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Originally Posted by dakota560
Doesn't help that the water temperature in the rivers is still around 50 and there's no water or rain. Cold winters and ice covered great lakes the last two years have impacted the steel head fishing. By how much and for how long is what everyone is trying to get their arms around. After the die off they had last year and the ultra slow start this year, lot of people are scratching their heads. DSR reports have been anemic and the rivers have no where near the fish they should have this time of year. November / December will be interesting months to see if the fish are late or if the fishery is in trouble. At this stage I think if you asked most people, they would suggest the later. Hope the chrome mysteriously appear from somewhere otherwise we might be into a longer term trend that nobody wants to admit.
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That was my feeling...what if...But water at 50--normally, by mid-October there's a lot more steelheads than now this year anyway. I heard about the ice while up there, but I didn't quite get any info on how ice makes any difference, and how die off, exactly; do you know? Yeah, reports were like, oh no, we're getting skunked.
Also, I heard Asian carp are in western Lake Ontario. That's real bad news, but probably not affecting the Eastern fishery for years yet. All I know: The Salmon River was once absolutely loaded with wild Atlantic salmon, wiped out, late 1800's. And at some time or other, they attempted Chinook stocking--
that failed. And then they tried again in relatively recent decades and got the fishery we've had, or at least until this year's low salmon & steelhead numbers. So the Salmon River is sort of a bipolar story going back centuries, and if it dies because of Asian carp...doesn't necessarily mean it's all over. Sometimes it seems all is lost, but all returns.
