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« on: February 01, 2012, 08:07:31 AM »
Saugeyemarc, your presence and opinions would be invalueable. And to the MANY who helped previously, we will have some restrictions, but this is a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to create a "honey hole' that only you initially will KNOW about...(unless it produces so WELL you can`t resist sitting on it ALL the time !)
It is a "Golden OPPORTUNITY" to HELP CJ with alot of Permanent structure....so that the fishing will continue to be good for the rest of our lives! The idea is to make cover and place it in an area that you can "MONITOR". Then continue "CHECKING" it, to see if it's productive...then we'll know where to place cover the next time, that is beneficial FOR THE FISH!!!
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« on: January 31, 2012, 08:58:23 PM »
The "Meet and Greet" for the 2012 CJ Cover Project will be held on March 3rd (Saturday) at 1pm, at the Visitor Center. More info can be found on www.ohiogamefishing.com, then on the SW forum, and there is a "Sticky" at the top of the page which is titled "CJ Cover Project"! Please pm either Lowell or myself with areas that you would like to see cover placed....we need to have this ready for the Meeting. We will have examples of cover that can be built at home also at the Visitors Center! Debra Walters from the ONDR will be at the meeting to look over proposed areas and give final buy-off, representatives of the COE, and Park Management will also attend to answer any questions and help with anything else we can think of! Debra (Gator Queen) is the SW district Manager and a fish biologist who did all of her Masters Degree work on CJ, she will gladly answer any questions on the Lake or fish!
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« on: January 26, 2012, 06:24:42 AM »
Oh hey Brent  Branching out??
Yep! Trying to provide info and get as much help as possible for CJ!
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« on: January 25, 2012, 01:32:36 PM »
You want to hope for a shad kill. If not we are over populated with inch long shad and the fishing isn't as good the following year.
I thought you had a good 2011 fishing at CJ!!
It was by far my best year in a long time, my catch rates haven't suffered at all...I did have to start fishing later in the evenings in the summer to catch fish, and I found out I actually liked fishing in the dark, it's cooler and quieter!
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« on: January 25, 2012, 01:22:13 PM »
Why waste your time in the marina when you could be gettin eyes?!?!
Exactly!:) The Gator fishing is going to take a SEVERE turn for the worst starting this year! This years class of legal fish is the year that only 65,000 fingerlings were stocked...then we had the NEW normal rates of 215,000 and 215,000 + 50,000 (left over, extras), the last couple years....GONE are the days when CJ was getting 450,000 to 500,000 fish! The ODNR figures that IF EVERYTHING GOES WELL, the survival rate of fingerlings to legal adult is 3%. Best Case, is this years class will have 1,950 fish! Have a major shad kill now with all those other hungry mouths....and we will be hard pressed to have a viable Walleye fishery at CJ! That's why the fishermen have to work together to improve things at CJ, not just enjoy a "1 year bonanza"!
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« on: January 14, 2012, 11:48:57 AM »
Please let me explain why we decided not to publish the GPS locations of the cover we are placing this time!
CJ has benefited recently from weather not allowing most fishermen out in the Spring during most spawns, the high water has offered more spawning areas and when the fry have hatched the water has receded perfectly and the fry moved to the rocks and previous laydown cover and brushpiles.
The hot summers have allowed multiple shad spawns that have exploded this baitfish population and allowed the predators a huge food source, which in turn has allowed the natural minnow population, perch, and gill populations to grow. The increase of small shad fry every few months is feeding all of the new small predator fish, and the larger predators that are not cannibalizing the fry.
The crappie size and creel limits and the wet springs have kept the normal bank fishing down which has allowed their population to grow in size and numbers.
There have been 3-4 years of Huge Bass spawns, the number of Bass and size, is noticeable by everyone.
Even the Cat population is Stronger.
CJ has experienced a population growth that hasn't happened since it was first built.
The bad news is that a major shad kill right now could be really be bad for fishing...short term it would be good for the fishermen who would enjoy that first year without food for all the fish...but soon the predators would face a die-off also.
We are trying to bridge the shad kill that IS coming. If we continue the projects, we can continue to build the natural baitfish population and avert a drastic kill-off! The more areas we provide for all of the fish the better the whole population will be.
The reasoning for not giving out locations is that we have seen people sitting on these locations daily...sometimes all day....just poaching easy fish until that area had no more to offer!
The idea now is to provide something for the fish and so CJ becomes capable to handle the population increase like it did when it was NEW and had all the stumps, trees, posts etc. In the long run and if we do this right, it will benefit the fishermen more than just allowing them to set on a brushpile until they strip it!
We will set up a meeting in early Spring to talk and pick out locations (that we all agree on), then we will have examples of bucket trees etc, that can be built at home or at CJ, we will have meetings to build the "Block" tree at CJ for those that can attend, and if people cannot attend they can make "Bucket" trees at home.
People who build stuff at home or have blocks etc can bring it to the maintenance area of CJ at anytime through the Spring and Summer (we do not want to interfere with everyones Spring Fishing) then we will hopefully set one date in the late summer where we all can meet after supper and sink everything we have built and accumulated...Quick, Easy, and Done for the year! No GPS, no maps, nothing...all for CJ!
If all we have is 50 bucket trees, then we'll be thankful for that and they will go in. Anything is better than nothing and the best part is that we will be legally allowed to drop structure to help CJ!
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