Reports

The fantastic laker fishing of the past 2 weeks or so has slowed a bit. Fishing is still very good with limits possible in a couple hours – or even in an hour with a little luck. I fished Sunday for a few hours and had 4 to 5 fish chasing my jig at a time. Picked up a fish at Taughannock and a couple over near Don’s Marine. Massive amounts of bait have moved in close to shore especially on the west side of the lake south of Sheldrake.

I’ve found some good bass around the middle portions of Cayuga, including some very nice 3 to 4lb+ largemouths. The crankbaits are still producing in 14′ to 18′ of water around coontail beds. There are some beautiful weedbed in this lake!

A guide trip today resulted in 3 lakers landed and about a half dozen dropped. Scott hooked and lost a huge smallmouth bass in about 70′ over 80′! What a fish – probably over 20″ and at least 4 to 5lbs! Who says these bass don’t go deep in the summer? My theory is that the ultra-high winds of Saturday probably set up some deep currents that may have shuffled around the trout a bit. There were some definite currents as it was tough to track the jigs with the depth finder today. Things should settle up again shortly and the fishing should really pick up at Taughannock soon….stay tuned!

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