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FALL FISHING DERBY GOES UNTIL MONDAY
OSWEGO - Erieville's James Huftalen, who caught a 38-pound, 14-ounce Chinook salmon in Oswego on the first day of the event, is still the grand-prize leader in the Lake Ontario Counties Trout & Salmon Derby. The derby continues through Monday in the U.S. and Canadian waters of Lake Ontario. The grand prize is $20,000. Huftalen caught the fish while on a charter with his friend Bill Bouck aboard Captain Ernie Lantiegne's Fish Doctor Charters. The salmon was caught using copper line on a planer board with a Hot Chip flasher and a Howie Fly. Lantiegne said they were trolling in about 120 feet of water west of Oswego. The fish was about 90 feet down, and was caught at about 3:30 p.m. The Chinook salmon was weighed at Larry's Oswego Salmon Shop, an official registration point and weigh station of the derby.
Dunbar Creek survey brings surprise
Biologists from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's regional office in Somerset surveyed the stream July 18-19, looking for wild and stocked trout. They found both in pretty good numbers. They also found something they weren't expecting. Electroshocking one section of stream, below what is known locally as the wire, they found eight hatchery brown trout and three hatchery brookies, but also four rainbow trout "that appeared to be either wild fish or fish that had been stocked as fingerlings, because they were all five to seven inches long," said the commission's area fisheries manager, Rick Lorson. .
Fishery News
ROSSLYNLEE TROUT FISHERY, near Penicuik (01968 679606): Bannockburn Angling Club's 13 anglers took 27 fish with a total weight of 100lb 6oz, giving an average weight per fish of 3lb 11oz. The heaviest bag of the day went to B. Dawson who had four fish for 16lb 13oz including one at 6lb 2oz. Runner up was J. McKee with four for 15lb 15oz with his heaviest at 5lb 2oz. S. Allen had one fish at 5lb 12oz. The water is now cooler and the fish well spread out, now taking dry flies again such as Daddies, CDC's and Hoppers, although Buzzers and lures are also taking a great number of fish. BUTTERSTONE LOCH (01350 724238): Conditions have changed dramatically with water temperatures plummeting from the 20s down to 16oC. Water clarity is nominal at around 1-1.5m depending on the day and the wind conditions stirring up the bottom.
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