Articles and Tips

Articles & Tips


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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Updates – Moving into February

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 […]

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Heading into the 2024 season

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 […]

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Gift Certificates are available!

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 […]

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