Guided Leo and Ada for the second and final day this year of the annual "catch 'em and eat 'em" mission. I had never guided them before on Owasco Lake. We used to fish Skaneateles Lake a bit mostly harvesting rock bass along with a few smallmouths. Over the last couple years we went after pickerel on Cayuga Lake's north end. I figured we'd have a good shot at perch on Owasco along with quite a few rockbass and maybe a few smallmouths.
The lake is very high and the outlet was running strong. There's a good amount of debris in the lake. Algae is blooming in some areas and other areas are clear. We started with a bunch of rockbass that came dropshotting. The lake trout bite was very good and they landed 9 or 10 nice lakers. We kept 7. Smallmouth action was also good with four nice bass landed - three were in the 15 1/2" range and one was 18". No perch today.
Rain continues to fall heavily as I write this. Stay tuned - the next few days should prove interesting. I am hoping we don't get walloped too much with rain.
