ONEIDA LAKE DIEHARDS THREAD...

[Raquettedacker]

Agreed. It should be ALL or NOTHING.

  Me to.... Thanks for posting that mister... 
 

[reeleyz]

No problem. I literally just got it 15 minutes ago.

I have no issue with them shutting it down for health reasons. I would completely understand that.

[filetandrelease]

 Thanks for posting

[Deadeyez]

I agree Bruce and old timer. Thanks for the info

[Badbrad2186]

I agree Bruce and old timer. Thanks for the info

Hey Bob do you play wreckfest on playstation 4 on of the competitors name is Deadeyez spelled same exact way

[Deadeyez]

Not me. I don’t play video games.

[Badbrad2186]

Not me. I don’t play video games.

Just funny the dudes name is the same as yours here.

[bigbuck]

Does anyone know what percent of Oneida Lake's walleyes come from natural spawning in the creeks vs. egg taking / stocking? Lake Erie has been having some real good spawning years providing primary driver of the higher numbers. Maybe the hatchery scale back will be less of an issue? (found my way over from ice shanty).

[Badbrad2186]

Does anyone know what percent of Oneida Lake's walleyes come from natural spawning in the creeks vs. egg taking / stocking? Lake Erie has been having some real good spawning years providing primary driver of the higher numbers. Maybe the hatchery scale back will be less of an issue? (found my way over from ice shanty).

Even if the natural spawn does produce the hatchery is on that lake and they strip all those walleyes from there that when they release the fry if they cant put a percentage of them back in that lake then shut the hatchery down this year and no lakes get walleye fry

[hunts2long]

Bad, not sure what you are trying to say...h2l

[Badbrad2186]

Bad, not sure what you are trying to say...h2l

What I'm saying is the natural down maybe be good but if they are catching spawning fish to strip them the natural spawn on Oneida isnt going to be as strong as lets say lake Ontario because less fish to naturally spawn..so if they aren't going to put some of those fry in Oneida lake then shut the hatchery down this year and no lakes get any fry. If they just leave the walleyes alone on Oneida this year and let them do their thing naturally the fishery will stay sustained

[mcully]

What I'm saying is the natural down maybe be good but if they are catching spawning fish to strip them the natural spawn on Oneida isnt going to be as strong as lets say lake Ontario because less fish to naturally spawn..so if they aren't going to put some of those fry in Oneida lake then shut the hatchery down this year and no lakes get any fry. If they just leave the walleyes alone on Oneida this year and let them do their thing naturally the fishery will stay sustained

Oneida has a million eyes and several tributaries that they spawn in. They only touch a very limited number for egg stripping.
With the shorter ice season and numbers of small eyes we are seeing it should be fine.
It may impact changing limits like they were discussing but only maybe.

[filetandrelease]

 Down East was a nursery of 13-14 1/2 “ eyes so come soft water season many will be keepers , I don’t see any problem with the eye population , go look at the thousands upon thousands that are or will be in 1 small stream (Scriba creek) and that’s only 1 of several bigger ones

[Old Timer]

How many years have they been stocking other lakes ?  Probably 50 or more. Seems by now those lakes would be self sustaining or not suited to walleyes. They are not stocking legal size so its not a put and take situation. Still say if you are not going to put back don’t take.  A few years back the guys were saying Oneida always gets her allotment first. When short on the # of eggs they hatched out they cut the other places #’s.  When the population in Oneida was low they cut limits and raised size. 25 to 15 to 10 to 5 to 3.  Why not just raise the limit to 4 or 5, leave the lake be for a year and spend the bucks saved on ventilators...   

[filetandrelease]

 Good idea OT ,  the money saved might help but I believe the gov said $25,000,00 per ventilator, it’s the availability seems to be the real problem,  but any help is better than none