cayuga lake

18Mar

Cayuga Lake out of Taughannock 3/18

What a great day to kick off the 2005 guiding season! Spent a full day on the lake with John and Chris, a couple experienced fly-fishermen (not to mention very creative fly-tiers!) from Western NY. The action started early and was fairly steady throughout the...
07Mar

Cayuga Lake 3/7/05

Checked out the lake today for a little over 3 hours. Landed a beautiful 25" landlocked salmon that was fat - probably over 5.5lbs. No lamprey marks at all. The fish was stuffed with alewives and layered with fat. I caught it on a new fly...
11Feb

Cayuga Lake February 7 + 8

Spent a couple short days out on Cayuga Lake checking things out. Water temps are obviously still very cold - around 35/36 degrees. Pike are still hitting steamers well in around 12' to 17' of water. I caught a few and they ranged from around...
10Jan

Cayuga Lake out of Taughannock 1/10/05

Pike, pike and more pike! Started out targeting salmon today but the salmon fishing was slow. Westerly tinged winds tend to push landlockeds away from shore. The wind today was strong out of the WNW/NW. The east shore was a bit too rough to fly-fish...