lake trout

Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 3/30

Guided Mark I. for a full-day trip starting just after 9 am.  Lake levels are great and water temperatures were around 39 degrees on the surface.  Mark spent a lot of the day casting spinning gear, but he also worked the fly-rod as well.  I...

Cayuga Lake out of Long Point State Park 3/29 Midday

Guided out of Long Point for my first time this year.  Water levels are up at 382.14'.  For people that have no idea what that means, in a nutshell, Cayuga Lake is launchable out of Long Point, Union Springs and Myers.  It would still be...

Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 3/26

Guided an abbreviated full-day trip today with Don and Franny.  Fellow guide friend Kurt Hoefig had a party of four that wanted to fish, so we each took 2 people out.  The lake level remains excellent on Seneca Lake.  Water temperature was 39 on the...

Skaneateles Lake 3/25 PM

Got out here at about 1 pm and was fishing by 1:30.  The DEC Operations Crew were prepping the area for the dock installations, which they told me should be done by next week.  A few days after that, the dock will go in at...

Keuka Lake 5/23

Did a trip out here out of Penn Yan with Bernard and his friend Mark.  Back when I lived in Trumansburg, I used to run upwards of 20 to 25+ trips on this lake a year, usually for lake trout and/or smallmouth bass.  These days...

Seneca Lake out of Watkins Glen 3/30

Guided a full-day trip with Carl, who's been a fan of this website for awhile.  His family is renting a place on Seneca Lake this July, so he was looking to get out here and see what the lake was like.  He also has a...

Owasco Lake 10/16 AM

Guided Kathy and her (just turned) 14 year-old son Blake for a 1/2 day trip getting underway around 7:45 am.  Blake was hoping to get into some pike today but he was open to whatever was biting best.  The day didn't appear to be a...

Reports 10/10 – 10/15

I had a busy week of fishing on my own (as well as with my buddy Mike) and guiding.  As is usually the case heading towards November, the fishing is often good to great but the weather is the main factor.  Here's the breakdown: 10/10:  I...

Cayuga Lake/Deans 4/17

Guide trip this am with Jeff K. Many lake trout in Cayuga Lake are still in deep (150 -160' of) water - though some fish are starting to move up a bit. 130' to 140' had some concentrations of fish. Jigging with white flipping tubes...

Keuka Lake/Branchport 9/25

Spent the day fishing with John Sander. Not a particularly nice day weather-wise with south winds gusting to around 22 mph. We found good schools of baitfish up at the north end of the Branchport arm. John hooked what appeared to be a decent fish...