Traveling Circus

You don't get away from the mercury by trimming away the belly and lateral lines. The other contaminants yes..... the mercury, no.

I had one of my dogs dig up some rotten fish out of the garden last fall/winter.............. WHHHHOOOOOO did that dog STINK! I was gonna kill him, but couldn't stand the smell to get close enough to do it..... I don't know what would possess a dog to try to eat something like that...... must be a hound thing.

Who were the top 10? is there a "results" post someplace?

Perhaps I mistyped...... it's not about proving who is liable, it's about preventing the next eco disaster. I think ships (foreign) are supposed to deballast their home port fresh water and reballast with salt water prior to North America fresh water entry, to prevent spreading invaders. Back in the 80's when fleas and ZM's started showing up, you think we'd have started inspecting ships in the SLR Waterway to ensure they had reballasted with salt. And prohibitively fine the ship out of any ship found with fresh water ballast. That was 30 years ago. What has this industry done to minimize the risk of contamination since the introduction of the spiny water flea? This is way over simplification, but Inspection and testing of ships ballast water should be(should have been) prioritized, and violators should be fined such that it reinforces compliance........

So the question I have yet to see answered is..... Why isn't the shipping industry held responsible for contaminating our Lakes with hundreds of invaders over the years.......???? Fleas, Gobies, Zebra Mussels, etc..... Back in the day when ZM's were introduced, I thought there would be legislation and penalties aimed at the shipping industry to prevent further invasives...... does it exist? The invaders just keep on coming.......

We fished out of Wilson yesterday, and there was a boat with a single fisherman in it, sitting right in front in 50 fow jigging......

Fished the area in front of the creek in 10 FOW from 6:30 until 8:00 PM without a hit...... decent color and temp around the creek, but no fish. At least it quit raining by then, and turned into a nice evening.

WTH? Just for grins, the Rochester bouy data for roughly the last 3 weeks.... the wind at noon on every day..... The last week has been 100% with an East component. The last 3 weeks has been roughly 80%. I can't imagine this is gonna help our fishing off Rochester.......

You'll see people fishing for perch off the East pier out of Wilson. I've never done it, but based on the numbers of fishermen, they do take some fish there.......

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I've had good luck with Garmins echo series fish finders..... but it looks like they've got a new series out.....