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Post by salty on Oct 7, 2014 15:33:06 GMT -5
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Paoli, Tammie J - Date: October 7, 2014 Subject: Lower Menominee River- 10/6/2014 SURVEY RESULTS Yesterday, 10/6/2014, we began our first of weekly fall daytime shocking events on the lower Menominee River. The primary purpose is to collect data on trout and salmon, including collecting heads from any Chinook salmon with an adipose clip so that we can determine the location and year of stocking. Trout are measured, checked for clips, floy tags, and lamprey wounds, gender info is recorded, and fish are returned to the river. The discharge at the USGS gauge upstream at McAllister was 3900 cubic feet per second today with 2 gates open at Hattie Street. Because of these high flows, we only shocked between Hattie Street bridge and Hwy 41 and not immediately below the dam. With the bay levels being up, and lots of water coming down, we were able to get into areas that are normally too shallow to survey. Water temperature was 51F. Results: · 15 brown trout (5 female; 10 male), ranging from 14.2 to 29.4 inches. · 8 pink salmon (5 female; 3 male), ranging from 15.9 to 18.4 inches. · 3 chinook salmon with adipose clip/coded wire tag, ranging from 30.0 to 33.5 inches. Dozens of walleye, including some very large individuals, were observed. Also observed were a few sturgeon, smallmouth bass, and redhorse. Pink salmon were first introduced into Lake Superior in 1956. They followed a 2 year life cycle, where they would mature, spawn, and die in odd years in some Great Lakes tributaries. Beginning in 2012, we began seeing them in fall surveys in the lower Menominee and heard reports of anglers catching them in the Peshtigo and Oconto Rivers. This did not follow the odd year rule and they appear to now be spawning in both even and odd years. Next week’s survey is planned for Tuesday, October 14. A male pink salmon, showing the characteristic “humpback”. Tammie Paoli with a 27.5 inch male brown trout. We are committed to service excellence. Visit our survey at dnr.wi.gov/customersurvey to evaluate how I did. Tammie Paoli Fisheries Biologist – Bureau of Fisheries Management Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 101 N. Ogden Road, Suite A Peshtigo, WI 54157 Phone: (715) 582-5052 Fax: (715) 582-5005 tammie.paoli@wisconsin.gov dnr.wi.gov |
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BlackOut
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Post by BlackOut on Oct 7, 2014 18:08:48 GMT -5
Thanks salty, all sounds pretty good. Big Browns, an pink salmon... to bad about those pesky walleyes
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Post by saugeye on Oct 7, 2014 18:40:06 GMT -5
Pink salmon are way over rated. They taste terrible, and are a pest
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SteveO
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run meat .. run deep .. run in the light
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Post by SteveO on Oct 7, 2014 18:53:57 GMT -5
Is it true that PINK Salmon are the OTHER pink meat?
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Post by saugeye on Oct 7, 2014 21:02:17 GMT -5
Lol
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Post by getchasome on Oct 7, 2014 21:02:27 GMT -5
Save a trout, club a walleye!!!
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Post by jlars on Oct 7, 2014 22:28:31 GMT -5
The pinks are taking over! The brown trout and splake fishery up there used to be incredible. Now they do trout studies without any trout...
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Post by BlackOut on Oct 7, 2014 22:35:18 GMT -5
Pink salmon are way over rated. They taste terrible, and are a pest I still wouldn't mind catching one, kinda like a coaster. I've never caught either yet |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 11:05:52 GMT -5
Growing up my dad and I ran our four line spread on the MN shore of Lake Superior and on pink salmon years (they come in every other year) we'd have to pull our lines every 20 minutes and many times had 4 little ones hanging on.
Have caught a couple out of Kewaunee in the past 5 years.
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Post by saugeye on Oct 8, 2014 11:21:33 GMT -5
Steve,have you ever tried eating them?
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Post by saugeye on Oct 8, 2014 11:22:24 GMT -5
By the way, Anchorman and I grew up fishing the same area
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Post by Scrapper on Oct 9, 2014 8:13:06 GMT -5
I have eaten them out of Lake Michigan, and they were pretty good.
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Post by salty on Oct 9, 2014 11:17:34 GMT -5
I have eaten them out of Lake Michigan, and they were pretty good. i suppose they would taste "pretty good" to you -------- your use to eating lake trout. |
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Post by BlackOut on Oct 9, 2014 11:42:21 GMT -5
I have eaten them out of Lake Michigan, and they were pretty good. i suppose they would taste "pretty good" to you -------- your use to eating lake trout. Another great tasting fish with such a bad rap |
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Post by muskymike275 on Oct 9, 2014 16:08:14 GMT -5
Mmmm lake trout grilled, canned, deep fried it's all good!
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