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6 pm Dec 17th at St.Anthony's Church,306 Ingham St.,Lackawanna,NY 14218 Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

When you find the funding source for a new marina & launch around Woodlawn Beach or Smokes Creek let us know! We have been trying for years to get Sturgeon Marina wall built to keep sand from filling in opening.All the parties to be have tried!SBH is only about 1/2 mile longer by boat to any of the destinations you mentioned. I give you credit your persistence toward your dreams are there,but money is not there in NY State! Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

One problem at SBH Launch is the Launch responsibility is part of Safe Boat Harbor Marina.They collect Launch Fees,that is not much after subtracting Empire Pass holders and Free Monday to Friday Oldtimers!They probably just cover the worker that collects fee wages. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Where is this Walleye Club Access they have ,so they do not care about access? Everyone knows we need and wants more Lake Access.But living in NY State funding is a big problem,especially for building a complete marina and launch where 100's of Millions are in play.The extra drive from Woodlawn Beach to SBH is not that far in reality. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

We will have a Members Only Meeting of E.L.E.C.B.A. at Cabela's on January 8th at 7pm. This is an important meeting for Election of Officers,we must have a Quorum to get this done! I hope to see a big turnout.If you want to nominate someone for an Officer Position it has to be done from the floor of the meeting. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Then you get that one or two people that stop there truck & boat right in the middle of backing area! Proceed to take 20 minutes taking off cover,getting ropes & bumpers ready and rigging every fishing pole and setting them in rodholders.Holding everyone up to get around them,instead of getting ready in proper area ahead of time.You can't fix stupid so you need older people at entry shack that are not afraid to go direct these people! Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

One other thing that would make SBH Launch more efficient is to have Tournament trucks & boat trailers park over in Union Canal Parking Lot and shuttle drivers to and from Launch.This would free up a big part of the Launch Parking for the rest of the general public.I have seen it so crowded some weekends in the summer just about no parking available . Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Yes a New Boat Launch built in slag dump would be nice,but you need to look at reality,this is NY State we can't even get funding to repair Sturgeon Point Marina wall to keep sand bar out there.Building a complete walled in Launch will cost millions. Again Union Canal has everything but the Launch Ramps,costs would be substantially small compared to what your proposing. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I have been at the mouth of Smokes Creek many times with a friend that has keys to get through Metro Port.We go to observe walleye spawning!Everytime I have been there the mouth of the creek is flowing over about 6" of washed in gravel. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Yes Smokes Creek is closer , but you do realize the mouth of the creek gets almost closed off by Lake Erie sand & gravel being pushed in by prominently SW winds.Would require losts of funding to dig channel,build break walls and a accross the front break wall to stop channel from filling in.Yes Union Canal is further away but all structure walls & big parking lots are already there. Only need to build a launch ramp.Cost would be millions less! Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Please share! Exciting updates on redevelopment progress for the former Bethlehem Steel site! Join us for a public meeting Tuesday, December 17 at 6:00 p.m. in Lackawanna Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Next E.L.E.C.B.A. Meeting is Friday Dec 7th,2019, 7 pm at North Chautauqua Conservation Club. We will serve Claudette's Catering Famous Chili as well! Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

The last draft I seen for Buffalo Outer Harbor had then building Handicap Fishing Access Platforms on outer areas where Pier Restaurant use to be.It is 30 ft deep close to shore with old channel running along the edge from where Allan Boat Co. use to be down the Pier Restaurant Area. I will check on this again! Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

We have been trying to get a New Boat Launch at Union Canal,but every time we bring it up to Erie County they keep saying there is the NY State Buffalo Harbor Park Launch & Erie Basin Marina Launch. Obviously they have never looked at the crowded SBH when walleye are on,capacity used up.If they built Launch at Union Canal it could also be Permited just for Tournaments,freeing up SBH.Then the rest of the time be extra Launch on crowded days. I will bring it back up at Erie County Fishery Advisory Board. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

E.L.E.C.B.A. next meeting is December 6th 2019 ,7 pm at North Chautauqua Conservation Club.New Member Signup Renewal Memberships,Election of Officers,Random Drug Testing Forms,Newvm & Old Business! We will have food & drinks available as well. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Less money would be needed to convert Union Ship Canal into Boat Launch ,all ready protected from wind and big parking lot there. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

E.L.E.C.B.A. Meeting will be Dec 6th,2019 7 pm at North Chautauqua Conservation Club. Those Captains that would like to join our organization can join during the meeting or Nov, Dec & Jan and save from paying the normal $50 Initiation Fee! One thing to remember we are not just a Drug Testing Consortium, we are involved in all fishing, hunting & conservation issues local state wide & national! You also do not have to join to sit through the meeting. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Chautauqua Lake Truths & Other Misconceptions The problem with politicians is they take credit for things they did not do and avoid accountability for the messes they make, and Chautauqua County is no exception. Some local officials and “paid experts” proclaim success, but the real truth is that Chautauqua Lake has had three consecutive years of out-of-control herbicide impact which destroyed aquatic weeds far beyond DEC permitted targets. With these “unintended consequences” growing exponentially each year our world class fishery is seriously jeopardized. Mid-May 2019 herbicide applications in the South Basin were the earliest in memory and irresponsibly exposed thousands of spawning and young-of-year game and forage fish to associated toxic shock, with widespread destruction of both native and non-native weeds serving as critical game fish habitat. Nothing was left behind in these large offshore lake regions except barren lake bottom or grass. With the end of summer 2019 already here, “unintended consequences” are a serious lake management failure where, once again, no one is held accountable or even accepts responsibility. How long can our lake tolerate these mistakes? The Chautauqua Fishing Alliance (CFA) Sonar & GPS research surveys estimate that because of wind drift alone, 2,100 acres of offshore aquatic vegetation in the South Basin was unselectively destroyed this year — more than five times the 388 near-shore acres actually targeted under NYSDEC permits issued. According to Racine-Johnson Associates, a lake consulting group from Cornell that has been working on our lake for a number of years, confining the unintended impact of liquid herbicides on a big, windy lake the size of either Chautauqua Lake basin is nearly an impossible task, which explains why many large lakes use only granular forms of herbicide (which are less susceptible to wind) in limited targets and all “navigation channels” are cut only with harvesters to insure no wind drift or other “unintended consequence”. CFA’s national fishery research network in nine northern states reveals that most top fisheries balance harvesting with herbicide use in three very specific ways: All “Navigation Channels” are cut with mechanical harvesters to insure confinement to well defined permit specifications. Only Granular herbicides are used to minimize the negative impact of wind drift and its “unintended consequences”. Liquids are rarely used on big, windy lakes. Early Season weed control is always managed by harvesting, with mid-to-late June herbicide applications following only after prime fish spawning and key post-spawn periods have passed — especially so at top fisheries. We wonder how long it will take Local Municipalities and our Chautauqua Lake & Watershed Management Alliance officials to learn these three critically important conservation lessons by prohibiting funding of liquid herbicides or other untimely operations that do not insure the sensible conservation of submerged deep water habitat? Isn’t it time we start being guided by lake management science from folks who actually understand the unique and delicate underwater nature of our own living lake? J. Regis Thompson, Executive Director, Chautauqua Fishing Alliance Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Dr. Dave & I decided to get some musky trolling in before the rain storms rolled in Sunday.We went north and started near Mayville Flats.In 15 ft to 27 ft water we marked mostly nothing,water temp was 71.5 degrees.Moving out to 30 ft water between metal wall and Irwing Bay we started marking bait fish and an occasional big hook.Trolling toward Bell Tower from 30 ft we caught a 37" musky on Boss Shad 5" in Goldie color.As we skirted 37 ft water around the 50 ft hole infront of the Bell Tower we began to mark lots of big hooks right on bottom,also on bottom in 35 ft down toward Pendergast Point.So we got the cold front out to the deep on bottom close mouth musky syndrome. We gave up at 2 pm just before the heavy rains rolled in.South end looked pretty nasty with algae so we avoided it.North end is starting to get that tea stain appearance that happens just before roll over. Sent from my SM-G960U using Lake Erie United Mobile App