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Salmon
Dec 14, 2006 9:43:48 GMT -5
Post by ghostryder on Dec 14, 2006 9:43:48 GMT -5
I read a great article in yesterday's Post-Standard about how a staff member saw salmon in the little creek that goes from Glimmerglass lagoon to Lake Ontario. This is not a new thing. I've seen slamon and trout going up that creek for years-----it just depends on how good of a flow you have going into the Lake to attract them. And they're they're in the spring too. I've seen some pretty nice rainbows in there 2 years ago.
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Salmon
Dec 14, 2006 13:59:38 GMT -5
Post by Captain Oswego on Dec 14, 2006 13:59:38 GMT -5
Ooooh raaaaah
I'm sure that you already know this, so this is for others.
Salmon, and many other fish species, make an attempt to return to the place where they were hatched, to spawn. I guess that it is an inbred instinct that man may never fully understand.
The greatest impediment to this natural phenoma is man, and what he calls progress by damming up rivers and filling in creeks and wetlands.
These fish can be found, in smaller numbers, in many creeks and streams emptying into Lake Ontario. To name a few, Sterling Creek, Rice Creek, Grindstone Creek, Little Salmon River, the pond down by Ontario Bible Camp near Nine Mile and many others in the area.
Semper Fi Merry Christmas
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Salmon
Dec 14, 2006 14:31:10 GMT -5
Post by ghostryder on Dec 14, 2006 14:31:10 GMT -5
Hehe...Ontario Camp and Bible conference was LOADED with fish back in the 80's when I used to fish there! then it started to fizzle out year after year. Rice has them too when the shoreline isn't dammed up from all the waves. You can't really fish that section because it's all on private property. I still say the best stream to fly fish for them is Maxwell creek in the town of Sodus.
And of course, SEMPER FI!
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Salmon
Dec 14, 2006 14:58:02 GMT -5
Post by Captain Oswego on Dec 14, 2006 14:58:02 GMT -5
Hey, Where do you go for coffee now since Billy closed up. Miss the scuttlebur (AKA coconut wireless) It's been a long time.
Semper Fi Iron Mike
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Salmon
Dec 14, 2006 16:30:50 GMT -5
Post by Captain Oswego on Dec 14, 2006 16:30:50 GMT -5
Correction
That should be scuttlebutt
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Salmon
Dec 14, 2006 18:49:25 GMT -5
Post by ghostryder on Dec 14, 2006 18:49:25 GMT -5
Stewart's for coffee and a paper on my day's off. I usuaully have it at work so I don't go out for it often.
I see there's another article in today's Post regarding the salmon that have swimming up that little creek for YEARS now.
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Salmon
Dec 15, 2006 8:25:39 GMT -5
Post by Truth on Dec 15, 2006 8:25:39 GMT -5
All those years of living in Oswego and I never once knew this about the fish and the call of nature. I think it is interesting. I've been many times to the Oswego River during the fall months to see the salmon and I still am in awe at the size. Those things are huge! And I will be looking at Glimmerglass differently now.
Question for the fishermen: I know the Oswego River is now "safe" for eating fish within a certain limit per week<?>, but don't the salmon come from areas other than the local waters, thus have less contamination? Salmon is good eating!
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Salmon
Dec 15, 2006 11:21:34 GMT -5
Post by ghostryder on Dec 15, 2006 11:21:34 GMT -5
It's not recommended any more that any fish caught from Lake Ontario and it's tributaries be consumed. I think the problem is mercury levels are high, not to mention it bioaccumulates in the lager species (trout and salmon). I think it's too bad because we have such a great fishery here.
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