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The water was 74 degrees from the mouth, upstream 1 mile or so past captains cove yesterday. Didn't see any action at the mouth.

Ready!

I'm prepping the boat and gear to hit Cayuga with my Dad tomorrow morning. 

49 minutes ago, Lily 2 said:

Fleas were terrible again today.  I don't know very much about cortland flea ficker line but the blood run stuff didn't and hasn't worked for me.  5 lb mono also has had no effect.  The only thing that is working is checking your gear every 15 minutes or so that I have found

How was the fishing? I'm headed out tomorrow morning

Thanks for the update. We went out this past weekend jigging and found the same thing. Decent water color for sure. Little fishing wise for us but should get better. 

25 minutes ago, RiverRat22 said:

Thought I’d share the satellite images. Dean’s Cove area still looks green, but the farther south the cleaner the water. 
 

 

https://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/modis/modis.php?region=o&page=1

Very cool pics. Thanks for sharing. What site do you find those on?

14 hours ago, Lily 2 said:

The lake still is quite turbulent with all of the rain lately.  The water clarity to be getting better but the weeds both loose and giant weed mats are never ending.    aren't as much as a nuisance as they were a week ago.  We had some pretty stiff north west winds on Friday night that really seemed to clear up the lake.   

Thanks for the report Lily. Hopefully it continues to clear this week. 

Any updates on the algae bloom this weekend? Any fishing reports? Looking to head there this coming weekend. 

I know they have a facebook page called Conesus lake Tuesday night working man  tournaments. I haven't been in years, but I believe it's just show up, pay and fish. 

There is a hammer in the making. Nice work Manny!

Does anyone have any links to webcams on Cayuga lake? I would like to follow them so I can save myself the hour and half drive to the lake if it's too rough for my small boat. Thanks. 

There was actually two kayak events on Cayuga this past weekend. You were allowed to enter both so there was some over lap but I would guess there was 150+ kayaks out there. When we do these event it is catch photograph and release like it was stated. We use standardized measuring boards and are given a code right before the event to include in the picture. The pics are submitted to an app that keeps and real time leaderboard. There was also a boat event that day going by weight, but they weigh em on the boat and video it and release them. It turned out to be an epic event on the kayak side. Largest turn out ever for the local club (NYKBF) with 94, and the regional event (Elite kayak fishing) had 106. The winner of the NYKBF event set a new record for the largest single day bag in NYS with a 100" bag of 5 fish.  

I agree with what has been said, 2D is sonar is all you need. I’m relatively new to jigging for lakers, and it didn’t take long to turn it in to video game fishing. Getting your settings right is key, but not difficult. Plenty of online info about it. You can clean up you pic pretty well, and the setting that I think is most important for jigging is chart speed. I run it as fast as it will go. This is a Helix 7 GN3, and you can see fish hugging the bottom and also chasing my jig.

Sorry for the delay in posting my report. We did get out Sunday to fish, but didn’t have any luck. We went out of the park, and fished around the park, AES and also the west side north of the park. Most of this was new water to me. We did mark fish and bait all day. Had tons of chasers, but only a few hits we didn’t connect with. Maybe it was as bulletbob mentioned about lakers hitting and but not eating or maybe we just didn’t have what they wanted. Like I said this was new areas of the lake for me so it was good to check out new spots. The people I talked to back at the launch all had similar results, two boats were trolling and they didn’t get any, and one other boat that was jigging said they got one. Sounds like a slow day for most. Still good to be out on the water though. Bob you mentioned that your fishing elsewhere now and waiting for the lakers to be done spawning. When does the spawn wrap up generally? I know from fishing the Niagara river the season is closed October and November to protect the spawn. I assume they would be wrapping mid-November then?

33 minutes ago, DtD said:

Hi Bob,   Loving this weather so far. Hope you can elaborate just a little on what a decent screen is for you.  My new Garmin striker 7Plus is giving good clarity these days but I think I need to be a little more discerning when making the stop .

Thanks  DAVE

Dave, I can't speak for Bob or Chowder but when I read that I took it to mean he is marking fish, bait or both on his graph. In my limited experience, I've come to realize that most of the time you catch fish your marking something. Electronics do play a big part in fishing for the lakers.  

18 hours ago, chowder said:

Off T falls and  Myers, and AES would be my start offs but I wouldn’t make a drop without a decent screen 

Thanks alot for the start points. Yes I agree, gotta get the screen looking good before making drops. No sense in dropping to nothing. Thanks for the advice! I will post a report Monday

21 hours ago, bulletbob said:

 Lakers are spawning right now in Cayuga.. However they can still be caught when you find them bunched up... Those that are pre spawn, or actively spawning are not eating, but will often hit jigs anyway, maybe out of anger, or seeing the lure near their eggs,, not sure... Also, they start spawning in Cayuga in early sept, so I imagine a percentage of them are already spawned out and are feeding again... Hot spots??... I dunno, anywhere you can find them I suppose, but I will tell you this.. The DEC nets them every year for their eggs and milt which they use to stock many other lakes in the state.. They are always netting  around Taughannock point and up a mile or two south of the point, and down a mile or two south of it, so we know the lakers congregate there this time of year,,, Who knows how many have spawned and gone either north or south by this time?.. I would just try where you have caught them in the past, and see what happens.. Water depths vary, but I know they will go pretty deep during the spawn, I have caught them full of eggs in 100 FOW, but have also caught them full of eggs or milt in shallow water.... Its certainly worth a shot, the weather is supposed to be really nice and who knows how many more chances  you might get this fall ?     bob

Thanks alot for the insight. Some good info there and enough to get me on my way. Very much appreciated. I was thinking down south would be best, and you confirmed my thoughts. Thank you. 

I'm wondering if anyone can give me some insight to Cayuga lake fishing in the fall. This year was the first year I fished the lake, and we had some reasonable success in August and September jigging for Lakers. We picked up some bows and browns as well which was really cool. With the weather looking decent this weekend, I was thinking about making the 1.5 hour drive to get back out there. I'm wondering if it is still similar to the last few months. Find bait, find fish and then jig for them. I'm not sure how the pre-spawn or spawn effects them. Do they go deeper or real shallow? Do they migrate to one area of the lake? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.  

Just now, Gill-T said:

And now he has your gps coordinates lol. 

If he is chasing me and my coordinates he is in for a suprise LOL. I'm just learning that lake, and honestly if he can't tell I'm jigging or use his electonics to get my coordinates with out getting close to me I got nothing to worry about.

We had a 20+ foot center console pull up to us this weekend with four lines in the water (on their boat) while we were on spot lock, and ask us if we were jigging. I didn't know what to say, I thought it was pretty obvious what we were doing. Then they realized how close their lines were getting to us and did an almost 90 degree turn away from us. Definently some people out there with more money than common sense. All I could do was laugh. 

3 hours ago, DoubleTrouble1 said:

I guess I just didn't realize so many things were taxed to benefit the outdoors and habitat ! Seems very fishy that their trying to abolish it. Thanks for the enlightenment...im definitely for keeping the tax in place and Id also say any politician who's on board with getting rid of the bill needs to be taken a closer look at as I'm sure there's an agenda in their somewhere or some form of ulterior motives!! There always is

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It really does make ya wonder why they would want to end a popular and long running sucessfully program. There is a lot of articles out there regarding it. Worth taking a look for sure. 

here is one I found. 

https://www.postregister.com/outdoors/pittman-robertson-act-is-essential-to-wildlife-agencies/article_6febe5eb-ffbc-55aa-8d5c-7ca8147a668f.html
 

13 minutes ago, GAMBLER said:

I have to stay competitive on prices with my competitors.  It's tough enough now that everyone and their brother is selling spin n glo rigs and now a competitor just purchased some of my death traps.  More than likely I will have competition with those now......

 That's understandable. I hope your customers stay loyal and don't go to someone copying your rigs. 

Here is a link to the article Gill_T posted.

https://www.outdoornews.com/2022/06/30/u-s-house-bill-would-eliminate-pittman-robertson-act/

Gambler, just curious, why don't you just factor the 10% into the cost of gambler rigs? I always assumed when buying hunting or fishing gear that these taxes we factored in or collected on what I was spending.

I personally have no issue paying it. It's a long running program that is widely seen a a sucess and a postive. Not sure why either party would want to end it, much less they republicains. It will hurt the GOP votrers the most.

Hit it last weekend, got a few pike and one nice small mouth. Typical stuff, outside weed edges, drop offs.

There are lots of eyes in both Conesus and Honeoye. They are two totally different fish though. Conesus's eyes are bigger, but don't fare as well on the table, Honeoye may have more eyes, they run smaller, and taste great.

The big difference is probably due to the fact that Conesus eyes eat a lot of Alewives.

Both lakes are worth the time to fish for eyes.