Guided three 1/2 day trips over the past four days. Lake trout action has improved and remains very good as of today, the 12th.
9/9 AM: Guided Steve and his wife Sandy starting at 7:30 am. We had a brutal trip a year ago with honking north winds ripping down the lake. I didn't want to repeat that and neither did Steve, even though he managed a couple fish on that trip, so we moved our trip to Thursday instead of Friday. It was a good call, and despite the slow bite in the AM the fishing picked up just before we quit and they managed to land 5 nice fish. Quite a few were lost too earlier in the day. I think our top laker was around 30" if I remember right, 30" or 31" - but in that ballpark.
9/11 AM: Today was Jeff and Hoi starting at 11:30 AM. The bite was very solid and the guys landed around 8 lakers in four hours before they were ready to head in a grab a bite to eat in Ithaca. We left them biting which isn't a bad thing. Fish looked good and ran 22" to over 30" again.