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DEC is going nuts trying to figure out how to get rid of the walleye, since they're impacting the trout fishery. Unlike Owasco, there's no alewives in SkinnyAssless, so the walleye have fun loving freely. I think there was a recent article, maybe in NY Sportsman?

Availability? What availability lol? It's just crazy how busy things are, all the time. Self-inflicted wounds though -- ie, headed to ADK for a week of climbing and paddling soon. And don't even talk to me about treestands or clearing shooting lanes. I think that we are in the midst of some strange astrophysical time compression thing.

You were planting no till into buckwheat for a few years...what was the final take on that? Continued or moved on? We should really hook up for property tours, being so close to each other.

Pretty sure I recognize that guy...

We run a bunch of them, as well as Moultrie. Make sure that you set them up at home and verify that they work as advertised. I had one that needed to be replaced in the first year. It only took three months and two trips to their headquarters lol. I'm also a big fan of running them off external 10 Ah lithium batteries (Nermark on Amazon is ~$45). Lithium AA are expensive, and these cameras eat them. Buy once, cry once. Be aware that you need smaller connector cable than for many other brands (Tactacam takes 4 x 1.7 mm connectors, while Moultrie takes 5.5 x 2.1 mm). The cheap, gasketed Plano field boxes can be had for less than $10. This setup will last you all season (remember: protect the cord from critters with corrugated electric conduit). Run the wire from underneath over the camera and under a strap before going to the battery to keep it from being pulled out. Make absolutely sure you use the recommended drive 32gb Class 10 U3 sd card. Hard to go wrong with Sandisk. Finally, figure out whether your ATT or Verizon signal is better where you're hanging them, and insert the right SIM card before you get to the woods. Hey, you did ask for tips lol.

Meh. It's easier to find somewhere else to play. Big lake, lots of fish, life's too short.

This is a review article that summarizes the latest work on factors influencing lifetime reproductive success in salmonid species. It's dense but worth wading through, although oriented more toward generating progeny than spawning age (which is just one factor among many). Obviously, a complicated topic. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372082/ A recent study of Alaskan salmon in a VERY good journal suggests that the declining body size they see in their returns is driven mainly by earlier reproductive age and can be attributed at least in part to increased competition for food (you have to see the number of hatchery derived pink salmon - forget their returning to spawn every two years, the streams are littered with them on a yearly basis). It's not Lake Ontario, but similar principles should apply. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17726-z

I'm trying not to snort coffee through my nose - I found a place down in Raotan, Honduras, that looked like a decent setup for the money and was near some good flats, so I sent it to my wife, my brother and his wife to vet. My brother comes back with, "Did you click the Naturist tab?". He figured it was a joke - because the place was a nudie colony. Talk about exposure...

Paying it forward!

I wonder how much of the early reproduction is due to the kings spending generations in fresh water rather than in the salt? Does anyone know whether other transplants become reproductively mature earlier in freshwater?

That's us in fourth place with a fish Jeff caught on Nothing but Net. Heck of a year.

gill-t agreed, epigenetics good point about browns and steelhead, though the later could be thiamine related sorry single finger typing cheetos are soooo good