Fern Driftwood

Yep. On Monday we filled 6-7 pens with Kings and Steelhead at Ernst's Marina on the Oak. It was a good day. 

On 4/4/2023 Gambler said:

Yesterday while loading one of the chinook pens at the Oak a section of pipe broke loose and hundreds of salmon par spilled out on the ground. Do you think the trib guys for which there were at least a dozen just sat there and said well these are chinooks flopping around dying in the dirt let the lake guys pick them up?

No everybody scrambled to get these beautiful little fish into the water. And by the end they had all been put in and I didn’t see a single dead par laying on the surface

I’m one of those TU trib guys.  I was at the Oak on Monday with King Davy and Gambler and helped get those salmon pars off the ground and into the creek. 
you can see for yourself in the pics below how the trib guys jumped right in

On 4/4/2023 at 8:44 AM, King Davy said:

We are once again going to try and find a place to raise steelhead on the Genny. There is a keen interest from fishermen to do so. Hopefully we can work something out with a location to house the pens. DEC supports this 100% and will provide the materials to build them. And fisherman from all interests have volunteered to take care of them.

I have a keen interest in helping make this happen  - but we need a home (like Shumway) for the pens. Can somebody help make that happen?  

4 hours ago, HB2 said:

Since I  bought our cottage and got involved at Sandy about 8 years ago, I was surprised at the enthusiastic volunteer base . 

I was at a meeting where we learned about the pending creel and size limit change a few years back  . Of course there was some pushback from some of the volunteers . Sandy only has 4 pens which would be just enough for the Sandy allotment of Kings . We were going to borrow one from another port ( which will remain nameless ) but when the head of that port found out steelhead were going into it , they said no way . Kind of like taking your bar and ball and going home . I also heard that some Captains said they would kill every steelhead they caught out of spite . 

I lost a lot of respect for some people that day . 

 

Anyway , We put our steelhead pens in Sat and are getting them sometime this week.There was a Great turnout of volunteers . Next year we will take as many steelhead as we can handle . And maybe a few kings as well 😉

 

And on a side note , a lot of lake angler MF the trib guys , so why would they show up . 

 

I also heard that some Captains said they would kill every steelhead they caught out of spite . 

And on a side note , a lot of lake angler MF the trib guys , so why would they show up . 

I guess it's really NOT Lake Ontario United - more like Lake Ontario Divided.  Wow. That's very sad.

Why Chinooks only in the Genny? Why don't they do steelhead there as well?