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Lampreys off Oswego
Kingme2Go replied to cnyh2ofowler's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
Nope. They missed one year in 2020 on both sides of the lake due to Covid and government travel restrictions. They treated all in Ontario in 2021 and some in New York in 2021 according this DEC document. https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/lofapminutes41123.pdf Laziness had nothing to do with it. I'm grateful for the hard work they do. -
Sodus tomorrow
FishingNYS replied to FishingNYS's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
On the water. 1 for 3. A swing and a miss. Next one was 60' down on rigger. Same with the next one but got wrapped in my dipsey line and broke the cheater line. Dead after 9 am. Can't buy a bite -
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Lampreys off Oswego
schreckstoff replied to cnyh2ofowler's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
New lamprey spawning sites develop and weather constantly messes with treatments effectiveness. If you want to help, you might consider making region 7 and Cape Vincent bios & managers aware you are observing above average small lamprey on Mexico Bay-Oswego BT this spring. RE: lazy control teams - in my 15 years I’ve observed Lk Ont DFO lamprey control field teams to be among the hardest working and most dedicated in the Great Lakes. US and CA field teams of all types were ready to work in 2020 but were ordered to ‘stand down’. Administration risk tolerance, not field crew effort-desire, caused the treatment pause. -
Smart Troll System review for tracking divers (video)
digitroll replied to digitroll's topic in Tackle and Techniques
The first Lake Ontario Bar experiment with the Smart Troll was very productive! Our 4 wire program took 80% of our 105 bites over 6 days totaling 47.5 hours washing lures. Using our Fishhawk Ultra with the depth at the probe with the other Smart troll probes on our wires let us dial in our presentation once we establish temperature and depth of the probes working unison together. We started out spacing things apart until we get bit and then make adjustments based on those hits. Dealing with currents and changing boat direction in waves helped us keep our lures in the active zone the fish were biting. Speed at the ball with our Fish Hawk helped us maintain that bite also when turning around with waves. We added .5 miles per hour going west with the current to keep our lures dancing. Other things that helped was when we had a knock off on the wire or a small fish that didn't trip (rare) we could see on the display the depth go up from it being tripped or dragging a small fish long before watching the rods. We also were looking for 45-47F at the wire depths as well as the rigger to keep us in the action. Surface temp was 50-54F by the end of the week. I feel it added more fish to our catch overall by drilling it down quickly and having accurate data and depth. -
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SchultzFishingTeam Outdoor replied to greenhornet73's topic in Waterfowl / Bird Game
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will steelhead and browns go as deep as kings?
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Kauto988 replied to Kauto988's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
Bump can’t get pictures to upload rods are in great shape most of the riversiders haven’t even been used in Oswego for May -
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Lampreys off Oswego
cnyh2ofowler replied to cnyh2ofowler's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
These are all small lampreys, must have come out of their larval stage recently. I would have thought if they resumed treatment in 2022, these would’ve been killed. I have fished the lake for 49 years and the only other time I have seen them like this is when we fished the bubble off the oil plant in Oswego for browns in the late 70’s. -
Oswego tips
PD Buoy replied to kcr66's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
A friend of mine texted me this morning that he boxed out on browns by 8 am. yesterday boxed out on salmon in the deeper water as mentioned by cnyh2. He is out of catfish creek. Good time to be fishing Mexico Bay !! Good luck, we will be there all next week. Tight lines everybody. -
Lampreys off Oswego
Great_Laker replied to cnyh2ofowler's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
In Lake Ontario (both US and Canada shores) Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) treats tributaries for sea lamprey. COVID shut down the border and the Sea Lamprey Control Center (DFO) could not treat US tributaries of Lake Ontario because they could not cross into the U.S.. Lamprey wounding increased quite a bit during those years but started to decline in 2023 according to lake wide assessments. Sea lamprey are only in their parasitic adult life stage for about a year so changes should be pretty rapid once treatments resumed. -
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Give it a shot. Thanks for the tip
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Good news is two years ago the amount of skippy kings was insane. Felt bad pulling riggers and dipsy rods with dead skips on them. Now those same skips are 10-18 lbs and they’re out there in numbers. Never seen this kind of numbers of quality fish. Not trophies but still fun to catch. So weird to be fishing deeper than 100 foot of water in April or May, not complaining.
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But there were some which may be the few bigger fish . And how big were the avg returning 3 year olds ? Probably those 18 to 23 # fish . Or so I would guess .
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2022 NYSDEC Lake Ontario Unit Annual Report Suprisingly 3 years olds were the biggest returners to the hatchery . 4 year olds were 1%.
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Oswego tips
cnyh2ofowler replied to kcr66's topic in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)
Look for the salmon in 50 to 200 feet of water. Glow in the morning UV when the sun gets high. -
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