... Yup, that time of year. We've been at it since the first week in January this year. The fish are really doing well. The early spring has them ahead of schedule. They're all hatched and doing well. Someone snapped a picture of me picking out debrees and dead fish yesterday. Not many dead ones though. I only had 4 out of 50,000 yesterday. In all we've lost about 2,500. They're still feeding on eggs sacks but not for much longer. Getting them to eat food is the next big hurdle. That's when we loose most.... they just don't take to the feed. Soon we'll dump the trays and turn on the solar powered automatic feeders. I've been doing them 3 days a week. Got another guy to take one day starting this week.
Atlantic Salmon. We're restoring them to a water shed they vanished from 100 years ago. This spring we've had reports of several of our fish being caught in the 22-26 inch range One of my buddies caught one the first day of trout season but it was only 11 inches. My brother and I tried to find one opening day with no luck. We've caught 5 in a day... but that's rare. WE're a small private club that received permission to try and reintroduce them from the DEC. We stock them when they're a couple inches. In 2 years they're 10. In 3 they're 16-20. These are some of our older pictures. We know 3 over 22 inches were caught off a pier on the lake one day after ice out. http://www.fishcreeksalmon.org/Honor-roll.htm
That's really cool. Taking your time to do that for the ecosystem that has been messed by other people. True conservationist right here.
I'll second the Kudos statement. It takes a lot of time and effort to do what you are doing and it's a very noble cause.
