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Oatka Creek Water Flow Video

[youtube WAsfoFWZAdE]Unfortunately, Youtubes video quality makes it tough for me to represent what I want here.  In essence, I’d like to post a series of videos that represent the Oatka Creek at different flow levels, and then show you the DEC graph for each so you can better interpret them.Hopefully, i can find a better way to do this, since the clarity of a Youtube video presently defeats the purpose, in a way. 

Oatka: How do YOU say it?

Based on this post over at the Sander’s Fishing Guide website, I felt it necessary to comment.

I’m a native Buffalonian, but I’ve been living in Scottsville, NY for about 6 years now. One of the posters in the forum linked above made mention of the “nasaly” Rochester accent. Having lived both places, I guess I don’t find it as distinct as he does.

I have noticed though that many of the Scottsville locals do call it oh-AT-ka, as opposed to oh-OTT-ka as I’ve always called it.

And I believe that generally, oh-OTT-ka is the correct pronunciation. There was mention in the forum as well of the native Iroquois pronunciation, which stresses the first OH, and concludes OH-ott-Ka.

So the importnat takeaway is that it’s OTT, not AT, in the middle, and then the rest becomes a matter of inflection.

Either way, it’s got some nice trout in it.