MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Checking Toms Point in AM with Hanger, and Chautauqua Lake Eddy. Only have till 9AM. Buddy ad 1 sub par keeper at LP, today.. managed to feed a pack of Hungry coy dogs a pile of perch..
Well, it took to February 13th to lock up the Chaut. report page, happens every year. Nobody ever learns...reports only! Jeez
I know where you are coming from, adkroy. I am one of those guys that hates to see people just taking bucket after bucket of fish and then complaining when there aren't any. Especially if they are what you consider "throwing them away". Please understand this this is a very different matter. I have fished dozens of lakes in this area and have never seen the amount of small perch the are in chautauqua. This has been going on for several years. As as avid fisherman of that lake, I can tell you that other species have really suffered due to the sheer numbers of perch that have exploded. What pshooter is doing is both legal and a big help to the overall health of the lake. When I go there again this weekend, if I am once again swarmed by small perch, I will be taking my 50 small ones out of the lake as well.
depends on your definition of safe? friends are fishing right now, and for the first time since 2011 I am taking the kids out because I feel it is consistent enough, may not be too thick, but at least in the area I am fishing it is the same thickness throughout the area. My friends are saying the ice is about the same thickness as it was this past weekend minus the snow on top. Conditions are far from ideal, but good enough for me.
to bad they don't stock chautaqua like they do to oneida. i read a thing on oneida that they stock 50million walleye fry a year. crazy and doesn't even account for natural reproduction. Oneida is only 5 times the size of chautauqua to. I'd take 10 million fry. hahah need abundance of predators in that lake to thin them out. another thing is of the thousands of perch myself and friends of caught... i've never caught or seen one that i would call a "jumbo". place like honeoye is a fraction of chautauqua and they have jumbos? just doesn't make sensei'd love to hear from a DEC biologist on why.