ice-fishing

14Feb

Canandaigua Lake 2/13 PM out of Onanda Park

Took the two-hour drive today over to Canandaigua Lake for another 1/2-day ice-fishing excursion.  I'm 60 years old, and this lake has only frozen in its entirety a handful of times during my adult life.  I'm guessing it froze around 2015/16, 1979 and maybe a...
11Feb

Keuka Lake out of Keuka Lake State Park 2/10 Ice Report

Got back out onto Keuka Lake starting at noon.  Fishing here has been tough this season.  I felt lucky last week - I hit a good area and capitalized on a bite-window, but I have a fair number of contacts/friends who ice fish a bit,...
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...
07Mar

Keuka Lake Ice fishing 3/6 out of Keuka State Park

Met my buddy Mike at the State Park around noon. We set up to jig lakers. The fishing was a bit slow for us today. Maybe we missed the hot bite or weren't in the best areas but we worked for our fish. I wound...
01Mar

Ice fishing?! Yowsa – Keuka Lake 2/28 out of Keuka State Park

It looks like we are official with the coldest February on record here in Central NY. No surprise there - I'd never seen week after week with lows below zero and highs sometimes also below zero until this year. People ask me fairly often whether...