NoSaint
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You are lucky to be able to fish for salmon. Our government here messed up the eco system by pumping too much water out of the river, damning up rivers, and a number of other problems. The salmon population is almost extinct. I'm pretty sure the season will be closed again this year... Just puts more fishing pressure on all the other species which in turn makes their numbers go down too... Lets Pray for better fishing days ahead...
Its hard to believe NY has better fishing for salmon and steelhead than california and some places do. THe government screwed everything up.
Lake ontario and some lakes near it used to have huge populations of atlantics, but they were wiped out hundred years or more ago. Now they have small stockings of them, but very few return. I've gotten 3 total in 16 years of fishing the tribs of that lake.. Since the alewifes moved/got introduced into the lake the atlantics eat them and have trouble reproducing because of something in the alewifes. Some enzyme or something in them screws up the atlantics natural repo.