Fall Salmon Run

[xrap]

It is interesting to see people who have flamed me before admit that they salmon fish in tribs too ... Wow, what a shocker ..

 

thought I have been the only sinner on this board ..

 

Cheers,

 

 

Give it up already!!

[Rich]

Salmon run's the best I've seen in a while on the Lake Erie tribs. Ours are about 98% natural with 2% strays from the US.

[canadadude]

Salmon hit in the rivers due to aggresion, they are not feeding only protecting the area there in. It dosn't really matter much to me why, as long as they hit.

 

As far as runs go this year has been dismal to say the least, at dams a few fish jumping may give the impression there are lots but in reality the numbers are way way down from previous years

[Paulus]

Thank GOD I haven't been able to get out much. I'd be chewing my own shirt off my back in frustration.

 

And, by the way, as soon as the fish cross the line from the lake to the estuary, they stop eating completely.

 

(Did I just say that? DOH!!)

 

p.-

[CLofchik]

Salmon run's the best I've seen in a while on the Lake Erie tribs. Ours are about 98% natural with 2% strays from the US.

 

Ontario has never stocked any chinook into Erie, the US used to stock Dunkirk & the Catt but stopped putting kings in years ago. There hasn't been any Kings stocked in Erie since 1997.

 

Though lot's are being caught, they're either strays that have colonized rivers, or even Huron stocked fish that have come down in a search for food.

[Rich]

Cool! Interesting to know. There must be a little natural reproduction at least because there are a couple of creeks I know which get pretty good (nothing in comparison to lake O) returns every year.

 

Another interesting thing is the pink salmon... where the heck do they come from?

[12footspringbok]

From what understand the pink salmon were accidentaly stocked in to lake superior many years ago. They have managed to naturally reproduce and spead into all of the great lakes. Actually saw one of those ugly buggers in the notty last year.