Russ Johnson and I went to Powder Mill Hacthery yesterday. Salmon are 11 to a pound (6 or 7 inches long) and should easily be the desired 9 or 10 to a pound at stocking.
They also have a new man in charge, they brought him in from Milford Hatchery 2 weeks ago, over 25 years experience, he was very confident the size problems are a thing of the past..
very good news BJ. i plan on a visit soon myself.
boat is out of storage, batteries in boat/charged, new riggers and will be loading it up with fishing equipment very soon... preparing for an early ice out.(i hope)
I was going to pull mine out from the back and start putting my stuff back on, but I see it's going to rain for 3 days. I don't want to put my top up yet so I'll wait til next week. I haven't looked at a thing since I put everything away last fall, guess I have to start pretty soon.
I think Cabelas is going to cancel my card, I haven't bought a thing since last August but I guess I better make an order out and give em a call.
They had tons of fish at the hatchery, Browns were 2 to a pound and fat suckers.
Salmon almost ready to go, just one last big growth spurt and they will be good to go.
John I know the real reason your at the hatchery. Your trying to get them to put the bigger salmon In squam. And increase the numbers of salmon they stock in squam. Let me know how it works out.
John if you need any help with putting that order together let me know I'll keep the book handy, good to here the hatchery report as I was unable to be there last night.BARRY
"They also have a new man in charge, they brought him in from Milford Hatchery 2 weeks ago, over 25 years experience, he was very confident the size problems are a thing of the past."
"They also have a new man in charge, they brought him in from Milford Hatchery 2 weeks ago, over 25 years experience, he was very confident the size problems are a thing of the past."
PLEASE ELABORATE ON THIS COMMENT!!!.
Only repeating what he said, he said water temp. wont be a problem any more, he knows how to regulate the UV set up to keep the water clean from parasites and bacteria. The fish poop: they has a method of taking that out and giving it to farmers so DES cant bust his chops for dumping dirty water back into the Lake.
He also said he will add automatice feeders (they feed by hand now) also run the lights 24 hours for extra growth,etc.
He did not go into why they were small past two yeats, but he hinted that some of the new improvements added were not being used to maximum potential. But he did say that they got everything working well this year before he came on board..
He basicaly said "If they want them 9 or 10 to a pound, that's what I'll give them.
All that in the 5 minuets we spoke with him.
Seemed very confident in his ability to back up what he said and I'm sure he is otherwise he wouldn't have been put there.
