Reports

Just great fishing from top to bottom on Seneca today with Greg. We started on the west shore of the lake (with a good south wind) and worked some areas I hadn’t worked in a year for pike. Greg hit a bunch of nice pike, a 25″ pickerel, a couple smallmouths up to almost 18″, a largemouth (plus one lost), some big sunfish (larger than a hand) and he lost a huge perch. We found quite a few nice panfish and post-spawn perch but we didn’t fish them. After that we did some laker jigging and he lost a good fish then caught his first Seneca Lake laker. A nice wild fish around 18″. We went back to the pike and he caught more incl. another pickerel. We went to the east shore and found a couple smallies then jigged more lakers. He landed one more laker around 23″ and we called it a day. H2O is around 58. Pike were deeper than last week. Bass are more abundant and lakers are moving shallower – most we marked were around 35′ of water. We were able to release all the toothy critters unharmed, which was nice. They weren’t engulfing the stickbaits too badly at all. This fishing has been a lot of fun and I hope it holds up for another week or two. It should be good for that and more! The lakers are clean and beautiful fish. Back on Seneca tomorrow!