Cayuga Lake out of Taughannock 9/6 = WOW!
Absolutely superb fishing today. No two ways about it. Lakers are ridiculously thick around the Taughannock area and north. I mean ridiculous! I couldn’t believe the sheer volume of “hooks” I was marking today – 13, 14, 15 fish on the screen at a time! I had 5 to 6 lake trout chasing my jig constantly! I’ve never seen anything like it. It wasn’t a matter of landing tons of fish – because I didn’t, it was mainly just seeing what was going on “down there”! I kept a limit of lakers then went bass fishing.
The bass fishing on Cayuga is still excellent as well. I managed to land 3 beautiful largemouths today including a 21″ bohemoth! This fish was my best Cayuga largemouth this year – maybe ever – probably going between 5 and 6lbs. I’m guessing 5 1/2. Also got an 18″ fish and a 16″. Crankbaits and senkos did the trick. Pickerel are starting to move shallow as well. Landed a couple very nice pickerel – around 26″+ fish. Kept one bleeder and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t taste as good as any walleye I’ve ever eaten. I did a little drop-shotting today and found rock bass and pumpkinseeds in over 40′ of water. Surprising!
Lakers are going deeper. I found the heaviest concentrations of them in over 85′ of water and I caught them in upwards of 110′. Bass were shallower than they’ve been for me in a while.