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That's it! Jerry could get Casino Niagara as a sponsor!

Justin, I think you would be breaking navigation regs by having a red light on both sides of the boat.

Maybe FUBAR TV? Everyone submits their "finest" moments.

It is all about the editing to make it interesting. Rick, how many people fish for Bluefin Tuna? But "Wicked Tuna" has a following.

Nobody will want to pay to trailer their rigs to Huron or Superior for those dink fish.

It has always been a head scratcher to me that Cabelas could cover a two-fish Redfish tournament (glorified sheephead) and not consider our sport. Much more drama aboard a salmon tournament vessel running 8 rods.

They are used in Canada in the shield lakes for giant Lake Trout.

Probably no Gobie in the lake, but Sculpin look very similar. A myriad of Gobie baits have been developed over the years after they inundated the Great Lakes. A three-way rig with a Gobie colored stickbaits trolled slow. Maybe one of the gobie swimbaits on a jig. I have caught a ton of Western Trout fishing an ice fishing jig with rubber arms tipped with a wax worm or grub fished 3-7' under a bobber. The best way to get big rainbows out there is to fish the tributaries. In February and early Marrch go to the mouth of where the Tributaries flow into the reservoir and fish Pautzke's Red Balls of fire under a bobber. If there is a barrier i.e. dam, waterfall etc. on one of the tributaries they will be there in March and April.

When they are not eating feeder food, I would be those big boys live on sculpin sitting on the bottom. Try a Gobie colored bait fished along the bottom .......when the feeder is not going off.

From pictures I have seen the fence is not high enough to keep Elk inside.

For those Alpine Lakes Stan you may want to also look at these as they are sized right. http://www.cabelas.com/product/savant-winnie-series-spoon-by-mooselook/1888084.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Dsavant%252Bwinnie%252Bspoon%26x%3D10%26y%3D6%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%252BProducts&Ntt=savant+winnie+spoon

Looks like it is 2,000 acres. There is a development plan that was completed in October, 2015 and I am not sure why there is concern for the "white deer". As long as the fence stays up they will exist. Probably not enough acreage for Elk. http://nysparks.com/inside-our-agency/documents/MasterPlans/SampsonStatePark/SampsonStateParkDraftSampsonStateParkMasterPlan.pdf

It is not every day that 10,000 fenced acres becomes available. Perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to bring elk into New York and give the region another shot in the arm as a drive-thru state park where visitors can see elk and white deer from their cars and/or viewing areas. People come from all over to see the Pennsylvania herd in September. I will see if I can write some letters ( I have been doing that a lot lately).

I just used the DEC suggestion site for Whitetails to suggest the Sampson Air Force Base be studied as a possible location to start an Elk herd restoration project.

Maybe start an Elk herd??????

Agreed Les. I PM'd the original poster that if he wanted to stop development the best course of action is to get an independent testing company to check for chemical and nuclear contamination. I would like to see the state purchase the land and open it up to sportsmen as a WMA.

Les, the white gene is present in a lot of animal species. The only reason there are so many whites at the Sampson base is they were protected from hunters and there is a fence. Artificial selection. Brown deer were allowed to be shot and white ones were not.