Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 8/11 + 12 AM Trips

Fishing was a bit more challenging over the past couple of trips.  Yesterday provided some good fishing for the most part, but today's bite windows were shorter and the fishing a bit tougher.

8/11:  Guided Dan and his friend George today starting just after 7:30 am.  Dan is 85 years old and as sharp as a tack.  He'd done a little jigging before with friends, but used to book some trolling trips on Cayuga Lake.  George has a nice place on the lake, but doesn't fish much.  We started off with George nabbing the first two fish - both nice lakers.  Dan had some hits but no cigar.  We did some moving around and Dan wound up nailing a nice rainbow around 25" long.  I thought he had a laker on until I netted the fish!  It fought more like a good lake trout.  Dan then nabbed a very nice 29" lake trout a little bit later.  George finished like he started, landing a couple more lake trout before we called it a day.  The fish bit fairly well throughout the trip with some short lulls in action.

8/12 AM:  Today I had Mark I. who has had his wife Jane join him over the past couple of years.  We were hoping to get Jane into some fish today, and she came very close, but overall she wasn't as into it as she had been on prior trips.  She spent half of the morning enjoying the scenery on Cayuga Lake.  Fishing was tougher today, no question about it.  Mark had a solid hit up high from what was probably a rainbow trout.  He managed a couple of lake trout to 27" and a nice little brown at 17" that had some pretty cool spots all over its head.  What was intriguing about this brown is that it hit on bottom in around 85' of water!  I'm pretty sure that Mark had other browns hit him in the same area, so that was noteworthy.  Tougher fishing today, but a gorgeous day to be out.  Summer is fading fast, no question about it!