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I think, but am not sure, that they are still fished for commercially on the Canadian side. We probably didn't know the proper way to cook an eel. I remember I nailed it to a telephone pole, skinned it, chunked it up and fried it. I recall that the pieces jumped when I put them in the frying pan! It was just too rich tasting for me. We were kids, used to eating panfish like perch and sunfish. As you apparently know, the life cycle of the American eel is truly amazing! And believe me, the size of the eels we encountered in Lake O while snorkeling was quite impressive.
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I live in Oswego and have snorkeled and SCUBA dived near shore often. I can tell you that American eels were very abundant up until a decade or two ago. When snorkeling, we played a game called "eel tickling". Basically you swam along the surface until you spotted an eel in the cracks of the rocks and would try to dive down and touch it before it bolted, you got a point if successful. Now the water is much clearer (mussels) and we rarely see eels. When I was a kid in the sixties we fished in the lake during the spring for bullheads, it was common to catch eels. I recall we tried to eat one. Once.
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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.
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Nice head shot of 40.25" pike caught on Conesus
jperch replied to NPike's topic in Musky, Tiger Musky & Pike (ESOX)
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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.
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Sadly to the uniformed it's probably a black eye to all fisherman. What a waste, just wrong.
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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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jperch replied to glowgetter's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
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I believe there were two different loads in the Winchester Supreme shells. They shot great out of my gun and the heavier load kicked like a mule. Out of my 870 when I was shooting from a rest to test point of aim the spent shell would often self eject! Now I also use the Long Beard shells. Yup, the point of impact did change with them. It's always good to check the zero before the season, shots at longbeards are few and far between, at least where I hunt.
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People don't realize the effect of near freezing water on the body. Two years ago I was perch fishing on the SLR just after ice out. I was in a small aluminum row boat. I was cold and dropped an expensive pole. As I tried to save it the boat tipped and I went for a swim. I had a PFD on but the shock of the cold water and weight of my soaked clothes made it impossible to climb back in. Luckily a father and son saw it happen, they were in a boat perhaps 1/4 mile away. They got to me in about 5 minutes and dragged me into their boat. I was hypothermic and it was a close call, I don't think I would have lasted another 5 minutes in the water. Sadly, I never got a chance to personally thank my rescuers. Cold water is no joke, especially for us old farts.
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