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This could rage on for years !!!! Most of you are targeting one species of forage. No one mentioned perch, in the fall perch move deep and will be loaded with lake trout eggs. As far as Senecaand Keuka lakes, my first 10 + years as a ECO, both these lakes were void of smelt, again it is assumed that they were interduced via the bait bucket. Both Seneca and Keuka lakes have good natural production of lake trout now, which is a change from 40 years ago. The primary food sources in Seneca lake and Keuka lake are alewifes, along with ciscoes and in Seneca lake trout feed also on sculpin. If it were just smelt, alewifes and perch there still would be good natural reproduction. What all of you are forgetting is that when natural reproduction was non-existent the above mentioned lakes were loaded with DDT. These lakes are surrounded by vineyards and DDT was the pesticide of choice. When DDT was banned many of these farms buried much left over DDT in there farm dumps, usually in a gully. I assisted on this study for years even after I retired. The reason that myself and several other retired ECO's did so was because we had knowledge of some of these dumps. Now that I have bored you with all this, the great news is that natural reproduction is BACK !!!!!!!
Hey ray you can think what you want but i work at the Northern Appalachian Research Lab and i know what is going on And ECO not all the lakes are reproducing naturally
Ray4852, couldn't agree more with your last post !!!!! esox slayer, thanks, you saved me from replying with the same !!!!!
"I've backed up more miles than Mushrat will most likely ever go ahead" !!!!!!
Marshrat..I really don't want to get into a battle here, but you are what, 16 years old?? I mean, what do you do personally at this research lab anyway?? You are still in school...correct?? So, how many hours do you put into this lab weekly??I really don't think you have the years of experience in any subject yet to be knocking what Ret.ECO has to say, or Ray...that post you made concerning the fish was good..but who did the research to begin with,,,what was the "control" factor..etc., etc...you get my drift?? Over the course of how many years has the study by the NARL been done???I think you'll find as you mature that just because some place has a fancy name like "research lab" doesn't mean it's got all the answers....Esox
You know what i don't really give a hoot what any of you think and the study has been going on since 1995 and i work from 330 to 5 everynight then i have to go to baseball practice intill 8 then i get home at 830 i do make homework then i go to bed get up and do it all over again. I was just trying to help ray see that sawbellies are not a good thing in SOME of are lakes they carrier Thiminase. If you don't believe me we took a simple from (spelling here) kauga and all the alewives taken from there contained a letheal amount of thiminase in the muscle tissue. If you want i can up load lots of doc and prove some of you wrong but I'm not going to do that this will be one of my last post on here