Canadian Angling.com: Scientists are now using biological markers to determine the presence of toxic substance in the river and lakes. They are using the European method of using the small freshwater shrimp (Gammarus) as their biological marker. They can see the impact the contamination has on the shrimp’s biological functions and use this as a method of measuring the contamination. […]
Canadian Angling.com Researchers at the University of Illinois recently concluded an experiment on largemouth bass lasting 20 years that found that vulnerability of being caught by fisherman is a heritable trait. The researchers used a resident population in Ridge Lake (Charleston). Fishing was restricted with fishermen having reserved fishing times allocated and all fish were placed in a live well. […]
Canadian Angling.com Every year brings new challenges to salmon fishing in Lake Huron and this year will be no different. “It has been a different system every three or four years for most of our lives,” Hewett (DNRE’s Fisheries Co-ordinator for Lake Huron and Erie) recently told a Port Huron fisheries workshop. The good news for Lake Huron’s predators is […]
Canadian Angling.com : The Great Lakes have another invasive species ( the 188th) to worry about in the Great Lakes, the bloody red shrimp (Hemimysis anomala). They probably hitched a ride on a freighter, like all the other invasive species. It is a tiny crustacean, native to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. They strain tiny bits of plant and […]
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May 31, 2022; Weather has been very strange, so far this year. Cool temps with heat wave, followed by heavy monsoon like rains. Fishing has been a challenge. So far we have caught and released 7 trout, 6 of them brown trout.
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