Reports

Guided Jack and Erik for a half-day trip getting underway just after 6:30 am. We had bluebird skies to start and no real sign of much bait in shallow (laker-shallow that is!)    We found some active fish in deeper water and Erik nabbed a decent fish to get us started.  Jack had a hold of a very nice rainbow trout that went ballistic near the surface and appeared to be in multiple places at once.  It went crazy when I took a shot at netting it and wound up getting off.  We kept working areas down the lake and the guys caught some more fish topped by Erik’s nice 30″ laker.  We had numerous follows from rainbows and even a brown or two.  Oddly, today I had a nice rainbow and a nice brown, in two different areas follow up my black temperature probe.  Keep asking Lunker City to make black 3.75″ Shakers again!  I have some left, along with some other black plastics that friends have molded me, but it’d be nice to have those Lunker City baits available again!

The guys wound up with 5 nice lakers.  Jack keeps track and a total of 17 hits were had, and 4 or 5 fish got off.  Overall we had some fine “fishing” but slower “catching” today.  We never went long without some sort of action – whether visual chases to the boat or hits.

The water looks excellent here for the most part.  We fished the entire way around the lake and had very clear water in probably 90% of it.  I should have some Cayuga reports later today.  We currently have north winds, so there’s a good chance that they will blow murky water back in.  That being said, the nights are cooling and the bloom should have just about run its course by now.  We’ll see!

The Emerson Park access is about a 35 minute drive for me.  I can probably be at South Shore Marina in 25 to 30 minutes, so it isn’t much further than Long Point’s launch on Cayuga for me.  It’s a nice change of pace from Cayuga Lake and there are some beautiful fish here.  Jack and Erik had never been on the lake before and both of them really loved it!  What’s not to like?  There’s much less development here than on most other Finger Lakes.  Camps/retreat centers take up some of the lake shore, so it isn’t wall-to-wall cottages.  It’s often calmer than other lakes and has a small lake feel to it compared to Cayuga or Seneca Lake.