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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.

Your boat name is "Crabbie Patty"?

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.

Lets not forget how poor the runs were last year!

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.

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.

Temp was not the problem 3 years ago.

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.

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.

Because they were heavy last year.

Fort Niagara or Youngstown launches should be open

I didn't find any real holes in their methodology of this massive/expensive study. The fact that they pulled king samples in June/July when fish populations are mixed lakewide was smart.

Found it. 2008 published by Bronte. 43 pages to review.......yippee......ugh.

Jerry, the numbers have been out for awhile. I was hoping to get a view of the published study to see how it was conducted. Any ideas who produced the study?

Jerry are you privy to the published study the DEC conducted on pen vs non-pen reared fish? I would love to take a look at it.

Agreed. A number of years back there was a charter vessel next to my slip in Wilson. I could not help but notice his rods in his rod holders all had fluorescent orange line stren spooled on (probably from the 80's). Upon returning from his charter he would be in a good mood because he was able to catch a few Lake Trout for his long time clients (April season). I never had the heart to tell him how many fish came over my gunnels. Never stop learning in the face of a changing environment......or just take up golf

Here is a problem with your problem Jerry.......if we keep showing proof that PEN rearing works, they will use the success of the program against us by refering (inaccurately) to the pen-rearing allotment of fish like having a "stocking increase" due to better survivability. It is a slap to the face of common sense that you punish due to success. With the exception of the Salmon River, pen-rearing should reach 100% for all other locations if everyone wants a slice of the pie come August-October