also won a Skeeter/Yamaha cash award of $20,000, an invitation to fish the 2020 Bassmaster Elite Series and paid entry into the 2020 Basspro.com Bassmaster Opens division of his choice.
He was one of 59 boaters and 115 total anglers who qualified for the championship at Hartwell. Competitors hailed from 47 states and 11 foreign countries, and they competed for a total of $140,300 in prize money this week.
Hollen made the final push to jump ahead of all of them, and it was his decision to fish exclusively with a Yo-Zuri lipless crankbait in the chrome with a blue back color that paid dividends, he said. He tried other lures earlier in the tournament, but he eventually decided to forego variety for what was working best.
"I had confidence coming into today," Hollen said. "I had five or six cane piles way down lake where the water was cleaner than it was up here. They were in those cane piles. I was setting myself up maybe 30 yards back of them and casting into them.
"The bait would hit the cane pile and the fish would hit it hard."
Hollen was in 19th place after Day 1 with a limit that weighed 9-2, and he followed with a 9-14 limit on Day 2 to make the cut. He entered the final day in 10th place, but he trailed leader Justy Varkevisser of South Africa by only 3-5.
Labels: Hollen Wins 2019 BASS National Championship on Lake Hartwell
Remembering the people who sacrificed so much so we can live in peace.
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Winter Bassin' Bait: The bucktail jig
Bucktail jigs use to be the best cold water/ winter time bait for bass. Recently, they have been pushed out by more modern techniques but they still work. Non't sure where to find a good bucktail jig? Check out VMC.
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2020 MLF Schedule
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Andrew Upshaw Wins 2019 Costa FLW Series Championship on Lake Cumberland!
2nd Cumberland win for Upshaw in 2019
He did it again.
Fog delay and bluff walls key to win for Upshaw.
(Photo: FLW)
For the second time this season, Andrew Upshaw is an FLW champion thanks to consistent days spent targeting big Southern smallmouths. The Tulsa, Okla., pro won the 2019 Costa FLW Series Championship on Lake Cumberland in Burnside, Ky., with a three-day total weight of 42 pounds, 15 ounces. The win comes less than seven months after Upshaw won the FLW Tour event on Cherokee Lake in east Tennessee.
"I'm just going to call it blind luck," says Upshaw about his recent string of success on smallmouth fisheries. "And I'm glad to have it, to be honest with you."
Upshaw calls it luck, but his recent performances say otherwise. He's actually a smallmouth fanatic, and it showed this week.
"For the duration of my Tour career, we've fished enough smallmouth fisheries that I've kind of learned how they set up and stuff like that," he says. "The other thing is, one of my favorite places to fish in the country is Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. I really love catching smallmouth up there. Now, they set up totally different up there, but that love for smallmouth drives me to learn how to catch them in other places."
Like up north, the smallmouths down here are aggressive fish. Upshaw had that in mind as he formulated a game plan. He knew that if he was going to win with smallmouths, he needed to find a pattern that would get him a lot of bites. Cumberland is full of fish, so if he wasn't getting bit consistently, he wasn't on a program that could win.
He eventually found the right stuff down on the reservoir's lower end.
"What I figured out was main-lake transition bluffs, but it had to have the river channel swing on it – true river-channel swings," Upshaw says.
The best transitions started at 45 to 50 feet deep adjacent to the wall and shallowed up to 22 to 24 feet deep.
"Right where it started slightly flattening out, that's where they'd be sitting," Upshaw says. "I had about 15 spots, from about Conley Bottom down. Some of them didn't ever fire like they did in practice, and some did better than they did in practice."
Upshaw figures a lot of these fish are already in or near their wintertime holes. Some might eventually shift over to the deeper water near the bluffs, but others will stay put. More fish were transitioning into these areas during the tournament, which meant he had new bass coming to him. He was on so many fish that, yesterday, Upshaw actually left them biting after multiple culls for ounces. He was consistently on more fish than his fellow competitors, and by getting more bites, he eventually was able to assemble limits of the quality fish needed to win.
Labels: afternoon bite, Andrew Upshaw Wins 2019 Costa FLW Series Championship on Lake Cumberland!, bluff walls, mini jig, Ned Rig, october, shallow, smallmouth
2019 Costa FLW Series Championship on Lake Cumberland Day 1: Roger Cousens Slams 17-02lbs of Smallmouth!
Smallmouth rule on Cumberland
Zimbabwe locks up lead with 17-02lbs of smallmouth.
The road Roger Cousens had to travel to live out his dream of being a professional bass angler in the United States included a 19-hour flight to Atlanta and a five-hour drive to Burnside, Ky., where today, the 62-year-old International Division qualifier from Zimbabwe took the day-one lead in the Costa FLW Series Championship on Lake Cumberland.
To be fair, Cousens competed in the U.S. a few times in the 1990s, but the Evinrude and Mercury outboard technician has never fished a pro-level event with as much on the line as there is in this one. After catching a 17-pound, 2-ounce limit that included a mix of largemouths and smallmouths, he leads the way over California's Robert Nakatomi by 3 ounces.
"It feels fantastic right now," he says. "It's pretty hard to believe that I'm leading a tournament of this caliber with this number of anglers. It's pretty amazing."
Cousens says he's a big-bass specialist, which he's proven in his last two FLW events. To qualify for this week's championship, he weighed in more than 100 pounds in three days of fishing at the FLW Zimbabwe Championship.
Labels: chatterbait, crankbait, october, rain, smallmouth
2020 FLW Series and BFL Details
Expanded Format for FLW Series and BFL
MLF Press Release
Major League Fishing (MLF) and Fishing League Worldwide (FLW) announced today the expanded 2020 FLW Series and T-H Marine Bass Fishing League (BFL) details, schedules, rules, entry fees and payouts, highlighted by lower entry fees in both circuits and an expanded FLW Series schedule, along with upping the FLW Series Championship payout to $200,000 for first place and adding a $10,000 bonus for the highest-finishing pro from each of the eight U.S. FLW Series divisions and the International Division.
The 2020 FLW Series season will consist of three events in eight divisions, up from five divisions in 2019. Anglers that fish all three qualifiers in any of the eight divisions and finish in the top 25 will qualify for the no-entry-fee FLW Series Championship for a shot at winning $200,000 cash, plus lucrative contingency bonuses. The winning co-angler at the championship earns a $30,000 17-foot bass boat with a 115-hp outboard. The new win-and-you're-in format guarantees that anglers are never out of contention to qualify for the Championship, too. Fish all three qualifiers in a division and win a tournament, and they'll be on their way to the championship. FLW Series entry fees have been reduced to $1,700 for pros and $550 for co-anglers per tournament, while top payouts in each event remain $40,000 for pros and a $30,000 17-foot bass boat with a 115-hp outboard for co-anglers. As field sizes increase, so do payouts, with top awards reaching $65,000 for pros and $35,000 for co-anglers at 260 boats, and awards of $2,000 for pros and $550 for co-anglers extending through 65th place.
MLF and FLW are also rolling back entry fees in the BFL to give grassroots anglers – the heart and soul of the bass fishing community – the best payouts at the lowest cost available anywhere. Entry fees are now just $200 per boater and $100 per co-angler for one-day qualifiers and $300 per boater and $150 per co-angler for two-day Super Tournaments – the lowest levels since 2014. While entry fees have been lowered, BFL payouts remain the same as 2019, with boaters fishing for top awards of $6,000 plus contingency bonuses in each one-day qualifier and $9,000 plus contingency bonuses in each two-day Super Tournament. Co-anglers fish for top awards of $3,000 plus contingency bonuses in each one-day qualifier and $4,500 plus contingency bonuses in each two-day Super Tournament. Anglers also have the opportunity to qualify for six no-entry-fee Regional championships with top awards of $60,000 for boaters and $50,000 for co-anglers, a no-entry-fee Wild Card regional, the no-entry-fee All-American with top awards of $100,000 for the boater and $50,000 for the co-angler, and even the FLW Series Championship with top awards of $200,000 for the pro/boater and $30,000 for the co-angler.
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Team Canada Wins Gold at 2019 Pan AM on St. Lawrence River
MDJ and B. Lat Top Team
By Jody White
Stand on Guard for Thee.
Though Team USA locked up the top three places, Team Canada placed six teams in the top 10 and averaged 38.98 pounds to win the Pan American Bass Championship on Lake St. Francis. Results were tallied based on the average weight brought in by each team in the two sessions of fishing, which almost guaranteed an extremely close finish. Earning a silver medal, Team USA finished just a hundredth of a pound back with a 38.97 average.
Earning bronze, Team Mexico had a tough afternoon overall and finished with a 28.62 average. Team Akwesasne First Nations brought up the rear with a 23.97 average.
Nicolas Gendron and Jason Gramada were the highest-finishing Canadian team at fourth, and they also weighed the big fish of the day, a behemoth 6.26-pound smallmouth.
Gramada and Gendron took a power approach to the day, and as one of the truly local teams in the event, they were able to fully apply their history on St. Francis.
"We're from here, we've got a lot of history here, we've won some Canadian Opens on this body of water," says Gramada. "This time of year, the fish migrate up towards the dam. It's kinda unique, there are three major spawning tributaries, and I think they do their wintering there to get ready for the spring spawn. So, it's not a secret, that's why the weights are so close – it would have been way different fishing had it been a July or august tournament."
Labels: Dave Chong. October, FLW, roland martin, smallmouth, Team Canada Wins Gold at 2019 Pan AM on St. Lawrence River, windy
Nick Salvucci Wins 2019 WON US Open on Lake Mead with 31.98lbs!
Salvucci Wins on Mead!
(Photo: WON)
He had been close the past two years, including a frustrating second place finish in 2018. Nick Salvucci had said that he wanted to win the U.S. Open more than anything – now he can claim that title as his own.
After taking over the lead on day two, Paso Robles, Calif. pro Salvucci did enough on the final day to close out the victory, despite coming in to the Calville Bay sales one fish short of his daily limit. He did enough the first two days in posting consecutive 11-pound limits, and his more than two and a half pound lead allowed for a margin of error seldom seen in a U.S. Open on Lake Mead. He arrived as the final angler to present his fish to the scales, and when the screen hit 9.44 pounds, he had what he needed and more.
Salvucci's total weight of 31.98 pounds eclipsed DeeJay Evans, who had taken over the lead with one of the largest bags of the event only moments earlier. For his efforts, Salvucci will receive $100,000 cash and the keys to a 2019 Bass Cat Puma FTD powered by a Mercury Pro XS 250 Four Stroke outboard.
More importantly, Salvucci gets to take home the hardware. "I've wanted this trophy for so long, and I've been fishing this lake so well for the past several years that it hurt to come so close," he said. "Now, I get to put my hands on that trophy and I've got the perfect place for it at home; I can't believe it's finally happened.
Salvucci reported spending his tournament in the mid-lake area. Specifically, he fished the Echo Bay area of the Overton Arm, and worked his way back towards the main lake. He said he caught them on multiple lures. "I didn't really have any one thing that I caught them on, I junk fished my way through, throwing what I felt l needed to throw," he said. "The reel key to this week was to keep a positive attitude and just keep my head down. I pulled the hood of my Aftco shirt over my head and stayed focused – it feels amazing."
Labels: Echo Bay, Nick Salvucci Wins 2019 WON US Open on Lake Mead, Overton Arm, winner
2019 WON US Open on Lake Mead Day 2: Salvucci Scores Lead; Kerr 2nd
Double digit limits difficult
WON PRESS RELEASE
Nick Salvucci leads with 22.54lbs (Photo: WON)
While rough conditions can make it hard on the anglers at the WON Bass U.S. Open, Lake Mead's black bass population thrives in the wind. The problem for the field at the 2019 edition of the West's most prestigious event, is that there has been very little to speak of. Those conditions mean that there will be a limited morning bite, then a grind for the rest of the day.
After finishing day one in second place with 11.35 pounds, Nick Salvucci proved to be the most consistent angler on day two when he brought 11.19 pounds to the Calville Bay scales to bring his total weight to 22.54 pounds, enough to take the lead heading into the final day. Salvucci and day one leader Justin Kerr swapped places when Kerr slipped, producing 8.05 pounds on day two, falling to second place with a total weight of 19.72 pounds.
That 2.82-pound differential can be massive on a body of water like Lake Mead. That margin, and one more day of fishing stand between Salvucci and the title he has wanted so badly for the past two years.
Despite the strong lead, Salvucci said he is anything but comfortable. "I really don't know what to expect tomorrow," he said. "I am covering as much water as I can, but when I'm getting six or seven bites a day, anything can happen."
Salvucci reported being able to pare down the collection of rods on his deck, but that junk fishing remained the name of the game on day two. "I probably had 10 rods on the deck instead of 20, but I still caught fish on four different baits," he said. "I have to get out there and see how it goes; but anything could still happen."
Kerr said that his day boiled down to one word – imperfection. "I know that there's still a chance, but I have to land everything that bites," he said. "My partner and I both lost fish today, and you can't win if that happens. My whole career has been about execution, and I'll need to be perfect tomorrow to have a chance."
The third place pro, Jim Moynagh, brought in 11.08 pounds on day two, a huge leap from his day one, 6.98-pound performance to bring his total weight to 18.64 pounds. He is followed by two-time U.S. Open Champion John Murray, who added 8.97 pounds today to bring his total weight to 18.55 pounds, enough to leap from 10th place to fourth. Randy Estrada M.D. rounded out the top five by bringing 9.50 pounds to the scales to finish the day with 17.60 pounds.
Labels: 2019 WON US Open on Lake Mead Day 2: Salvucci, jim moynagh, john murray, junk fishing, justin kerr, october
2019 WON US Open on Lake Mead Day 1: Justin Kerr Snags Lead
Wind whipped Mead fishing tough
Kerr and Bo McNelly net 11.67lbs for lead.
In the days leading up to the 2019 WON Bass US Open on Lake Mead, the weather did anything but cooperate. Strong winds kept the field of 254 pro anglers and their AAA partners confined to areas that weren't pounded by the resultant waves. On the eve of the 37th edition of the event, the wind laid down.
When those conditions present themselves to tournament anglers, the immediate thought is that it the fishing is going to be tough. While the results showed that much of the field found the fishing to be difficult, someone will always find a way to put together a bite.
On the first day of the 2019 WON Bass U.S. Open, that proved to be former U.S. Open champion Justin Kerr, and his partner Bo McNeely. Their 11.67 pound limit put Kerr in position to claim his second U.S. Open victory. Nick Salvucci, who has been close to winning the past two years, and his AAA partner Brandon Smith came in with 11.35 pounds to end the day in second place.
Kerr, the Lake Havasu City, Arizona pro said that he just took what Lake Mead gave him. "We had an early draw today, and it took a while for the bit to get going, but when it did, we were able to put it together," he said. "There were a lot of boats in the area, so we had to kind of lock down in one spot and do what we could; everything just kind of worked out."
Kerr said that his partner helped the cause. "These events become a team event for the day, and my partner caught a three pounder that really helped," said Kerr. "I don't know how tomorrow will go, but I'll go out there and see what I can put together tomorrow."
Salvucci said that he used a variety of techniques, in the mid-lake area to sack his day's weight. "I used about 20 different rods today to catch my fish; it was a junk fishing day," he said. "I never really knew what I was going to get bit on, so I just picked something up and culled as many times as I could. I've been close the past two years, and I'm ready to see if I can make it happen this year." He
Labels: 2019 WON US Open on Lake Mead Day 1, junk fishing, justin kerr, lake mead, october, Salvucci, windy
MAJOR LEAGUE FISHING TO ACQUIRE FLW
by FLW & MLF Communications
Major League Fishing (MLF) announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Fishing League Worldwide (FLW), the world's largest tournament-fishing organization. The Letter of Intent (LOI) sets in motion the most significant brand merger in competitive bass fishing history, linking a tour and original, award-winning programming featuring the top professional anglers in the world to an extensive grassroots organization that serves tens of thousands of competitive anglers from high school and college to weekenders and tour pros.
"We're thrilled about welcoming FLW to the MLF team," said Jim Wilburn, President and CEO of Major League Fishing. "FLW shares our commitment to creating tournaments and opportunities centered on the success of the angler. Through this acquisition, we are better positioned to support anglers and sponsors at all levels."
"Our business plan always included reaching all levels of grassroots fishing," said Boyd Duckett, MLF co-founder and President of the Professional Bass Tour Anglers' Association (PBTAA). "FLW does it best with the Tour and grassroots tournaments; their reputation in competitive bass fishing is remarkable and their culture has always been pro-angler, which makes this the perfect opportunity for both organizations. We couldn't be more excited about FLW: their team, anglers, and sponsors."
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Abu Garcia® LTD Program Rods and Combos Promise Unmatched Comfort Alongside Iconic Abu Garcia Features
Abu Garica blends its iconic features with custom rod grips by Winn® to bring an improved grip and comfort to the new LTD Program rods and combos. The Vendetta® LTD and Veritas® LTD standalone rods, as well as the Revo® X LTD and Revo® S LTD spinning and casting combos, provide exceptional durability and a comfortable, and well-controlled grip to suit any angler's needs.
"The new Abu Garcia Winn LTD Program rods and combos are a marriage of expertise," said Andrew Wheeler, director of global brands for Abu Garcia. "Combining Abu's iconic features and designs with the impressive grip quality of Winn grips, we've crafted rods, without compromising other features, that anglers won't want to put down."
The Abu Garcia Vendetta rods feature IntraCarbon™ technology that creates a lightweight barrier, improving durability without adding weight. The Abu Garcia Veritas rods include Sublayer™ Armor with high strength fibers that outfit the rods with superior hoop strength and durability. Modeled with lightweight, 30-ton graphite designs, the Vendetta LTD and Veritas LTD rods are available in a wide variety of colors. The Vendetta LTD rods retail for $99.95, while the Veritas LTD retail for $119.95 – both are available in stores now.
The Abu Garcia Revo X LTD and Revo S LTD combos come in both spinning and casting models, all with stainless steel bearing systems. Constructed with a 24 ton graphite rod blank and stainless steel guides with titanium oxide inserts, the new combos are built to be smooth yet powerful. The Revo X LTD Combos are available in silver, blue and seafoam, while the Revo S LTD combos are available in white. The Revo X LTD casting and spinning combos retail for $149.95 and are currently available in stores. The Revo S LTD combos are also available and retail for $169.95 price.
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Ontario anglers rank among Bassmaster elite
Cory Johnston fishing his heart out on Lake St. Clair.
Here's a cool piece on the great season of three Canadian BASS Elite anglers who each had a fantastic season.
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Scott Canterbury is the 2019 BASS Elite Angler of the Year; Cory Johnston Tied for 2nd!
Canadians Cory Johnston 2th, Chris Johnston 13th & Gussy 28th
Canterbury claims AOY by 8 points of Johnston and Blaylock.
As a child, Scott Canterbury always spent his Saturday mornings watching The Bassmasters television program.
To him, the stars of that show — people like Bob Cobb, Ray Scott and Denny Brauer — are the true legends of professional bass fishing.
Now, he has forever claimed his own spot alongside them in B.A.S.S. history.
With five bass that weighed 19 pounds, 12 ounces during Tuesday's final round, Canterbury pushed his three-day total to 59-4 and finished in 14th place for the week at the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship on Lake St. Clair.
More importantly, he finished at the top of the season points standings with 848 points, earning one of the most coveted titles in professional fishing and the $100,000 check that goes with it.
"My first goal coming into the season was to qualify for the Bassmaster Classic next year," Canterbury said. "Angler of the Year is always there on the radar. It's just way out there.
"You always set goals that you don't think you can reach — because if they're easy to reach, you didn't set them high enough."
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St. Paul's opened its doors for service in June of 1901, though it was originally established as a Methodist Church. The Methodist congregation first formed in 1875 under the minister Rev. Snowden, who was a circuit rider. They would meet in a room over the town jail on Dominion Avenue; then later sharing the Baptist church before building their own church at Midland Avenue and Elizabeth Street. The congregation remained part of Rev. Snowden's circuit until the move to King Street in 1901. A beautiful pipe organ was installed and dedicated in 1902. St. Paul's remained a Methodist church until 1925 when it became a part of the United Church of Canada. In 1955 the parsonage to the right was razed and a large addition was built that included a basement hall, offices and parlor on the main floor and a large Sunday School room on the third floor. In 2016/17 the building was made more accessible by the addition of an improved entrance on the south west corner near the municipal parking, the removal of the main floor Sunday School rooms and the installation of an elevator.
St. Paul's United Church, Shortly after construction completed.
Souvenir candy dish of St. Paul's United Church in Midland, donated by David Archer.The Huronia Museum has a collection of souvenir dishes from the Huronia area.

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Project Update: UK Flood Defence
Costing in the region of £50 million, Phase 1 of the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme is one of the largest river flood defence schemes in the country. It comprises of major construction work along the River Aire in the city centre and Holbeck extending a distance of more than 4.5km between Leeds train station and Thwaite Mills.
The scheme includes the installation of innovative, movable weirs which can be lowered in flood conditions to reduce river levels and the threat of flooding. This is the first time that movable weirs have been installed in the UK for flood defence purposes.
Phase 2 of the Leeds flood alleviation scheme is also well underway with the contract for the scheme being awarded already. The next phase of the flood alleviation scheme is the specimen design which is currently an ongoing project looking to be complete by June 2018. The rest of the phase 2 timeline looks like this:
October 2018: Detailed design & build tender & award
November 2018: Start detailed design
Early 2019: commence construction work
We have placed a number of roles on this project and for more information, talk to Sean Furlong
Work has recently begun on the £3.8million scheme to reduce the risk of flooding to over 400 residential and commercial properties in Totnes. The Exeter Flood Defence scheme will reduce flood risk to 3,200 homes and businesses in the city and when complete, the £14m Dawlish defence project will help to reduce the risk of flooding to nearly 2,900 properties, the main railway line and roads around the inner estuary.
The schemes involve improving existing flood defences with new measures including construction of new flood walls, gates, demountable weirs and raising a number of slipways.
Over £68 million has been put aside for flood alleviation in Gloucestershire since 2007 and works are now underway on the scheme in Whaddon to protect over 1000 properties. Currently the construction work is underway to adapt the ground levels on Priors farm and Noverton farm, this in turn will create earth mounds that will have the ability to hold back flood water. The two barriers will be able to hold up to 23,300m3 of water.
This project will also add diversions to current water courses to help prevent water build up and therefore alleviate more of the risk of floods.
We have worked with our client on recruiting Section and Site Engineers for the Devon project and a freelance Site Agent to place in Gloucestershire. Chat to Steve Castle to find out more.


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JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (1992) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1296) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1391) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1198) Digital Health, Telehealth and e-Innovation in Clinical Settings (240) Clinical Communication, Electronic Consultation and Telehealth (331) Telehealth and Telemonitoring (1124) Longitudinal and Cohort Studies in Public Health (148) Knowledge Translation and Implementation Science (278) Implementation Report (11)
Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/28105, first published February 21, 2021 .
Utility of a Telephone Triage Hotline in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Observational Study
Benjamin A Y Cher 1 ; Eric A Wilson 1 ; Alexa M Pinsky 1 ; Ryan F Townshend 1 ; Ann V Wolski 1 ; Michael Broderick 1 ; Allison M Milen 1 ; Audrey Lau 1 ; Amrit Singh 1 ; Sandro K Cinti 1, 2 ; Carl G Engelke 1 ; Anjan K Saha 3
Benjamin A Y Cher1*, MS ;
Eric A Wilson1*, BS ;
Alexa M Pinsky1, BS ;
Ryan F Townshend1, BS ;
Ann V Wolski1, BS ;
Michael Broderick1, BS ;
Allison M Milen1, BS ;
Audrey Lau1, BS ;
Amrit Singh1, BS ;
Sandro K Cinti1,2, MD ;
Carl G Engelke1*, BS ;
Anjan K Saha3*, MD, PhD
1Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
2Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
3Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
*these authors contributed equally
Anjan K Saha, MD, PhD
Email: aks9032@nyp.org
Background: During the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, rapidly rising disease prevalence in the United States created a demand for patient-facing information exchanges that addressed questions and concerns about the disease. One approach to managing increased patient volumes during a pandemic involves the implementation of telephone-based triage systems. During a pandemic, telephone triage hotlines can be employed in innovative ways to conserve medical resources and offer useful population-level data about disease symptomatology and risk factor profiles.
Objective: The aim of this study is to describe and evaluate the COVID-19 telephone triage hotline used by a large academic medical center in the midwestern United States.
Methods: Michigan Medicine established a telephone hotline to triage inbound patient calls related to COVID-19. For calls received between March 24, 2020, and May 5, 2020, we described total call volume, data reported by callers including COVID-19 risk factors and symptomatology, and distribution of callers to triage algorithm endpoints. We also described symptomatology reported by callers who were directed to the institutional patient portal (online medical visit questionnaire).
Results: A total of 3929 calls (average 91 calls per day) were received by the call center during the study period. The maximum total number of daily calls peaked at 211 on March 24, 2020. Call volumes were the highest from 6 AM to 11 AM and during evening hours. Callers were most often directed to the online patient portal (1654/3929, 42%), nursing hotlines (1338/3929, 34%), or employee health services (709/3929, 18%). Cough (126/370 of callers, 34%), shortness of breath (101/370, 27%), upper respiratory infection (28/111, 25%), and fever (89/370, 24%) were the most commonly reported symptoms. Immunocompromised state (23/370, 6%) and age >65 years (18/370, 5%) were the most commonly reported risk factors.
Conclusions: The triage algorithm successfully diverted low-risk patients to suitable algorithm endpoints, while directing high-risk patients onward for immediate assessment. Data collected from hotline calls also enhanced knowledge of symptoms and risk factors that typified community members, demonstrating that pandemic hotlines can aid in the clinical characterization of novel diseases.
triage; telephone; COVID-19; utility; telemedicine; telehealth; patient information; concern; implementation; innovation; hospital
COVID-19 emerged in December 2019 as a highly contagious viral pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 [1]. The disease is transmitted through aerosolized respiratory droplets and was classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, after rapidly crossing intercontinental and transoceanic boundaries over three months [2]. Symptoms include fever, cough, and dyspnea; unmanaged disease can result in multiorgan failure and possibly death [3,4]. The global response to COVID-19 has focused on medically managing the disease, optimizing hospital utilization, and reducing viral transmission [5].
The rising prevalence of COVID-19 in the United States [6] created a demand for patient-facing information exchanges that addressed questions and concerns about the disease. Local efforts designed to contextualize national facts and figures were critical for layering population-specific considerations over nationally accepted guidelines. As the disease began to spread, acute care settings experienced a surge in patients seeking treatment and advice, stressing already overburdened health care systems and creating infection control challenges in overcrowded waiting rooms [7,8]. Methods aimed at managing this sudden spike in health care utilization required adherence to social distancing recommendations to prevent viral transmission while simultaneously alleviating the added systemic congestion attributed to COVID-19.
One approach to managing increased patient volumes during a pandemic involves the implementation of telephone-based triage systems. Triage and evaluation phone lines established during previous pandemics were found to be cost-effective methods for prioritizing acute care resources for symptomatic patients with risk factors for serious disease in overburdened hospital systems [9-11]. A study of infectious disease hotlines implemented following natural disasters showed that these systems effectively aid patient evaluation and prevent disease outbreaks in vulnerable populations [12]. Furthermore, disease triage hotlines serve as effective information waypoints for collecting longitudinal patient data while relieving congestion that would otherwise exacerbate disease propagation [13]. However, a lack of consensus on a universal approach to triage due to variation in disease presentation across institutions and geographic areas prevents scalable implementation of triage hotlines [14-16]. Approaches that optimize resource allocation by accounting for variation in disease presentation thus present compelling value propositions for health systems worldwide to address ongoing and future pandemics.
To this end, we aimed to evaluate the COVID-19 triage hotline established by Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center affiliated with the University of Michigan, which serves the population of Southeast Michigan and surrounding areas. We characterized the call center's triage algorithm and described the distribution of all calls fielded over a 6-week interval during the initial surge of the pandemic. We then contextualized hourly and daily call volumes against publicly available internet search trends concerning COVID-19–related inquiries. Lastly, we tabulated symptomatology and risk factor profiles for patients who accessed call center services during the 6-week period to provide perspective on local disease burden. Our results illustrate the utility of telephone-based triage and evaluation hotlines in optimizing health care utilization and surveying disease burden during times of crisis that impact human health.
COVID-19 Call Center Hotline and Triage Algorithm
Michigan Medicine established a telephone hotline to triage inbound patient calls related to COVID-19. Operations commenced on March 16, 2020, and accepted calls daily from 6 AM to 12 AM. The hotline was staffed both in person and remotely by call center agents, medical assistants, patient service representatives, and medical student volunteers (herein termed as "agents"). The call center used Aspect Call Center software (Aspect) to receive and manage calls. Call center agents used an algorithm developed by the Michigan Medicine Ambulatory Care Administration to triage incoming calls with screening questions and defined endpoints. Screening questions were updated over the duration of the study to accommodate the changing health landscape of the pandemic. Symptom screening criteria were initially limited to fever, cough, and dyspnea. Criteria were expanded to include upper respiratory symptoms (runny nose and congestion), muscle aches, loss of sense of smell, and diarrhea on April 20, 2020. A positive symptom screen was defined as having at least two symptoms from this list. Risk factor criteria initially included age over 65 years, compromised immune system, chronic respiratory illness, presence of a health care worker in the household, hemodialysis patient, resident of a skilled nursing or long-term care facility, and/or living in communal housing. Risk factor criteria were expanded to include primary caretaker for a vulnerable individual and/or close contact of an individual who tested positive for COVID-19 on April 20, 2020. A positive risk factor screen was defined as having at least one risk factor from this list.
We used two surveys to collect data for this analysis. The first was created in Qualtrics, an electronic survey platform. Call center workers filled out a Qualtrics survey when they handled each call to the call center. From these results, we extracted call volume, patient employment status (Michigan Medicine—and later, University of Michigan—employee versus nonemployee), patient status (Michigan Medicine versus non–Michigan Medicine patient), pediatric or adult, symptom profile, and risk factor data. The triage survey directed callers toward various algorithm endpoints: Occupational Health Services, non–Michigan Medicine primary care provider or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, patient portal e-visit questionnaire, and adult or pediatric nursing hotlines. Partially completed Qualtrics survey responses were discarded from downstream analysis. The second survey was completed by a subset of call center workers who were volunteers during evening shifts. This survey was created in Google Forms, an additional online survey platform. The Google Forms survey collected additional data about symptomatology and risk factors that were not included in the Qualtrics survey. Qualtrics and Google Forms survey data were merged to produce a composite data set at the end of the study period. We used an additional data source, the Aspect Unified IP System, which automatically logged all telephone calls to our institution's call center hotline. We used this source to cross-check data on call volumes extracted from the Qualtrics and Google surveys.
To contextualize how call volume was related to public interest in the pandemic and disease prevalence, we accessed publicly available data through two sources: (1) Google Trends and (2) the State of Michigan online coronavirus dashboard [17]. We compiled regional trends in searches for the terms "COVID," "COVID-19," and "Coronavirus" during the study period. We also compiled search trends for words that mirrored the symptoms in our screening algorithm: "Fever," "Cough," "Short of Breath," "Shortness of Breath," and "Trouble Breathing." Data provided by Google Trends are normalized to a maximum of 100 for the frequency of searches between March 24, 2020, and May 5, 2020, for the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit. Data provided by the State of Michigan online coronavirus dashboard were presented as 3-day total confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19 in Washtenaw county during the same time period.
In tandem with the creation of a call center to assess patients, Michigan Medicine created a "Cough, Flu, and COVID-19–like Symptoms" patient portal e-visit questionnaire. Patients calling the triage hotline whose symptoms or risk factor profile did not meet criteria to be transferred to the nursing line were directed to complete this e-visit questionnaire in their patient portal. The questionnaire assessed symptom frequencies, symptom onset and duration, and epidemiologic and demographic risk factors. Once completed, a provider would reach out to the patient to determine appropriate next steps in care.
Data were collected between March 24, 2020 (8 days after the triage hotline began operation) and May 5, 2020. Total call volume and the total number of calls directed to each triage algorithm endpoint by date and time of day were calculated to assess hotline workload. Symptom frequency was subsequently overlaid on total call volume for the call center and the total number of calls in which patients screened positive for symptoms. Google Forms survey data and the "Cough, Flu, and COVID-19–like Symptoms" patient portal questionnaire responses were analyzed to determine the frequency of patient-reported symptoms and epidemiologic risk factors among both hotline callers and online portal users. Data representation and statistical analysis was completed using Prism (version 8.4.2; GraphPad). The study was reviewed and approved by the local institutional review board (HUM00179879).
Call Volumes and Algorithm Endpoints
Upon establishing a staffed triage hotline, calls were processed through the screening algorithm, which directed patients to specific algorithm endpoints (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Detailed workflow of the Michigan Medicine COVID-19 Hotline. Outline of triage algorithm, including initial input/questions (blue), endpoints (red), and an alternative pathway added on May 1, 2020 (orange). The numbers of callers routed through each pathway are shown at unique junctions in the algorithm. OHS: Occupational Health Services; PCP: primary care provider; RN: registered nurse.
To establish that our survey data provided an accurate representation of our call volume, we compared daily call volume to the number of calls routed to the hotline number through Aspect Unified IP, which automatically logged all calls to the call center hotline (Figure 2A). Although the Google and Qualtrics survey response rate was approximately 50% of Aspect system forwarding, the linear relationship between call volume as measured by the surveys and the Aspect system (r2=0.85) suggests that survey responses provide a reasonable representation of call volume received by the triage hotline.
Figure 2. Linear regression analysis of survey responses versus number of incoming calls and daily/hourly call volumes. (A) The number of unique Qualtrics and Google Forms survey responses collected during the study period had a strong positive correlation with COVID-19 Hotline call volumes recorded by Aspect software during the same time frame (Pearson coefficient, r2=0.85). (B) Daily and (C) hourly call volumes obtained from combined Qualtrics and Google Forms survey data, with total calls received graphed as a stacked line plot (yellow) with subcategories of triage algorithm endpoints overlaid as line graphs. Orange: routed to patient portal; purple: routed to adult nursing; grey: routed to OHS; blue: routed to PCP or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website; green: routed to pediatric nursing. OHS: Occupational Health Services; PCP: primary care provider.
A total of 3929 calls (average 91 calls per day) were received by the call center during the study period. Overall, call volume gradually declined over time but showed substantial variation between days throughout the study period (Figure 2B). The distribution of calls between algorithm endpoints was consistent through the study period. Callers were most often directed to the institutional patient portal (1654/3929, 42%), nursing hotlines (1338/3929, 34%), or Occupational Health Services (709/3929, 18%). Of the 1338 calls directed to the nursing hotline, 1164 (1164/1338, 87%) were forwarded to the adult nursing hotline and 174 (174/1338, 13%) were sent to the pediatric nursing hotline. The total number of calls peaked at 211/day on March 24, 2020, and fell to 54/day by May 5, 2020, when data collection ended. Incoming call volumes were highest between 6 AM and 11 AM and steadily decreased throughout the remainder of the day with the exception of a brief resurgence between 6 PM and 12 AM (Figure 2C). Additionally, hourly call volumes were lower on the weekends than during weekdays, but volumes were similarly distributed throughout the day (Figure S1 in Multimedia Appendix 1).
We were interested to see whether call volume and the fraction of callers experiencing symptoms was reflective of the public interest in the pandemic and locoregional case volume. Google Trends frequencies for COVID-19–related searches for the state of Michigan and the Detroit area were highest in late March and gradually decreased until the end of data collection in early May (Figure 3A). Confirmed cases for Washtenaw County and total triage hotline call volume followed a similar overall trend, though both demonstrated lulls followed by sudden spikes in early and mid-April. Searches related to the most common symptoms of COVID-19 in both Michigan and Detroit peaked in late March and early April, mirroring the peak in call volume and callers screening positive for symptoms (Figure 3B).
Figure 3. Google Search and hotline call volume trends. (A) Total call volume derived from combined Qualtrics and Google Forms survey data graphed as a stacked line plot (blue), relative frequencies of COVID-19–related Google Search results for the state of Michigan (MI, black) and Detroit area (grey) overlaid as line plots, and 3-day total confirmed cases (black) and deaths (red) from COVID-19 in Washtenaw county represented as bars. (B) Total number of callers who were Michigan Medicine patients (blue stacked line plot) and those who screened positive for symptoms (yellow stacked line plot) overlaid with relative frequencies of Google Search results pertaining to COVID-19 symptoms in the state of Michigan (black) and Detroit area (grey) overlaid as line plots. For panels (A) and (B), the left y-axis represents the normalized range (0-100) of Google Trends results, and call volumes and patient numbers are represented on the right y-axis.
Caller Symptomatology and Risk Factors
We next analyzed Google Forms survey data to determine the frequency of patient-reported symptoms and the distribution of epidemiologic risk factors among callers. These represent the subset of callers who were Michigan Medicine patients and contacted the call center between 6 PM and 12 AM. Cough (126/370, 34% of callers), shortness of breath (101/370, 27%), upper respiratory infection (28/111, 25%), and fever (89/370, 24%) were the most commonly reported symptoms (Figure 4A). A minority of callers reported muscle aches, diarrhea, or loss of sense of smell (14/111, 13%; 7/111, 6%; and 4/111, 4%, respectively). Among the risk factors assessed, immunocompromised state (23/370, 7%), age >65 years (18/370, 5%), primary caretaker of a vulnerable individual (5/370, 4.5%), and close contact with a person known to have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (5/370, 4.5%) were the most frequently reported by hotline users (Figure 4B).
Figure 4. Symptoms and risk factors reported by hotline callers. Percent of patient-reported (A) symptoms and (B) risk factors obtained from Google Forms survey data. For "Cough," "Shortness of breath," "Fever," "Compromised immune system," "65 years old and up," "Hemodialysis patient," "Diabetes," "Resident of a nursing home/long-term care facility," and "Living in communal housing," n=370, while for "Upper respiratory infection," "Muscle aches," "Diarrhea," "Loss of sense of smell," "Close contact with someone that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2," and "Primary caretaker of a vulnerable individual," n=111, as these were added to the screening algorithm at a later study timepoint.
Patient Portal Symptomatology and Risk Factors
Further characterization of patient-reported symptoms and epidemiologic risk factors was achieved through "Cough, Flu, and COVID-19–like Symptoms" questionnaire responses. Questionnaire data revealed that nonproductive or productive cough were the most frequently reported symptoms among both adult (nonproductive: 1280/1907, 67%; productive: 998/1907, 52%) and pediatric (nonproductive: 148/227, 65%; productive: 64/227, 28%) patients (Figure 5). Muscle aches were the next most common symptom reported by adults (780/1907, 41%), while pediatric patients were more likely to experience fever (58/227, 26%). Adult patients were more likely to experience dyspnea than pediatric patients (465/1907, 24% versus 21/227, 9%) and loss of sense of smell (198/1907, 10% versus 10/227, 5%). Gastrointestinal symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea) were reported by <10% of adult and pediatric patients. Regarding clinical time course, both adult and pediatric patients were more likely to report a slowly progressive disease course (67%, 1393/2081 of adults and 61%, 118/194 of pediatric patients) than acute onset of illness (33%, 688/2081 of adults and 39%, 76/194 of pediatric patients). Health care worker (12%, 259/2132 of adults) and household contact of a health care worker (15%, 30/196 of pediatric patients) were the most frequently reported risk factors (Figure S2A,B in Multimedia Appendix 1). Of adult patients, 7% (142/2132) indicated that they had a compromised immune system compared to 2% (4/196) of pediatric patients.
Figure 5. "Cough, Flu, and COVID-19–like Symptoms" e-visit questionnaire symptom profiles for adult and pediatric patients. (A) Percent of reported symptoms among adult (orange, n=1907) and pediatric (blue, n=227) patients who completed the e-visit questionnaire within the study time frame.
In this study, we illustrated an approach to rapid development and implementation of a telephone-based triage system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although call volumes fluctuated considerably throughout the study period, we observed a gradual decline in total calls received over time. We noted that referral to the patient portal or transfer to the nursing hotline for further assessment constituted more than 75% of triage decisions. Google Trends data for COVID-19–related terminology and symptoms in Michigan and the Detroit metropolitan area decreased from late March to early May 2020, mirroring the declining trend in call volumes noted at the call center. Callers most frequently reported the following symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, upper respiratory infection, and fever. In addition, the following risk factors for infection were most frequently reported: immunocompromised, age greater than 65 years, and exposure to another individual who tested positive for COVID-19. Analysis of patient questionnaire data revealed that cough was the most frequently reported symptom by adult and pediatric patients, but the frequency of symptoms thereafter differed between these groups. Together, these results demonstrate how patient hotlines and triage systems can be used to properly allocate care and broaden our understanding of disease characteristics during public health crises.
Responding effectively to a global pandemic necessitates judicious use of resources and regular assessment of disease burden. Tools with this dual capability are positioned to meaningfully contribute to pandemic response efforts. Specifically, triage and evaluation phone services are well-equipped to manage and survey patient populations when deployed by health systems during pandemics. Characterization of the Michigan Medicine COVID-19 Hotline validated this notion. The call center successfully directed call traffic away from the resource-intensive nursing endpoints while capturing population-level statistics on disease symptomatology and prevalence. This was accomplished by direct triage and surveillance by call center agents as well as questionnaire-based surveillance through a pre-existing online portal. Only 17% of the total call volume was directed to the nursing hotlines, while 21% of calls were directed to the online patient portal. Cough was identified as the most common symptom by triage agents as well as questionnaires, coinciding well with prior reports on COVID-19 symptomatology [1,5]. Taken together, the Michigan Medicine COVID-19 Hotline effectively triaged patients seeking advice and care during the COVID-19 pandemic while facilitating characterization of local disease burden.
Prior triage hotlines have provided population-level statistics about disease symptomatology and prevalence while directing resource allocation [13]. During the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, triage lines were developed to facilitate rapid diversion of call traffic from upper-level providers [9,11,13] while providing reassurance to patients with less concerning symptoms [11]. In addition, total call volume may itself be a useful marker for informing appropriate resource management. The tight concordance observed between regional Google Trends search term frequencies and total call volume is in line with the findings of previous studies comparing search trends to disease incidence [18,19] and supports the notion that call center traffic can operate as a barometer for community concerns surrounding COVID-19.
Designing the triage algorithm to leverage an online patient portal not only reduced nursing utilization but also unlocked local care capacity without compromising social distancing measures designed to reduce viral transmission. Previous work has demonstrated that call centers can also benefit a community beyond their primary role as a triage service. For instance, South Australia's COVID-19 Relief Call Centre assisted callers with food insecurity and accessing medical appointments and welfare checks [20]. Call centers additionally provide alternative employment opportunities during pandemic shutdowns for both health care workers and non–health care workers. As an example, nurses and medical assistants on furlough at Michigan Medicine were redeployed as call center agents. In New York City, customer service agents at a travel management firm were trained and deployed as COVID-19 test schedulers [21]. Call centers have also been an effective means of reaching underserved patients in rural areas [22].
Nevertheless, a number of operational challenges place constraints on the value of call centers. Hotline staff do not perform physical exams, which are often necessary to properly evaluate the cardiopulmonary complaints that are characteristic of COVID-19. Maintaining social distancing standards and properly sanitizing shared workspaces can also pose a challenge to call center operations during pandemics [23]. To circumvent these challenges, hotlines based on yes/no algorithms can be supplemented by online self-triage systems [24]. Social distancing practices can be maintained by adopting work from home strategies, as was done by a call center in England that transitioned almost 1000 employees to remote work at the outset of the pandemic [25]. Although imbalances between health care supply and demand are likely to arise during future pandemics or subsequent waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, call center hotlines can be used to reduce the burden placed on strained medical systems.
A number of operational constraints placed limitations on the scope of our study. First, the Google Forms survey designed to screen symptomatology and risk factors was only completed for evening callers. Specific symptoms or risk factors associated with the time frame in which calls were received may have confounded our results. Second, due to the structure of the triage algorithm, we were only able to present symptomatology and risk factor data for a small subset of patients. Further, since the triage algorithm screened callers as positive if they had two symptoms or one risk factor, it is possible that additional symptoms or risk factors were not captured once a caller had screened positive. Third, not all callers had questions or requests that fit perfectly into the triage algorithm. For these calls, call center workers may have skipped the online survey (leading to inaccurate measurements of call volume) or filled out the survey with their best approximation of the caller's needs. Fourth, due to the deidentified nature of our data sets, we were unable to measure caller satisfaction. This would be a useful topic for further research. Finally, this study presents data from one institution, limiting the ability of our data to generate population-level inferences.
In summary, our study describes the development and implementation of a COVID-19 patient triage hotline in a single health care system. The triage algorithm successfully diverted low-risk patients to suitable algorithm endpoints, while directing high-risk patients onward for immediate assessment. Data collected from hotline calls also enhanced our knowledge of typical symptoms and risk factors among community members, demonstrating that pandemic hotlines can aid in the clinical characterization of novel diseases. Although future innovation in the areas of triage algorithm design and remote work capabilities can certainly improve the operation of future pandemic hotlines, our work provides critical insight into the role that telephone-based triage systems play in facilitating health care delivery in times of crisis.
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The grapes were harvested by hand from Burrowing Owl's Vineyards in Oliver and Osoyoos, from October 9th to 23rd. They were sorted by hand, then destemmed and gently crushed before being gravity fed into stainless tanks for cold soak (4 days) and alcoholic fermentation (10 days). Fermentation temperature ranged from 16 to 26 Celsius. Both "free run" and "pressed" wine were then moved into barrels for the malolactic fermentation followed by ageing for 18 months. The selection of barrels helped round out the tannins, and contributed to complex notes such as smoky, savory and spice. After the blending of the barrels, the wine was bottled unfiltered and left to mature in bottle until its release.


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One area that requires your focused focus when you are starting out in the restaurant organisation is menu preparation. Several brand-new drivers merely have no suggestion of exactly how to plan a restaurant food selection that deals with what their target audience is trying to find in addition to being useful in regards to preparation.
In this short article we take a closer take a look at restaurant menu preparation and ten of the points that you have to consider as you begin to construct the necessary content.
You have to think concerning your restaurant concept and also the type of clients that you are wishing to bring in. These things will be influenced by your place, restaurant premises and also motif among other aspects. Your total principle will certainly impact the style, quality and section dimensions of the food that you will certainly include on your restaurant menus.
A lot of restaurant food selections are static in that they are repaired for lengthy time periods as well as are not able to conveniently be transformed. The option is to use a food selection that is frequently altering. The last is excellent for restaurants that utilize seasonal ingredients that vary in cost such as seafood. 'Soup of the day' is another typical food selection variant that might alter as usually as daily. It makes it tough if new food selections require to be published often. Options for menus that differ often consist of composing your food selection up on a chalk board or printing out unique inserts with daily specials.
A la carte restaurant food selections require customers to select food selection things separately as well as everything is valued independently. On the other hand Prix Fixe menus provide numerous programs consisted of in one collection meal for a fixed price. After that there is buffet design eating which typically requires little in the way of food selections at all but instead just summaries on the recipes at the point where customers serve themselves.
One point to keep in mind when putting together a food selection is to provide sufficient of a variety to offer restaurants a great option while also keeping it reasonably easy to make sure that they don't obtain overwhelmed. A straightforward menu will certainly additionally likely lower the variety of mistakes while orders are being taken and give team less headaches keeping in mind information on each meal. A menu with a smaller range of offerings will certainly also make it less complicated for you to handle your supply and to lower food waste.
At the reduced end of the restaurant spectrum you can basically do your restaurant food selection planning and after that hire kitchen personnel that can making the recipes that you want. However, if you will certainly be working with a chef then you will certainly need to talk to him or her on the design of cuisine that he or she concentrates on. A cook will certainly no question have the ability to use very useful pointers as well as guidance on your menu so it is well worth getting in touch with one if possible.
Prior to you go on as well as consist of a recipe on your menu it is important to choose exactly how the recipe will be made and offered. It not just has to satisfy your personal preference however needs to additionally meet the tastes of the general public. Before you launch a brand-new food selection product it is essential to do some screening. Get some point of views from chefs or cooks and seek slight adjustments that could be made to improve a meal much more.
Your menu opportunities may be limited by the dimension of the kitchen area room that you have readily available or by the tools that is called for to make sure food selection products. Do an analysis of the devices that you have as well as the devices that you are prepared to buy at the same time as you are intending your food selection.
Try to cater to a wide variety of preferences as well as dietary requirements preferably. You might have a separate menu section for youngsters or your food selection may consist of alternatives for vegetarians. Allergies are a worry for numerous these days so you need to have additional menu notes that personnel can describe. If they are asked by restaurants if specific meals include peanuts, eggs or various other usual components that people dislike after that they must have the ability to provide precise information. Consist of as much important details concerning these ingredients on a menu as feasible.
One wonderful suggestion is to permit your customers to have some input right into the meal that they intend to order. At the standard degree they can just be picking between french fries or a baked potato. To take it a step even more they could be selecting sauces, salad dressings, various kinds of cheeses or the intensity of flavors such as chili that may be added to the dish.
Patterns in food can alter much faster after that the majority of people think so you might wish to follow these food fads and make modifications to your food selection accordingly, to stay up to date with the times. Members of the public have actually been informed regarding cuisine by celeb chefs on TV or might be complying with the current dietary fad that is getting focus in the media such as the low-carb diet.
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Kraft (the company that makes Velveeta) has a trusted policy to disclose any allergens on their nutrition label and there are no warning that indicate that Velveeta cheese contains any gluten ingredients. Furthermore, the gluten-free and celiac community is in agreement that Velveeta should be considered gluten-free. Since Velveeta is not certified Gluten-Free we cannot give it a perfect 10/10, but unless something changes, you can consider it gluten-free.


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Beautiful, level building lot conveniently located less than one mile to Route 17 (the future Route 86). Stream on property. 1009' of road frontage on Ferndale-Loomis and another 500' on Upper Ferndale. Can also be purchased with adjacent parcel S-B-L 36-1-42.1 (9.46 acres on Upper Ferndale), possible sub-divide or cluster housing.. Aerial pictures provided shows both lots. Close to Bethel Woods (12 miles east), Monticello Raceway and the new Resorts World Catskills (12 miles west/five exits/less than 10 minutes).
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A human resource organization system is an item that is used that helps the human resource head into have the ability to easily administer date for every specialist inside an affiliation. Representative information is considered as a standout amongst the most significant components of the human asset division and it is fitting to have a product framework that will help you handle such colossal measures of worker information. However the use of human resource organization programming has exhibited to have bundles of points of interest to the human resource administrator himself and the entire relationship free to move around at will.
One of the benefits of this software system is that it promotes a paperless office, we all know the HR office tends to have a lot of paperwork due to the amount of applications that are normally made hence the use of this software system ensures that there is minimal paperwork whereby the human resource manager can be able to receive applications online and store them in a CV bank which they can use later for recruitment.
It also promotes increased efficiency in that the human resource manager can be able to perform several tasks within a short period of time for example he or she can be able to process leave days for staff and at the same time do a performance evaluation for each staff thus they become more productive as opposed to a human resource manager who does not have this system in place. It also helps speed up the payroll process, there is nothing as frustrating to the human resource manager a s a manual payroll system as this means that they are required to fill in information of each and every member of staff and this is a very tedious and time consuming activity hence the use of the human resource management system ensures that the payroll task is made easy.
The human resource software system also ensures that the human resource gets more time to be able to interact with the members of staff and get to know the challenges they face when at the workplace and also be able to provide solutions that will enable them realize their potentials in the work place.
The software system also makes it easier for the human resource manager to be able to perform daily activities with ease for example they can be able to process leave applications for individual staff members, and can also be able to check the members of staff log in and log out times hence it becomes easier to calculate the amount of hours an individual has worked during the month.