Local law enforcement officials are concerned that a pair of boat-in-distress calls to 911 over the holiday weekend may have been prank calls.
Oneida County Sheriff Rob Maciol stopped short of calling them fake or prank calls, instead referring to them as unfounded - while recapping the weekend on WIBX First News with Keeler in the Morning on Tuesday. Both instances involved a reported boat in distress on Oneida Lake, with the first report being made to Onondaga County 911 on Friday, Maciol said. The second came on Sunday afternoon and was made to the U.S. Coast Guard, he said.
Of the Friday search, Marciol said, That was an unfounded call. I m not quite sure, did someone see something that they thought was a boat in distress? Did someone make a fake call? We don t know at this point. Then, when it happens again.. Maciol said, referring to the second, similar call about a boat in distress on Oneida Lake on Sunday afternoon.
Authorities found no evidence of boats in distress on Oneida Lake following two emergency calls over the Memorial Day weekend that turned out to be false.
Cornell’s Biological Field Station… ever heard of it?
It’s always exciting for anglers to set a new record. It’s even more exciting, however, when an angler sets a new record by breaking one they themselves had previously set.
Researchers at the Cornell Biological Field Station recently set a new local record in upstate New York while on a trip on Oneida Lake. The group posted about the record on its Facebook page, where it explained that researchers caught 20 sturgeon over the course of a three-day trip, one of which was reportedly the largest ever caught in the lake.
A search for a distressed boat on Oneida Lake was called off just before midnight after hours of searching Oneida Lake and the Barge Canal all the way to Utica.
Upstate and Western New York Fishing Report – May 27, 2021 The 36
th Annual Niagara County Pro-Am Salmon Team Tournament is ready to be held out of Wilson and Olcott June 4 and 5 for both professional and amateur teams. For the pros, it is the first 12 tournament-legal fish to weigh in each day with scoring based on 10 points per fish and a point per pound. For the Amateur Division, 5 tournament legal fish may be brought to the scales at Krull Park in Olcott each day. Teams can register up to May 31 without a late fee. Go to lakeontarioproam.net or call Penny Hartman at 628-2361. Don’t forget about the Don Johannes/Pete DeAngelo Memorial 3-fish, 1-fish contest on June 3, the perfect warm up for the Pro-Am. You don’t have to be fishing in the Pro-Am to compete in this fun contest, but you must be registered by 7 a.m. the morning of the contest. Weigh in will take place at Clark’s Park in Wilson starting at 3 p.m. For more info call Mike Johannes at 523-1727. Speaking of