Round Goby getting worse

[OldTimer]

Yesterday being such a great day weather-wise, my lovely lady and I took a tour about.

One of our stops was at a bridge passing over Bronte Creek – just a short distance downstream from Lowville.

Water was very low, and gin clear.

Hundreds of round goby could be seen in the slower sections. Like wow thick. It wasn’t like this last year, or this spring, at all.

Hopefully the MNR will initiate its selective poisoning program on this species in the creeks soon…….. Otherwise all the hard work that Trout Unlimited, and its volunteers, has done to rehabilitate the spawning grounds on this tributary will be in vain, since the goby will eat most of the eggs.

OT