Capt Vince Pierleoni

Nicely done! Goo Goo Dolls was a good choice for the music. Your son napping on the dash was priceless!

Its always a good sign of health to see the fat on them but Bucks load up to fortify them through the relentless breeding season. Love em and leave em until nary a one is left is how they are programmed to pursue "ready" does. Sometimes very little feeding can take place for the top end breeder bucks, and even in a healthy populations there have been many documented cases of Bucks literally "rutting to death". Congrats on your 2016 Bow buck.

I didn't look at the link, but I would see this as a positive for hunters. Long past time to turn around the movement of political correctness. Yes, beautiful whitetail deer are a gift, and they were intended to be FOOD.

Horrible decimation of fish stocks, both natural and costly yearling stocked trout. I've been told NYSDEC wanted to step up lethal control, but the brilliant federal gov threatened to sue. Of course this made NY turn tail. I've been told that our only hope is a different type of administration.

So sorry to hear. It's not fishing gear they "need", its drugs. Karma is relentless. They will get theirs.

No problem Skipper, permission granted. Safe travels on the highway.

While all this bantering is continuing, the "public comment period" is quietly drawing to a close. Sept 30th is the deadline. Email comments to: [email protected] So much misinformation floating around. This wasn't necessary when the movement started. Now, with an obviously huge alewife hatch and low warm water in the tribs it's simply wrong to consider at this time. The angling public is now removing Chinook faster than ever, evidenced by tiny returns to southshore harbors and streams. Additional Browns and Steelhead are not an option due to hatchery limitations. If we aren't careful we will have massive alewife die offs on the beaches again. An excessive alewife population benefits only the sea gulls, leads to less healthy individual alewives, and certainly retards any native species restoration effort.

I maintain my position. No cut warranted. The proof is in the south shore returns. Intelligent fishing pressure as well as predation from birds, lakers and warm water species is catching up with the Chinook population, thus no cut necessary to achieve reduced predation. Big hatches of alewives coming, and warm, low water for this years potential wild contribution.

Happy Birthday Hank!

Still some good fishing to be had. It's late this year because of the warm water. Late October will be pushing it, the mature fish will have found somewhere suitable to run and spawn by then and the offshore situation becomes sketchy mid October. Not only does the water usually "homogenize" by then, but the wind becomes much more of an issue. I think through the first week in October you should see some action and we will be there too.

Thanks Pete. Thanks to all the sponsors and to Fish USA. We are looking forward to the season ending banquet. That last event was intense and of course the Sharks did not disappoint!

That year was an anomaly. Even in the 80's, derby boards did not look like that. The official position from the DEC that year was those fish were the result of "delayed maturity"--and actually 4 year olds. Their reasoning was the bait was actually down and the Salmon needed the extra year. I actually subscribe to this, as in recent years we are seeing incredible growth rates and lots of early maturing fish. Those 8lb male dark Kings you are seeing are ONE AND ONE HALF YEARS OLD. The 14 to 16lbers? 2 1/2 yrs old. Most of this years brutes(28 plus lbs) have been 3 1/2 yrs old--the highest percentage of any population will mature in their 3rd year. This is normal for Chinook. The single biggest reason we don't see the high 30s and low 40s Kings is relentless, intelligent pressure on both sides of the fence. No one is to blame, many Chinooks fight to the death and many people desire mid sized ones for table fare. From the late 70s through the early 2000s anglers just weren't as deadly, the information network wasn't as present, and many anglers targeted trout until the Kings staged in the fall. If a young Chinny was programmed to be one of the small percentage that matures in its 4th year, it had a much better chance of making it to 4 1/2, and not cropped early as a 1,2, or 3 yr old. There are absolutely NO growth issues with Lake Ontario salmon. Just like with whitetail deer, its all about age structure.

So sorry to hear of your loss. God bless her, you and your family.