New York DEC using in-person angler surveys to better understand catch rates of Lake George salmon

Joe Greco, owner of Justy Joe Charters on Lake George, has been taking hundreds of anglers onto the lake annually for more than three decades, targeting George’s lake trout, landlocked Atlantic salmon, and bass. Clients catch big lakers and bass all day long. Salmon, though, are another story.
Greco, many anglers, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have been trying to figure out why the salmon fishing has been up-and-down for decades.

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