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The good thing is that we can expect a more lenient winter, so next spring may be the start of a good season .

Why eat a dead fish. Did you ever try to eat a live one? I did once, during my commando survival training. I really do not want to do that again.

Will you be available in Watertown on Monday morning?

Thank you guys. It is nice to know that I'm not alone.

I do believe that a huge amount of the steelhead(Thirty thousand to fifty thousand yearlings annually) is produced by the fully volunteer Credit River hatchery in Mississauga. They mark their returns and release them again. I caught quite a few Credit River marked steelies on the 26 line out of Wilson.

Currents are not a problem. We used to jig for cod 300 foot down on Stellwagen Bank with 16 ounce jigs and 50 pound power pro line with ocean current that moved at 3 to 4 mph. So the 140 foot down laker should not be hard to get to. Just use powerpro with 8 or 10 ounce sinkers with a threeway swivel about 3 foot above the sinker and a 3 foot line with a light sutton spoon or jig. Anybody who ever set up a Seth Green meat rig can probably make one to jig for lakers that deep.

I read somewhere that during the winter months most of the salmon are to the west and North of the niagara river. The Niagara river outlet and current into Lake Ontario during the winter months is too cold for the salmon to cross. Only when the water in that current warms up are the salmon able to cross it and start feeding in it.That's why usually the first salmon of the season are caught near the bar or the green can. This year and last year with the fierce cold and heavy ice cover the river water took a very long time to warm up to get to the point where salmon could cross. It was easily a month later than in other years. Possible a lot of them never crossed and stayed north of the current and the rest just started their migration and breeding pattern much later than they normally would. This and the severe cold and ice cover (ice does not allow air to mix into the water) may have caused the poor season and the late runs. Just my 2 cents

There may be a compromise between towing the cages out and releasing the fish on the spot where the cages are anchored. It should not be too hard to tow the cages into the current and releasing them there,preferably in the dark. The current will spread them and take them out while the dark will give them some shelter at least from birds. As for getting rid of the Cormorants. Careful they are protected. However,their eggs not so much. One can addle the eggs (putting a bit of oil on them so the exchange of air through the shell stops) and have a trained border collie chase the cormorants away from their roosting places. That is how we got rid of the geese in the town of Brighton,NY without killing them .

The only tournament I fished this year was the fairhaven,but for what it's worth,I paid for all three legs of the triple crown.

Would towing the cages to let's say a quarter mile out into deeper water improve their chances as far as the cormorants are concerned? And would this be a feasable action without having to fight for different numbers of stock? Or would they now become a feast for other hunters?

Is there any communication between the people who The egg DNA is constantly modified in every generation through the survival of the fittests principal. Your Alaskan summer spawner fry would not survive to reproduce because of the high summer temperatures in Upstate NY. It would be possible to import Alaskan fry every year and use this instead of Altmar products. Altmar would be used to raise this fry. It would be possible using strain mixing (but not easy) to reset their biological clock and by using artificial daylight and temperature cycles, but now you are talking big money. On the other hand, 80 pound salmon would very much increase Lake Ontario fishing popularity. Heck even the 2 year olds would be monsters. That would justify buying a new boat.

The big problem with cod in the gulf of maine in the nineties and the first years of this century was that everybody accused everybody else of destroying the stocks and nobody wanted to give an inch. Every year the DEP (Mass DEC) would come out with guidelines that were mostly showing which lobby was the most powerful and which politician had the most leverage. And then there were the Grand fathered fishing permits. The last time I fished out of Gloucester was on the first day of the gill netting season. The number of nets that had been set out between midnight and sunrise was staggering. They were all Gloucester residents nets. No big commercial fishing companies. The captain of my charter (Kevin Twomble the owner of Kayman Charters) explained this to me. He also offered me a free trip to make up for having taken me out on this day.

Time will tell. Oh by the way, I volunteered for the the pen rearing project,did you?

The Massachussetts DEP was and is controlled by politicians and lobby groups. The Ny DEC much less so. Every time we attack the DEC we expose the DEC to possible polical adventures by vote hunting opportunistic politicians. If that happens the DEC marine biology will be replaced with polical biology and in the process the lake will suffer.

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Every time the charters went out and could not find kings, they went after the lakers. Of course this influences the laker numbers. The massachussetts fisher men always said that there are plenty of cod and that their DEC was just plain wrong and/or stupid for trying to protect cod. Now the Gulf of Maine is closed because there are no cod left. Denying facts does not change them no matter how convenient that might be. So he did not say what you wanted to hear. Does that mean that it is not true?

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