Onondaga Lake

Onondaga Lake 6/26 PM

Got out for what wound up being a truncated trip on Onondaga Lake.  I don't think I fished for largemouth bass at all last year, so I decided to head out on my own today starting just after 12:30 pm.  Two guys in a bass...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Onondaga Lake 6/20

Made in back down to Onondaga Lake today with Terry. We started around 10:30 am. I brought a couple musky rods for the heck of it (I had some homemade bucktails I wanted to field test) plus my gar lures, but overall we set out...