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rolmops

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  1. People usually do not react to 1 year old threads. Try and start a new thread, that might work better. What happened to this board? I think that it has become much less of an information source and much more of a sales point. People are just not as interested in passing on information as they were 5 years ago and with AI soaking up all possible info, people have become weary of putting anything online.
  2. The food supply of alewives is constantly changing because of the gobies and mussels who have their own ups and downs. In how far does the stocking policy of kings take those yearly changes into account?
  3. There is one simple thing that caught my attention. It says "price drop" and then way farther down the price says $22500 .When the price is not mentioned on the top , a lot of people feel weary. Now it seems that the price was dropped to $22500. I had to scroll all the way down to the last post on your thread to discover that you went down to $17500. If I would have seen 17500 right in the title as the asking price at the top of the thread I would have started checking the thread. Maybe edit your post and refresh it so it gets back to the top.
  4. Weather prophets are all over the place. All of them are right some of the time...
  5. There is a fairly healthy population of Atlantic salmon in the St. Lawrence. Mostly brought back by the Canadians utilizing the Ottawa River and the Canadian Maritimes. It seems not connected to the Lake Ontario population, but sooner or later they will start intermingling.
  6. I think that I have a "Big Jon" mast . I'll check my garage tomorrow. do you need just the mast or the reels as well? If it needs to be shipped, what is your zip code?
  7. I just googled "Kings in the St.Lawrence river" and the AI came up with the answer that there is a self sustaining population of kings that has originally come out of Lake Ontario , but now migrates within the the St. Lawrence and I presume the Atlantic ocean. They are described as an invasive species, although the article does not mention that they compete with atlantic salmon. According to the article they are found all the way to Messina,NY and Cornwall,ON Has anyone here caught or heard of Kings being caught in the St. Lawrence east of the dams?
  8. The 20 inch shaft should be easier to find. The 25 inch shafts are often off salt water rigs and will have had more wear. Jack plates spell trouble.
  9. 100% , that is, if they don't become a coyote's lunch first Anyway, what makes you think that there are no toms there now?
  10. Costa Rica has a specific season in which hotel and flight expenses tend to get high. This is from the beginning of December until roughly, April. However, when the rainy season starts, tourism almost completely shuts down and prices go way down. The charter prices, at least where I go, are quite steady year round. $1000 for a day off shore and $75 per hour for near shore trips. When I say rainy season, specially from mid June until mid October, I mean monsoon type rains, but it is warm rain and there are dry days, just not too many
  11. what threw me for a loop is the second C in atlantic
  12. Still to skinny for my too well rounded rear end.
  13. Did you use the spray can or the pump?
  14. This is some goop in a spray can that according to the internet loosens up M5200. Did you ever use it ? what is your opinion about it?
  15. I will send a letter to the throughway authority asking them why there are no cameras overseeing the parking lots. I do not expect an answer beyond the usual bureaucratic drivel.
  16. If you go to a DMV office you must bring the boating course card and the lifetime fishing license they will make you fill out some papers, pay -I think it is $16 - and you will get your new license in the mail a few days later. It is a pity that the DMV and the DEC do not share their systems, but it's not a big deal.
  17. I was watching the fishermen down by the bridge today. One steelhead and one brown both nice ones were caught and released . They were caught under the bridge
  18. You may be able to get Hank from Port Bay (L&M) who is a moderator on this site. But I do not know if he is willing to travel.
  19. All these 2 year olds spawning over the past few years made me think about other species reproduction systems. A long time ago I had about a hundred acres of cotton and in order to increase production we would stop irrigating. This caused the plants to start producing flowers.Elephant herds that are under heavy poaching pressure start reproducing at a much younger age. Waterfleas reproduce by cloning but when the pools start drying up they start producing males and the reproduction changes from cloning to sexual reproduction. So what does that have to do with salmon reproducing at a younger age you may ask. Most species that feel their survival threatened react by increased reproduction effort which in turn also increases possible mutations and improves the chances of survival of the species by speeding up the reproduction cycle in order to produce a next generation. Could it be that somewhere in our hatchery system, we trigger a similar response? One possibility may be that from a very early age there is an abundance of food available which does not require a lot of effort to get, but upon release into the lake this horn of plenty is no longer there and now the fish have to work a lot harder to feed themselves, often to the point where their survival is at stake. Could this trigger an accelerated sexual maturity response and thereby produce sexually mature fish at a younger age? Is there an alarm going off in the salmon heads? If all of this makes any sense might there be a way to find out which gene causes this alarm and how it might be deactivated, adding a chemical in the water maybe? Truth be told, all of this is way above my pay grade, but I want to throw it out there, because maybe somebody who reads this can toy with it and who knows, there may be a simple solution .
  20. Maybe , we can try and make a list of all the things that changed in Lake Ontario and in the water that comes down from Lake Eerie, roughly since the time that Caledonia stopped doing salmon. Possibly Caledonia itself has nothing to do with the issue at hand, but a combination of other changes may have caused an overall situation to change. The DEC probably has long lists of info about changes in the water over the years. Maybe that info needs to be shifted through in order to find trigger points. For example: Did the quaqua mussel shell building use of calcium lower the PH in certain areas, or did the oxygen content of the water get less. Maybe the overall current direction from the Niagara river has changed ever so slightly causing the nutrient rich water to go to the center of the lake and not the coast line. Or, and this is a big one, the quaqua mussel depletes the near shore of nutrients, but the offshore water with its much greater depth remains relatively nutrient rich and as such is more attractive for salmon. during certain time periods. I'm sure that all the info is there, but I'm not so sure that this info has been used in specific research about movement of biomass. It may be time to dump all that info into an AI enabled computer and see what it spits out
  21. That sir, has nothing to do with how the lake is managed. If you do not like a comment because you suspect a political agenda, then please explain what makes it political and why it is bad. As for yesterday, if you mean is what I think you mean, I would suggest that you clear your mind and go fishing for browns. I am even willing to tell you where my very sweet November spot is.
  22. I looked into the HDPE. Admittedly, it is a very attractive option and it will probably outlast the boat and me. But it takes away from the putter instinct in me.Funny though it sounds, I spend more time playing ,fixing and changing things in my boat, than I spend on the water. I would put it in and three or four years from now, the putterer in me will rip it out and try something else. That is why I am currently interested in the EVA material. One can glue it on and in a few years try something else again. All of that without breaking the bank and without buyers regret.
  23. Even though I did it only 2 years ago, I don't like the looks of my deck flooring and I am considering to cover the floor with a different material. I remember having a hard time gluing the previous material, Marideck I think it is called, to the wood. After reading some stuff about EVA flooring with 3M glue backing I am warming up to the idea, but There are some questions on my mind. Like how will this stuff stick to other flooring. and can it be done in near freezing weather. If you have any experience using this EVA material , please let me hear your opinion about how it worked out for you.
  24. 1 Did the Altmar hatchery reach their eggtake goal? 2 Did Altmar increase their eggtake numbers to make up for lower wild spawning numbers? 3 What happens with the two year olds that were getting ready to spawn but could not get up the creeks? Do they just die off or do the colder water temperatures cause them to start feeding again and enable them to stick it out another year?
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