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    Casting bite is pretty good on Otisco!

    in Musky, Tiger Musky & Pike (ESOX)

    Posted

    today I had the curse of Otisco. After reading all these posts about tigers I was eager to get out. Hit up bass pro and got a few new lures, and did some work on the boat last night in hopes of hitting some tigers today. Well, when I finally got out the engine had some problems. Ran rough for an hour and just as I was going to call it quits it got going normal. So I drove down to the other end of the lake by the dam to grab one of my buddies and then work the north side for tigers. He got in my boat, I stopped to get weeds off of the engine, and it didn't start again. We ended up rowing to a friends house who happened to have a launch and got the boat out. Looks like I'm out of commission for awhile, unfortunately it had to be while the tigers are hot

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    Round Gobies

    in Open Lake Discussion

    Posted

    Here's my two cents from quite a bit of research and fishing trials. Fished Onondaga lake earlier this spring just for kicks from shore, and tallied 20 goby vs 1 sunfish. You literally put a worm 1 foot off of the shore and these things hammer it. They are all over the place. It's disappointing. Big ones too. I googled the record just for kicks and saw that one I caught came up 2 inches shy. Rolmops is correct in that they are beneficial for water quality. However, They give hell to spawning bass, and reproduce many times a year with extremely high hatch rates. More gobies = more eaten eggs from gamefish. That is why I find it incredibly ridiculous that in lakes in which there are goby, anglers are still allowed to fish for spawning bass. You pull a bass of their nest for thirty seconds and those goby swarm it like angry bees and eat their eggs. The whole bass fishing season is another issue in my opinion, but I won't get into that. I guess my opinion about goby is that as destructive as they are, they aren't going away anytime soon, so I am hoping fish continue to adapt to them, and eat them as their "main" diet. It's a waiting game, in which we need to continue to try to contain them, as we can't simply scoop out every goby front these lakes, for we can just stop the spread.

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    Question About Perch

    in Panfish

    Posted

    Thanks for the response. A lot of people are having double pics for some reason. As to the parasites, It could be those, but the ones we've seen appear to be a little lighter in color. They have the suction like mouths, so I'm assuming they must be a leach of some kind. Hopefully they don't harm the fish. Only have seen them on their fins

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    Question About Perch

    in Panfish

    Posted

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    Went to my buddy's private pond today for perch, and all perch in there are remarkably clean and healthy. However, past two days I have noticed some of these leech like creatures on their fins. Because this is a small pond, we are a little concerned, and don't want any parasites to be going through the fish, and especially spread to the bass. Anyone know what these are and if they are harmful?

    Probably nothing but mainly just curious.

    Thanks again for the perch related answers,

    Ty

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    Question About Perch

    in Panfish

    Posted

    Hey guys,

    Me and my buddy have been absolutely cashing in on jumbo perch lately. Been letting all the big ones go, but took a few 9-10 inchers the other night for the table. However, Mixed in with the jumbos we've been catching have been some smaller ones at around 8". With These 8 inchers, as soon as they come out of the water, are spraying this white liquid (my guess would be semen) all over the place. Anyone else having this happen or have had this happen? It's consistently with that size, and probably 1 out of every 3 that size do it. They aren't coming up from deep either. 10 feet tops. Any clue on what it could be and why? Some opinions/knowledge on what this could be would be appreciated.

    Thanks

    Ty

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    Otisco live

    in Walleye

    Posted

    Went out yesterday after school from 4-8 and fished tigers. Managed to get one follow from a tiger that seemed very timid. Got a couple accidental bass, biggest being a 19.75" tank of a smallmouth. Snapped a quick pic and measurement and she was back in the water within 20 aef6a6069680932c211a62a00b8c9582.jpgseconds.

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