alewife

[Trouthunter]

I have a question what are the size of the alewife/herring in the Fingers lakes to the ones found in Lake Ontario

[schreckstoff]

Similar sizes at a given age, but sometimes the hatch can be better in one lake than another.
 

Alewife born this summer are generally anywhere from larvae (1/2 inch) from alewife that spawned in August  or as big as  2” for the adults that spawned in late June /early July.

 

Alewife born last year are 4-5” by now.

 

A few alewife get to 10” in LO and maybe most of the Fingers. we worked up some legit 12” Alewife from Kueka a few years back. They were amazing, looked like Atlantic Ocean alewife !