Reports

Full day guide trip with the Hermans today. We started at 8 am with the lake encased in a surreal fog. Air temps dropped to below 38 degrees last night! We had water temps in the mid-60s and bluebird skies. Pike action wasn’t great in the AM, but it wasn’t bad either. Eleonore had the hot hand and landed 4 fish to start – all around 24″ to 25″. John nailed one fish as well. Swimbaits, deep running crankbaits and deep running stickbaits worked today, and I think one was taken on a spinnerbait. The action died from around 9:45 am till 2 pm. We may have had a fish hooked an hour or so. Perseverance pays off, and the bite picked up again around 2:30pm – we worked my favorite areas AGAIN(!) and larger fish activated – 29″ to 32″ fish. Another 4 or 5 fish were landed before we called it a day. All in all, around a dozen nice pike were caught and released today. The action wasn’t nearly as good as it was a week ago, but by fishing good areas hard we managed to have a good day. Weeds are starting to die off and there were some baitfish shallow. Most pike came in less than 15′ of water. Very few other boats were out there!

Northern Pike Seneca Lake