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Skaneateles/Keuka Lake Fishery Findings/Diary Results

22 Mar 2026 | FLAZ

I now have all of my Diary Summaries from both Region 7 and Region 8. Region 8 Keuka/Canandaigua Lake Biologist Pete Austerman included some "Technical Briefs" in the Keuka Lake mailing. A lot of fisheries work was conducted on Keuka Lake last summer and fall including Cold-Water Netting, Perch Netting and Forage Netting. Some of [...]

Seneca Lake Diary Summaries

18 Mar 2026 | FLAZ

Seneca Lake Diary Summaries were mailed out last week. I received mine today. The good news, which those of us who've been fishing Seneca Lake over the past few years have known, is that the fishing has bounced back to form here. Eighty-three percent of trips resulted in at least one legal salmonid caught. Catch [...]

Updates – Long Point and more

20 Feb 2026 | FLAZ

In case anybody was wondering, yes - Long Point State Park is still iced up. Angling Zone friend/client Bob B. took the photos posted below today at the park. Between warm air temperatures, wind and the lake rising with run-off and rain, the ice should dissipate fairly quickly over the new few days. Unfortunately we [...]

Website updates and looking ahead!

25 Jan 2026 | FLAZ

As I write this, we're looking at the first major winter storm that we've had in quite a while coming through tomorrow. All of this snow, once it melts will help get our lake levels back up to normal after last summer and fall's drought. This website is working well, although my green tags at [...]

December of 2025 – COLD!!!

9 Dec 2025 | FLAZ

As I write this on Monday December 8th at 8 pm, we're looking at 7 degrees Fahrenheit outdoors with the forecast low being 3 degrees, coupled with calm conditions. The cove in Union Springs skimmed over with ice last night. On 12/18/88 we had 6" to 7" of ice on Silver Lake when I ice-fished [...]

Odds and Ends

6 Nov 2025 | FLAZ

Wind, wind and more wind - November thus far is looking very reminiscent of May. It's one thing to have 10 to 15 mph winds in the fall, but recently we've had peak gusts going into the 30s and even the 40 mph range. Certain areas are fishable, but these conditions aren't much fun to [...]

Website Updated!

9 Oct 2025 | FLAZ

This website has pretty much been rebuilt from the ground up. Load times are much quicker and the website is more secure. Hopefully those of you having problems accessing the site won't have issues anymore. We shall see!

Round Gobies in Keuka Lake

28 Sep 2025 | FLAZ

About a month ago, I heard about some online rumors of round gobies turning up in Keuka Lake. I didn’t want to write about until I had confirmation. DEC was out there a couple of weeks ago doing baitfish netting. No gobies turned up, but one of their crew or a friend of the crew […]

Keuka Lake Fishery Updates

20 Aug 2025 | FLAZ

I’ve had a chance to talk with some DEC personnel over the past week or two since both warm and cold water nettings were conducted in the lake back in late-July and early-August. I get a lot of the same questions from anglers who live around and/or fish Keuka Lake. Here’s what the nettings suggest […]

Great Lakes Angler – Article with some tips on Jigging King Salmon in Lake Ontario

16 Aug 2025 | FLAZ

https://www.glangler.com/blogs/articles/good-old-days-on-lake-ontario-is-now-bill-hilts-jr Outdoor writer and former Niagara County Promotions man Bill Hilts Jr. wrote this piece on the hot fishing on Lake Ontario last year and it was just published. I never, in a million years would have thought I’d have anything to go with a Great Lakes article, given how the Finger Lakes is my […]

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