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Hey Nick are you taking out the Grady White? Good luck with her out there.

Nick what kind of bait did the perch hit?

I have heard of a guy on Canandaigua Lake that use those really small protroll flashers and a small fly like a "skippervisor" ( that's an inside joke for Pete Collin if he reads this forum)

I had talked to a fellow boater in my marina a few times and he was having a hard time getting into fish so I invited him along to fish on my boat. We met at the marina at 9:00 am so I could let my wife sleep in while I took care of Liam. I rigged up and we were dropping lines at the drop off by 9:30. We made our way south past Tichenor Point with 3 riggers with spoons, 2 diver rods, 7 color leadcore on inline planer and 300' copper on inline board. The 300' copper took the first hit pulling a white glow/ chrome 8" echip with an Iron Duke Fly and Nathan boated a 4 1/2 lb laker. We were on the west side and near Menteth Point. We kept trolling south past Wegman's and had another hit on 7 color core with a MI Stinger chicken wing, this time Alan boated a nice 4 1/2 lb rainbow. I turned to the east and made our way back north. We went a little while without another fish. I changed up starboard and center riggers to spin drs and flies at 35' and 45', but ran the port rigger down 70' with a MI Stinger glow frog 55' back. I began to pull the copper in, then the starboard diver rod while I put gear away, I noticed the port rigger rod bouncing fish on. I grabbed the rod and passed it to Nathan and he boated another 4 1/2 lb rainbow. We were right out in front of Tichenor Point in 130 FOW. What a nice way to end the day in the rain. Alan was attentive and asked lots of questions as he is just starting out and trying rig his boat and put more fish in the boat. It was cool to get fish on core, copper and riggers, and varied colors.

Alan was excited to have fish to take home to his wife because his family really enjoys eating fish but they are usually bringing fish home from the store. Good times on the Brown How'ND.

Hey Mike I am up for winter fishing for sure. We got a late start today but I got a father and his son who are docked at my marina into some fish. Even in that rain they had fun, the dad learned a lot, and the kid had fun driving and reeling in fish, my report will follow.

good job Pete, funny how sometimes when the wind is blowing and and the water is rolling the bite is on vs. bluebird skies and calm seas provides negative fish, hey Dtd what did you get bit on for the 9 lb'er?? trolling or jigging?

You should fish Seneca a take ERABBIT out so he can show all of his hotspots

plus he needs a fix I think

Kurt check out the galley picture of our meal before the fish started biting, only thing missing was the Grey Poupon. Mark that smoked salmon tasted awesome, kind of like steak, nice smoky flavor. Tom gave me a little to take home and Liam loved it.

Blue Ghost dinged his prop in the Sucker Brook which is the inlet to the lake from the north end launch, even the channel to the lake til you get to the bouys reads 2.2-2.5 ft on my sonar, I have been trimming up on my way back to Sutters.

I would presume the south end is worse.

yes really, a big thank you to ska8man and Laker Taker for info that helped

I might take my kid out Thursday it is supposed to be 75* you can join me on Canandaigua Lake if you see this message if LOU doesn't take a crash tonight..... WE can wear our ties! Uh, umm are you good with kids??

So I just spent 45 minutes writing a great detailed report and went to post my pictures and the report and my login session was over so needless to say @&)*%$#@!!!! it I don't have much time to write one report let alone write it twice, so small spoons north end, divers with spoons for the first time, rigger with DW SS DWB big rainbow **** you time warner cable or stupid sun spots or whatever the **** is wrong with the stupid internet. Good Night

I talked to a local Canandaigua old timer and he said the new rainbow regulations were more aimed at all the other Finger Lakes except Canandaigua Lake but the DEC figured it would cause too much confusion amongst anglers if all the Finger Lakes were not ruled the same way. I kept a diary last year for the DEC for Canandaigua Lake and I caught alot of rainbows compared to the other diary keepers. Not all the bows were large fish but it shows that there is a healthy population. I can attest to releasing rainbows in August and seeing them go belly up. I can also attest to watching fish struggle belly up and eventually kick and go down.

Quality Time's recipe sounds delicious and I will have to try it the next time I have some fresh lake trout filets. I have also pondered the bleed them out technique to improve the quality of the prepared catch. See ya out there Sunday, I still have room for maybe one more guy.

great report sk8man, you seemed to have the spoon program dialed in on cananadiagua

A couple weekends ago 33canuck and I saw a boat sandmobiling out between Squaw Island and Holiday Harbor, it didn't look good. Took a leaf tour down Seneca Point Road then up Bopple Hill Rd and the permanent docks down there in front of all the mansions are so high out of the water now. Thanks for the report Kevin, the remark about how to troll and record catch posts was not aimed at you but the board posts lately.

Hey Blue Ghost I saw you rolling down down 5 & 20 just east of the Canandaigua launch last Saturday how about the report? Enough with the how to troll, world record catches, and where to go posts! Jeez I don't write all my reports to to see all this fluff stuff about this and that, damn I have a have kid and work to keep up with I can't keep this discussion going on my own!! Sunday open invitation on the Brown How'ND who wants to JOIN ME?

Awesome pictures tcon

The balloon looks so close and the colors are great right now

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I had tcon Tom and Skipper 19 aka Mark along for an outing Sunday morning. We fished the west side from Menteth Point to Onanda Park. Worked depths from 90-225. We had a good screen from time to time but the bite just wasn't on in the morning. We managed 3 small lakers (18"-20") 2 came off the 300' copper with green revelator and reel hooked up fly the other on a diver rod. We fished from 6:45 to 12:15. We had lots of fun talking & telling stories. I keep finding more fisherman that play guitar, so next time I am bringing Liam's little $25 guitar and my mandolin for those lulls in the action. I told Tom and Mark that if all my coffee's gone and I am swabbing the deck that is not a good sign. We will get them next time.

way to go, glad to see the afternoon bite happening on Canandaigua

Full moon again for Sunday so who knows what is in the cards for Miss Canandaigua?

sweet Pete, were you running the seth green rig? glad you got into them, where did you have lunch?

Hi Pete, we did get some good fighters, the rigger hit was out of the release and the rod bending to the water, diver rod fish gave good head shakes and the 11 1/2 lb laker on copper fought Kurt hard all the way in. We listened to some quality guitar music out there too .

I forgot to mention we were 11/14 with only one bow at the end of the trip which took a rigger flasher fly down 81'

I fished Canandaigua and we experienced different currents in certain areas, probe speed would go from 1.5-1.75 then bottom out to zero. Wind was WSW and surface current was SE. We deployed a 300' copper on a north troll and the flasher was surfing SE into the 600' chute copper. Once we tucked in closer to west shoreline surface current was a little less evident. We were watching diver rod bend for speed indication at times.

We had a great outing today on the Brown How'ND. We worked the west side and rods started popping early. We began setting lines just north of Menteth Point at 6:00 am and we boated fish every 15 minutes for two hours. The wires and copper were best. We did get a beauty 7 1/2 lb. lake trout off the probe rigger and I don't get a lot of rigger fish. Best fish today was 33canuck's 600' copper hooked a whopper at 11 1/2 lbs. His biggest fish on his own copper rig yet. He did a great job bringing all that line in and getting the big guy into the boat. I had 33canuck, his neighbor Derek who put on the fighting belt reluctantly, and my friend Rick who has fished Canandaigua Lake for years. Rick kept us in productive water on our west side south troll all the way to Seneca Point. We crossed over to Vine Valley, then worked back to the west side and got back into the fish all the way back on a north troll to Menteth. Great crew, we had lots of laughs, Kurt's venison slim jims kept us from going hungry.

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