longnose gar

29Sep

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...
18May

Reports Cayuga Lake 5/16, 17; Seneca Lake 5/18 AM

So far this has been a weird season with the weather and my schedule.  The next week is busy with Thursday 5/23 and Friday 5/24 remaining open.   Sunday May 26th is open in the AM for an Owasco Lake trip.  After that, I do have...
30Jul

Sodus Bay 7/30 midday

Got out here for a scheduled full day with Mark I. looking to target gar on the fly.  The last time we were out here was two years ago and we weren't able to find any gar until the end of the trip.  This time...
06Jul

Onondaga Lake 7/6 midday

It was "Gar Hot" on Onondaga Lake today.  My friend Jeff stopped off at my place at 9 am and we drove up to Syracuse.  Only a few boats were on the water.  H2O temps were in the low-80s.  The water looked beautiful - hard...
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...
17Jun

Onondaga Lake 6/17

Got out on Onondaga Lake for the first time this season with my buddy Terry.  We started fishing at around 11:30 am and fished until around 6:30 pm.  Water temperatures over there ran from 68 to 71 degrees on the course of the day. Our bass...
02Aug

Sodus Bay 8/2

Guided regular Mark I. for a full day starting just after 10 am. We decided a gar trip was in order. I hadn't been on the bay in over 2 years (last year we had the extremely high water on Lake Ontario) so I was...
29Jun

Onondaga Lake 6/29 PM

Got out here on my own for around 4+1/2 hours starting at 1:30 pm. I started with a stretch I hadn't covered with Terry over our last couple trips over here. It was a slow go with one hard fighting smallmouth all I had to...
29May

Lake Ontario Oswego Harbor 5/29

Guided Rob and his son Robert for a full day out of Oswego starting around 10:30 am. The goal was to target smallmouth bass. Robert is 11 years old and enjoys reeling in fish but hasn't been bitten by the "fishing bug" to any large...
05Aug

Sodus Bay/Lake Ontario 8/5

Guided James and his friend Rob for a 6 hour gar trip on Sodus Bay. James had read a gar piece I'd sold to "In-Fisherman" magazine back in the early 2000s and put a gar trip on his fishing agenda. Rob hadn't fished much in...