01Jun
01Jun
Lake Ontario/Sodus Bay 6/1
Finally made it out to Lake Ontario with my good buddy Terry. First trip this season. Had to run errands this morning so we didn't make it out till almost noon. We went out searching for trout/salmon and baitfish. We wanted to jig today. We...
30May
Seneca Lake Memorial Day Lake Trout Derby 5/28 – 5/30/2005
Managed to get out and fish the derby for 3 hours on Saturday, a full day Sunday and today until closing time at noon. My Cornell boss Phil fished with me, and his 8 year old son Casey spent Sat/Sun with us. The jigging bite...
27May
Cayuga out of Dean\’s Cove 5/27
Lake trout jigging is getting better and better. We still aren't seeing much bait but today we finally found a small pod of bait and hooked a good 5 to 6 lakers in 15 minutes or so, including one double. Fish are averaging 24" to...
24May
Cayuga out of Taughannock 5/24
Water temps are still excellent for salmon, trout and pike action. Had some very good to excellent pike fishing today. Cayuga has a good class of 30" to 33" fish. It makes sense since last year we had a bunch of 27" fish. Should be...
23May
Seneca/Cayuga 5/22
Fished both lakes today for around 4 hours a piece. John Sander of "Sander's Guide" fame joined me and as always he was a pleasure to fish with. Anyways, North winds have pushed whatever "warm" water we've had on Seneca south and dispersed it. We...
21May
Canandaigua Lake 5/19 + Cayuga Lake 5/20
Canandaigua Lake 5/19: This lake is beautiful - no two ways about it - and we thoroughly enjoyed fishing it. Lake temps were pretty cold, around 47 to 51 if I remember right. We found scattered perch and a few smallies in shallow. Lakers were...
18May
Skaneateles Lake 5/17 WOW!!!
Best fishing I've had all year - bar none! This lake is smokin' right now. I couldn't decide whether I wanted to throw hair jigs for 12" to 13"+ perch or streamers for rainbows and salmon. Everything was pounding the hair jigs - lakers, rainbows...
16May
Cayuga Lake 5/15 + 5/16
Had some very good to excellent lake trout fishing over the past couple days. On Sunday I managed to get my tournament partner's 2 kids into nice lake trout simultaneously! A 6 and 7 year old each with lakers on the line from 25" to...
13May