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  1. You fished at the wrong time and the wrong lake for panfish. Dont blame anything else. Okay. I'm a humble man and I know I don't know it all (espicially when it comes to fishing). As I've replied, I wasn't aware of VHS and so spending all that time on the lakes and catching nothing, all I could do was conclude that the disease had wiped out all the fish. I'm a grateful learner. Could you tell me the right lakes and right time for panfish/perch? Thanks for the information, Kaz
  2. I didn't bother to mention in my posting that I was from the Eastern Finger Lakes area (Cortland was the closest "city". I'd moved to southern PA in 1996. Since then, the only lake I've visited/fished in NY has been Lake George. When I travelled to NY in early April to fish the Western Lakes (which I'd never visited before) I'd never heard of VHS. It's not exactly something one reads about in the papers down here. It wasn't until I'd spent 2 days/14 hours on Conesus without a bite that I read the NYSDEC Fishing handbook that I learned of this disease. And I'm not about to get into a verbal battle here, but if the perch and sunfish were there, I guarantee I'd not have gone all that time without a bite. And as for Honeoye, the bottom littered with dead fish told me all I needed to know. I do blame VHS for not catching anything. Dead fish don't bite. quote="salmonite"]REALLY???????????? there is vhs in the great lakes and in the fingerlakes????????? i don't believe it!!!!!! If ya can't hear my sarcasim i am laying it on pretty thick. Ask sharkbait how the walleye bite was this year.. I think he would disagree with you. they are all great fisheries but its fishin it aint catching. try something else don't blame your poor performance on vhs.
  3. Hello all! I wanted to chime in with my first-hand experience of the fishing on Conesus Lake. I was there shortly after ice-out, on April 19th and 20th. I was in the market for perch and panfish. I spent a total of 14 hours on the lake during those 2 days and I did not get a single bite. It wasn't until the second eve's dinner-time reading that I was looking over the DEC Fishing Regs Handbook that I can across the article about Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS). Excerpt are as follows: VHS is a disease that originated in Europe, and somehow was carried across the Atlantic and introduced into the Great Lakes (probably as early as 2003), with the first outbreak being documented in 2005. By 2006 and 2007 (the booklet states) VHS had infected “...Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and CONESUS LAKE.â€
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