18Apr
29Mar
Keuka Lake 3/27 PM, Seneca Lake 3/28
Fished Keuka Lake on my own on Thursday afternoon and then guided a full-day trip out of Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake yesterday. Keuka Lake remains a terrific option for fly-fishing lake trout and also catching them shallow on gear. The population is 100% wild and...
29Sep
Tags, tags and more tags!
No, this isn't about tagging fish - it's about this website. Over the past year, you may have noticed green "tags" at the bottom of my reports. Most of you probably know, that with a WordPress website like this, I can tag articles/reports as reference...
31May
Cayuga Lake out of Dean’s Cove 5/30 PM
Got out on my own for 4 hours starting at 1 pm. I only brought my fly-fishing gear. The winds were really blowing! As I launched, a guy was behind me at the ramp with his kayak trailer. A lot of serious kayak fishermen will...
15May
Cayuga Lake out of Long Point State Park 5/14 PM
Got out here on my own from around 12:30 pm. I did a lot of motoring around today checking on potential areas to fly-fish for lake trout. The great thing about knowing this lake so well, is that I already know where the best fly-fishing...
13May
Cayuga Lake 5/12 PM
Got out here on my own for the afternoon. I am working on some open water lake trout fly-fishing techniques. I have a few clients who have shown some interest in it. So far, it's been working pretty well at Keuka Lake from February through...
04May
Cayuga Lake 5/1 + 5/3, Keuka Lake 5/2
I've had a busy week starting with a 1/2 day on 4/28, then a run of full-days until May 3rd. Surface temperatures are warming up fairly rapidly with temps reaching the low-50s over mainlake areas. By most accounts, fishing action for a variety of species...
17Apr
Keuka Lake 4/15 + Cayuga Lake 4/16 AM
Keuka Lake: Met Gordon out here at around 10 am for what was a slightly truncated full-day trip. He's been coming out with me for a long time and is currently the President of the Trout Unlimited Canandaigua chapter. The goal today was to get...
06Mar
Keuka Lake out of Keuka Lake State Park 3/5
Before I delve into this report, I just wanted to mention that the bakery with the amazing chocolate croissants is called the Waterville Standard Bakery. It's on Main Street in Waterville (a little ways southwest of Utica and not too far from Cazenovia, just off...
15Dec