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30Apr

Silver Lake Marine 1950 Sportfish Available + A Few Odds And Ends

I drove over to Silver Lake Marine today to pick up my 2020 Crestliner Fish Hawk which I store there during the winter.  Rt. 390 sure needs some repairs after the last winter - some of the ruts/potholes were nasty heading north.  Rivers and streams...
22Mar

Skaneateles/Keuka Lake Fishery Findings/Diary Results

I now have all of my Diary Summaries from both Region 7 and Region 8.  Region 8 Keuka/Canandaigua Lake Biologist Pete Austerman included some "Technical Briefs" in the Keuka Lake mailing.  A lot of fisheries work was conducted on Keuka Lake last summer and fall...
18Mar

Seneca Lake Diary Summaries

Seneca Lake Diary Summaries were mailed out last week.  I received mine today.  The good news, which those of us who've been fishing Seneca Lake over the past few years have known, is that the fishing has bounced back to form here.  Eighty-three percent of...
20Feb

Updates – Long Point and more

In case anybody was wondering, yes - Long Point State Park is still iced up.  Angling Zone friend/client Bob B. took the photos posted below today at the park. Between warm air temperatures, wind and the lake rising with run-off and rain, the ice should dissipate...
25Jan

Website updates and looking ahead!

As I write this, we're looking at the first major winter storm that we've had in quite a while coming through tomorrow. All of this snow, once it melts will help get our lake levels back up to normal after last summer and fall's drought. ...
09Dec

December of 2025 – COLD!!!

As I write this on Monday December 8th at 8 pm, we're looking at 7 degrees Fahrenheit outdoors with the forecast low being 3 degrees, coupled with calm conditions.  The cove in Union Springs skimmed over with ice last night.  On 12/18/88 we had 6"...
06Nov

Odds and Ends

Wind, wind and more wind - November thus far is looking very reminiscent of May.  It's one thing to have 10 to 15 mph winds in the fall, but recently we've had peak gusts going into the 30s and even the 40 mph range.   Certain...
09Oct

Website Updated!

This website has pretty much been rebuilt from the ground up.  Load times are much quicker and the website is more secure.  Hopefully those of you having problems accessing the site won't have issues anymore.  We shall see!
28Sep

Round Gobies in Keuka Lake

About a month ago, I heard about some online rumors of round gobies turning up in Keuka Lake.  I didn't want to write about until I had confirmation.  DEC was out there a couple of weeks ago doing baitfish netting.  No gobies turned up, but...
20Aug

Keuka Lake Fishery Updates

I've had a chance to talk with some DEC personnel over the past week or two since both warm and cold water nettings were conducted in the lake back in late-July and early-August.  I get a lot of the same questions from anglers who live...