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Some of you guys are crazy. No body ever said anything about the trout dying . They said the alewife are dead . And the trout are just adjusting from eating meat to Eatin plants ,Like they use too . before alewifes were introduce . The only thing people were talking about was how there were not as many 15in and smaller trout in the nets . But one of the reasons is because they were eating alewife, if you look up the grow rate it is twice as fast as it use to be when they ate mostly plants .so fish that would apear to be older by size . Would actually be a year or years younger. Than they are. this would make them seam to apear to be starving , while they wait for the rest of there body to catch up . Just like a person would if the swithched from Eatin meat to plants , u would lose weight . I don't think a fish like a lake trout would starve in a lake full of fish . When people start to say they see trout dead then we should start to worry . Hope fully Dec will figure out some kind of bait situation. Like smelt .befor any did die . Now there's not as many alewife smelt would do good . Cause competition for food and they actually eat smaller smelt and the eggs . Alewife Can get so bad they can take up to 95% of the fish mass in a lake .
Some interesting reading from 1996 on the history of the fishery..........http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/biofld/PUBS/SOL/sol33.htmlSorry, no help for the vegetarian Lake Trout theory.
How would the DEC take them out?
I would think either by netting or a targeted kill but I don't know for sure. It's obvious that suddenly they are gone and the trout are thinner .
That is about the most far-fetched thing I have EVER heard.1st question: Why?2nd question: How?Alewive populatioins are a volitile, cyclical thing, they simply suffered a massive die-off coupled with increased predation. End of story.
I hope everyone takes the time to read that.
can some one tell me what to use for a jig and bait i would like to hook on a lake trout?
Trapper there are two strains of lake trout in the lake different looks for each strain also different looks among same strains
Hows the ice holding up after this rain crap? Me and my grandfather may make the 1 1/2 hour drive to try to get our first lakers if the ice looks good. Any tips to get a laker or two?
Sorry for being a rookie but I was also told to space the sinkers out. Like 1 ft apart. Is this ok, or just go with 1 sinker a foot up? Thanks again...