Articles and Tips

Articles & Tips


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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Keuka Lake Bass Fishing

I've been on Keuka Lake a handful of times this year, guiding some bass on a couple of trips - nearly all as tutorial/locational trips.  I've had a number of great reports on the bass fishing here this year, from guide Jon Evans, to homeowners on the lake as well as people that have been [...]
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Lake Champlain State of the Lake Meeting

This meeting has been time-stamped and posted on YouTube.  Just check out the “Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department” channel, or do a search on it, and it will come up.  I pay attention to this meeting every year.  There are biologists there from Vermont’s Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, New York’s DEC and also U.S. […]

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Recap of Silver Lake Marine’s “Lake Life Celebration”

I had a good time at Silver Lake Marine's Lake Life Celebration last Saturday.  I wasn't sure how the turnout would be due to the cold, windy weather, but it was very good.  The area around Perry and Mount Morris really has the best characteristics of small-town America - lots of nice, down-to-earth people and [...]
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