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SYRACUSE Herald Journal D. 129,658 AUG 131975 It's salmon time! By FRED DAVID assemble at the Lighthouse ^ Only the weather can damp launch area and cover the shoreline and extend several en the spirit* of Lake Ontario miles out. You're invited to selmonid fishermen this Sun bring your trolling equipment day when the first mint-fleet leaves the shores in search of coho and Chinook salmon. Anglers, realising the sport and look too. The salmon should begin schooling to prepare a spawn ing run up lake tributaries. The In catching a salmon over its angling sport has yet to be de table value, will sail from the veloped in the lake's Oswego mouth of the Salmon River at 7 County area. Interested fish a.m. la an attempt to locate ermen, lead by 8yracusans the salmon. The armada wilt Ray Finney and Dick Stretch, are anxious to get local lake ----------------- ------------------------ ` methods developed and schools located. They'll lead Sunday's . search. 1 Interest Is stUI high despite recent warnings that Lake On i tario salmon should not be ea ten until tests for PCB. an industrlal waste, is done on the fish. The chemical is associ ated with skin Irritations, still born births and some deaths. The coho and Chinook salmon are a fighting fish that test the ability of anglers. New York : State has been in the Lake On ' tario salmon "business" for : six years and this fall's season | Is expected to be the biggest i yet. | Meanwhile, fishermen are expected to continue their anx iety in the fishery. The tributa ry season begins Aug. IS when magging becomes legal. Esti mates of 25.000 persons and ; more are expected to visit lake tribe each weekend this season I In search of salmon. Ito "if1"! regulation was allowed to utilise tbe river run ! when tbe salmon stop feeding. The salmon die after spawn- I Snatching regulations call than snatching, the only other legal method of taking salmon from the rivers up to the first falls or dam impassable by fish is the conventional way. Guns, clubs, catching with hands, bow and arrow or nets are Ulegal. Conservation officials have separated the Salmon River (Oswego County) into two areas for fishermen. A no* snagging section has been des ignated in the upper reaches and will be dearly marked be fore Friday's snagging opener. Although angling Is per mitted on the river all year, the busiest season is the snagg ing one. So to give the con ventional fishermen a chance at enticing the fasting salmon, a 1.7-mile portion It reserved for fly or lure fishermen only. The restricted portion runs from Pinevllle Bridge on Coun- ty Rt. 48 upstream to a point 50-yards upstream from the abandoned railroad bridge abutment. Regulations for this special section allow only single hook point per line and any fish snagged, regardless of specie, must be returned. i I for hooka with a gap of no more than tt-of an inch. Other MONS 030874