Reports

Guided Tony and his sons, AJ (who is 10 years old but could pass for 13,) and Paul.   We got underway just after 8 am.  I figured the cloud cover would make for a slow AM bite, but we got right into the fish as soon as we arrived at our destination.  My buddy Todd was fishing a completely different area, but our mornings were similar – somewhat neutral to positive fish.   We each had doubles at times on our respective boats, as well as 15 to 20 minute lulls in the action, where nothing appeared to be hitting.  We wound up fishing for around 6 hours (the guys had to go) and they landed 9 nice fish, with Tony’s 31.5″ being the largest.  We had fish hit black, space alien (and reverse) as well as a black/blue plastic “Keitech-style” bait that Dave (from 9/27) gave me.  We started in around 150′ and worked in from there.  The deeper fish – from 110′ or so out seemed most active.  The weather stayed nice with only a couple light patches of drizzle.  A good dozen or two boats were out on the lake but not for long and we didn’t encounter many apart from when we first started north of Taughannock/Myers.  Surface temp was 68 degrees.

I have a thumb drive from my old computer (that I owned from around 2008 until 2015) with hundreds, if not a thousand-plus photos on it.  I added around 50+ photos to my old reports, mostly from the time-frame of 2013 up to 2017.  Maybe during the winter, I’ll feature some of the better fish and photos on my “home-page slider.”  It was fun looking back on the 2010s and uploading shots like the kayaker that we saved on Keuka Lake as well as some nice salmon, brown and pike photos.  Once the weather gets crappy, I’ll get another 50 to 100 photos up.  Ideally, I’d love to have all the old reports accompanied by whatever photos I have, but that might be a bit of a stretch.  It’s very hard to categorize shots that I don’t have dates and names for.  Once I went digital – again, in the mid-2000s, it became much easier.

We pulled the kayaker out of Keuka Lake on 4/13/14.  That was a miracle!

My first King on a jig was on 5/3/2012.  My second came on 5/29/2015 and my third sometimes around 2018 I believe.   You can click any of the reports mentioned above and then click on the green tag that states “Jigging Kings” or something like that.  You’ll see the numerous times I struck out on the big lake trying to jig salmon!  I paid my dues on those fish! We had a good brown on Mexico Bay on 7/28/2016.  My 50″ Waneta Musky from 11/7/13 is up.   I have my best pike, taken on a fly on Cayuga on 2/24/2011.  Greg’s legendary (between me and him!) fat-eyed brown trout came on 8/20/2011.  The Will Burford 15/16lb brown was on 8/14/2019.  Stoney Point/Lake Ontario lake-trout jigging is up as well.  These are some of the highlights that I wanted to get posted.  More to come….