26Jun
25Jul
Reports 7/19 – 7/25
I am currently in the midst of a long run of trips. We had forecasts for potentially heavy rain over the weekend of July 16th - 18th. As is so often the case, most of the rain missed our area. 7/19 Cayuga Lake out of Dean's...
29Jul
Onondaga Lake 7/29 midday
Did a 6 hour trip today with Scott, who wanted to check out the lake. I've logged in a fair number of personal fishing trips here over the last few years but have never guided it before. It is a bit "out of my wheelhouse"...
06Jul
Onondaga Lake 7/6 midday
It was "Gar Hot" on Onondaga Lake today. My friend Jeff stopped off at my place at 9 am and we drove up to Syracuse. Only a few boats were on the water. H2O temps were in the low-80s. The water looked beautiful - hard...
27Jun
Onondaga Lake 6/27
Met Terry out here just after 9:30 am. Originally I was going to take the long drive out to Oak Orchard Creek and try the lake for salmonids and the lower creek (basically a river) for gar. I figured salmonids might be deep and on...
17Jun
Onondaga Lake 6/17
Got out on Onondaga Lake for the first time this season with my buddy Terry. We started fishing at around 11:30 am and fished until around 6:30 pm. Water temperatures over there ran from 68 to 71 degrees on the course of the day. Our bass...
03Oct
Onondaga Lake 10/3
Got out with Terry starting at around 10:30 am. We fished til around 6:15 pm. Bass action was a little slow for us to start but we wound up putting together a couple of patterns. We caught some of the nicest bass we've seen here...
11Jul
Onondaga Lake 7/11
Got out for a full day's worth of bass fishing with my buddy Terry. Bass fishing is still pretty good here but was slower for us than it was back in June. We are still figuring out the fishing rhythms of this lake. We fished...
29Jun
Onondaga Lake 6/29 PM
Got out here on my own for around 4+1/2 hours starting at 1:30 pm. I started with a stretch I hadn't covered with Terry over our last couple trips over here. It was a slow go with one hard fighting smallmouth all I had to...
20Jun