July 1 SE Nanticoke.Shoal

[Real Therapy]

Fished the Elbow for 3.hrs only 2 fish.A laker and a small pic.Water was cold 44 degrees at 55 ft.Pulled lines and went east 11 miles.Reset and caught 22 fish in 1.5 hrs.12 Lakers 3 pics 2 Atlantics 2 bows and 3 silvers.Water was 60 degrees down 55.In 107 fow down 80 for the Lakers bows on 5 colour core.All spoons.On a different note caught a nice Muskie on a rigger at the Elbow.

 

[Josh Roelofsen]

Careful.....no open season for atlantics in lake Erie...

Josh

 

[Real Therapy]

I think 1.Atlantic per person zone 19.i carefully looked at regs.

 

[Kingkiller]

Look like cohos?

 

[Josh Roelofsen]

It's a stupid regulation....the atlantics showing up are stocked in Lake Huron as a put and take fishery. Getting busted for keeping one would suck tho...

 

[sterlingz]

It's a stupid regulation....the atlantics showing up are stocked in Lake Huron as a put and take fishery. Getting busted for keeping one would suck tho...

Count me in as someone who'd misidentify an Atlantic for another species. It would suck getting fined for that.

On another note I'm sure you could fight this in court and win easily. I've been fined twice and successfully fought both. First one was for no life jackets and I launched the boat and the cops stopped me before I could even get the boat going. Second time was for a non-working flashlight in the safety kit.

In both cases the judge was very reasonable and waived the fines off entirely.

 

[Real Therapy]

I stand corrected.Although clearly the fish are here .Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Josh Roelofsen]

Yup, the MNR is aware of their presence and will be updating (and hopefully allowing harvest) the wording for zones 16 and 19.

Josh

 

[maytagman]

Atlantic salmon have spots on the sides and backs

 

[Josh Roelofsen]

Atlantic salmon have spots on the sides and backs

As do Coho, Chinook, Pinks, Rainbows and Browns

 

[moosey]

Atlantics have no spots on tail

 

[maytagman]

Spots more then black specs............Google it and you see what I try to say.

 

[duckman]

I would highly doubt Atlantic’s guys have a hard enough time telling the difference between coho and rainbows

 

[duckman]

There is no Atlantic’s in any of the pics

 

[Richardscott999]

https://www.google.ca/search?client.....0i67j0i30.EBBaAR6WQUM.#imgrc=FRZvQKFfYb67tM:

Hope link works. Black spots may or may not be on tail. But black spots on gill covers.

 

[Josh Roelofsen]

Not the best pics but the fish 2nd from top looks 100% atlantic from the few larger spots I can see, the funky jaw shape, anal fin shape (trailing edge is nearly perpendicular to the body) and forked tail devoid of spots. Top fish is tougher to tell, kinda looks like a coho to me. This one I'm going again by the shape of the anal fin (trailing edge points back towards the tail significantly. But also the leading edge is as long as the trailing edge, unlike a Chinook), along with what appears to be light spotting on the upper half of the deeply forked tail......bottom 2 are 100% Steelies as most would agree.....just FYI, 99% of the Atlantics showing up from Michigan's stocking program will have an adipose clip to assist in identification.

Josh