Haven't been over to Cayuga in months.Plan to fish tomorrow, taking out a couple friends from work- would like to head in the right general direction, FOW, down speed, temps,etc.Yeah, I know about fleas.
I have only fished Cayuga 4x this year so far. Trip 1 & 2 were in early to mid may, fish were active on most presentations, w/ spoons prefered (stomach contents were normal). Then I fished Barney's and again Fri 5/31. Barney's and 5/31 the fish mood seemed negative w/ no ff hits on the wires (stomach contents were slim).Fri spoons down 30 over 60-90 fow on slide divers and short cores took the only hits. Fish came on yeck boy/girl, and honey bee lake champlain style red and silver.
Wound up smacking a couple of nice salmon right at the end of the adventure. Both on honeybees off slide divers down approx 30' over 60-80 fow just S of T-falls. For us the fish mood seemed negative today- no wire diver hits, no rigger hits (despite long leads). 3 fish came on 5-6 color cores and 4 on the the slide divers w/ 50' leads, all fish were on spoons. There is substantially more bait in 80-50 fow than there was 2 weeks ago. Surface temp 52-62. Marked good concentrations of lakers and "active" looking arches around bait but a slow bite for us.
Looking at putting in a HDS 7 display for the inevitable day my x515 or global map bites the radish. I would get the broad band radar to run on it until I need to make a move to hook it up to the transducer. I will also use it as a back up GPS. What do you think?
We fished Sat. Very slow for us. Ran (2)spoon riggers at 30-70 w/ cheaters, (2)mag wire divers w/ ff combos 150-225' out on 1.5, (2)slide divers w/ spoons, and a long spoon copper and a short core stix on each side off the boards. Wound up 7 for 7 w/ nothing to brag about, more of an endurance test than an enjoyable day on the water.Congrats to those that got on the board!-Andy