neaphyte

Hey DW whats the word on the flashy new lodge going into the Schoolhouse? I heard last November. We {the general public, taxpayers,and license holders} were going to lose the Schoolhose pool and several hundred feet more downriver!

dukewayne

I heard its still in development, partially because Altmar itself is going to be dissolved as a town completely. I heard Barkley has a hand in it some how. But also some problems are coming up with the Altmar Fire Department being dissolved and having a huge hotel or resort there with no fire/rescue within 8+ miles of it. Thats not good at all, you're looking at 20minute+ respond time from Orwell, Williamstown, and Pulaski. Yeah Altmar is a small department, but with something like that ever minute matters. 
 
I'll talk to some people and get you guys an update. 

Hey Duke- I know Altmar had that vote about dissolving the town and morphing into another around a year or two back- Do you know the story there??
  Recall  reading  about spending too much on the FD and a couple of part time snow plow guys and its affect on the tax rate being the BIG issues behind the vote.
  WOW -If the towns most of us live in had such "issues' lol.  Recall thinking  some dont know how good they actually got it.

  Looks  like the folks are a few dollars  a year better off - thats good- but are the fire and plowing jobs still there ???
 It appeared with Dukes note that the Fire Dept is in doubt and that may already be having negative affect. Without local plows there may well be backlash there too- if they were cut.
 The question  is wether or not what your giving up is worth the respite.
     Public safety comes first-IMHO- and the old news reports about the vote indicated  it seemed to be what they were mostly complaining about..
 Gotta wonder if anybody checked with Insurance folks about higher rates due to much longer response times by the FD =the new responders being  miles away -as Duke suggested- and perhaps responding on poor local roads during the regular harsh weather up there..
   Property owners may well find that at the end of the day they arent saving what they predicted  in the pocket and may suffer greater risk as well..
 Good luck with that --
     different strokes---

   Dont get it- as a part time resident over near the Richland Store I dont get a vote.  Am NOT a full time resident and am a registered voter here in Ct where my full time residence is--not there..
 Cant see how part time folks like me could ever get involved in a vote on such a matter affecting a community.
   Recall the paper reported a leading voice in the movement  to  consolidate due to those services costs a year or so back was a corner store/gas station owner.
 Wonder what their insurance is gonna go up to ???
  NOT sayin consolidation is a bad thing- especially in todays fiscal climate- just be careful what ya ask for. If folks voted with their pocketbooks alone and dont care about the other stuff - oh well.

The proposed New York freshwater regulation changes for 2014-2016 are up on the NYDEC web site. Sorry I don't know how to post the link from my phone so hopefully someone will.

There are a LOT of changes to the finger lakes region so it may be of interest to L-13.
Very few things for the Lake O tribs. and really nothing new for the Salmon River at all. Just a few more defined definitions of "words" .
As for ice fishing , I hope they standardize and go with the max number of lines. It makes perfect sense and less confusion.

Have a look around and this is the time to voice your opinion or forever ( well 2 years ) hold your peace

Thanks for the tip, HT, I'll have to check it out. WE all went with the Rainbow limit change figuring it was based on good data and then found out they wanted "regional consistency."  I would hope they up it to 2 or I may just buy a PA license next year and ta H w NY.
 
L13

Some pics DB sent me.
There are a few more shots of the side channal work but working from cell phone pics takes a bit of time so theseare the ones I took the time with.
Thanks DB.4 

 

 
 

Any idea who "they" are, who is doing the work?  Could; this result in a local municipal DSR opening up say from Route 81 to DSR? 
 
L13

Would think that when they are finished with the project it will be very nice- just like the similar ones recently completed on the river. Its refreshing to see the others were designed with fishermen in mind although the core reason seemed to be erosion control.
  With the flooding in recent years its nice to see those kind of commitments on river preservation.

I would put my monies on it being done to protect the upriver side of the short bridge with am minor in fishermens usage.
That area never appealed to me from a FISHING aspect.
Great spot for a 12 weight and 5 #2 shot on low water but thats not me.

Ball park is fine after the circus folds up its tents but the EYE is not somewhere a FISHERMAN would want to be.

I have had good success in late oct to dec after the circus and before the deep freeze. It's pretty decent fly in the pocket water and nice float or bottom bounce above the clam shed. Trout of course.
Mostly transition water , hit or miss.
Salmon there ? Nah

Just got back in from a few days in Paradise-Mowing the lawn ( aka haylot)-spraying the apple trees again and general maintenance after far too long away -again.
  HEY- in regard to  'local news'- that new wall above town and below the island at the Needle looks GREAT. Ya cant really get a good read on it from the web-cam because its so long and partially hidden by that little island but it is some real nice stonework. It would only be directly along the waters edge in  high conditions so isnt a fishing platform like we see in LFZ or the Town pool but of the same design- just longer with  ramps down to the river.
  Also some strong talk about a walking trail along the Staircase and possibly all the way up to the Town Pool. Some inuendeau about the Ballpark seeing some changes too-. Some kind of PFR agreement with the Town and State at some point in at least a part of the lower areas may be on the future table too. Seems some is still in the talking and planning stages and some in the planning --all  NICE.
    The fella with the info- as is my usual- will not be named -never give up a snitch lol.
 If its anything like the work over the past year GOOD.  Also GOOD that with recent issues making some of us wonder bout the future of river acess. Looking like  the state and Town are looking foreward in our interest-Thanks.

Schoolhouse- work is going on and appears to be both inside and out.
   After parking and looking a bit I just gotta say even though the work appears to be happening on several fronts its far from frantic. Unless am really missing something didnt think this season is on their radar- for a hotel, eatery, convention or meeting place..
  Perhaps a pay to play ??
  Kings- gotta still read  lake reports lol.
 Personally have had hit and miss low river luck third week of August depending on the yearly conditions . Aside from a once in a blue moon year it stays that way for a couple of more weeks too. Picky at best -and be early in the AM too.
 Not any  experience that early the DSR where they may be more likely to pop in and out a bit real low.
  Still take the hikes and cast away trying.

Wouldnt be a bit surprised this year Bob. The water has occasionally run kinda nicely this Summer and it appears to have a nice flow right now too. Not that steady 185 for weeks at a time.
 Gotta wonder bout the heat wave though.
  Flows  may bring in a scout here and there but actual biters ??? Agree with whoever said they seem to hit better when in a group. Personally think its an instinctive  competetive response they arent quite so quick to display when alone.
 Those one at a time fish are like looking at a photo all too often- Nice to see but no action. lol.
 Despite what some may think of Kings- they do seem to represent 'the beginning'. Like waiting for Santa----- keeps me young -( well-- at least in in my mind)