Sk8man

Sweet Clark!

Great pic. Really sorry to hear about your dad passing. A lot of folks on here thought a lot of him and that is a great tribute to him.

Nice going John....beautiful dog

You are exactly right Brian

You said it Mike.

Nice work Rick! Real nice eaters.

I think a lot of folks are also avid hunters and have been preparing and now hunting. The hard core perch guys have been at it but they aren't going to report anything to the general public. many of the folks I know have put their trout stuff away until Spring. The sporatic die hards will probably give an occasional report as the season progresses and hopefully there will be an ice fishing season this year although last year wasn't real encouraging.

Hope that was Seneca Mike

The lampricide doesn't kill adult lampreys it is targeted at the ammocetes (larval stage) that live in the stream bottoms and lake/stream deltas. I agree that a multifaceted approach is the way to go.

The lampricide treatment process is a lot more complicated than just staff and funding for a body of water as large as Lake O with its crazy weather patterns and numerous streams etc. Often there is a very small window of time that the certified people can apply the lampricide and it has to be done under very specific water and weather conditions and only by those approved personnel. If done under "marginal" conditions there can be collateral kill of non target organisms and fish as well as dissolution of the chemicals making the application ineffective. Who knows how many of these adult lamprey came up through the St. Lawrence each year as well and is this on the increase? The problems on Lake O are not unique. The Finger Lakes hooked up to the canal system are having significant problems with the lamprey concentrations too and overall all these bodies are under siege by various aquatic invasives both vegetative and others. If we step back a bit it is also apparent that there are things going on of a much wider scope in our environment. Many critical species are disappearing from our environment such as bees and birds, frogs, and other amphibians and mammals. The very character of the water has changed in recent decades and weed growth and distribution patterns that host much of the food web has been drastically impacted. Many lakes no longer have the same food bases they have had in the past. The focus is on Lake O but I think we have a much larger and more serious set of problems facing us.

Doesn't get much better than that John

Nice one John. Fun way of fishing too. Nothing like seeing that bobber go under and wondering what is on the other end

Pretty disgusting situation and not necessarily an isolated situation in all liklihood. Money can corrupt and it does. It certainly suggests that there should be a protocol for routine actual physical internal examination of winning fish as it would make it less likely that that particular problem would happen if it was built in as an expectancy.....pretty sad.

What is about the yellow in the center that makes them inedible? Flavor or toxicity of some kind? I seem to remember as a kid that they seemed to have something of a urine smell to them.

That's great! You are taking the reins from a great guy who has been a class act fisherman as well as a generous LOU member who has shared info willingly with his fellow fisherpersons. We wish you the best of luck and I hope to connect with you sometime out there

Congrats on the nice boat and the new life Mark

R.I.P. . I wish the family peace. Always sad to lose someone close.

Nice going Kevin.

You are a lucky man either way