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Title: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 04, 2020, 12:32 PM

 1 of 15 caught in the past week that were over 20#s  aboard the Drifter  , the biggest being 25.5#s
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Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: trapper2000 on Aug 04, 2020, 12:54 PM
freddie  how  do  you cook  them????
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: lowaccord66 on Aug 04, 2020, 01:03 PM
Thats what I need.  Soon!  I'm going to jig some of those piggies this fall.  Thanks for sharing Fred!
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 04, 2020, 01:18 PM
freddie  how  do  you cook  them????
Season them on a cedar plank ,  grill them , when the meat gets flakey it’s  done , toss the fish and eat the plank 😜
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: reeleyz on Aug 04, 2020, 01:43 PM
That is a tank!
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: ActiveTrapChecker on Aug 04, 2020, 02:06 PM
Season them on a cedar plank ,  grill them , when the meat gets flakey it’s  done , toss the fish and eat the plank 😜

Ha!
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: OneBucketMike on Aug 05, 2020, 07:45 PM
Looks like the Lampreys are still doing well. Great fish.
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: rgfixit on Aug 06, 2020, 06:06 AM
Big fish! Be kind of like pulling up a 25lb anchor.
 We used to eat smaller lakers out of Seneca and Cayuga. Lemon, butter, salt, pepper...wrap them in foil and toss them on the grill.
Rg
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 06, 2020, 06:25 AM
Looks like the Lampreys are still doing well. Great fish.
They still treat Lake Ontario and it’s tribs for those nasty things ,
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: OneBucketMike on Aug 07, 2020, 09:53 PM
They still treat Lake Ontario and it’s tribs for those nasty things ,

Yea, they were claiming that they had good success killing the larva(?) in the tribs. after spawning but they seem to be back.
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 08, 2020, 03:53 AM
 Lampreys will always be something to deal with , they will never be eradicated , from What I’ve witnessed for over 4 decades things have greatly improved
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: taxid on Aug 08, 2020, 07:28 AM
Do they plant any Atlantics in Lake Ontario? Historically the landlocks were a native species and common in Lake Ontario at one time.
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: trapper2000 on Aug 08, 2020, 01:21 PM
they stock  them   but  reproduction  is  not  very good  ,i  could  be  wrong  but heard it  blamed  on a enzyme produced  by  alwives , sure there  are   people that know  more  about it then me
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: taxid on Aug 08, 2020, 01:59 PM
they stock  them   but  reproduction  is  not  very good  ,i  could  be  wrong  but heard it  blamed  on a enzyme produced  by  alwives , sure there  are   people that know  more  about it then me

Probably thiaminase an enzyme produced by alewives that causes a thiamine deffiency in the fish.

But they do stock them?
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 08, 2020, 02:40 PM

 http:// ` With these stocking reductions, 2020 lake-wide salmon and trout stocking in Lake Ontario will exceed 3.6 million fish, including approximately 1.1 million Chinook salmon, 755,000 rainbow trout/steelhead, 556,000 brown trout, 601,000 lake trout, 325,000 coho salmon, and 200,000 yearling Atlantic salmon.
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: taxid on Aug 08, 2020, 08:47 PM
http:// ` With these stocking reductions, 2020 lake-wide salmon and trout stocking in Lake Ontario will exceed 3.6 million fish, including approximately 1.1 million Chinook salmon, 755,000 rainbow trout/steelhead, 556,000 brown trout, 601,000 lake trout, 325,000 coho salmon, and 200,000 yearling Atlantic salmon.

Thanks for the info.

Can you imagine what it was like before the Europeans showed up with abundant landlocks in Lake Ontario? Maybe coasters too along with the lake trout?
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 09, 2020, 06:02 AM

 My grandad told me stories of what he saw as a little boy , some vey cool stuff ,
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: taxid on Aug 09, 2020, 10:52 AM
My grandad told me stories of what he saw as a little boy , some vey cool stuff ,

Share it with us!
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: zwiggles on Aug 09, 2020, 11:32 AM
Nice fatty!!! 👍

What was the general length on them? They look week fed to say the least.
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 09, 2020, 02:06 PM
Share it with us!
Here’s a couple , he told me the farmers backed there wagons down a pitched forked them out , Now I don’t know if they were for food or fertilizer , 1 small falls off the river they would try and leap and hit the rocks until they were bloody as the water was low
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: trapper2000 on Aug 09, 2020, 02:58 PM
freddie  i heard the  same  stories   and  that included little  salmon  river ....  pitch  forks  to  spear  them ......the  archaeologist that  researched   selkirk  state  park  where   looking  at the  old   american indian camps  that  were  used    by  them on fishing  trips then they  returned  to thier  homes


what  about the  blue  pike  that ran  in lake  ontario  and lake  erie?????
Title: Re: Lake Ontario laker
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 09, 2020, 03:16 PM

 Far as true blue pike I only know what I’ve read and that biologists would like to have specimens as they believe they no longer exist