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  1. Tim,
    just and idea if you could included that letter so member's here could sign it in agreement, and say you got 50% to sign then maybe they would acknowledge something needs to be done 
    Scott


    Here is the letter I sent:

    US Fish and Wildlife Service

    RE: PROPOSED MANAGEMENT OF DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANTS:

    I am writing on behalf of the Lake Ontario Trout and Salmon Association. We are an organization of over 500 members in 9 US States and 2 Canadian Provinces. We strongly support the implementation of the proposed rule allowing States to manage cormorant populations.

    Here in NYS, Double Crested Cormorant populations have exploded on both Lake Ontario and Lake Erie due to the inability of our local NYSDEC officials to effectively manage Cormorant populations within our borders. Over the last decade, we have seen devastating predation in all parts of our Great Lake Waters of both stocked and wild gamefish, as well as the baitfish they prey upon. We have witnessed entire beach stockings of thousands of game fish such as brown trout decimated by hundreds of Cormorants at the time and point of release.

    The Cormorants also prey heavily on alewife in the spring when they are in the lake shallows engaged in their annual spawning activities. Alewife and emerald shiner populations in both Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and the Niagara River are currently at dangerously low levels and cannot sustain the additional stress the excessive Cormorant populations place on them.

    Double Crested Cormorant populations are out of control and in addition to the devastation they are wreaking on both bait and game fish, the large colonies of nesting cormorants and the volume of waste generated at those sites are destroying the local ecology in those areas.

    Double Crested Cormorants desperately need to be managed and the State Agencies are best suited to enact effective management strategies.

    Thank you, we appreciate the opportunity to provide input on this important issue.

    Sincerely,

    Timothy Bromund
    LOTSA Corresponding Secretary




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  2. You hear these stories up and down the lake. It's sad the DEC hasn't stepped up and done something to combat this. All that hard work, time, and money put into these fish and they just toss them in.


    It’s out of their hands, cormorants are protected at the federal level. We tried last year to get them to allow hunting of them, or at the very least, some sort of control measures to control their numbers. As the Corresponding Secretary of LOTSA, I sent a letter to USFWS asking for some relief, but nothing came of it.


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  3. 3 hours ago, emtystringer said:

    Do you drop the out drive into the tub and run a hose to the muffs to recirculate the anti freeze or just run it out to the ground

     

    You use the propylene glycol non toxic marine antifreeze in boat engines, not ethylene glycol car anti freeze. So yes you can safely pump it onto the ground, By the time you've pumped 5 gallons of prop glycol through the engine all of the water has been displaced and you just leave the block filled with it til the next time you start the engine.

  4. On 1/20/2020 at 2:36 PM, garrymny said:

    Looks like he is indicted, not convicted. Less presume innocent until proven guilty. This is what I would expect for myself, and anyone else in this country. We've seen too many cases of high profile folks being assumed guilty before proven guilty. Patience. Let the facts be what they may once it comes to trial.

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    well, he has a history, soooooooooo.
     

     

  5. On 12/23/2019 at 5:49 PM, Low Baller said:

    Learn something new every day. Thanks for the info. I never knew smelt were the invasives. Always thought it was the alewife.

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    Both are invasive, they just came in during different time periods and avenues.  If I remember my history correctly (it's been a while), smelt came in with the Erie Canal and Alewife came in with the St Lawrence Seaway.

  6. On 10/3/2019 at 6:23 PM, spoonfed-1 said:

    I just talked to a friend of mine who put on the 2116's years ago. He never had the condensation issue but has replaced the counters in all four after three seasons. When he bought his they had no power switch. The new counters have a power button so you can turn them off when not in use. He said he paid about $50.00 for each counter. I think I'll stick with my old 1116's. Thanks for the info as I never heard about the counter problems until now.

     can't go wrong with either, I own both and have no complaints with either.  But then, I haven't had a boat in the water since 2013 , but I've owned Scottys since 2002 or so.

     

    Tim

  7. On 10/24/2019 at 4:23 AM, rolmops said:

    I'm curious as to how you will accuse the Governor of letting the lake level drop too far if he lowers it now the way you want to.

    It pays to be informed before loudly expressing the mood you are in. Just for fun you should check the amount of water being released now.

    I know of a politician, whom you may have voted for, who would probably try to sell all the water in the lake after promising you that he would protect the lake.

     

     

  8. 11 hours ago, rolmops said:

    I'm curious as to how you will accuse the Governor of letting the lake level drop too far if he lowers it now the way you want to.

    It pays to be informed before loudly expressing the mood you are in. Just for fun you should check the amount of water being released now.

    I know of a politician, whom you may have voted for, who would probably try to sell all the water in the lake after promising you that he would protect the lake.

     

     

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  9. On 10/13/2018 at 2:11 PM, rolmops said:

    In one of the meetings with the DEC Steve Lapin(?spelling) mentioned that increased pen raised salmon has a dramatic effect for better survival and these salmon do tend to stay closer to their pen river. At the same time he said that increasing the number of pen raised fish , will lower the the other stocking numbers in order to keep a proper balance in the water. He also said that he does not mind giving more fish for the pens as long as he can lower the other regular stocking accordingly.

    The regular stocked fish does not have a home river because they never were in a river when they smolted and chances are that they will go to the water where they were spawned, but they have no reason to return to or stay near their stocking river. On the other hand the pen raised fish does.

    I think that you western guys  should ask for more pen raising stock and accept the resulting decrease of fish of regular stocking that will swim away anyway. Overall,you would be better of.

    Did you ever think of putting pens in the Niagara river thereby creating a west end natural reproduction river not unlike the east end salmon river ?

    There have been pens in the Niagara since the origination of the Pen projects.

  10. 1 hour ago, rolmops said:

    That is very true. We have much the same problem on the east end where we have to wait until the middle of June for the Salmon to show up in good numbers

    True, but the difference is, your issue is based on water temp and is uncorrectable. Ours can be improved with modified stocking strategies.

     

    Particularly since half of the lake's charter fleet, and recreational fleet spends their spring parked down here in Olcott and Wilson filling their boxes with salmon.  I don't blame them for that, gotta go where the fishing is good,  but the simple fact is, there are a ton of fish taken out of the system out of the west end every spring and early summer, so when the migratory fish start heading home in mid August, we typically have very few of our resident fish left to stage and run and our fishing essentially flatlines in late August, unless you want to run offshore and chase 2 year olds. I'm just thinking that a revised stocking strategy might be able to correct some of that. It wouldn't really affect the fall east end fishing all that much with all of the wild fish that slam into the Salmon River every fall.

     

    Just my opinion.

  11. On 9/28/2018 at 9:51 AM, rolmops said:

    20% sounds like a lot, but natural reproduction will probably be up this season, because the spawning salmon are well fed this year. The controlled stockings are less significant every year.


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    Unless you fish the west end of the lake when our fish typically disappear in mid August as they head east.

  12. wrap of electrical tape on the spool for me.  1000 feet perfectly fills the spool on my Daiwa SG47 LC's.  Don't forget the first time you take them out to fish with, before you start using them, you want to take them out over deep water and let the entire spool out with a heavy weight (I use a 1 lb lead ball) and reel it back in to make sure the wire is spooled tight enough on the reel, line winders wont get it tight enough and the wire will dig into itself and bind up with the first screaming king you hook up on.  Been there, done that, no fun.

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