Close the Salmon River?

[LazyRiver585]

…or maybe it was just click bait. Get the popcorn ready and watch where it goes. Lol

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9 hours ago, LazyRiver585 said:

Let’s not turn this thread into something it isn’t… 

the whole point is to bring awareness that at a very significant/unique/important tributary where state funded initiatives to help preserve our fishery as a whole (for trib and lake guys alike) has been, and will continue to be, extremely abused. 
sitting back and turning a blind eye is almost unbearable these days. 
talking time is done. Action is needed. What can we do? 
that’s what we trying to figure out together. Not go tit for tat

We need to get ELOSTA, LOTSA and LOCBA to pressure the DEC on this issue.  I would be willing to bet TU would be interested in cleaning up the BS that goes on during the salmon run.  I know a couple of TU guys and the behavior disgust them too.  The dependency on natural reproduction to keep this fishery going and the kings managed for the lake are two big reasons to push the issue.  It is not good management practice to allow a large percentage of your crop of breeder kings to get molested and removed from the biggest producer of natural reproduction kings on the South shore.  Usually on low water years, most of the big kings are easy targets and removed well before getting to the fertile water to spawn.  They can save money by cleaning up and protecting the spawning population they already have.  If natural reproduction is down multiple years in a row, the DEC will have to up stocking.  Upping stocking = spending more money.  Someone said last year's natural reproduction on the Salmon River was a record low.  Low water last year.  Hmmm.  Low water again this year.  Hopefully the survival rate of stocked fish was good. This should make some slow days king fishing the next couple of years.  Again, this is why we need to manage the kings for the lake like they say they do and make changes.  IMO, they could reduce king creel to 1 on the Salmon River, maximum size limits and more enforcement.