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Dang man. I'm glad you're alright. I'm guessing it is the same hole that I found over the weekend. Someone opened it up driving over the crack with a quad. If so, I had that hole marked with a tipup with the flag standing up Sunday evening. Someone must have taken the tipup. I posted a few pages back. I had found the tipup after everyone left. Told my kid he could have it. Just to tell him when we were walking off that we need to leave it behind to mark the hole. He was mad at me until I explained it might save someone from getting wet or killed. It grinds my gears that someone took it when it was pretty clear why it was put there. I'm really sorry you got wet man, but glad you're here to warn the rest of us.
Hate to interrupt the bio talk but what am I gonna do on Saturday with all this snow. Im a walker man, no wheeler or sled for this guy iv got hooves and that's it. As I was snowblowing the driveway tonight I got to thinking "man this thing is powerful I bet it could pull my sled". Might be willing to pay someone to pull my sled out for me. They wouldn't even have to bring me out, Just my crap. Im starting to think I built my smitty sled wrong because everyone talks about how great it goes through deep snow and mine doesn't. Doesn't sit on top like everyone sais it just sinks in and is a bear to move. Eh, either way ill be out there again Saturday. Thinking about going somewhere Iv never been before. Can anyone tell me where I can or if I can access in Hague. Iv been studying navionics maps and found a spot I want to try but don't know where to access.
Hague boat launch!!
Fished Roger's Rock Monday and had a good day, but fishing on Modays has its drawbacks. Fish307 bait is all gone (at least the last 2 weeks), Outdoorsman is closed and Crossroads doesn't open til 7 (though the bait was perfect sizes). Its hard for me to get bait the day before, hopefully one of these places step up a little. Their employees are all very nice but we all don't fish on Saturday and Sunday
headin out in a few for some laker action! ill bee off pk somewhere. if ya see a big dude in a brown suite come say hi.
If so, I had that hole marked with a tipup with the flag standing up Sunday evening. Someone must have taken the tipup. I posted a few pages back. I had found the tipup after everyone left. Told my kid he could have it. Just to tell him when we were walking off that we need to leave it behind to mark the hole. He was mad at me until I explained it might save someone from getting wet or killed. It grinds my gears that someone took it when it was pretty clear why it was put there. I'm really sorry you got wet man, but glad you're here to warn the rest of us.
Now if all you guys with machines can pack down trails for all us walkers ... that would be greeeaaatttttt Thank you
A tip up might not be the best way to warn people though. Someone could want to check out a lone tip up, not to mention take it themselves. Just my thought.
Capt JJ, my old fishing partner worked for old man Elsworth, then jamie over 27 years ago, then Jeff at the Peace Pipe before it was 307. I grew up in Elsworth's, and I am almost 58. DEC biologist figured out the most of the salmon were sterile from inbreeding so long, they began stocking different strains to see if they could turn the spawning around with the few that may not be sterile. Oh, they did spawn in the lake, even back in the 70's we would see then in the creeks and around the mouths of brooks in the fall. After all, they have been there since the glaciers receded, and cut them off from the ocean. They are called "LandLocked Salmon" because of the glaciers, but are basically Atlantic salmon that learned to spawn and live without returning to the ocean in freshwater lakes and streams....My Great grandfather watched them spawn in the 40's when he was the caretaker of the Wiawaka. see my other post...He also ran the lake George private trout hatchery on rte. 9 just about where the BBQ joint is off exit 21....Barebow
Thank you bearbow for confirming ll salmon have bread in lg for a long time. The reason there were more charters in the past was because there where more fish creating the market. But in order to resstablish a heathy population of salmon witch can successfully reproduce in the system a keeper salmon of,18 in realy shuld not be kept an left to breed. That in combonation with culing the laker population and the new genetics that have ben introduced from Maine culd bring back the salmon to lg like it was in the past.i wuld just like to see the salmon go from what is considered a put an take fishery and have it become at least a semi self sustainable fishery and it can be done if ppl put the practices the biologist sugest into afect
Beware at pilots knob people. I fell through this afternoon on my walk back to the vehicle. On the way out I noticed a mountain dew bottle off the edge of a pressure crack. I stayed a good distance away from it (roughly 100ft) took a step and went through about 2in of slush. Realized thats not good and went to step to the side to walk away and went in. It happened really quick. I was able to get right out without much trouble. The ice did not break around me as I was getting back on top. I went in to about my abdomen. There were other guys in shanties close by that I wanted to walk out and warn but I was soaked and the only thing on my mind was to get to the car and warm up. Please be careful people. With the snow blown all around im sure its nearly impossible to see these bad spots.
I would like to see the spring stocking done in the creeks