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 […]

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 […]

I have done some updates on the “lakes” and “species” parts of this website.  Nothing major, but I added some photos of some of the nice fish clients caught last year and some observations for the fishing outlook going into 2024. The Rochester Boat Show winds up today (Sunday January 28th.)  Foot traffic was noticeably […]

I just dropped my Angler-Cooperator Diaries off at the Region 7 Fisheries office and had a chance to catch up with some of the staff over there. Biologists are aware of concerns/complaints about Cayuga Lake’s salmon and brown trout fishing.  Around 60 to 70 salmon showed up at the fish ladder this past fall and […]

Usually I forget to mention gift certificates until later in December, but not this time!  I have plenty of them and they can be written up for any amount of money.  No need to set a trip date – the recipient of the Gift Certificate can call me at his/her leisure and we can go […]

I had my client Gordon onboard with me a month ago, and after catching some nice perch on Skaneateles Lake, he mentioned wanting to fry them in Panko after coating the fillets in mustard.  I’d never heard of that, but Gordon had done a few guided Lake Erie trips for walleyes, as well as some […]