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When did you crack a funny??

Lucky, I think Rick was asking for Salmon River closure tongue-in-cheek as a jab at the trib guys that worked so diligently behind the scenes to change the lake creel-limit for steelhead all the while claiming “I didn’t do it”. Expect sarcasm in coming year from many lake anglers regarding tributary issues.

HBC, Randy Scott and others on the FMZ council had asked me my opinion a numbers of years back regarding ideas/recommendations to the OMNR for managing the fishery given current conditions. At play was reduced return rates of kings on the north shore and the negative effect on the charter fleet. My advise then was based on the stocking number discrepancy US vs Canadian side. If Canadians were ever going to see an increase in salmon, it better come from natural recruitment, therefore, salmon run protection measures needed to be put in place. When were the stream protections put in place? It is nice to have a working model to mimic.

Eh, Pulaski relies on the googan brigade of salmon snatchers to keep businesses open. Also, Salmon eggs are not going to eye-up until the river water temp gets into the 50’s. Let the river continue to be the place where future Great Lakes fishermen/ women are born. They have to start somewhere. With global warming, September-October runs are not going to have viable offspring produced. Catch and release-only after Nov 1st.

Ok, you are forgiven.

How old do you think he was now that you got to examine him in person?

Some classics in there.

Merry Christmas all!

Water is coming down Welland Canal.

Smelt are an invasive species. You could not make a dent in bait population via stocking alewives or smelt. If conditions are right, they will re-populate themselves. We have a boom and bust smelt population on Erie. Some years tons, some years none. I think there are periodic wanderings from Michigan + Huron that end up in Erie. We do get occasional Kings caught on Erie as proof of wandering.

Anyone have a fix on where I can get a hold on some black NBK spoon tape? Thanks.

Smelt are bottom oriented. The filtering via mussels have probably effected smelt numbers more than anything. Alewife trawls will pull up very few during the survey.

Damn, you Cayuga guys are getting my juices flowing. PM if you need a mate this winter!

Prediction....pats won’t win a playoff game and Buffalo will beat the Texans. Mad props to the “gamers” that carry the patriots to all the wins, but the writing is on the wall. Allen missed two easy throws to his tightend that would have helped. Funny how he makes the hard throws on the move when he just lets it rip. When he has the easy throws he misses. Frustrating. Great game.

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There is a pretty large catch and release-only section already on the Salmon River. There is nothing wrong with catching kings, but I would like kings to be catch and release-only stream-wide after November 1st.

Plenty of warm water still. Looks like I could go trolling offshore. https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=o&ext=vwt&type=N&hr=00

I would have liked to see less cuts on kings and more cuts on lake trout. Lake trout in Ontario can live for a decade, contributing to more alewives and smelt being eaten than a salmon that lives 2-3 years. Pray for Canadian wilds to fill in gaps.

Anti-hunting organizations love shortened seasons, point restrictions etc. Get with your neighbors and create a plan without state law involvement.

My name is Chad and I enjoy long walks in the woods.

.....made you look.

I am right behind you.

He has been in my neighborhood also. Last year he shredded a bunch of trees in neighbor’s yards. He moves around parallel to the 290.