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The idea that l offered is not a true hatchery, but rather a pen project where the fry is introduced to the creek/river at a very early stage in their lives and the fry would be in these pens much earlier and quite a bit longer than now. This would probably have to be under DEC supervision and with very dedicated volunteers. That way the fry will be properly imprinted on their home stream and that should improve their chances of returning there.

I would rather not have answered this, but some explanation is required. It is not the cleaning of the raceways that is of consequence. It is the virus that may have penetrated well above the intake of the raceways. In Pulasky the raceways are fed with water that is pumped up out of the ground and is virus free because of that. ( the same goes for the Powder Mill hatchery). Prevention of potential infection is a lot cheaper than having to deal with the effects of infection specially when alternatives are available. don't take it from me, ask Schreckstof. Besides, a policy becomes part of investment planning. The hatchery in Pulasky underwent some serious improvements the last few years. Hopefully lowering mishap events. Besides , I have helped with the pens and I have also driven back and forth feeding the fish while they were in the pens. Another alternative might be further cleaning of Irondequoit Creek making it more hospitable for natural reproduction, which is already happening there. A good alternative to the current pen projects could be something that went on for years in the Credit river. Over there in Canada a group of fly fishermen had their own little hatchery like setup right in the river. They got the fry at a quite early age and had them in round pens where they were kept until release. These were steelhead. I remember catching tagged steelhead from there. A similar project could take shape here, potentially bringing stream and lake fisherman together taking care of the pens.

Today was my last hurray for the season. I got three mature kings in around 60 foot of water out Sandy. Now I am in the middle of cleaning the bottom of my boat with something called Slimy Grimy. It seems to work fine.

Claiming that the Caledonia hatchery will do the trick does not offer a solution. It brings the chance of a nasty virus returning right back at our doorstep. It may be time to move the pens upstream to the area where "Spirit Of Rochester" is slowly rotting away. There are docks there. That might give the smolting fingerlings more exposure to the Genny's unique makeup. With just a little bit more current and without the influence of eastern and northern winds that push lake water into the pen area and dilute the Genny "taste", things might look different. This would also neutralize the influence of all the nasty chemicals that were exposed when the new marina was dug on the west side. This just a suggestion based on trying to point out things that may have changed or might be changed. If it was just a matter of all other things being equal, you might have a point. But not all other things are equal.

That is a great boat! And for free! Now before you take your kids out on the water, you should really take it over to either a professional or a very good amateur to check it out for loose rivets, blown engine, rotten hoses, rotten transom and so on. Even if you have to pour a couple of1000s into it, you still got yourself a great boat for very cheap. The Sylvan is almost a total copy of the Starcraft of that size. If you go to I-Boats you can find a veritable treasure of information about these boats.

I don’t play basketball or football. My meanderings centered around genetics and the influence of genetic potential which may be mistaken for mutations.

Ok, this may sound crazy,but I have been called that all my life so that does not bother me. Anybody who gardens or farms knows that when the rains do not come, the plants get pressured and will start setting flowers in order to produce their seeds and make sure that there will be a next generation. In times of plenty, water fleas are exclusively female and reproduce by cloning, but when their ponds dry up there will be male fleas and on top of cloning there is also sexual reproduction which causes more genetic variety which in turn increases survival chances for the species. Now for the last few years fish were smaller and there has been a lot of two year old salmon coming up the streams in order to reproduce. And as we all know, the three year olds and, very rarely , some 4 year olds are supposed to do that, not two year olds. We also know that a few years ago we had harsh winters and not so much bait, relative to the amount of fish that came out of the hatcheries and natural reproduction. The fish we caught was smaller. We started thinking that there was genetic change happening, favoring smaller fish. Now this year there were die offs of bait fish and the salmon was gorging on this plentiful source of food specially in June when many of us got skunked while the salmon lay on the bottom with their bellies full of easy pickings. It seems that the fish is plentiful and larger compared to the last few years. My theory is that there was no genetic change, but a survival mechanism that caused reproduction urge to start at an earlier age, much like happens with plants and water fleas when there is environmental pressure. Of course the process in fish would be slower due to their longer life cycle compared to water fleas. If what I think is correct, then this fall run should have fewer 2 year olds running relative to the overall amount and the size of fish will be larger, although the overall amount of running fish will be smaller because we lost a lot fish due to two year olds running last year instead of now. Unless there is an awful winter which would throw everything in disarray , next year should show larger fish continuing the trend we see this year. These are just my not completely uneducated thoughts. Please tune in and give me your opinion on these thoughts.

I netted a hooked seagull and when trying to remove the hook, I found out the hard way, that they can turn their heads 180 degrees. My wildest bird catch was a duck that stole a hooked worm from right behind me at the Russel power station. It flew away with a hook in its beak and I was fighting it while it was flying in circles and spooling my reel. If you think that a salmon is a big fighter, you should try a panicked flying duck.

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I did not know that they made tracks. This is something that would fit the restoration of my Islander! I have sent you a private message.