Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 2/20
Got out here on my own for around 5 hours starting at 12:30 pm. I worked a long stretch of water fly-casting for salmon. I had a little bit of action but nothing special – a hit here, a follow there. Eventually I connected with a couple short fish while casting gear. Pike fishing was pretty good. In around 90 minutes I landed a couple and had around 3 follows both from pike and pickerel.
It appears to be another fairly mediocre year here for salmon. We’ve also seen slow shorefishing here this season thus far. I’ve had one good secondhand report of solid fish being taken on one occasion. I ran into a couple small groups of short fish (14″ range.) Legal size is 15″ here (18″ on Cayuga.) Next year we may see an uptick in catchable numbers of salmon if these short fish are well distributed and escape the lamprey gauntlet.