Hey,
Just wondering if any of you American guys have caught any Koho. There was 2 caught this past Saturday on the Canadian side off Port Colborne. Never heard of them being caught here before.
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Hey,
Just wondering if any of you American guys have caught any Koho. There was 2 caught this past Saturday on the Canadian side off Port Colborne. Never heard of them being caught here before.
It happens on occasion. Same with kings. They're wild hatched fish
Interesting. I heard they last stocked them in 2004 because they weren't able to reproduce in this lake. My fish def wasn't 10 years old. Good to know, thanks.
PS, this site has helped me a lot with walleye fishing over the past 4 years. I haven't posted much but I love the info you guys provide.
That's cool,this past fall I caught and released a 34 inch male chinook salmon in cattaragus creek . That's the first one I caught out of Lake Erie in almost 20 years
Hey at least you signed up! Most just troll this sight for info. We give more info when there's communication. Lmao just for instance. My cousin was going out fishing and dragged me along. He says hang on I gotta check the computer. He comes back outside and says. The walleye are at blank to blank feet. I laughed. I knew he was looking on here for info cause I read it all before I got there. Then he goes to me. So. I hear about this fence that everybody fishes. Some guy (bailey) said a white picket fence. And this other guy (me) was saying a barbed wire fence that goes out into the water. Is there really such a thing? I've never seen the fence out there but I don't want to hit it if it's underwater.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffhend24
I couldn't stop laughing. So I says maybe you should join the site you were just on and you'd know what we were talking about. Lol that look on his face, when I said I'm Copo on there, I wrote that barb wire as a joke. And that guy that just called me was fishkiller. Too funny.
I miss the salmon on Erie. It's cool when you see a pair spawning in the fall and know they are naturalQuote:
Originally Posted by wiseman
Thats too funny. I must say there was a time when I wasn't sure what the fence was but I didn't think it was an actual fence that went out into the water. And just think, if there was 2 of them. I think I would fish the picked fence, barbed wire sounds kind of dangerous.Quote:
Originally Posted by copo427ss
I guess its not much different then me googling all the short forms I seen on here when I first started. Guess I should have just asked. You all seem like great guys.
Any and all Salmon species in the lake now are coming from the Welland Canal from Lake Ontario or the Detroit river from Lake Huron. there are no reproducing stock left in Lake Erie.
I've seen salmon in catt on redds. South branch too. You don't think any are coming from natural reproduction Jim? Didn't think about them coming through the welland. Steelies reproduce.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishkiller16
almost all salmon caught in the eastern basin are caught near the welland canal area.Quote:
Originally Posted by copo427ss
Ah ha, good call!!!! Didn't think of that. I was just thinkin of the ones down by catt. I'd imagine their is a small percentage that survive from eggs in catt but to small of a percentage to right home about.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishkiller16
I would venture to guess they are not even spawning in the Catt they are just going thru the motions that instinct tells them to do.
I've never disturbed them or dug in redds to check.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishkiller16
Fishkiller, I respect your theory and it does hold some validity, but I can guarantee you the salmon are spawning successfully on the Catt and its' Tribs. There is a reason why they are returning to the Catt every year and that is to return to where they were born. I have seen first hand, multiple times, salmon spawning on the Catt and not just going through the motions. The DEC estimates successful, natural spawning of steelhead at 25 - 35%. I was a part of the Diary Program for 10 years and conversed with the DEC on a regular basis. If the steelhead can successfully spawn, so can the salmon. I catch steelhead smolts every fall on the tribs of the Catt so I can confirm natural steelhead reproduction. The salmon are there as well, just in very small numbers. Just giving info on what I have seen in over 20 years of fishing the Catt and its' Tribs.
Thanks for all of your info on the walleye fishery.
That was my thinking,hot chub.