7/28: Guided three generations on Owasco Lake out of Emerson Park on Wednesday for a truncated full day - Mike aka Grampa, son David and grandson Ethan. Lake trout fishing was very good in the morning for our first hour or two and then it tapered off to a slower yet steady bite. We fished a bunch of areas and had at least a little action everywhere we tried. Ethan is 12 years old and he managed some nice lakers as well as a 20" smallmouth. All in all 10 lakers and the smallmouth were landed. A good number of fish were also dropped as is often the case with jigging. Four lakers were kept for dinner and they had been eating large alewives.
Reports from friends and past clients over the past week have been good to excellent on Cayuga Lake. Seneca Lake is still painfully tough for lake trout jigging. I haven't heard anything regarding Keuka or Canandaigua Lakes lately, but I'd bet they are fishing well.
7/29: Today was Grandpa - aka Mike and his grandson Ethan on Skaneateles Lake for smallmouths. The first issue of note over there is that only one dock is in. Some repairs were being made on the south floating dock. The other news is that over the past week some boater crashed into the northern floating docks and most of the sections had to be pulled out for repair. So launching/retrieving boats is once again a big hassle out there. I arrived 20 minutes before I was due to pick up the guys from the Mandana dock and had to wait for two boats to launch. You can't launch and then pull your boat out of the way very effectively. Hopefully these issues will be taken care of soon. On the positive side, boat traffic has been slower than usual on all the Finger Lakes over the past few weeks and that was also the case today.
