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FOW can be anything from 5ft to 45 depending. People successfully target them many ways on Oneida. Drifting jigs, sonars, harnesses with bouncers, trolling.

If you haven't been out on the lake before, be careful. Water can go from calm to raging in 30 minutes. Lots of shoals and rock piles you can hit, that are even more exposed when the waves are up.

Looks like a tank. Nice catch.

I have the large beckman pen. When the fish is close I guide the fish in then hang the net over a rod holder, while I unhook the fish in the water. Same procedure as with two people, except I do the netting myself.

Have never hooked into a big one while fishing solo though.

Picked up my first two ever today, after securing some new access. Jumped a small flock of about 50 after a 45 minute stalk. Will be headed back soon hopefully with a friend who has all the gear and decoys to do it the right way next time. There were 1000's flying and landing.

I didn't realize they were so small compared to Canada's.

Food, temp, genetics, age, and number of growing days per season all come into play Im sure.

I believe they are possible also... Although I'm wondering why some of these old records aren't recognized if they are legitimate.

Apparently louis a wehle was the commissioner of the organization that was the precursor to the NYSDEC and also in charge of Genessee brewing. So the nys louis a wehle fishing contest was in conjunction with Genessee beer.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/2014/12/13/genesee-brewing-curt-gowdy-outdoors-craft-beer/20354663/

This is a good article that shows some of the history of the event.

Someone on myfishfinder posted the records from the Genesse fishing contest from 1974, interested in the walleye records I did some searching and found the newspaper article online, which was originally printed in a newspaper called the phelps country editor., in 1964.

I'm particularly interested in the fish that was snagged and weighed 25lbs 3oz in 1987. This is recent enough that I was hoping someone would have firsthand recollection of it happening .

I only found vague references to it on the Internet, but maybe someone knows more.

So boredom and a post on another site led me to do some searching for the largest walleyes ever caught in New York. I found evidence of three mammoth fish that were never included in the record books, presumably because they were snagged. I'm interested in what everyone thinks about the accuracy of these records or if anyone has heard of them before.

The biggest fish was snagged in the Niagra river in 1987 by someone fishing for salmon. Apparently it was weighed and released, weight was 25lbs, 3oz.

The next biggest fish was 22lbs 2 oz, and was caught in the Seneca river near Clyde. It was snagged with a jig and entered in the Genesse beer fishing contest. It was caught May 30th 1964.

While researching the previous fish I found an article that referenced another monster that weighed 21lbs 4oz from the niagra in 1963.

Are these accurate weights? Did they not count as modern records because they were snagged? Does anyone have any photos , knowledge, stories, or anecdotal evidence about them?

Thanks!

Awesome that you got to see one. We saw one at Oswego last February.

I feel one buck only for the entire season archery/regular/muzzle would work well where I hunt. People would be more selective before nailing the dumb spikehorn if they knew it was there only buck for the season. I also feel the amount of improperly tagged or taken deer is outrageous, but that's a different matter, and just my opinion.

Horses routinely lay flat out, roll on their backs, or bed down, even in the wintertime. A great example of breaking one of the basic firearm rules, know your target and beyond, being broken. Sounds like they were pretty trigger happy. Loss of all sporting priveleges for a significant amount of time might not even be adequate penalty in my mind.

Many hobby horse owners form incredible bonds with their animals, riding,feeding, watering, and shoveling for twenty years or sometimes 30 for the same horse. I feel for the owners on this one.

Awesome vid.

I fully agree with coyote hunting, although I feel modern hay harvesting techniques kill more deer then coyotes do.

Some fields will have 5 or 6 fawns killed at first hay cutting. Just look for the turkey vultures.

As someone who has caught over a 100 pike this year on fresh water, with only a handful above 35", and one over 40", I agree with catch and release, no kill tourneys. Although I will not fault anyone for keeping a legal catch, I feel big pike are a rarer commodity then most people think, on most waters.

I feel it's easier to kill a 140 class buck with a bow then it is to catch a true trophy northern in New York. Maybe I'm better at hunting then targeting big pike though.

Also, suprised no one has mentioned the Cranberry Lake derby and it's effect on that pike fishery.

Is the walleye population on the decrease in the Susquehenna? I was under the impression that there are members on here that catch 25 to 50 fish a trip right through the winter.

Shore fishing has definitely picked back up. Kept 3 and released 8 tonite. Get them while they are hot. They are loaded with perch instead of shad.

Tupper lake has monster walleyes, can be hard to catch. And there are quite a lesser known lakes well worth fishing, check the stocking lists to get an idea.

I used to work for the NYSDEC at the wildlife pathology lab in delmar. We saw all kinds of animals from all over the state. The general opinion at the time of the state wildlife pathologist, and the other biologists, was that no viable population of mountain lions in New York. Any spotted would be an escapee or possibly an animal from out west , like the South Dakota lion.

In my opinion it's quite possible to see an escaped lion, way more people then you think have illegally kept animals, everything from primates, to exotic cats, to whitetails.

Also, I wanted to add that I have seen a 65lb coyote , weighed on a legitimate scale, in person. I have never heard of one larger then 70lbs though.

Sometimes it does and gets better then before and it's great til ice. Other years it never does.

It's starting to pick up again for some people as of two days ago.

They are from Oswego. Dermal sarcoma and lymphocystis are pretty common in walleye. Both are a virus, that most visibly affect the skin. Not very harmful to the fish, and not harmful to humans. Interestingly enough, it can also cause them to turn pink, like this fish I got yesterday.

The viruses apparently spread from fish to fish when they are in large numbers close during the spawn. From what I've seen, I would say 5 to 10% of the fish in the Oneida system have it.

It must be my week to catch weird fish, I just got one that has the worst case of dermal sarcoma I've ever seen.

Video definitely covered the basics well for a beginning pike/Muskie fisherman.

Caught a walleye last nite that appeared perfectly normal and healthy other then the fact he had a dead/ flat eye, and a weird rounded nose and mouth. Any one care to guess is this from an injury or a growth defect when small?

Thanks