Seneca Lake 6/9 + 6/10
Seneca/Sampson 6/9:
Fished a full-day with Jesse and Jason. Jesse fly-fished and did very well on northerns, a couple pickerel and a bass if I remember correctly. A Teeny Line with a chart/white clouser fished on wire did the trick. Fish were in 4′ to 12′ of water. Jason managed his first pike on the fly, and he caught plenty of fish casting swimbaits. We managed to spot some big drum, carp and sunfish in the shallows. Some big perch are around too. Laker jigging wasn’t too bad and the guys managed to land a nice one. Other hits were missed and we had a couple chasers. Lots of bait right off Sampson in 30′ and out. Pike ran up to 31″ with most the usual 25″ to 29″ – all nice fish!
Seneca/Watkins 6/10:
Today was Frank and his son Tim out of Watkins. Fishing started out good with a couple nice pike landed, then things slowed as we worked uplake. A storm moved us back down and we sat it out for 10 minutes before things cleared. After we got back out we had some very good to excellent action on pike up to 32″. We saw a lot of fish! The guys go up to Canada around Georgian Bay/Lake Huron and we impressed with the Finger Lakes fishing! Tim felt the fish averaged a bit bigger here – he was happy with the lack of “hammerhandles” aka “dinks.” Jerkbaits worked best for the guys, but swimbaits, a Dancin’ eel and spinnerbaits worked too. A couple pickerel rounded out the day. This lake is tops for pike – I’d guess it might be the best pike lake in the state in terms of average fish size and numbers. Who knows? All I know is that it’s a lot of fun and everyone seems to be raving about it 🙂