58Johnson

The launch at Meyers Park was open this morning (no more barrels).

As I walked in the door today returning from a business trip to NJ, my 13 yr old son asked..."Can we go fishing?" How could I refuse. I made a call to confirm my suspicions on where the fish were at and headed out the door at 4:30. Drove around the bottom of the lake and on up to Taughannock. Launched, squeezed to the right under the bridge and headed north. Made one short pass north, toplining with stickbaits, made a u turn and we doubled up on the LLS. This was his first LL. He boated it without the net. When I got mine in we saw his was at least half again as big. Had a beer belly. We released both. No weights or measurements but mine was a 12-14 incher and his was near legal. We headed in after not finding them again. We were pretty cold by then, but a great day. He much prefers the fast action of perch and bass, but trips like these help to wet his appetite for the open water techniques. Sorry no pics..

Meyers was blocked off with barrels Wed. Also the channel by the lighthouse was blocked by a long tube. Major construction looked to be going on on the lake side of the public marina. Someone had launched, or tried to launch, on Tues by the look of the tire tracks in the remaining snow. The water is only a couple of feet deep at the ramp. That must have been fun.

The slider was on a 7 ft flouro (15lb test) leader. Speed was lake trout slow.

Fished 8-19-09 just north of Mile Point after dinner tonight. Mechanical problems almost cancelled the trip. A parking lot repair and out I went. Got this 24" Rainbow on an alwive spoon (slider) around 40' over 120'. No arial acrobatics at all.

Trolled west side across Meyers up to Taughanock early in am. Picked up one small laker. Boat control was a little tough going into the wind. Crossed over just below AES. Trolled south. Changed over to spoons. Immediately picked up another small one. Then had to raise the riggers quickly cause bottom was coming up fast. Rod popped and I thought I had snagged. Instead I had my only legal fish for the day on. Not huge. 24" around 6 lbs. Finished by pulling in around Meyers and finding another shaker on. Still had alot of fight so I probably hadn't dragged it around too much. Used flea flicker 20lb for the first time. Used double rubber bands wrapped three times then half hitched to keep from sliding. Flicker worked OK. Still got some fleas but could whip them off pretty easily. It was much better than the 14lb Trilene XT I had been using. The XT was ruffed up enough to collect tons of fleas in places so it definitely was time to respool. I'll watch to see if I get any breakoffs from ff. That is a known issue with flea flicker when rubber bands are not used.

Matt, Was the 70-80 fishing on the bottom (80 FOW) or were you fishing for suspended fish in deeper water?

Launched out of Meyers 7am. Went over to west side. Got a decent laker on a green (chartreuse) atomik fly and green flasher before I got the second pole in the water. Caught weeds and fleas for the next hour or so. Done by 10am. Other picture is a largemouth caught about a week ago by Cargill (on a nightcrawler not the lure shown),

Splitshot... I noticed the lake was much colder near/below AES than I expected. The southern end of the lake has warmed up considerably. I thought with the recent few hot days that the high 30 degree temps were gone. The temps were in the areas I landed fish. It was higher around Meyers.. falling in the range you listed.

38 to 40 surface temps

Fished North of Meyers/ South of AES (Miliken) both east and west side 6am to 9:30am Flasher/flie combo did nothing (greens) Switched to spoons. Immediately got 2 lakers- 20" and 16" Dark colors worked- purple and alwife Depth was 100ft on bottom

Fished 6am north of Meyers. Quick trip done by 8am. One laker - 24" rigger - flasher/fly - 125ft

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Take a look at the dorsal and adipose fins in the pic. Are they both clipped or is there some other reason they look like that?

mjb, I have had the same results as you, everything on flies/flasher for around a month now. This is the first success I have had with spoons in a while. I don't have gps for speed. I just know that the flasher/fly works better at a slightly higher speed than the spoons. Another thing is that I get the biggest fish on spoons.

Fished from 2pm to 5pm north of Meyers today. Slightly windy. Got two lakers, both about 26". Got them at 85 ft with purple spoon. Flasher and fly did nothing. Also caught a broken off ski rope on the bottom. [/img]

Chowder, That was me with the white dog. Thanks for the welcome. I really enjoyed Sat. I replaced my fuel lines earlier and made one a little too long and it kinked in an out of the way place. Even rough running on the way in couldn't mess up that day! I'll probably be the one asking you for advice...I'm pretty green at deep water. Some info on the LL and browns. A topo map (fishing hot spots) recommends the two deep water runs Frontenac Point N to AES, and the Atwaters to Sheldrake run. Both are over the 400 ft water. They say; These long narrow strips over deep water seem to hold most of the LL from mid summer through early fall. Look for them ABOVE the thermocline sometimes only 30-50 ft down. Fast troll spoons. Lots of Rainbows will take these same lures. I know its a "fishing map" (sigh) but the info it has has been pretty accurate for me. 58Johnson

Was out early Sat morning west side N of Taughannock (across from AES). Lakers were hitting better than they have in a few weeks for me. There were a good number of jiggers out, a few downriggers, me doing dipsys and the best of all...an older gent pulling copper with a manual rig in a 12 to 14 footer. Using glow spoon/ glow dodger was working. Dirty White Boy and Alwive were not. Never got to try silver...my usual best. 58Johnson