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  1. schreckstoff
    A picture showing what Sk8man was explaining. Cercopagis or fishhook flea on top, Bythotrephes or spinywater flea on bottom & bigger. Both of them seem to make alewife grow very fast. Cercopagis is usually peaking first in the season, like now, and Byth numbers climb and peak in fall, after they munch down the Cerco. We have this idea that Byth seems to allow Alewife to stay up in the water column feeding, later in the fall than they used to before we had them. Fascinating and frustrating! I just finished setting up 2 new Blood Run diver rods to saw through the snot. That BR wire is really nice to handle.
  2. schreckstoff
    That blue leopard is hot for u!
  3. schreckstoff
    The wind/wave buoy mid lake off Roch is a good source of current conditions in case no one gets back to you. The combination And trajectories of nominal wave height: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=45012&meas=wvht&uom=E&time_diff=-4&time_label=EDT wind speed: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=45012&meas=wspd&uom=E&time_diff=-4&time_label=EDT and wind direction helps me plan: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=45012&meas=wdir&uom=E&time_diff=-4&time_label=EDT
  4. schreckstoff
    Excellent report and pictures, thanks!
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    That warm water division is kind of a neat idea GT!
  6. schreckstoff
    LOU community, If anyone is interested in helping to collect stomachs from Lake Ontario trout and salmon you clean please see this website for instructions (http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/120435.html) or PM me on here. Collecting the stomachs is fairly easy, there is a small amount of information we are looking to have written down, and everything can be tossed in a plastic bag and frozen. The website explains it all. Six drop off freezers, that have sample bags too, are located from Fort Niagara to Oswego. If you can get samples but not get them to a freezer PM me and we might be able to accommodate. A big thank you to the anglers and charter captains who have been saving and sending stomach samples already, but we always need more! The prey fish composition from these samples will be compared to historic samples (thank you all for that help) and you'll see results of all those data in upcoming reports. Some of my colleagues information is out there if you have any questions and always feel free to PM me on here. Thanks again, Brian Weidel
  7. schreckstoff
    RE: arrows, I have become a student of the Ranch Fairy (YouTube if u haven’t seen him), heavy stiff arrows, high FOC, no “Twizzlers” no Flappers anymore for me.
  8. schreckstoff
    Fished 6 till noon, 70-230 FOW, bait was most consistent 70-90 FOW, some out to 150FOW but couldn’t get anything to go. Tried lots of stuff, even Gambler rigs bouncing on bottom couldn’t get us a LT. Saw very few if any bigger fish marks on graph. 60-62 deg on surface, 50-55deg water was 80-100 ft down. Weather and company were great.
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    Finished with GreatLaker today and his dad, had a great day of fun, a little light on fish. Landed a nice brown and laker and found a little laker on when we pulled lines. Fished S of Taughannock, marked fish and bait all over, shallow and deep. No real pattern, goby stick off board took Brown, rigger spoon took laker. Good stories and laughs. Lots of memories being back in Cayuga south end, learned how to troll there ~20yrs ago by reading this site.
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    Stevent that is really interesting, thanks for sharing.
  11. schreckstoff
    My wife and I love sushi and make it almost weekly, but we don’t use raw freshwater fish because of the parasite risk . We’ve done lightly cooked salmon but I would rather the texture of raw so we stick with marine caught salmon. You have me thinking though, now that I (finally) learned how bleeding helps the flesh quality I will probably try to freeze some and make some rolls or something. I usually use myself as a test case before feeding my experiments to others.
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    I started doing it this year and also wish I had always done it. Quality is better and the fillet process is WAY better.
  13. schreckstoff
    “a flasher n’Senko” I like the idea but you’d have to refer to it by some obscure name....like a Chady-K rig! One of my first jobs working in the Finger Lakes (1998) was angler diets from Skan & Owasco, Skan Lakers had monarch butterflies in stomachs frequently. I bet some LOU folks helped collect those. And yes I just checked the smoker......spring Cayuga lakers are tasty!
  14. schreckstoff
    Lakers were shallow this AM (5/7) and apparently took advantage of the full moon to chow on perch, rockbass, goby, Alewife, and a fat senko-like soft plastic. boards with stick baits were hot till 9am, then nothing. all colors seemed to work
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    Good pics and Browns catch too!
  16. schreckstoff
    27 yearling Alewife is definitely an interesting sign, Combined with the observations of that size Alewife in the water intakes all winter (thanksBG) it suggests there was a good yearclass produced last yr they made it through the winter....now as long as some make it to adults
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    Similar story at Oak on 5/1 , marked fish in shallow, more in 40 FOW and quite a few out in 120FOW where we found some warmer water. Most marks 10-40ft down. Only managed to get lakers to hit, threw everything we had at them. FYI: saw a few decent sized logs floating about.
  18. schreckstoff
    14-17” sounds like Maybe a 3 yr old, 2017 Yearclass, interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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    Very cool, heard reports of them in Chaumont too, which is not surprising, cause they spawn there. They are tasty!!
  20. schreckstoff
    Willmarsh14- Cisco by Oswego is intriguing. That part of the lake is one of the best, and unfortunately last, for Lake Whitefish (yum) but we have not sampled many Cisco there. What kind of sizes were ya getting?
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    That has to be one of the best titles I’ve seen on here in a long time. Great turkey pics!
  22. schreckstoff
    Out at first light, went west, worked 5’-30’ with sticks on boards, 2 for 4, both browns. Caught one on bright color in the clear water, the other one on natural color in the colored water. Surf temps 43 -45, didn’t find “pockets” of temp. Did mark a few areas with a lot of marks on sounder (~14’) but couldn’t get them to hit. “Found” the submerged pier heads in the middle of the Little Sodus launch. Had a decent cross breeze, Just bumped them as we were drifting in, no damage but be aware.
  23. schreckstoff
    congrats and good on ya for recognizing all the folks on this site
  24. schreckstoff
    From the report on 2017 yr data that came out in 2018. (https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/lorpt17.pdf). We can get high catches of Alewife anywhere from 165 to 500 feet, but high catches are most common around 330feet.
  25. schreckstoff
    Emeralds Interesting, thanks Vp, Keep those observations and ideas coming! I hear ya on the easy winter/early spring possibly altering bait behavior. Our mid-March shakedown was a record for getting out early, hopefully that can be the norm in the future. We were also geared up to run acoustics during the spring survey this year to measure any off-bottom fish. Hopefully we can keep that up too.
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