Articles and Tips

Articles & Tips


Region 7 and 8 Diary Results are in….

The results and summaries will be posted in a month or two on the DEC website.  In a nutshell, Keuka’s fishing has remained the same along with Canandaigua’s.  Seneca Lake has shown a lot of improvement in the rainbow, salmon and brown trout catches.  In Region 7, things remain somewhat the same, with Owasco Lake […]

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Mandated New York State Boater Safety Course Now in Effect!

Normally, I wouldn’t write about this – but I’ve had a couple questions from clients about it.  “Brianna’s Law”  is NY State legislation that mandates that ALL boaters operating in NY – need to complete an approved boater safety course beginning in 2025.  So whether you live in NY or drive up here from PA, […]

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Updates heading into March

We're finally starting to see some signs that the heavy aka "traditional" or old school winter of 2024/2025 is relinquishing its grip.  I never made it out ice-fishing this year.  Keuka Lake completely froze up a few days ago and when we need another week of low temperatures, we wind up with highs in the [...]
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Odds and Ends moving towards March

Updates to this website have pretty much been completed.  I’m hoping that the site will run smoothly moving forward.  In general, I’ve been very happy with this WordPress site.  I did update the lakes and species pages taking into account the 2024 season.  Most updates on the species pages were for fish we actively target […]

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Updates Moving into 2025

I am currently working on getting this website functioning better. I’m hoping to have everything finished up shortly. Once the WordPress updates are completed (hopefully soon!,) I’ll start updating all the species and lakes pages to hopefully reflect and incorporate observations from 2024. Silver Lake Marine will be at the Rochester Boat Show from January […]

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Happy New Year!

Let’s hope it’s a good one. Over the cold spell of the next couple weeks I will be updating a lot of the pages to reflect this year’s findings.  As I write, this I’m having some bugs with the site not displaying correctly!  Ouch – not the way I want to start the New Year! […]

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Gift Certificates/Odds and Ends

Gift Certificates are available for the holidays or any other occasion!  Give the gift of a day on the water! Docks have been pulled from the Otisco Lake State Launch.  Docks will be pulled from Skaneateles Lake on Monday.  The gate may have been locked up on Friday for the season – usually the first […]

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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 […]

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Hydrilla vs. Elodea

If you launch a boat in the Finger Lakes region or along Lake Ontario and elsewhere, you've probably been interviewed by some of the attendants hired to inform people and check boats for invasive species.  Cayuga has had some hydrilla in it for quite some time.  It's mostly contained as far as I know, but [...]
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