29Sep
12Sep
Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 9/9 – 9/11
Fishing was very good over the past three days. The lake continues to clear up, with water visibility being excellent right now. Plenty of fish are available lake-wide. 9/9 AM: Guided Jack and his friends Sarah and Eric, all of whom were out with me earlier...
08Sep
Lake Ontario out of Mexico Bay 9/7 PM
A friend/client of mine had a good report of salmon fishing (trolling) off of the mouth of Salmon River recently, so I thought I'd drive over, see what was going on, and try some jigging over there. It's been a busy season and a hot...
06Jun
Cross Lake 6/4 + Owasco Lake 6/5 – 6/6
Cross Lake 6/4: Got out on Cross Lake for the first time I'm guessing in 7 or 8 years. I had an email from an angler asking me about gar flies. He'd seen good numbers of gar in an area on the Seneca River, so...
27Jun
Onondaga Lake 6/27
Met Terry out here just after 9:30 am. Originally I was going to take the long drive out to Oak Orchard Creek and try the lake for salmonids and the lower creek (basically a river) for gar. I figured salmonids might be deep and on...
20Jun
Onondaga Lake 6/20
Made in back down to Onondaga Lake today with Terry. We started around 10:30 am. I brought a couple musky rods for the heck of it (I had some homemade bucktails I wanted to field test) plus my gar lures, but overall we set out...
12Jun
Onondaga Lake 6/12
Got out on Onondaga Lake for the first time in nine years. The first time I fished this lake was on 7/22/2000 with Terry out in his boat. The lake smelled of benzene and we literally saw people doing work on the lake while wearing...
29Jul
Lake Ontario out of Mexico Bay 7/28
After last week's fun lake trout trip I was looking forward to getting back onto "the Big Lake" for another shot at some salmonids. We were going to head to Oswego Harbor (for some bass too) but my buddy Terry informed me that Harborfest was...
14Jul
Lake Champlain 7/9 – 12, Keuka Lake 7/13, Seneca Lake 7/14
I've been on the water a LOT during the past couple weeks. It hasn't been easy with the heat and humidity, but covering up and drinking a lot of fluids has made the conditions tolerable. Nice breezes also help! Here's how things broke down over...
14Aug