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ELOSTA will have its monthly meeting this coming Wednesday June 19th at 7:00PM at the Mexico VFW. Captain Brian Garrett of Tall Tails Charters will be presenting information on new copper techniques that he has been having success with as well as new gear that he has been using. Captain Garrett has had two top ten finishes in the last two major tournaments and is willing to share his information to help put more fish in your boat. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Thank you all for allowing my family and every other American family to be as free as we are. Great video - really sums it up.

A big thank you to Andy Bliss for an exceptional presentation last night. There was a lot of good information and insight shared with those in attendance. It was greatly appreciated by all and it should help put more fish in the boats. I know my daughter was excited, it was the first thing she talked about this morning before school.

On Wednesday May 15th at Gander Mountain in Cicero ELOSTA will have its monthly meeting and seminar. It will begin at 7:00PM and the guest speaker will be Andy Bliss (owner and operator of Chasin Tail Adventures Charter and Guide Service and First Mate on the Cold Steel Charter operation and Team). Andy is accomplished in each fishing platform and has a wealth of information about fishing different parts of the lake and the species within the lake. On Wednesday he will be discussing brown trout fishing. This is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.

My girls and I are looking forward to this again both to sell and buy.

I know that this is lost at this point in our great state, but I need to say it anyway. I am a teacher and there is no way to prevent another tragedy from occuring, but it can be minimized. If anyone wanted to do harm to the students in a school they could gain access. I will use my school as an example. All of our doors are locked. However, anyone wanting to get in gets buzzed in by a nice lady (unarmed and 110lbs). She then signs them in and directs them to the main office, guidance office, or school nurse. They are not supposed to go anywhere else. If their intention was to do harm they are in and have free reign on inflicting damage to the people within the school. We have a resource officer, but he has also said that he is not a real deterent to someone planning to do harm, because he is spread out over four schools within the district (one high school, one middle school, and two elementary schools) and all someone would have to do to determine if he was in the targeted school would be to look for his sheriff vehicle in the parking lot. If he was there they may have to wait a day. The nice lady at the security desk could choose to not buzz someone in if she saw them brandishing weapons freely outside of the door, but with a shot or two they would have an open window to let themselves in by shooting out the glass on the door. In either scenario; she lets them in or they force their way in, she will not be able to do anything to stop them as the first person that they encounter. If the police officer (School Resource Officer) is not in the building the person will have access to all of the victims they want. There is screened glass next to each door that could be blown or smashed out. The only way to prevent additional deaths of innocent kids would be to have armed teachers. These would not be whoever wants to carry, and would not have the weapon on them at all times. Most teachers are in their rooms 90% of the time. There are multiple lunch periods to accomodate the students and scheduling. We have the technology for biometric safes and guns at this point. A safe in the wall with a gun programmed for the intended user would not intimidate students, would be accessible, and could not be accessed or used by anyone else. Just the idea that there would be resistance may keep some of the crazies from going to a school and hopefully they would just take their own life. At the worst there would be a shooting, but it would never amount to a free pass for the shooter and fewer students would be killed. Teachers undergo a series of background checks and are there for the kids. Are there bad teachers and burned out teachers - of course. However, like I said in the beginning, this would not be for every teacher who wants to participate. They should have to undergo extensive training yearly, a background check yearly, and a psychological evaluation each year. This is the only way to negate the crazy who thinks or does enter a school. To continue to give them a free pass to do whatever they want to innocent people for reasons that we will never know is unacceptable. We protect our money with guns, merchandise with guns, politicians with guns, but leave our children unprotected - that is unexcusable and sick in so many ways (and most of the time it is to make people feel good rather than face the reality of the situation and that there are in fact bad twisted people out there). If there were armed teachers in China there probably would have been no deaths and if there were armed teachers in Sandy Hook there would have been a lot less. Stop going after the guns and open your eyes. Guns are out there and will forever be and there are crazy and bad people who will find and use them. The only way to make any real movement against the acts of violence is to stop them earlier in the action of carrying out the act and to take off the blinders and get people who are truly unstable the required help they need and if that means institutionalizing people who are incapable of taking their scheduled medications or who are a threat to others because of a demented sense of reality than we must do so. Just my two cents as a teacher.

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ELOSTA will be having its monthly meeting and fishing seminar at the Mexico VFW on Route 3, Mexico, NY at 7:00PM on Wednesday July 18th. Bob Cinelli (consistantly one of the top tournament fishermen) will be presenting on open water steelhead fishing and tactics. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend. We hope to see you there.

On June 20th at 7:00PM ELOSTA will be holding its monthly meeting and seminar open to the public at the Mexico VFW located on Route 3. The seminar topic will be given by Chris Killorien on Smallmouth Bass fishing. Chris is a member of South City Bassmasters. We hope to see you there.

ELOSTA will be having its meeting and seminar open to the public on June 20th at 7:00PM at the Mexico VFW on Route 3. The guest speaker is Chris Killorien from South City Bassmasters. Also, if you are looking to join ELOSTA, please do so as there is a lot going on that will need to be addressed by our membership in the near future with our local politicians such as the three rod rule which has a sunset clause, lamprey control funding to continue, comorant control, and whatever else rears its head that could affect the fishery. Hope to see you there. Phil

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With the way the weather has been as of late there will be plenty - look forward to seeing you up there. The last weekend we got out we had 5 kings and many browns. This past weekend ended up as a blow for us. Here is a pic of the 2 girls with their first keepers of the season. Phil Lizzy and Morgan (Morgan is holding our first king of the season)

channel 72 is the most used out of FH - some use the others (68, 5 and some monitor 9 as well)

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The ELOSTA monthly meeting will be held May 16th at the Cicero Gander Mountain at 7:00PM. The Seminar topic is "The use of Torpedo Divers to Diversify Your Spread" and will be presented by Phil Lucason of Family Style Fishing Charters. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Chris and Linda are great people and run a clean and friendly operation. There really is not a bad place to stay in Fair Haven. As far as launches go - the State Park Launch is the best for a bigger boat > 22'. However if yours is a smaller boat or lighter aluminum the public launch at Chinook is adequate. The only real hazard is "Grass Island" which is 3/4 of the way up the bay towards the lake - it is on the western side of the bay and is approximately 1/3 of a mile long and a hundred yards wide running N - S. It is below the surface at about 2 - 3 feet deep and has a bouy at the north and south end to mark it. As scary as it sounds it is not something that will jump out and grab you - just stay towards the middle or slightly east of middle until you learn where it is and all will be fine. Also, it is a good place to target perch on the drop offs if the lake is really rolling. You can also get your license right in town at Screwie Louies. Brendan will take care of you. His hours are 7 - 2 as of last week. A couple of good people to talk with at Anchor beside Chris on the fishing are Ken "Mr. Clean" and Jim "Shadetree". I will be putting my boat in finally tomorrow. Most people monitor 72 out of FH. If all goes well you will see a large baha with an outboard configuration out there with 2 energetic little girls. Give me a shout if you do. My handle is Morgan-E. Good fishing. Phil

Just show up - all of the ELOSTA meetings are open to the public and people are encouraged to attend. Hope to see you there. Phil

Thanks to all of those who made the ELOSTA (Eastern Lake Ontario Salmon and Trout Association) fishing and nautical flea market a success. From all of the positive feedback that was received from vendors and attendees - it will be happening again next year. For those who are not members of ELOSTA; we would like to see you at some of our meetings and you become a member (less than $15 / year for a family). Visit our website or facebook page for updates and upcoming events. Phil

If we did not have puppy class we were going to test what we bought on Sunday. See you all there. Phil and the girls

Already making a list and so are my daughters. Phil

I have two daughters who love being on the boat ages 7 and 8. Like was said before let them do different things like pick out lures, have input on depth with selected options, steer the boat, lots of snacks, play games like who can kill the most flies to help feed the bait fish, music for them to do a lucky fish dance to or make up a new one if that one does not work, show them how to net a fish, fight a fish, have them look through binoculars to see what other people are doing (only if they don't get sea sick), etc... The main thing is make it fun and interactive. I have and still do draw on these a lot. When the fish are cooperating there is no boredom and then each fish provides high energy and buys time for the next fish to hit. The other thing that I found was to start short if the fish are not in the mood and try again another time with them. Just some suggestions from a dad of two active girls. They are my best two fishinig buddies now and are always ready to go out. Hope this helps. Best of luck. Phil Family Style Fsihing Charters http://www.familystylefishingcharters.com This is my oldest with her biggest solo salmon from last year - this year she already beat it with a 12lb 13oz brown.