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 points. So if we have a bowfin encounter, I can tag the bottom of the report with “Bowfin” and perhaps “Sodus Bay.” If you then click on the tag, you’ll get a list of all the reports (and articles) with mentions of bowfin. So if you are new to fishing or the area, and would like to see my experiences with chain pickerel, you’d just click that tag in a report. Sometimes this winter, I’ll tag all my species pages so it’s easier to do.
You won’t see any tags for “lake trout” since I do so much of it. But if you’re interested in “Deep Jigging” for them or “Fly-fishing lake trout,” you’ll have a tag for that. I also didn’t differentiate largemouth and smallmouth bass, there’s just a “bass” tag. I also didn’t tag “rock bass” since they are so common.
I have a thumb drive from my old computer (that I owned from around 2008 until 2015) with hundreds, if not a thousand-plus photos on it. I added around 50+ photos to my old reports, mostly from the time-frame of 2013 up to 2017. Maybe during the winter, I’ll feature some of the better fish and photos on my “home-page slider.” It was fun looking back on the 2010s and uploading shots like the kayaker that we saved on Keuka Lake as well as some nice salmon, brown and pike photos. Once the weather gets crappy, I’ll get another 50 to 100 photos up. Ideally, I’d love to have all the old reports accompanied by whatever photos I have, but that might be a bit of a stretch. It’s very hard to categorize shots that I don’t have dates and names for. Once I went digital – again, in the mid-2000s, it became much easier.
We pulled the kayaker out of Keuka Lake on 4/13/14. That was a miracle!
My first King on a jig was on 5/3/2012. My second came on 5/29/2015 and my third sometimes around 2018 I believe. You can click any of the reports mentioned above and then click on the green tag that states “Jigging Kings” or something like that. You’ll see the numerous times I struck out on the big lake trying to jig salmon! I paid my dues on those fish! We had a good brown on Mexico Bay on 7/28/2016. My 50″ Waneta Musky from 11/7/13 is up. I have my best pike, taken on a fly on Cayuga on 2/24/2011. Greg’s legendary (between me and him!) fat-eyed brown trout came on 8/20/2011. The Will Burford 15/16lb brown was on 8/14/2019. Stoney Point/Lake Ontario lake-trout jigging is up as well. These are some of the highlights that I wanted to get posted. More to come….