On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:20:52 -0400, Greg Pavlov
wrote:

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:37:30 -0400, Peter Charles
wrote:


Well, after I mentioned it, the comments came back, "Ya, the Mailtand
has some good sized smallies." The Deputy CO/biologist said it was
too early for the spawn.


It's definitely seems too early (and probably too cold) for them
to actually be spawning now. Looking at a few notes I have, mid-
May is about the right time in the Niagara. My one problem with
believing that the fish you caught are residents is that unless
you're exaggerating the size :-) those are at 8 - 10 year old fish,
and it's hard to imagine that many surviving that long given the
pressure that stretch of river gets. And why wouldn't you have
run into a much larger range in sizes ?


Ya, that ran through my thoughts too. I did get a bunch of pulls that
could've been from smaller fish. These fish were definitely grouped
into two pods. The first pod was in the same location as arse-end
Charlie that I caught the previous week. This is where I picked up
the steelhead too. The other was right in the middle of the main
channel, downstream of the bridge. Outside of these two areas, I got
nada.

Peter

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