Tim Bromund

We're in the home stretch guys, getting close to another sell out,less than 10 seats remain for what promises to be one of the best Salmon Schools we've ever hosted. 

 

If you're on the fence, best jump in while you can.

 

Tim

 

www.lotsa1.org

We still have some seats available, but the room is filling up. For those that don't know, our main website is offline (problem on our web hosting service's end), but registrations can take place at our backup site http://www.lotsa1.org

Tim.

Now perhaps it was just hearsay, but I was always under the impression that these carp need big, free flowing rivers at least 50 miles long for their eggs to successfully gestate and hatch.  That is why they do so well in the Mississippi River system (and tributary rivers).  Rivers of those dimensions and characteristics are few and far between in the Great Lakes Basin, so even when they get here, I'm not sure that they will be able to reproduce significantly.

 

Perhaps my information is wrong, but if that is in fact, the case, this "crisis" may be overblown.

 

Don't sell the boats just yet guys, this situation is far from played out.

 

Tim

OK The alternate site http://www.lotsa1.org is now updated and functional.  We are able to take Salmon School Registrations and LOTSA Marketplace Table Registrations at that address.

 

Tim

Our LOTSA website went down yesterday evening. I don't know how long that will be down, I'll have the alternate site at lotsa1.org up to date and fully functional this evening. My apologies for any difficulties this glitch may have caused.

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The only invasive that I'm worried about is the tigers they are stocking :) way way too many !!!!

Yeah, but as a sterile hybrid, their populations are more easily controlled.

Lol, I take offense to that, I love catching walleye. I think most trolling gear is overkill for them. Bottom bouncing with medium action rods can be a blast.

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Guys,

 

This is going out, or has already gone out to the media via Bill Hilts and Niagara Co tourism.  Very nice write up and after a couple powwows with our presenters, I think this is shaping up to be one of the best Schools we've ever hosted.  Check it out.  Don't wait too long we're already well over half full and I wouldn't be surprised if we sell out before too much longer.  The registrations close at 150 people.

 

http://nysowa.org/salmon-school-gives-in-depth-training-at-greater-niagara-fishing-outdoor-expo/

 

Tim

It's a wonder everyone survived it ......

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Bags aren't bad once you get the ropes adjusted properly.

Tim to get the $58 a night you have to book online on expedia I believe the site is? I talked to the hotel yesterday and the cheapest they offer direct is $72 a night. Just an FYI for everyone.....

Travelocity.com and Hotels.com as well.

Yes you can. Probably overkill, but since walleye are no fun to catch anyway......

Also check out the theead on here about the salmon school hotel. Quality Hotel and suites has rooms for $58 a night and is literally across the street from the event center.

Where exactly is this place, I would really like to come up for that. The tickets are $8.00 for admission. This does not include the salmon school correct? So is there enough stuff to occupy a man for 3 days? I would really like to see the items that you can only get from the folks that devote their heart and sole to the Great Lakes!! Thanks for any help. Ps where is a good place to stay. PAP

Pap, apart from the Salmon School there are over a hundred free 1 hour seminars pretty much running continually throughout the three days of the show, on a wide variety of topics. The seminar schedule is listed on the expo's website.

Tim

Yes, right across the street from the Event Center.

I just did the same for the same rate.  I've stayed at this hotel the past several years and have had no complaints at all.  Plus the ladies behind the hotel bar are smoking hot

 

Tim

How about Sasquatch Scott? I read it on the internet so it has to be true.

Not to mention the fact that Bobo has seen them.

Sorry for the late announcement on this guys, I've been crazy busy lately.

 

On Saturday January 23rd the Lake Ontario Trout & Salmon Association (LOTSA) is once again hosting its Salmon School.  This highly successful School, in its 9th year, boasts six hours of instruction  taught by three expert Charter Captains; Pete Alex (Vision Quest-Port of Wilson, NY), Pete Lahosky (Prime Time-Port of Oswego, NY) and George Freeman (Free Style Charters-Port of Ludington, MI).

 

These three Captains have very successful Charter businesses along with a proven tournament track record of high placement over many years. They are a much diversified set of instructors and will provide a class full of insights and details that no one single instructor would be able to provide. They are all skilled educators with significant experience giving Seminars over the years. Each brings their own unique set of skills and knowledge to the class. Given the depth of the knowledge base of these instructors and their proven ability to educate Anglers, we expect this School to be the most comprehensive, in depth, information packed event ever presented at the LOTSA Salmon School.

 

for more information and to register for the School, please visit the LOTSA Website at www.lotsa.org

 

 

No Jerry I was not aware of that but .....still stick to my statement MPH is MPH.

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no, it is completely relative and you need to figure out what the numbers are on the unit you are running.  The actual speed is very likely not what any of them are displaying, but the number itself is irrelevant as long as you can repeat the number that is catching fish.

 

If you are getting speed data from someone with a FH and you run a Moor or DR, you will be screaming way too fast if you try to match their reported speed.

 

Tim

Scottys, best releases on the market, IMO.

NEW YORK NEEDS TO GET BETTER EGGS FROM SALMON FROM ALASKA. THE SALMON WE ARE GETTING NOW DO NOT HAVE THE GENES TO PRODUCE LARGE FISH LIKE IT USE TO.

 

Without getting into a biology/genetics lesson,  Eggs from Alaskan fish won't work.  There's a reason the Tule Strain of Chinooks  from the Columbia River Basin were selected for the Great Lakes.

I always look for 42 deg for the bottom of my spread. Everything else is above that, but i always have at least one line down in the ice water. Most of my bigger kings over the years have come out of the cold water.

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Ahhh!  I remember catching my first Lake Ontario salmonid, a coho, in the warm current of Russel's Station.. I get a tear in my eye every time I drive past that closed plant that use to have fishermen there 365 days a year. When the samonid fishery took off; each spring 1000's of boats (99% 18' and under) caught plenty of football browns, cohos,  lakers and steelhead.  Catching of chinooks was spotty. A trip with 2 kings was unheard of until September came around and people caught them at the pier heads. Dick Schleyer came up with an idea to have a fishing derby in the spring where the grand prize was a boat bigger than 99% the boats out there. On those four days each morning had vehicles with trailers lined up onto Rt 18 at Olcott, onto the parkway waiting to launch at Black North Inn, A couple marina launches at Rochester and Sodus. But where where those kings.Everybody those other species and took them in to the weigh stations to get those door prizes. I think it was Ed Rowan that won the first boat and he caught it out of Bald eagle. That port also got winners the next few years. There was something about that west end and catching kings. So much so that a rift formed between the east end and the west end. Henderson (Bill Saiff) even went to have a derby with NO king category.  The early years no one could catch kings consistently. I remember even going out with Vinnie off shore in the night to see if we could catch kings in the summer. The real turning point in king fishing came when Northern King developed the NK 28. The rest is history. Catches of 100's of pounds of kings in the summer was common until the crash. The crash that started with an ocean boat dumping his ballast tanks and releasing the zebra mussel. Those were the days   

 

Crash??

Odd, they've been very responsive every time I contacted them.

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