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Ice breaking with smelt trawlers Donna F. and the Omsteader and trawling seins.

Netting the waters

You Tube Search "Ketchikan, Alaska Videos" 20 mile drive around, boats, fishing, cruise ships, charter boats, boat ramps, fishing and airplane flights, My Coast Guard service areas.

Years ago during the Blue Pike fishery times, my father stored our boat in the canal behind the bridge.. We headed out the south gap to 55 foot of water off the Crystal Beach Park docks. Now with Hanna Blast Furnaces and Bethlehem Steel operations history, The lack of boat moorings and Boat ramps water can be made available for especially south town residents. Sail boat masts are limited by the bridge clearances, but there are plenty of sail boats in Buffalo Harbor waters. Show your interest in access here and maybe our political leaders can champion a movement for quicker safer docks with closer parking for the users of this vacant area.

This spring ice melt down turned up an alewife death crisis. Maybe more salmon will be stocked in Lake Erie because alewife in Lake Ontario determine stocking rates there. King and Coho salmon numbers will influence the angler use.

Trap nets are tar coated webbing that lead migration schools of fish to a heart area where escapement is improbable. The nets are pulled up and the live fish are dip netted into boxes on the boat They are then iced to keep the fish preserved and brought ashore for processing and round whitefish are smoked and sold locally or at Buffalo's Broadway Market.

WE also used a restaurant potato peeler to scale small perch. Charlies Seafood in Hamburg used an Electric Motor driven flexible shaft scaler for walleyes, blue pike, and Frozen Lake Winnepeg fish. Se at Netcraft store.

Has anyone been out at night yet planning on tomorrow night but wondering if water temp is too low Sent from my iPhone using Lake Erie United

Anyone see any minnows hanging around the upper? Just hoping to get enough to salt for the freezer. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Erie United

Yesterday on my drive by a lot of workers were on site, survey flags are in the fields and a lot of trees and brush are being trimmed clear for the right of way for power lines grids.

My grand daughter showed me a picture of wind mill blades being struck by lightning. A damage report was not available.

I ran a Commercial Gill net Operation for fourteen years. Although we were restricted to 55 foot depths, our gill nets were suspended ten feet from the surface except to bottom fishing as the non targeted fish cluttered up and damaged our nets. Walleyes are suspended in certain desired water temperatures. That is why planer boards are effective . Walleye market sized fish were under 22 inches long. Larger walleyes were price penalized to restaurants that wanted filets less than serving dinner plates. Like perch filets the demand was there in the market. 18 to 22 inch walleyes are the target sized. As summer hear warmed the surface waters we pulled our gear then till fall water temperatures returned as over catches were starting to decay. All catches were iced immediately, not live welled with hot summer water temperatures. It is harder to sell fish than catch them. I watch contest fishermen wasting good walleyes as they are not large enough to win contest moneys.

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My grand daughter drives back and from Springville to Downtown Buffalo daily using her home battery charging system in her 4WD Jeep wagon . Gasoline purchases are not happening any more unless she travels on vacations.

Jim Pahel from Emporium, PA I run a black 16.75' Lund. Purchased the boat last fall and was able to get up once last year, put in out of North East, PA. Did fine the first trip up, looking to spend more time on both Erie and Ontario this summer. Just waiting for things to get started.

Dredging was suppose to start today. Launch is closed until they are finished.