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Adults have a very short lifespan the ones in the lake now will be dead next year stream treatments are the best tool there is research around attractants and repellents but it is by no means complete and there are not established protocols around using them. They show a lot of promise but lake ontario is a bad place to experiment due to its size and number of variables we very much need good conditions for a treatment this spring so we do t get consecutive large hatches and a treatment within 3 years so this year's adults spawning run doesn't produce a huge class of young

I would strongly agree with this sentiment. numbers of respectable fish with a realistic chance at an occasional beast is rare fishery and one worth appreciating

When the conditions push fish to spend an extra year in the lake you get a lot of bigger fish those years. They are well remembered because they are not common but it shows the genetics are fine for producing big fish just need the conditions to line up.

Biggest and strongest is not necessarily the "fittest" when it comes to reproductions the kings in the lake now are the results of many generations in lake Ontario and are likely a far stronger strain for the local environment than what we started with the increasing if irregular natural reproduction that occurs is a sign of that these fish still have the ability to get that big if they went 4 years till spawning it just is not common. These fish are more likely to spawn at 2. And don't let old timers fool you 40lb fish were never common. Even in the eslo the fall winner was rarely that big

Pretty much nailed it.

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it is done on large server farms. In the case of seneca they bought an old power plant and refurbed and restarted it that power is than used fully for an onsite server farm that does the bit coin mining. The concern is that the power plant discharges warm water into the outlet near the mouth. It does create a handful of local jobs to keep the plant running and does provide some property tax base for the county but the warm water is a form of polution. its a natrual gas plant and they did refurbish it to be very efficent and clean but there are still CO2 emissions. this is not as cut and dry of an issue as it might seem on the surface. There is both positive and negative associated with it. the discharge is by the mouth so it would not affect most of the spawning area depending on the species but the warm water could prevent fish from entering the stream in the first place. the list of Pros and Cons gets considerably longer on this. It is worthwhile to research on this one and form your opinion it could be an idicator of the overal direction of the state with regards to outdoor activities vs comercial activities.

Again opportunistic middle of the channel is still near the edges if pike are hungry they will eat anything so goby colors work just fine as those are also crayfish colors and smallmouth colors and rockbass colors. If pike are real active Brite colors will draw fish in from father away. I never said they don't eat goby's only that I would guess it would be a smaller part if thier diet than it is for smallmouth. Fish behavior often follows tendancys that you can use but the rules are not hard and fast the fish will try to go where there is food and try to avoid danger Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

i have no real data to back this up but i would think that since gobys prefer hard bottom and pike tend to be more weed oriented that gobys would make up less of the pike diet. that said pike are very opportunistic and will take whats available.

2 years of kings would do it probably no chance the Dec would do it but I can dream Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Once I realized how old it made me I got depressed and had to go distract myself Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Gambler only one pond? that was like 30 year's ago used to be a ton of small bass back than I would ride my bike there. When they expanded it they partially drained it heard a rumour that it killed off the fish back than I didn't know any better so I never went back always wondered if was any good again. Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I would use whichever was better for the depth I wanted to fish I like the shorter rod if I'm only fishing one diver I have 10.5 foot ugly sticks when I want to run two on a side. If I want the divers higher I'll use a #4 Chinook if I want them deeper I'll use a number 5 Sent from my XT1080 using Lake Ontario United mobile app