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The brown stuff oozing from this post can only be matched by the water color on Chautauqua right now.

Yep, not even trying until it gets cool. I am starting to see doe kills along the road so they are starting to bump. I came across a fresh scrape pheasant hunting Friday but that is the only sign I have seen.

I call that prewash

It would appear bucks are on their lazy bachelor group pattern of staying out all night and getting up late. I have been seeing bucks feeding along the road at 10 am

I would love to send you a bunch of Lyman salmon plugs to paint with your UV pearl color showing on some of your plugs !

Just spending some quality father and son (non-bastard) time trespassing.

My German Shorthair now retired, I am down to my rescue dog. Noodles the wonder dog did awesome. Despite the mixing of probable pit bull and rat terrier?? mixed in ( who the hell knows), she pointed and set my two birds plus serviced the other two in our group for a quick limit before the rain came. No shortage of hunters, wow!

Awesome news! Thanks for reporting out!

OMG, I have been targeting that same piebald fawn. I love vanilla tasting deer. Let’s compare notes. Where are you seeing that deer? Thanks in advance.

Keep in mind kings spawning at 2 years old short the system and fishermen by 30 %. Perhaps lake managers need to reconsider how long kings are actually out in the lake when determining stocking numbers with consideration for studying the fish selection process at Altmar during egg collection. We have heard stories reported here on LOU of visitors noticing 2 year olds being selected for stripping. It would be nice to have some data behind the theory of Altmar unnatural selection.

Lake Michigan continues a downward spiral on bait numbers. Almost criminal the amount of lost alewives due to overstocking of Lake Trout.

OMG I think I am targeting the same buck! To be sure, could you send me the location of the buck’s bedding area? Thanks ahead of time.

Good pull Brian. So true. My own observations about the up and comers would be the shakers look like typical shakers. The 1.5 year olds this August were fat fat fat (3 times for emphasis). It would appear the record crop of YOY alewives last year are getting chomped and next years two year olds should be the beneficiary. Adult kings prefer the 4-5.5” size of alewives so I can see why the adults this year were small and did not benefit from last years bumper crop of bait.

2019 history https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70204588

https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/111196.html from 2020, sheds some light into why size was down.

I think we all can agree this year class of three year old kings was weak. What we can debate is the poor three year old numbers may show what can happen from an over reliance on less predictable natural reproduction on a given year. Conversely, if there were less fish in the system, why were the fish smaller?

Dbl post on Alewife survey link. Please remove.

The lake has changed. It is more Niagara-centric than ever before. Ask fishermen that fish Fair Haven or in Canadian waters how much bait they see. They will tell a different story. Fish are more concentrated. Michigan is similar with feast or famine. Now more than ever you need a trailerable boat to chase the bite. Long gone are the days you can make good boxes year’round out of every port. Lakes are getting cleaner up river not dirtier. Adapt or perish. Michigan anglers have adapted fishing techniques for when the fish are plastered to the bottom offshore. The winner of the derby on Lake Michigan won out of a 17’ boat taking fish out of both Wisconsin and Michigan ports chasing the bite. The DEC can’t tell the fish to spread out. If you put more fish in the system it doesn’t mean they will park themselves off Oswego. They still will be to the west most of the season.

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I think the work around the X-ray scan was already shown by the fillets that were stuffed

Almost every walleye I have caught has had an empty stomach

Big body for a scrub

I think about how close the LOC derby weights were this fall. An ounce here and an once there can be a huge swing in the payout. The weigh station should have the fisherman open the stomach on each fish entered. Problem solved. This could work on walleye events also. Bass events, not so much. MLF has it right with their catch and release format.

Does anyone know if charges were filed?

Special resident partnering license I assume? Congrats. The meat is delicious.