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Took the wife out Perch fishing. Went to the river to dip some emeralds and none to be found. Only minnow to be had is Goldies uggg. What is happening to our lake? Never have I not been able to get minnows by either buying at Russ's or spending 2 min tossing a net and getting a bucket full. All my haunts were void of bait. Seriously I know Comorants are a major Pain but have they devastated the food source this bad?
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Bottom line. Those incharge of this region only get concerned when tax dollars fall. Queen Hochul is directly tied to this area and her only concern was to plant windmills on spawning grounds. What is needed is to first go after businesses getting the on board showing them revenue that is lost. My lord just look at simple things we use. Bait shops!! We keep losing them and once gone no one replaces them. Buy local guys frig going to Cabelas Dicks or internet. These guys run on a shoestring. Give them some reasons to stay open.. this is a drop in the hat. This will never happen in my lifetime but the future of acess to erie for the future depends on more than just us fishermen
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Totally agree that the lake is 100% unutilized by the state or whoever has any control of access points. This state is a waste of time talking to. The repair of sturgeon point is nothing more than a bandaid. I worked on the dredging of Buffalo river. The company dredging was from Michigan. The Scow they used was over 100ft long and easily 10 ft deep and approx 15ft width. The dredge clam held close to 12 yards material per dip. The Sturgeon Pt sand problem needs to be addressed to remove all the sand to the east of the wall where fuel pump sits it should be dredged at least 15 ft deep and placed in a bottom drop scow and taken 2 miles out and east of the harbor and dropped on the move. We all know a wing wall of tight sheet piles would deflect sand but I can guess we will never see this in my lifetime. I took a ride yesterday to obviously look for launch sites. NY is a joke. I'm seriously thinking of heading to the west. Ohio, PA at least has launch sites capable of handling more than 50 vehicles each.
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So as expected construction of new wall or repair of old will begin this spring. Woth it the marina will be closed. This will leave us with few launch sites to hit the lake. We already know of all the launches and most we know have very limited parking. My question is because I've never had to use it. How's Barcelona ? Anything needed to know? Hazards? Parking limitations and fishing areas? No need for numbers or "secret" spots. But what's the basic travel distance to decent fish able water. Thanks in advance.
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Just a FYI if your stick baits don't have split rings you can add one or I prefer using a small cross lock snap. Not a swivel mind you but just a snap run the swivel like 2 ft up line or because I use Lite Bite divers I run off my braid a tiny spro swivel (which goes through all the eyes )tied to braid Palomar knot then tie 20lb floro (Palomar knot) to swivel rig the lite bite and put a snap swivel at the end. It stays clean and never a breakoff.
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Went out yesterday out of SP. Found perch from 56 to 60 for everywhere we went quit a few shorts but still manage 38 with a dozen or so 14" empty females. Many more 10+ inches. They are not really schooled up and for sure your not going to see them on your Graff. They're belly to the bottom and loaded with baifish. Did manage one decent eye too. Only fished 4 hrs so not a bad day at all. Beware of tree out straight from the entrance of harbor sticking up like 18" out of water. In about 30fow.
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Spent entire week at sunset rented cottage there. What a crap week. Winds every day kept us off the water. We went out trying it but 2 days off shore winds which were supposed to be under 1 foot we found 2 1/2 footers out 60 ft. Not one fish suspended no baitfish couple bumps on bottom but why bother rigging up when it's a baron wasteland. I refused to go out to 80fow due to waves. My boat isn't capable of handling 4 footers. I'm throughly disgusted.
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All fish have a preferred Temperature range. Cold water species such as Trout and Salmons head to deeper waters come summer and thrive below thermoclines. Bass prefer warmer Temps and stay in the upper Temps. Walleye and Perch like the same temperature range so as the lake turns and is at this time somewhat unstable they'll go to the preferred zone. Which happens to be above the thermocline. Most of our electronics if tuned properly can pick it up. So as bait rises with the thermocline so do the predators. These surface temperature drops will also trigger the trout to prepare to invade the creeks. So fishing cooler shallower water will trigger lots of hook ups with steelhead now
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Just finished cleaning a few from this Am outing. Started at 64fow trolled out to 74fow. Took 4 min to boat the first eye. Tossed back 3 more. Made loop back into 68 fow and headed west. Lots of light hits. Turned back east and picked up another for cooler and that was it. The wind picked up big time and started capping big. Long slow ride in it made ya pucker up a few times. Going to release 2 in hot oil for dinner. Got them early on firetiger bronze. As sun got higher purple black was the number. Towed behind a lit bite 180' back they were tight to bottom for the most.
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