fly-fishing

Tags, tags and more tags!

No, this isn't about tagging fish - it's about this website.  Over the past year, you may have noticed green "tags" at the bottom of my reports.  Most of you probably know, that with a WordPress website like this, I can tag articles/reports as reference...

Skaneateles Lake 5/11

Guided Chad and his son Dean for a full-day trip starting at around 8:45 am.  I was pleasantly surprised to only see a few rigs parked at the State Launch on a Saturday in May.  Dean spent the entire day fly-fishing and we targeted smallmouth...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 4/25 PM

Went out of Myers for the first time in a good month or more.   I got my 2013 Crestliner back from Silver Lake Marine and wanted to see how everything was running.  My alarm issue appears to be resolved.  My impeller fins got slightly warped...

Keuka Lake 4/15 + Cayuga Lake 4/16 AM

Keuka Lake:  Met Gordon out here at around 10 am for what was a slightly truncated full-day trip.  He's been coming out with me for a long time and is currently the President of the Trout Unlimited Canandaigua chapter.  The goal today was to get...

Keuka Lake 4/9

Guided Mark I. here for a full-day.  Conditions weren't going to be ideal for what we wanted to do, which was fly-fishing for lake trout, but this was the best day for Mark to go.  The lake is currently high and surface temperatures ranged from...

Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 3/27 PM

The winds have just been non-stop over the past few days or even weeks, and for the most part, are forecast to stay up over the next 10 days or more.  We'll see.   I knew what I'd be in for today out of Watkins Glen,...

Keuka Lake out of Keuka Lake State Park 3/5

Before I delve into this report, I just wanted to mention that the bakery with the amazing chocolate croissants is called the Waterville Standard Bakery.  It's on Main Street in Waterville (a little ways southwest of Utica and not too far from Cazenovia, just off...

Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 2/25 PM

Got out on Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen today to check on landlocked salmon fishing.  I'm out guiding tomorrow for lake trout and Tuesday through Thursday are looking pretty windy this week, so this looked like a great day to give it a shot. ...

Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 2/9

Guided Mark I. out here for a full day of fly-fishing starting at 8:30 am.  Fishing was very tough today.  We had what I consider to be very good conditions for catching salmon on the fly - a bright, sunny day, good water temperatures and...

Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 1/12/24 PM

The past two days looked pretty good for fishing "on paper" - i.e., forecasts were showing milder temperatures combined with south winds, which depending on what sources I checked, varied in speed from 7 to 25 mph.  I talked to a client about a guided...