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Guided Michael and his friend Tim for a half day of pike fishing starting just after 7 am. Mike has a place on Keuka Lake and I hadn’t seen the guys in 6 years or so, so it was fun to catch up. Tim had caught pike before along the boundary waters of Minnesota; Mike hadn’t caught any pike (he lives in Florida.)

Action was good today with 11 pike landed and probably a half dozen lost. Most fish were the usual 23″ to 27″, but Tim managed a 35″er and Mike’s first was a 28″. Lamprey wounding was evident in most of the fish, even some of the smaller ones. We had a couple around 22″ to 23″. Spoons and stickbaits did the damage. We had one non-releasable fish that I kept for dinner – it had at least one alewife in it. Fishing pressure is very light on Seneca Lake and boating pressure is light too. Water temps ranged from 62 to 64. Mike tells me Keuka on the Penn Yan arm by the Bluff is up around 68 degrees.

Northern Pike Seneca Lake