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    Congrats Anthony and team!
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    I have a buddy that is looking for 2 hand crank cannons. How much are you asking?
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    Depending on how you care for them or cook them they are a touch better.
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    After last nights trip, I can tell you the fishing hasn’t improved much. The alewife die off is still in full swing too.
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    Dave, Which is it? If they are not counting them towards the Lake Ontario allotment, how come you said earlier this below. This decision isn’t entirely due to finding wild trout. DEC doesn’t stock brown trout in any Lake Ontario tributary below an impassable barrier. Why? Because they’d have to count those fish against the allotment to Lake Ontario. They pulled the brown stocking for a summer fishery on the Salmon River four years for this reason and this decision is now completing the Lake Ontario stocking policy.
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    Without a tagging program or fin clipping study on wild fish, this is BS. They have no idea if those wild fish even make it to Lake Ontario….. Piss poor management in my opinion. With browns eating a lot of gobies, is the small population of wild browns that possibly make it to Lake Ontario from Irondequoit creek going to make a big difference? The number of wild fish that possibly reach Lake Ontario probably doesn’t even make up for the browns stocked near my work that get decimated by cormorants every year.
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    BW Customs in Sodus
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    Dave, Less spawning browns, less natural reproduction. There will be fewer browns in the creek to catch and fewer to spawn. It's simple mathematics. No one cares if they are wild or stocked. People just want to catch fish. Taking fish out of the system is what people care about.
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    Is it really about stocked browns vs. natural reproduction browns? Thats the question I would like to hear the answer too. Is it a smoke and mirrors campaign to make Irondequoit Creek another Atlantic Salmon spawning habitat?
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    I heard the same team that caught the 29.4 caught a 26 too!
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    If these browns would have to be counted toward the Lake Ontario stockings, shouldn't they prove that these fish are leaving the tributary for the lake? Has a tagging study been done to see if they even leave? Weird timing that the browns are being cut, steelhead are being cut and 4K Atlantics being added to the creek. To me it sounds like it's being done for the Atlantic salmon project instead of wild brown trout populations and the steelhead fishery....... Low numbers of Browns and Steelhead in I Creek, Atlantics will have less competition for spawning habitat, better chances of spawning, reproducing and fry survival. Think of all the Atlantic fry and smolts that would be gobbled up with browns and steelhead on the feed in the creek.
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    Anyone know what he caught it on?
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    2 more cutting boards for sale.
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    Congrats Mike! Good job getting the young guns into some fish!
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    Congrats guys!
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    The lamprey population getting closer to being in check is the reason fish are getting bigger IMO.
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    Seems like this strain doesn't like inshore waters in late April / May!
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    Conesus was horrible this winter.
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    Lower Brown trout minimums and RAISE the lake trout minimum. 14lb lakers getting weighed in early on in the derby is a waste.
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    Depending on the wire you use, you may need a little. I use Malin 7 strand and it fits perfect with no backing.
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    You’re a little high. 6 people, 4 hrs is 900 ish for most reputable captains. 4 people is around 600ish. Go to Florida and they get $1000 +.
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    After expenses, time, gear, a big enough boat, maintenance, ect. captains do not make a lot of money. It's hard work and not a ton of monetary reward. I don't know of a charter captain that charges $1,000 for a 4 hour trip on Lake Ontario for 1-4 people. Price out a 27' or bigger boat, calculate the payment, get an insurance quote, figure out the cost of ALL of the gear, price out fuel for 120 trips a year, calculate paying slip and storage fees, calculate your time, paying a mate, paying for healthcare, retirement, and calculate maintenance costs, Tell me if you would be happy with the wage you are making. I have sat down and looked at these figures as a part time job. I chose to build tackle instead of chartering. It is not worth it unless you charge what these guys are charging and do a lot of trips a year. I give the fulltime captains and serious parttime captains a lot of credit. There are easier ways to make money, yet they choose to continue to charter. They constantly have to compete with hack captains that under cut their prices and give clients a crappy time on the water. It's easy to sit and judge when we are weekend warriors that run smaller boats with kickers or small outboards, but in reality, it shows that we don't have a clue what it costs to run a SUCCESSFUL and PROFITABLE charter business.
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    The fishing overall now blows away 30 years ago as far as numbers are concerned. As for salmon size, the fish now are nothing like 30 years ago. The East end lakers filled the board because a couple of guys targeted them. A couple of us did that in the 2012 Fall LOC and Dave took the Lake Trout division out of the LOC.
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    I love seeing these young kids doing what we did when we were young! There aren’t many left like Billy’s kids and Manny! I wish I could turn back the clock! 6 hours in the kayak yesterday and I’m am beat!
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    Congrats Rick and Craig!
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