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  1. Gill-T
    Love the Cayuga reports. I will be bringing my rig down there next year for a week so any reports are helpful.
  2. Gill-T
    I would look how they fish the Columbia River
  3. Gill-T
    Kings probably
  4. Gill-T
    There is no doubt steelhead eat YOY alewives in the epilimnion but compare a three year old steelhead to the size of a three year old king. The two species are on two different feeding programs.
  5. Gill-T
    Lucky they are not doing any tagging studies on steelhead because they don’t really effect alewife numbers like kings do. The reason Steve LaPan gave for doing another tagging study on kings is developing natural runs. Fish generally run where stocked. Over the years naturalized salmon runs have developed/evolved slowly. If wild fish are increasing in number, the DEC/OMNR need a figure to set stocking numbers.
  6. Gill-T
    That is the plan. They will clip or chip for a three year period I believe.
  7. Gill-T
    That is not what happened. Look at the areas Cuomo won .....he carried only the city folk. The majority of the land mass of NY voted republican.
  8. Gill-T
    I still don’t get why nobody has called Cuomo out for corruption with his aides being found guilty
  9. Gill-T
    20% of the binational agreed upon number of Kings. It is not cumulative with the other two recent cuts. Good news out of the meeting is plans to tag stocked kings on both sides of the pond to get a handle on natural reproduction figures. Atlantic Salmon and Lake Trout stocking figures are not increasing.
  10. Gill-T
    Browns walleyes and lake trout sharing same water. Be aware of season dates for each species. With a warm December, kings can show up off the fort if smelt come in early.
  11. Gill-T
    And once again the Republican Party keeps giving us duds as candidates ...time to start a new party. “Which corrupt politician should I vote for?” should not be our choice.
  12. Gill-T
    I fish Erie and Ontario so the down imaging will be used for ontario spring brown shoreline trolling and erie perch and walleyes on the reefs. I look forward to having a functioning GPS as my Lowrance GPS puck crapped out after 2 years. Ten years of fishing without a GPS tells me this is probably the least important feature in the equation but a GPS will certainly help stay on an offshore pod of fish. Can't wait to play with next years three year olds!
  13. Gill-T
    Just purchased a Helix 9 with mega and down imaging. I am happy to report that the owners manual is not 150 pages like my Lowrance LCX that it replaced.
  14. Gill-T
    My anecdotal evidence suggests what Brian is proposing. My boat was catching 25-40 kings per day in May, all above 40’ down over mid to deep water, all with adult alewives in their stomachs. My leadcore got wore out. The adult alewife population was out of deep winter pattern early this year. Bottom trawlers may have missed a good portion of the population.
  15. Gill-T
    I think the issue is do we need MORE cuts in the face of scientific and anecdotal evidence. We had two recent rounds of cuts. Do we really need more???
  16. Gill-T
    This bears repeating because I keep hearing incorrect references to Lake Huron......Lake Ontario’s food web is intact. The reason you saw THE BIGGEST ALEWIFE HATCH ever recorded just two years ago was a mild winter and a food web to support baitfish numbers.
  17. Gill-T
    Rollie nobody is anti-DEC here. Wrong usage of words. Just having a lively debate. If your job relied on the fishery, I would guess your tune would be slightly different.
  18. Gill-T
    Pardon me....... do you have any Gray Poupon?
  19. Gill-T
    The significance of Atlantics is they need hatchery space and kings look like are getting the short straw.
  20. Gill-T
    So I think it is safe to assume that with 20% cuts to kings AND the total number of salmon/trout being the same at 2.7 million, that they are making room for more Atlantics or more Lake Trout or both. Shameful if true.
  21. Gill-T
    Natural reproduction is a function of amount of returning adults, trib fishing pressure, and trib water conditions. Decisions on stocking numbers as it relates to the effect of naturals, should occur AFTER the success of the spawn is completed and analyzed. Water temps are warm right now and the three year old class is weak. Unless the Canadian runs show different, we should not have much natural reproduction this year IMO. The Niagara is 69 degrees.
  22. Gill-T
    Considering the sails are up.....you know who will get the citation
  23. Gill-T
    Just make sure you are safe from carbon monoxide. Nice project.
  24. Gill-T
    I agree. You targeted way too deep for staggers and for silvers you may have been too shallow.
  25. Gill-T
    No stretch with wire. Keep drag on the loose side esp. on the initial runs.
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