Articles and Tips

Articles & Tips


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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Region 8 Diary Summaries

I just received my diary summaries in the mail on Friday.  Here are the takeways: Canandaigua Lake:  This lake continues to provide excellent lake trout and rainbow trout fishing.  It took cooperators targeting lake trout an average of 1.1 hours per legal fish.  That’s a great catch rate.  No word on what the largest lake […]

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A good reason to keep a DEC Diary for Region 7 on Cayuga Lake

A lot of anglers, including myself, have been disappointed with the landlocked salmon fishing over the past few years on Cayuga Lake, especially after they did so well there after NY State changed back over to the Sebago strain of salmon around ten years ago.  It’s easy to complain about it, but survival of landlocked […]

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Booking Trips in the Winter

I’m happy to say that I am completely booked up this coming week from Wednesday through Saturday – that’s a first for me in February – and this is my 20th year guiding. We’ll see how long the mild weather lasts. I’ve had a decent number of inquiries regarding winter fishing and all I can […]

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