Cayuga Lake 8/6 + 8/7
Fishing remains very good on Cayuga Lake in general with periods of steady bites and other lulls. Fortunately the lulls don’t last long. Strong winds (gusting into the low 20 mph range) on Saturday as well as on Sunday made for some challenging boat control and fishing but the bite held up.
On Saturday I guided longtimers Ron and Matt for a full day. The guys had been up in Alaska earlier in the summer and were a little bit rusty on the jigging, hence they each dropped some solid fish. But the fishing was good overall with some solid fish landed including Matt’s 32″ laker and a nice rainbow around 23″. A couple 28″ fish were also landed. Overall the guys landed around 14 fish. Chartreuse colors have been good along with some darker stuff earlier in the AM. The bigger lakers and rainbow were released. We kept a couple lakers for the table.
Sunday was a double with Greg in the AM. Fishing was good – not spectacular but not terrible with 5 nice lakers and one small Landlocked salmon landed. Greg dropped a solid laker that was likely 27″ after a good battle. My PM trip was with Mark and Kevin. We had a lot of fun joking around. The guys managed around 7 fish and kept a few for the table. Around 80′ to 100′ has been good for us.
Decent numbers of wild fish are in the mix but it’s also very easy to miss clips. A lot of clips were poorly executed and fins are regenerating. Sometimes you need to look carefully if you’re a DEC Diary Keeper.