{"id":124910,"date":"2016-05-26T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/egg-collection-week-3\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:33:18","slug":"egg-collection-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/egg-collection-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg Collection – Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wil Wegman<\/em><\/strong>
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\nResource Management Technician
\nOntario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
\nAurora District- 905-713-7730<\/p>\n

May 6 2016<\/p>\n

Ok \u2026 Sometimes Mother Nature throws us a curve and I swear wants to test our fortitude \u2026 and that\u2019s exactly what continued week 3 of our muskie trapnetting\/egg collection program on G Pool! As outlined last week, in order to maximize our staffing resources and net-fishing time, we conducted only 2 net check days this week instead of 4. Although this was unorthodox \u2013 the extremely poor catches of most other species, the low water temps and with the lack of any muskie, we felt the move was warranted.<\/p>\n

With all this in mind, our report this week is rather short \u2013 so you\u2019ll see more photos than text.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday we were encouraged by the water temps as they had finally risen to above the single digit range and were now into the high 10\u2019s and low 11\u2019s, but unfortunately no muskie were found. A couple nets had real good catches while others were still well below par. The highlight of the day was seeing a beautiful mature bald eagle take off from a big pine near \u00a0one of our net sights \u2026 as if watching over it while we weren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

That same day, we did catch some outstanding channel catfish at one net in G Pool \u2013 including this one with the unusual white markings.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Law of the Aurora District Office above and Melanie Shapiera of Aurora below, each with their own channel cats<\/p>\n

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We ended the week on Thursday with temps warming slightly but still not in the low \u2013mid teens.\u00a0 With today\u2019s Friday) air temp already at 22 and sunny \u2013 and even warmer weather forecast for the weekend, we are very optimistic about our chances at seeing muskie in week 4. Mark Newell \u2026 the ace hatchery manager at Fleming College who has been so instrumental in the success and growth of the muskie stocking program, reminds us that, \u201cIn 2014, it was a late start and we got eggs May 12, 13 and 15 \u2026 and that all ended up good.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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MNRF Conservation Officer Intern Michael Evers of Aurora District was able to gain some valuable hands on experience with the crew on Thursday and holds one of several nice largemouth bass caught and released from the trap nets. Below Graham Findlay of Midhurst with a nice smallmouth<\/p>\n

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Eva Bobak of the Aurora MNRF office\u00a0 with a good sized smallmouth bass, while Brent Shirley (Midhurst) fills in the data collection sheets<\/p>\n

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One constant with this muskie netting program is a steady number of northern map turtles of various sizes that we see and catch. Below are Aaron and Mel \u2013 one with the turtle and another with a largemouth bass. I trust I don\u2019t have to explain which is which.<\/p>\n

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This Sunday, May 8e<\/sup> \u2026 \u00a0Melanie and I will open nets \u2026 and crews will be fishing them for the full four days all of next week. Expectations are high for week 4 so we hope this time next week the Muskie Trapnetting \u00a0Update will be full of great news.<\/p>\n

Have a great Mother\u2019s Day Weekend!<\/p>\n

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Wil Wegman <\u00b0))))>< Resource Management Technician Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Aurora District- 905-713-7730 May 6 2016 Ok \u2026 Sometimes Mother Nature throws us a curve and I swear wants to test our fortitude \u2026 and that\u2019s exactly what continued week 3 of our muskie trapnetting\/egg collection program on G Pool! As outlined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-habitat-restoration-restocking","category-lake-simcoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125050,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124910\/revisions\/125050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}