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Good stuff as always!

Good stuff

Vote them all out. Term limits should be an amendment in the constitution for all positions including Supreme Court https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/house-report/2/1

Right. You have a point there. If a business does illegal activities and does not collect taxes from customers and submit those taxes to the state then they would not be contributing to the fund as intended.

Captain Obvious moment: Your competitors pay the same tax. It is all relative and goes to better the industry you are serving with your product.

It’s a federal tax. It goes to Washington and they allocate the money to the states to make sure it goes to outdoor stuff. It is earmarked. As the money pools, it has to be used. This why you are seeing NYS buying large tracts of land recently. There have some great pieces that recently have been bought that are absolute gems for hunting. The DEC will be adding more in the near future. These purchases are listed on the DEC websites and have public announcements in newspapers. If you are paying attention, these tracts (previously private) are ripe with targets.

Close your eyes and picture a world where we would have to lobby every year to have money budgeted for fish stocking, pheasant programs, DEC funding, lamprey spraying, creation of WMA’s or state game lands etc etc. It is game over if we allow non-hunting/fishing/conservation minded people to have control over the funding of these activities through the general fund. This is an anti-hunting/fishing bill.

This only tells part of the story. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittman–Robertson_Federal_Aid_in_Wildlife_Restoration_Act

It would be good to hear from Bill Hilts on this one.

Brian, research everything the fund pays for. These monies are for the outdoor pursuits and the politicians can’t get their grubby hands on it. Cuomo illegally tried and got slapped. You like state land? You like boat launches? You like fish stocking programs? This fund touches everything we do.

This bill would destroy hunting and fishing as we know it in America. Republicans need to get their heads out of their ass now as we need a sane Republican Party now more than ever. This latest move is friekin head scratcher. Please everyone on this site would be negatively affected if this passes so send an email to your representative to squash this bill.

I hear ya. I can’t troll down right now with my I/O since new carb installed. I can get her down to 2.7 downspeed trolling with the down current so I have been having to use heavier spoons like Moonshines to make it work. It stinks not being able to fish the way you want.

How are you liking the new boat?

The “lava lamp effect”

200,000 stocked has been and continues to be a paltry amount that will continue to yield a run of maybe a few hundred fish. A nothingburger. IMO at this point the only semi-consistent “run” has been on the Salmon River. All plants should go in the Salmon if the fisheries managers want to create something. Having fishermen targeting Atlantics in skinny water like Iron-creek does not make conservation sense. Oak Orchard has too much warm frog water for spawning success. If you are going to do it right, build another building at Altmar and use some river water mixed with well water for imprinting and then stock them at the mouth.

So when winter comes and the alewives go to the bottom in 400’ stripers would probably starve. They might live on the abundance of trash fish in the lower Niagara but I wouldn’t put money on it. For awhile I thought the DEC stocked hybrids in the Niagara. They were a ton of fun but that was a different time when emeralds teemed in the river. They may have also been giant white bass (three pounds) …too young during the 80’s to know the difference.

With the restrictions placed on the king fishery, the West Coast should be bumped down to #2 IMO. Also, ask an Alaskan fisherman how many times they caught 20 kings in an outing. The gap may be further than you think.

After the NE winds Saturday, she rolled again. I can’t believe we are dealing with rollovers in July. The inside water was frigid and supper chalky today. Best water was offshore. We found kings of all year classes and steelhead in good numbers. Thermocline was only down 45’

I wonder if that Sturgeon died from temp shock

Did the water roll by you? The NE winds Saturday made it frigid inside in Niagara County. Had to fish over 500’ today.