Articles & Tips
Keuka Lake Bass Fishing
What did people think about lake trout on the table back in the late 1800s?
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. […]
Recap of Silver Lake Marine’s “Lake Life Celebration”
Silver Lake Marine Lake Life 2024 is this Saturday! Plus some odds and ends…
After the success of last year’s grand opening of the new service center at Silver Lake Marine, Quinn decided, “why not make this an annual kick-off event for the boating season?” This Saturday at the marina there will be live entertainment, baked goods, craft beer and cider, a food truck and other activities going on. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]