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  1. Gill-T
    The woods have been torn up with scrapes and rubs with the first hint of cooler temps. Get near those lickng branches!
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    Charter captain's fish diaries show this to be true. The Tule strain evolved in water on Washington coast that does not vary from 48-55 degrees all year. I would surmise that when water temps dip below 40 degrees there is an effect on activity levels. In the spring we don't really see Kings coming into play until the water rises to the magic mark of 40 degrees so I think that probably is the tipping point.
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    Jimski2, I would direct you to the LOLA report put out by the USGS. The food web is intact. To grow plump alewives it is the zooplankton that is key. When zooplankton drops, alewives feed on phytoplankton and their body weights suffer. Right now there is too much algae in Erie and Ontario thats why they are attempting to reduce phosphorus loading in Ohio. This is NOT a food web issue but as stated by biologists, a back-to-back historically cold winter issue. The food available to alewives is seasonal in its availability. If winter stays too long and delays the spring bloom, alewives starve. They starved and washed up on the beaches in the spring even when the lake was plankton soup in the 70's and 80's. This is a short term hiccup only, not the sky falling.
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    You put a jig down you may catch anything.....including out-of-season Lakers. It just means you can't keep them.
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    It could have been only 4" off target. Quartering away with the head down feeding. The shot was yanked or deer moved and the arrow glanced off the ribs and into the neck. My brother had a similar case with an eight pointer but the arrow glanced off the ribs and luckily spined the deer.
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    I don't think their winter coats are in with the warm weather
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    Apparently deer don't like new camo blind smell LOL . I noticed the blind smelled like a cross between a child's rubber gorilla toy made in China and an oil refinery. Then I started thinking about it ........of course deer are scared of camo blinds as who else would be hiding in camouflage blind but a hunter! I need a giant Trojan deer blind to hide in.
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    Nobody should argue that there is not enough alewife in the lake. However, our fish finders don't tell us the age of the bait balls below us. For this reason I can't argue with their data. With emerald shiner and smelt numbers down the pressure could become too great on the alewive population and the resulting imbalance would take longer to reverse. We need to take our medicine now and chip out our ball from behind the tree in order to salvage the 18 hole score. If we don't get this right we may all be playing more golf over the summer instead of fishing.
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    I will bite Jerry. With the idea of short term preservation of young offshore alewive numbers ..... Keep Steelhead numbers the same as recent die offs have already reduced numbers Cut kings by 150,000 but increase significantly percentage of pen fish Increase brown stocking numbers by 75,000 Cut Lake Trout stocking in half
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    Might make sense to roll in the State-of-Lake meetings with the captain's meeting at the Pro/Am events. People are in town for the event and the events are spread down the lake.
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    Seeing the Halon I have to ask when is a bow no longer a bow. Good god that thing looks nothing like a traditional bow with those huge cams.
  12. Gill-T
    Your boat name is "Crabbie Patty"?
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    If the DEC is worried about public outcry of lakers over kings and are threatening to merely increase the laker stocking if adult laker numbers drop due to overharvest, tournaments, lamprey etc. etc. I say fine........small lake trout eat gobies and sculpin and not alewife. Cull the adults and create a younger population that is safer to eat due to reduced contaminant load.....win win. Lake Trout only tournament end of March in Olcott. Someone please make this happen.
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    Lets not forget how poor the runs were last year!
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    Jerry please press them on the state of the Salmon River run and potential lack of much natural reproduction this year and the effect on the salmon stocking cut figures.
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    Skipper, bowhunters are made not born. There is a process we all go thru. Thru that process comes a discipline. You will learn from your mistakes and be better for the next deer. We would all take a woods full of hunters like you over anyone else because you have a soul and respect for the animal you hunt.
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    Point your buddy to a hind sight for his bow. It will help him immensely. Great discipline on your wallhanger.
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    Always good to remember if you need to have your old boat worked on.....take it to an old marine mechanic like Hank!! Happy birthday Hank.
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    Temp was not the problem 3 years ago.
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    As others have stated, rattles, bright colors, erratic moving baits, go big (giant spoons). I put rattle traps on the back of my downrigger balls and run flasher flies behind them in September. THE NUMBER ONE IMPORTANT TRIGGER THIS TIME OF YEAR IS FISH WITH AN APPROACHING FRONT OR WEATHER. Your welcome.
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    There are fish at the bar but this late in the game I would say 2/3rds of the usual numbers have run the river.
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    If you have ever had a bearing go bad so the hub heated up you may have a hub get out of round deformed. Look at the spindle also.
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    Wanton waste.
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    When you gain more experience on Lake Ontario you will change your tune. Kings fight 10xs harder than Atlantics.
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    Acorns

    Gill-T replied to Giz9219's topic in Big / Small Game

    Because they were heavy last year.
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