Gill-T
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God willing we are starting the season tomorrow launching out of Ohio. -
Speak your voice to comment on proposals or loose your right to complain. https://dec.ny.gov/news/press-releases/2025/6/dec-proposes-changes-to-deer-hunting-regulations
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FishUSA had a sale over bassmaster classic weekend on Rapala items. I decided the deal was too good so I bought every DT model + a squarebill for my bass arsenal. Looking at them I can’t help but think I could probably catch browns on them. I have some hot’n’tots that I put out each time but I am almost out of the old discontinued clear bill models so looking for an alternative. Anyone using cranks for browns? -
Looks like game on in Ohio. No ice issues
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Great trip loaded with memories! -
The mouth of the Catt has been open for two weeks. Boats will be challenged to launch at Hanover town launch as a large gravel bar has formed between the launch and island. They will have to dredge for sure. The DEC launch is usable
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Netting nightmare
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Browns love scatterraps. The only issue is they dive a little deeper so I think your plan of fishing them over deeper water makes sense.
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Finally a fishing report to look at. Thank god the season is under way. Thanks for posting. -
Thank you for being the sacrificial lamb and then letting everyone know the conditions. Much appreciated! Better days ahead -
Dr Weidel, has there been any look at any sort of correlation between salinity of the Niagara flow and alewife hatch rates? Just wondering if during a long prolonged winter, would there be a benefit to an ocean going fish like alewives to exist and spawn in water with higher salt content? -
Less wind driven sediments with ice coverage. There are some thoughts that a quagga mussel substrate and filtering may be enhancing the record walleye hatches in turbid western Lake Erie and its dirty tributaries. The same principle may be applied to the Niagara question. My experience on the water is the harder and longer winter leads to a greater gray water Niagara plume (more sediment) in the spring during the time alewives start moving inshore. Maybe greater survival of adult alewives in a turbid Niagara flow as they can evade the onslaught of predators leads to a greater spawning return? Just theory.
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Modis has been hit or miss lately. Finally got a decent shot. Lots of cold blue water this year.
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Open water expanding quickly
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Having some friends in the DEC, I could write a novel about stories highlighting the headwinds the department is up against in trying to get justice on slam dunk cases. It is such a **** show where politics and votes comes before law enforcement. The system is broke and there is a concerted effort to tear down the DEC further by Albany. This begs the question the thread tries to answer…..what do we do about illegal activity in the woods and waterways?? First, if there is a complaint, policy dictates the DEC is supposed to investigate. Our role is to get to know our local DEC conservation officer and have their number in list of contacts in our phones. Take pictures and videos of infractions as they occur and send them to the DEC officer. After that, maybe voice your opinion to judges and local officials about not allowing environmental infractions go with a wrist slap. The more voters give their input, the more likely government officials will sway their decisions. Defendants will come to trial with family members as references crying poor and explain away the infractions as “the fish are going upstream to die anyway”, the judge may be more compelled to agree. We sportsmen are underrepresented big time.
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Yep, same as in Alaska. Fish die and tumble downstream and accumulate on the shallow bars.
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Probably not the salt but maybe like what was happening out west with cohos. Could the salt and sand cause car tires to shed the chemicals that kill fish?
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Steelhead can exist in the ocean.
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https://www.startribune.com/congress-might-end-a-ban-on-mining-near-the-boundary-waters-heres-what-to-know/601579821 -
Hopefully, it is an isolated event. It took years for steelhead to recover in numbers and size from the last outbreak. I vaguely recall that there was an issue with going to a cheaper food pellet at the hatchery that may have resulted in some deficiencies that could have impacted those health problems seen in ‘14/15.
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Bill only shoots big ones. -
Agree lice is common but not to the extent of what was seen in 2014/15. The pictures posted were of very disfigured gills, skinny sickly looking fish. I am sure it was a combination of factors. Has anyone heard of this problem in other tribs of Ontario or Michigan? I wonder if this something specific to the Salmon River.
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2014/15 also saw gill lice rear it’s head. Interesting pattern developing again with similar weather pattern.
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The offseason is for dreaming. Always looking for a better mousetrap. This year a few items caught my eye. Iron Decoy came out with a wobbler/spoon concept bait that cabelas is carrying. They were also at the Niagara show this week. I reimagined these without the trailing bead chain- worm holder hook for walleye and a small Siawash to carry an emerald shiner for coho. The second bait shown is called the Kraken by character lures which is a spin off from the old tadpoly lure of yesteryear. I will try these as a worm harness instead of a spinner blade. Last but not least are VMC sniper swivel which will take the place pinching split shot onto my spring brown trout weight rods.
