We get our eggs in February. When they hatch and loose their egg sack, it's a 500-600 yard walk through deep snow to feed the buggers. Where the hatchery is we got around 250 inches of snow the past two winters.
We get our eggs in February. When they hatch and loose their egg sack, it's a 500-600 yard walk through deep snow to feed the buggers. Where the hatchery is we got around 250 inches of snow each of the past two winters.
My dad was instrumental in the reintroduction of Brook trout to certain secret areas of ohio He really thought your set up was neat, and added "If they could figure out a way to keep them for a year they would see a 70% jump in survival!!" I thought that was cool, hard to get the old mans approval! Anyhow, I am dating a girl from Auburn, and would lvoe to make the drive down to see yah sometime!! Maybe wet a line. Thanks for all you are doing!
Well, the hatchery is sort of off limits. The land owner doesn't like people wandering in he doesn't know. He's sort of a free spirit mountain man type. LOL He wouldn't take to me bringing in people without prior approval and notice. We give him a couple thousand salmon every year. He has some in his ponds over 2 feet. He also raises a bunch of brookies. He's got one brookie we measured at 19 inches. He lives in a pool at the head of our spring feed with 40 other brookies. He lost 600 little salmon last year(5-6 inches) to mink. He left the screen off his tank. They got in there and killed them all in one night and buried them in the snow banks. Herons also killed some of his brookies in the big pond and several medium sized salmon. They stab the things and then decide they can't eat them... usually fish in the15-16 inch range.
In my smaller tank I have a piece of driftwood too. It isnt as sweet as yours sounds though haha, its only a 12-14" chunk really. Where did you get yours? I would like to get one that I could stand up in the tank, or at least lean it against the glass so fish can hide under it. I plan on getting neon/cardinal tetras to start the tank, then adding cory cats, gouramis, angel fish, and whatever else I find that looks good and is peaceful. Any recommendations? I dont really want anything that is really hard to care for either, im kinda busy usually.
yeah they are horrible for that. tell yah what, if you ever wanna come play in our steelhead, open invite. I even got teh flies for yah to use. if you could ever convince him, i would love to see it, if not. dont be suprised to see me and my scott rod on fish creek lol
My brother and I are going to Pulaski for Steelhead and Browns on Saturday. THat's IF I can shape this cruddy feeling I've had going on since yesterday.
Good luck David. I used to go over there too after the salmon run for stealies and browns. I had good luck on little salmon, south sandy and grinestone too. Haven't been back in years but went through town this year on the way back from the Colorado summer trip. I couldn't believe how things have changed from the days when the only place to stay was at the Log Cabin (gone now). Is the hatchery still up and going at Altmar? That was quite an operation when they were in production. Some of our TU guys have a similar set up near here for a special strain of stealhead that goes into the Willoughby River up north. They get the eggs from the state and raise them in a pivate pond in Essex Town. The feeding is a chore and they lose some to herrons too. I guess the capture and trucking is something to see though. They lower the pond and net all the fry then the state takes over and trucks them I think.
Me too.. Geckos and red-tailed boas. used to have a bunch of ball pythons but I gave them away when I moved. I've owned a Tegu monitor (mini-komodo dragon-type reptile), and enough species of snakes to open a reptile zoo. Used to be really into that stuff. My buddy has a pretty cool sal****er aquarium (anyone notice the salt...water censorship? This filter cracks me up.) Some eels, sharks, etc..
