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Lakers live long, eat a ton of alewives and eat all day long. Ever have a king spray poop all over your boat like a sprinkler? Not usually. Lakers eat and eat and eat. Think about it this way, kings die at 2-4 years old. The life span of lakers is way longer. No one is keeping them or even fishing them for that matter. If the lake trout population climbs, there is going to be more predation on alewives. If the alewive population drops, they will cut stocking. The thinking that lakers eat more of a diverse diet is true BUT they eat a ton of alewives. I find gobies dominate a lakers diet in the early spring BEFORE the bait comes in to shore from wintering deep in the lake. Once the bait shows up, the alewive numbers blow away the numbers of gobies in a lake trouts diet. Most days, you will not find lakers on the bottom unless there are alewives hovering above. They follow the schools of alewives around and eat when they want to. Areas that are not holding much bait, you will find some lakers but not good numbers. I have seen as many as 29 alewives in the stomach of a laker (22lb laker I fileted working on Advocate charters in 2006). When was the last time you found that many alewives in a 22lb king?

1. It has nothing to do with NYC or the capital district 2. The feds foot the bill for the raising of Lake Trout. My issue with the bottom trawl is weather. Every year is different. This year, the lake did not get below 42 degrees in the core of the lake. The lake warmed quicker and bait was inshore very early this year (we see it in our intakes at work). Can the YOY alewives be inside or outside the trawling depths depending on the weather? The year classes of YOY alewives that seem to be missing were showing up in the stomachs of fish this spring that I fileted and in our intake at work. I saw more 2" and less alewives than big ones early this spring. If they are going to jam lakers down our throats, we need to step it up and fish them and keep them. No one keeps them and their population keeps continuing to grow. Even through the stocking short falls, the lake trout population continued to grow. Now that they have added 300,000 more, it is going to explode. Fishermen can control the laker population. They are the easiest species to pin point day in and day out all season long.

Yes. My cell number is on the topic for the Shootout.

The amount you fish out of Sandy Jeremy, you should slip your boat.

What do you want for free? The launch is the reason I slip my boat.

That's for sure Billy. People have no idea how good it is.. What other port has the diverse fishery that Sandy has right out front? We also have some of the best structure on the lake within a couple miles each way out of port.

Sandy is no hotter than the river. There are just more reports. I have been getting Rochester reports daily and they are the same as Sandy. It is cranking at the Oak too.

Catch it in a have a heart trap and take it to the local Chinese restaurant. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United