Telemetry Group Meeting tonight

Eldredge Club

6:00 p.m.

If you're not in the group, want to be in on some telemetry planning or have some ideas, you're welcome stop in.

Nothing to do with Musky fishing but if you happen to be salmon fishing this spring while waiting for the Musky opener, read on:

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NYSDEC/bulletins/1e0dc37

Just got an email from Musky Hunter mag. They are donating a one year subscription to Musky Hunter for our banquet.

Bill Hilts, jr has DEC's Don Einhouse talking about Lake Erie's walleye fishing. About 12:50 into it (actually before) they talk GLATOS, the NMA's musky telemetry study, Lakers, Sturgeon study, and a little bit on telemetry

https://livestream.com/LCTV20/events/2964614/videos/170250801

When the ground hog saw its shadow & predicted six more weeks of winter, did it mean it would be an early spring or a late spring? It's been so cold for so long I can't tell anymore

Please don't take your ice boats out today:

• Issuing Office: Buffalo

  Source: National.Weather.Service

  3:31am EST, Sun Jan 7

... SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY, WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY. * WINDS...…

Got a call from Denny Malinowski the other day & he was excited that his granddaughter, Evie, won a lifetime fishing license this year. Congratulations to her (and gramps)!!

Ice boom installation is complete.

In case you missed Bill Hilts Jr's writeup on the John Henning:

http://buffalonews.com/2017/12/06/the-fishing-beat-20/

Delicious food, great prizes, and fantastic company! If you missed it, you missed a good one!!

See you next year!!

Just got word from Justin of the DEC that they are still on schedule to take our telemetry receivers out of the Harbor on Nov. 30th. You can't ask for a better date than that!

The receivers are (1) @ Union Ship Canal, (1) @ City Ship Canal, (1) @ Wilkeson Pointe and (3) along the inside edge of the breakwall from the South to the Middle Gap. If you see them out there (one piece orange exposure suits), give them a wave (if you're not busy netting) & give them…

In this a.m.'s Bflo News:

http://buffalonews.com/2017/11/17/environment-officials-plot-against-pesky-cormorants/

Nobody was feeling sad for this one on Motor:…

For all the Tragically Hip fans:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/order-of-canada-trebek-tragically-hip-1.4406801

"Band 'created a sense of what it's like to love—and live in—this country,..."

8:20 p.m. tonite. Fox TV

Jonah Withers (USFWS) pulled the receiver that was at the head of the Niagara (off Nicholl's) today & dropped it off at the DEC's office so they could do their magic.

He said he didn't have much trouble retrieving it. Look for a short article in the Nov newsletter on the schedule.

Just got word from the ACE that they are still "on" to present their proposals on their Unity Island project. Instead of being a vast, flat wasteland, the plan calls for adding dropoffs, stumps, vegetation & even a 50' opening into the Niagara River so fish can move in & out.

Tuesday, Oct 3rd, 7:00 p.m. at the NMA meeting

Talked with some DEC biologists yesterday and most of the sites were already sampled. The Strawberry Island lagoon is the only one left.

Of all the sites, only one YOY musky was seined and that was at the East River Marsh. It was somewhere in the mid to upper 40 millimeters long (~1-3/4"). They mentioned that the water levels were quite high & there were a few sites that couldn't be sampled because they couldn't get far enough out into the weeds to seine.

Had a tough day on Sunday. Still managed one little 36in fish, and tagged him too!

Got a nice video of the catch, and my misfortune. I've gotten pretty comfortable handling Musky, and always focus on quick release. Unfortunately if one become complacent, accidents happen.

As I went to take the hook out, Musky spun in the net, wrapped up my hand and pierced my knuckle with the stinger hook. Happened in a split second, and I had to pull the hook out of my knuckle quick, as the…

Saw this waterspout off the Waverly Shoals/Ft Erie area yesterday as it was headed toward Buffalo. You have to look hard but go straight down from the funnel & you'll see a fuzzy, washed-out area on the shore at the waterline. That was the water boiling up.

Taken from the railing at Hoak's. Then the rain came (hard!)…