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Keuka Lake Fishery Updates

I've had a chance to talk with some DEC personnel over the past week or two since both warm and cold water nettings were conducted in the lake back in late-July and early-August.  I get a lot of the same questions from anglers who live...

Region 7 and 8 Diary Results are in….

The results and summaries will be posted in a month or two on the DEC website.  In a nutshell, Keuka's fishing has remained the same along with Canandaigua's.  Seneca Lake has shown a lot of improvement in the rainbow, salmon and brown trout catches.  In...

Mandated New York State Boater Safety Course Now in Effect!

Normally, I wouldn't write about this - but I've had a couple questions from clients about it.  "Brianna's Law"  is NY State legislation that mandates that ALL boaters operating in NY - need to complete an approved boater safety course beginning in 2025.  So whether...

Updates heading into March

We're finally starting to see some signs that the heavy aka "traditional" or old school winter of 2024/2025 is relinquishing its grip.  I never made it out ice-fishing this year.  Keuka Lake completely froze up a few days ago and when we need another week...

Odds and Ends moving towards March

Updates to this website have pretty much been completed.  I'm hoping that the site will run smoothly moving forward.  In general, I've been very happy with this WordPress site.  I did update the lakes and species pages taking into account the 2024 season.  Most updates...

Updates Moving into 2025

I am currently working on getting this website functioning better. I'm hoping to have everything finished up shortly. Once the WordPress updates are completed (hopefully soon!,) I'll start updating all the species and lakes pages to hopefully reflect and incorporate observations from 2024. ...

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 -...

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...