rainbow trout

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 11/20 midday

Guided Joe, Larry and Kevin for a 1/2-day trip getting underway at 9:30 am.  Last night's low temperature hit 26 degrees, so I didn't feel any need to start super-early.  The guys are steelhead fishermen and would've been up for it, but I didn't see...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 10/27 + 28

10/27:  Guided a full-day trip with Olin and his friend Jamie.  It was a whopping 27 degrees this morning when I woke up.  We had some fog and around 34 degrees as we got underway around 9 am.  I decided to have the guys wait...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 10/18 AM

Guided Joe, his son Kyle and son-in-law Scott today for a 1/2-day trip starting just after 8:30 am.  In a nutshell, we had a very solid day today with double-digit numbers of fish landed, including some big ones - a 30" and a few 28" to...

Owasco Lake 10/17 AM

10/17:  Guided Dayton and his wife Joan for a 1/2-day guided trip starting at around 8:45 am.  We had plenty of bait and some fish on the depthfinder to start, but the first couple of hours were very slow.  Dayton got us started with a...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 10/10 + 10/11 AM Reports

Guided back-to-back 1/2-day trips on Cayuga Lake starting at 9 am.  Fishing ran the gamut from good to excellent, with the overall bite being very good. 10/10:  Guided Bernie and his cousin Dave starting at 9 am.  Last night was the first major (killing) frost of...

Cayuga Lake out of Long Point 10/4 midday

Guided my old friend from way back in elementary school, Chris, along with our high school friend Jim and his friend Barb for a 1/2-day trip.  We were planning on starting at 8:30 am, but they missed their exit so that put us back to...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 9/24 AM

Guided Jack today for a 1/2-day trip getting underway at around 8:45 am.  The weather was weird all morning long, with fog and cloud cover over the lake.  We had some intermittent sun and then more clouds.  It was the kind of day, where if...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 9/20 AM

Guided Don and his friend Rick for a 1/2-day trip getting underway at 7:45 am.  I made a good run to start the day. Our bite was slow to start despite plenty of fish on the fishfinder screen.  The guys know fishing and kept dropping away...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 9/14 AM

We're now roughly 2+1/2 to 3 weeks away from the start of the lake trout spawn on Cayuga Lake.  The fishing remains good.  Plenty of rainbow trout along with some brown trout and landlocked salmon are around as well.  With the sameness in the weather,...

Cayuga Lake out of Myers Park 9/8 (midday) + 9/9

Got out on Monday on a whim and then guided a full-day trip on Tuesday: 9/8 Midday:  After having some fun dropshotting smallmouth bass on Seneca Lake last month, I thought I'd give Cayuga Lake a try since I had a few days off this week. ...