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Most of the old treaties have made their rounds in discovery in recent years. Indigenous people have a right to harvest in this manner. Someone may argue that the Salmon River and Scriba Creek runs are supported by taxpayer dollars and therefore should be excluded from “harvest by any means” indigenous methods but that is a slippery slope.

Unfortunately, it is the same old adage of greed and power. This is tied to money. When NYS opened up sports betting, they gave the business to a select few and did not invite indigenous groups to the table. The Scriba Creek walleye spearing incident was just the beginning. The DEC had caught the group of Indigenous people dead to rights. It got a little scary for officers as they were hamstrung by Hochel who told them to stand down to ease tensions still brewing from the sports betting issue. This may end badly if folks think the only recourse is to take matters into their own hands.

Last Saturday I was surprised by a largemouth that hit a glow brads wiggle wart. Looks bleak this year. I won’t be back to Olcott. Might try the Niagara once.

(Little does Les know I use use the background in his pictures to figure out where he is fishing). Shhh 🤫

Wait a minute Les. You took a picture of some snot on your line but no pictures of those beautiful Canandaigua rainbows?

Ok , thanks.

Does anyone have any intel on Dunkirk fish location?

Going to be heading your way in early November to throw my hat in the ring for the walleye derbies.

I would watch your hands. There are some nasty bacterial fish borne infections you could get from handling fish. I had it once from Cayuga lake Lakers. Extremely painful. I know a charter captain in Oswego that has it bad right now. His finger is pictured below. I am not saying this is what the fish has. As stated by Rob, probably an old injury but flesh eating bacteria exist.

Steady bite this morning off Catt. on worm harnesses.

Yes, you definitely took it to the limit …man… I would have thought fish would be in tight with the NE wind. Was the lake turning over at all?

Nice rig.

If you can pull up on YouTube the Bass events that have been broadcast, you should be able to gleam some intel from the way and where the pros were fishing for them. From what I remember, guys were deep dropshotting in areas that had rock and some weeds.

A couple years ago I was trolling for salmon and trout on Lake George. I was in the middle of the lake and couldn’t keep the bass off my leadcore with spoons. I couldn’t buy a bite on all the classic rock structure along the shore with spin tackle. At some point smallmouth determine the investment in calories to go roaming for bait outweighs pecking at crayfish in the rocks.

Awesome trip! I had to pass the barb through on my nose once due to my buddy’s back cast with a Rebel Crawdad. Good news is it didn’t hurt.

It is a needed ID to learn as the length requirement to keep an Atlantic is much stricter than the other species. Ya don’t want to get dinged by the popo 👮‍♀️

I am not an expert on Cayuga but I have fished for bass on a few of the bigger fingers. I would look for deep water around points. They are more pelagic than largemouths and chase alewife schools but they probably feel more comfortable with some rock under them. Derp points allow for ambushing alewives while chewing on crawdads.