Freshwater Fishing, Fisheries Management, and Fishing Access News In This Issue: - Important Reminder - Wear Your Life Jacket!
- Spring Crappie Fishing
- Lake Champlain Atlantic Salmon Net Pen-Rearing Program - Year 2
Important Reminder - Wear Your Life Jacket!  Everyone aboard pleasure vessels less than 21 feet in length, including rowboats, canoes, and kayaks, while underway between November 1st and May 1st must wear a life jacket.
For more information on boating safety and navigation laws, visit the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation website.
Spring Crappie Fishing  New York is home to both black crappie and white crappie. Black crappie are the predominant species throughout the state. You may have also heard these members of the sunfish family referred to as calico bass, paper mouths and strawberry bass. Mid-spring, in between the opening days for the trout harvest season and the walleye/pike/pickerel season, is a great time to start fishing for them. Shortly after ice out, crappie congregate in shallower (warmer) water near structures (usually woody) and vegetation to feed and prepare for spawning, providing anglers with good opportunities to catch them from shore. So if you're looking to add something new to your fishing routine, give crappie fishing a try.
For an effective rig that provides a bunch of fun action, use an ultralight spinning rod with a small crappie tube jig tipped with a piece of worm. For more crappie fishing tips, visit our website.
Lake Champlain Atlantic Salmon Net Pen-Rearing Program - Year 2  DEC, in partnership with the Plattsburgh Boat Basin, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lake Champlain Chapter of Trout Unlimited, and SUNY Plattsburgh, are kicking off the second year of the Atlantic salmon net pen-rearing program which was created to improve post-stocking survival of this species.
For three weeks starting this month, Atlantic salmon smolts are being held in six net pens at the Plattsburgh Boat Basin docks in an effort to improve survival and increase the likelihood of imprinting - returning back to the stocked water for spawning. The project will compare two lots of approximately 26,000 salmon smolts to evaluate the effectiveness of net pen rearing as a stocking method. One lot of Atlantic salmon will be stocked into net pens in the Saranac River Estuary, pre-smolt, and held for approximately three weeks prior to release as smolts. A second lot will be directly stocked into the Saranac River Estuary at the same time as the net pen smolts are released, serving as a control. A comparison of returns between the two stocking methods will determine if pen rearing results in greater survival and homing than conventional, direct stocking. |
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