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  1. Round Gobies supposedly do not have a swim bladder, they live on the bottom. It is probably because of this that they prefer rocky bottoms and seem to avoid mud flats. As a SCUBA diver I can tell you from first hand experience that this is the case. They love cobble rock areas and goby fry actually live under some of the cobble. Maybe they need to do this to diminish cannabalism. In Lake O and the St. Lawrence they do not seem as prevelant as they were a decade or so ago. Maybe this has happened because other fish like perch and bass have learned to eat them. For example, while fishing for perch in Eel Bay last spring I don't think we caught a single goby and of course Eel Bay is mostly non-rocky as far as I know.
  2. Nice pike and picture, congratulations! The pike in Conesus have nice coloring.
  3. I don't think gps works underwater, at least not at those depths. I am surprised that there are not redundant communication systems, apparently communication problems were a fairly regular occurrence.
  4. Unfortunately I have not seen any poults. There was a hen close to the house that I thought might have a nest nearby but so far no poults seen. This is is northern Oswego and northern Cayuga Counties.
  5. Yeah, it really just does not make sense. Some bass will still be on beds until the start of July. And a lot of bass guys get upset if someone keeps a couple bass for the table. I don't personally find them all that good to eat, especially bigger ones. I'll take perch all day over a bass. Anyway, the damage done in taking one bass off a bed is probably worse than keeping a limit later in the year. When I was a kid the size limit was 10 inches and the limit was 6. A three pound bass would have been a trophy back then. And, as I recall, the ten inchers were tasty.
  6. Nice hooks on your gobbler and also very nice family picture fisherman 21.
  7. Congratulations, awesome experience with your wife!
  8. I grew up in Rochester, I didn't know about Max's. But Jay-Ve Tackle was awesome, as a youngster I always felt like a kid in a candy store when I went there.
  9. Great pictures! They are hooked for life.
  10. A few years ago we were diving in the SLR near Alex Bay. A guy in a boat came up to our dive flag and tried to take it! Same story, "I didn't know what it was".
  11. jperch

    Dead bass

    Sadly to the uniformed it's probably a black eye to all fisherman. What a waste, just wrong.
  12. That was great Prof T, thanks for posting. I will definitely try this out.
  13. Congratulations Money, awesome gobbler!
  14. I used to SCUBA dive frequently off the college in Oswego. We would be followed by a school of bass. If you banged a couple of rocks together they would come in like it was a dinner bell. There is lots of cobble rock in that area and there were lots of crabs. I would sometimes catch a small crab and flip it up in the water, they would flash in and grab it. Now, there is not many crabs and not many bass in shallow, say out to 20 feet deep. There are also few eels compared to 15 or 20 years ago. Of course there are gobies but not as many as 10 years ago. The same is true for zebra or quagga mussels. There does seem to be more sheepshead in this area, they feed on the mussels. When we dive in the St. Lawrence we do not see gobies over the muddy, silty areas. My understanding is that gobies have to be on the bottom when not swimming as they have no swim bladder, so they prefer horizontal rocky type areas. I never dissected one to verify that.
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