Monthly Archives - August 2024

Cayuga Lake 8/30 PM

Fall is definitely in the air!  We'll see if this coming cool-down helps mitigate some of July's heat.  I can still remember the blazing hot summer of 1979.  Lo and behold, that winter wound up being brutal - just as cold as can be.  I...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 8/27 AM

Did a 3-hour trip today with Ed and his grandson Logan, who is 9-years-old.  (The shortest trip I do is a half-day trip, which averages around 4+1/2 hours.  People are welcome to do shorter trips, but they pay for a half-day.)  Ed wanted to fish...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 8/26 AM

My long run of guide trips continues - I have one more and then I have a couple days off.  As of this writing, September 1st - 3rd is open as is the morning of the 4th and the 6th.  After that I have the...

Cayuga Lake 8/25 AM

Guided Jim, his son Bob, and Bob's friend Matt for a 1/2-day trip today starting at around 7:45 am.  I picked the guys up at their rental.  Fishing started off good in our first area with a couple quick fish, but I wasn't seeing much...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 8/24 AM

Guided Jeff and Abby, along with Abby's nephew Isaac.  I hadn't guided Jeff and Abby in probably 10 or more years, so it was great to see them again!  They have a place on Cayuga Lake near Rocky Dock/Little Point.  Back in the old days,...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 8/22 AM, 8/23

Fishing on Cayuga Lake has been good over the past two days, with moments of very good fishing.  It's better than it was at the beginning of the month, but it's still not quite up to par, but it is very good in general. 8/22 AM: ...

Skaneateles Lake 8/21

Guided Dave and one of his son's, Dapper Dan today for a full-day getting underway just after 7:30 am.  What can I say about today?  The smallmouth bass fishing was excellent, but the weather was awful, as has been the case over the past three...

Owasco Lake 8/19

Guided John and his nephews Kyle and Kevin for what wound up being a half-day trip today.  We were going to go for the full-day, but the relentless rain and cold got to Kyle late during the AM.  When I launched the boat at 7:35...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 8/18 AM

Guided a 1/2-day trip out of Myers with what appears to be my annual U.N. group - I had Sergei, Veselin and Ahmed, all from different countries and all residing in the U.S. now.  That's the great thing about fishing - it's in our DNA,...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 8/16 PM + 8/17

Guided an afternoon 1/2-day trip on Cayuga Lake yesterday and then a full-day trip today.  Fishing has generally been good on Cayuga Lake but it hasn't quite been up to August standards of years' past from what I'm seeing.  The two main reasons August fishing...