ONEIDA LAKE DIEHARDS THREAD...

[reeleyz]

https://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/2023/03/anglers-conservationists-cops-brace-for-another-fight-over-native-fishing-rights-near-oneida-lake.html

There were 2 DEC Officers posted there yesterday...

[filetandrelease]

 Never a dull moment

[reeleyz]

Never a dull moment

My suggestion is to replace the no fishing signs with NO TRESSPASSING signs. Then the issue has nothing to do with fishing rights...

[filetandrelease]

 Maybe that would help , I believe there are no parking signs there now

[oneida1]

From the article sounds like it will be a bigger issue this year "whole bunch of people" Camping out for a month" not accepting tickets" hope it dosent get ugly but dosent sound good.....Hope the DEC dosent back down and enforces the law

[greensider]

Ahh thanks for info that hatchery is within site of my step daughters house

[Old Timer]

Just put nets across the the outer section of the mouth of the creek blocking the mouth and let the eyes spawn over the rocks.  Or. …. Have several bus loads of SPORTSMEN get their boots on and pack the creek. 

[filetandrelease]

 Just read in the newspaper that the Akwesasne are vowing to come back
 There was a bill introduced to stop that
 But the empress vetoed it , 🤬

[KingPerch]

It appears the current administration likes conflict!!

[filetandrelease]

It appears the current administration likes conflict!!

The entire country seems to enjoy the turmoil it has created

[reeleyz]

I stopped watching the news over 10 years ago when my oldest was born. Got sick of the negative and slanted nonsense. I don’t think I’ve missed anything important since then! 

[trapper2000]

Government caused this issue let them fix it......I rather eat perch anyway

[oneida1]

Perhaps im wrong but the bill she vetoed last year would have allowed what there doing spearing, netteing , and no season or limits I know OLA was against the bill , by no means am I a fan of hers. Or maybe there was another bill I didnt know about,

[reeleyz]

You have it right Oneida1. The bill would have made things like this spearing issue even harder to enforce. She was encouraged to veto the bill and she actually did, which was a shocker.

[filetandrelease]

 http://In November 2021, DEC instructed conservation officers not to enforce hunting and fishing regulations on Native Americans “engaged in subsistence activities” except under certain conditions, including fishing on spawning beds or near fish hatcheries, according to an internal memo obtained by the Oneida Lake Association and published on its Facebook page.