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% Page 22 — Banner Times r Monday, March 28,1988 Fishing Lines & Lures By Old Hickory I have spent most of this week visiting just about every sport store and fishing-related business in the Oswego and Pulaski area. In addition to being advertising cor- respondent for Northeast Woods and Waters, Inc., I am also the area representative for the Inland Sportsman Company, producers of hot spot fishing maps for the area lakes and tributaries, so both endeavors go together. Also, in regards to the new DEC proposals I mentioned last week I was kind of sort of assembling in my own mind a feeling of the business and people of the area in regards to these new proposals, in preparation for the ELOSTA meeting this week. IknewLes Wedge would be presenting these new ideas to the membership and he realizes, as we all do, that there is no better organization to get a true area feeling than at one of these meetings. We had over 100 members present at Mexico BOCES and this is not unusual for these monthly meetings. The present ELOSTA membership exceeds over 700 nationwide. Our immediate business consisted of a minor by-law change requested by President Bill Thomas, then a report on the Sportsman's March on Albany. We had two ELOSTA delegates on the march, Betty Greene and Mike Norton. I was still too sick to make this one. As- to the effectiveness of this march, only time will tell, but the people they visited told them to be sure and come back next year, they like to see the sportsmen stand up and be counted for a change. A radio has been donated by one of our members, and ELOSTA will furnish the necessary antenna and converter. It is understood this radio is for monitoring traffic and emergency use only, by Wrights Landing personnel. We will have a booth, along with the DEC Living Stream at the sixth annual Sportfishing Expo in Fulton, April 9 and 10.1 will be arranging for the set-up of the booth, and the Living Stream the day before the show. Les Wedge was our speaker for the evening, and he began by filling us in on a Lake Ontario Committee and Fishery Management he recently attended in Canada. He also showed us some of the new BP's that he discovered last year in the lake. This small variety of water insect are plankton eaters, and are found in deep water, so are not apt to be perch food. These little varmits consist of a rather filmy substance with a barely visible black eye and a spine about % of an inch long as stiff as a u-edle, and looking not unlike one. This might also deter their use as food by any fish. These originally originated in deep fresh water lakes of Scan- dahavia, and are believed to have got there through the balast of ships. Les had several of them pickled and some blown up photographs he passed around. I'm sure this year we will all be inspecting our downrigger cables as they come from the depths:' Also from the Canadian meeting, Bob O'Gorman of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife reported that as yet the predators had inflicted no ap- preciable loss on our Alewyve forage base, all fluctuations have been from weather and other natural causes. And our present shortfall of 60% of our Alewyve forage base, will very shortly be replenished by a two year old class of omingup. The present average size of Michigan Chinook dropped from 11 to 8 lbs. this year and Ontario's average size was 14 lbs. Ten years ago, we never caught salmon this small. The smelt contaminant level of Mirex and PCB's has decreased and dioxin levels have remained about con- stant. Elen Marsden, a scuba diving biologist who has been working with the lake trout off of Stony Island, has found up to 3,400 eggs per square meter in stones, but almost none in sand. She had about half of them eye up later on. A collection of spring flSwers mixed with greens and bows, arranged in a basket or colored bowl. L0» .«• A Large Variety of Easter Plants & Hanging Baskets Handcrafted Gifts for All Occasions • Homemade Easter Candy • Balloons ^Baskets & Huggable Bunnies •Corsages |Oalivarias Availaala by tha \KWA2Y WAIIIT\] OnUr Early far Eattar Salivary BUsburgBd. PH0ITB:387-6553 Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm Cliff Schneider collected 100,000 eggs with very poor eye up. There are 2,200 pairs of Cormorants on Little Galoo Island. They have literally devastated the island and eat 20 lbs. of fish each day. We have 142,000 skamania on inventory now but our Indiana Skamania this year were diseased and had to be destroyed. Les presented the Oswego River proposals, the same as Salmon River. He had many objections as to the lure requirements and the banning of hight fishing. My own research showed a definite loss of a t least $50,000 dollars in floating plug sales from the five, sport stores I can- vassed as a result of the proposed floating plug require- ment. The fall night fishing ban would be another loss to the city by keeping out the fall walleye fishermen. After much discussion, ELOSTA voted unanimously to oppose all proposed changes as they still haven't come up with any workable solutions to their problems, why inject Salmon River regulations on Oswego River when they already are a complete failure on the Salmon River. Then we were presented with the new proposals for the Salmon River, one of which was to open up snagging-for the whole length of the river for the month of September. There was no one there representing Pulaski, but I told Les and the membership that I had also just completed a pretty thorough canvas of the Pulaski and Port Ontario sport shops, and didn't find anyone who wanted snagging opened up again for the whole river. One reason for this, Dick Williams reported,- is probably that lodges especial- ly, feel that snagging for a whole month would drive away many of their sport fishing clients, and if they found a better place that suited them, they might never come back. After much discussion. ELOSTA again unan- imously voted to oppose all regulation proposals, as they; .-= still feel the DEC has again failed to come up with any r^ workable solutions. We did agree that for the Oswego River, a constant guaranteed water flow would lessen many of the prob- lems. There is to be an informational meeting in Oswego, March 31, to get a more accurate feeling of the general public. Black River also has some proposals and plans. It seems that the Jefferson County Sport Fishery Advisory Board wants to end stocking Chinook due to the snagginjf problems. It is planned to end in 1990. They wani Atlantics and Steelhead instead. Long-term plans are for lake imprinted chinook stocking, triploid effort will be resumed, and heavier stocking of Atlantics in Oswego River and Lake Ontario. He explained we will be swapping Cohos ior brown trout and Atlantics. We had many discussions on law enforcement. It seems some of our - C.O.'s don't even have cars, apparently our budget cutters didn't order them. One CO. is driving an old Ford and another one a pick-up truck, and we know the new radios we were supposed to have last year, still haven't been delivered. Any business that was run like our government is wouldn't last six months. I did run in to something else very interesting. As I drove down the road to Pine Grove, I noticed signs all along the road, no roadside parking, and every side access road to the river has been blocked either by rip rap or fresh brush piles. This is apparently to stop bullhead fishermen this spring. These must be new orders from someone, I aim to find out why and who gave them. Mexico Point is staying open for the bullhead fishermen, and Pine Grove is squeezing them out, why? Til have more on this later on, you can be sure. Old Hickory * CORREIA,. ^ ** SWing Trim^Xj GORREIA General Contracting Bwid I Km IMM Far k Law, Lw CMriraetiag friea , awaW vMIRm i lap vlwvH 20-40% off Safe Ewk 1/11/U INS It. 11 St. 2M-2S16 NU.U,'it 1 Jltt •rm-3111
