Cayuga Public Service Anouncement

[rustyrat]

Commercial Fishing vessel placing nets in various places in the lake. The one I know of is directly in front of my house.

King Ferry area. It is buoyed but it small. Avoid those nets with your trolling gear.

RR

[bandrus1]

what they fishing for?

[rustyrat]

Saw Bellies, Mooneyes or what ever you want to call them.

[bandrus1]

interesting! maybe they can sell me some!

[SettinRecords915]

Are you sure they are commercial fishing? DEC have been gill netting fish down by taganouck for eggs and what not.

[rustyrat]

Its not the DEC. Its a tug boat, rather large. No markings on it.

[lyteline14]

The DEC is doing a survey.They say that nets will be pulled today...Rusty,they described their boat as "weathered aluminum" with twin outboards....

[hermit]

Yeah the DEC does the egg collection later in the year, a survey makes more sense in August.  Pretty interesting to see what they bring up, I've sat and watched with binoculars at Taughannock before.

[rustyrat]

I stand corrected. Boat looked like an old tub!

Carry on!

[rustyrat]

Yep. Wife just called and they are pulling the nets now!

[Adk1]

yeah, I am sure DEC is utilizing some else's boat for the project, happens frequently.

[Lil Jake]

They had a net right at the tip of Long Point this morning at 0600 that I didn't see until is was nearly on top of it. It was gone by noon but they really should use more than a red milk jug to mark them. With the smallest of chop it was tough to see out there

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[flyrod2]

Cayuga Lake Lake Trout netting – Sampling is underway to assess relative abundance, condition, and lamprey wounding rates of Lake Trout in Cayuga Lake. Data will be analyzed and summarized later this year but observations to date indicate that the Lake Trout population remains high, all trout and salmon caught appear to be in excellent condition, and very few fish have lamprey fresh scars.

Hope this helps and yes they had a small older looking trawler I think blue and white.They were out most of last week.