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Like all Northern and Canadian Shield Lakes, fish the river mouths esp at evening/night and during the day fish the side of the lake where the waves are crashing on the bank.

Hit the inshore water off Sunset Bay. The Catt water temp spiked to 82 degrees driving a lot of the Gizzard Shad out into the lake. Off the beach water temp was 72 degrees. After catching a couple of quick sheephead jigging, decided to try to locate the smallmouth by trolling. 14'-16'FOW with two long lines and stickbaits and one downrigger down 5-8' with a 60' setback. What a blast. My brother and I caught 6 different species.... lots of Sheephead, a Rock Bass, two huge Yellow Perch, a Walleye, tons of Smallmouth and nice 15" Silver Bass. Nice seeing a rigger go off 30 times in a day. A couple of times the silvers balled up bait at the surface and we stopped the boat to cast for these hard fighting fish. Father's Day this morning started with a morning fish fry.

Opportunity Gizzard Shad have come into the Catt. Walleyes have followed them in. There is a night bite right now.......don't know how long it will last.

There was very few entries. Water levels probably played some role.

Will we see many three year old kings this year? I have to admit I am a little worried that the 2014 year class of kings may be MIA. I will be interested to see the results of the tightlines event in Canada as conditions look favorable for the weekend. The LOC board this spring was pathetic. With the 2014 Alewife hatch almost nonexistent and the lack of emerald shiners, it would seem to indicate that the 2014 class of salmon would have to live on bugs until big enough to chase yr 1 alewives. Muddling the picture is the 2 year olds enjoyed two strong year classes of alewife hatches and are big. Are we looking at big two year olds or small three year olds? Anyone taking fish over 22 lbs this year?

You woul never catch them with a cast net unless they are near piers or harbor docks. Adult alewives can scoot!

Find them on graph and use a sabikki rig. Have a ice bath with curing salts to throw them in until you get home

Or you could just use the wire-line knot .......its free.

There is a nice warm water pocket showing offshore of Oswego right now.

It will take you 30 minutes at idle speed to get to pier heads this year.

Don't forget your.....lucky nickel, lucky rabbit's foot, lucky horseshoe, lucky hat, lucky fish pole, lucky lure etc etc

I have taken a Lake Trout on a four color the last three outings. We are stuck in this stupid weather pattern.

Spring time. Spoons. Upper water column. Inside 100' fow. Always accidentally caught.

I have not heard an accurate site specific reading up-lake yet. The Olcott pier typically has a least 5' reveal to water level .........now the water is to the top. Hard to find your way back to port!

Not many fishing browns right now. Fish 7' - 50' and you will find them. Use boards, leadcore, split shot ahead of flat lines, small dipsys, downriggers. Small spoons should do the trick but sticks could work also.

This is man-made. There are Lakes and impoundments all over the southern tier that artificially drop water levels in the fall to prepare for the increase water levels of spring. Lime Lake in Machias where I grew up fishing has a 2x6 at the outflow end of the lake that gets lifted in the fall. We had droughts in recent years past so this is the first year to truly show the effects.

With the rain we have had the creeks in Allegany State Park should be perfect.