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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.

 On  the East side of the creek a woman launches and stores boats.  A Seneca Nation Fishing license may be required .  Walleye, perch, and catfish  are available along with rainbow trout. If the lake is too rough the creek offers good fishing also

Also bring more anglers as their minnows under the boat attract and hold the perch school there. Other boats nearby are also attract and hold perch schools, do not chase nearby boats away.

Limit perch catches are in from 55 foot of water between Cattaraugus and Sturgeon Point. Anchor up and use a lot of minnows to lure and hold the perch schools.

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.

Wikinger Wind Farms Germany

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.

There are now new ships for underwater windmills installation. Search out these ships.

Allegany County Hillsides are the next major windmill project. Off 2

Off Route  243 and Route 98 near Rushford Lake is the work site going on now. Hundreds of workers vehicles are parked there along with construction equipment. Power transmission right of ways are being cleared to inter connect the towers through out Allegany County.  Patrol cars, buses and homeowners are having charging stations to not use gasoline anymore. Battery operation is keeping the states move rather than gasoline and diesel fumes. The farmers  are making a better living collecting lease money rather than feeding and cleaning cows. Battery storage buildings are being built  since power plants will shut down on weekends as in European nations.

The 200 foot deep hole is in Ontario waters where the smelt summer over.

You have to imagine that your day's catch is unloaded with a fork lift into a semi truck trailer then taken to an air freighter for sale. It is easy to catch fish but a lot harder to sell fish.

In 1956 "blue pike" were the number one food fish harvest boats anchored offshore and we caught hundreds of blue pike nightly under coleman white gasoline  lanterns mounted on our small outboard boats. Cities of lights from 55 foot depths were using emerald shiners attracted to the lantern lights.  Bait dealers like "Norms" on Tift Street in Buffalo supplied starter bait till the emeralds appeared on the surface to feed on the food attracted by the lantern lights. Then a minnow net scooped more bait to supply the fishing. Suddenly in 1956 the blue pike populations plummented, not from overfishing but the precense of huge hoards of smelt that feasted on emeralds and small sport fish like yellow, blue pike and perch. The smelt were introduced by Michigan agencies to feed the Lake Trout commercial  harvest there. In 1 fishing efforts disappeared fishing ended as Lake Erie was e  956 the small blue pike started to disappear, not drom overharvests but the ecplosion of the foreign smelt biomass. Lake Erie sport fishing efforts co;;apse since the blue pike yielded fewer but larger fish but then disappeared completely. Ontario commercial fishing fleets were lost also until they adapted trawl nets for the masses of smelt and markets in Asia to buy the smelt after 747 aircraft from Detroil began deliveries.. By the mid 1960.s yellow perch and walleyes returned. Bait dealers returned also but bait suppliers are port fish fishing .still short supplied today. Controls on the smelt foreign invaders is our present source of sport fishing success. Despite an Absence of media reports we are living with the ignorance of historical reports. Huron Ohio historical siciety and other historical teports art lost today from the media.. You Tube TV has video shows available today.

Smelt trawling harvest from Ontario ports  such as Port Dover and Wheatley ships tons of Lake Erie smelt air freighted in iced containers to China with Kalitta Airlines 747 Freighters from Detroit Airport Detroit. That is why sport fishing  for perch and walleyes has returned to Lake Erie. Not beaucratic BS about how well they manage the fishery. The smelt were the greatest predator in Lake Erie.

Ontario Sites Wind Turbines on shore sites that pay the property owner a fee for the use of the land. The Ontario Lake Erie shoreline has hundreds of wind towers along the Lake Erie shoreline. Fly to Detroit, Count Them! At night red lights are flashing along the Lake Erie shoreline. Count them from our shoreline!!

Huron, Ohio History of Commercial Fishing Story from the Huron Historical Society

YouTube TV/Search has a fishing video from Huron / Ohio on western Basin Lake Erie Commercial fishing from the last 150+ years. Thatis is why fishing in Ohio waters is Good