Sk8man

Put the boat away this week and finished up on the Fall perch fishing so I'm psyched for ice fishing now.... Most of my stuff has been ready since this summer You'd think after all these years and going through the ice a couple of times I wouldn't get all that excited but ice fishing is something special Let's hope for some good ice this year!

jk1 it may be Eggleston Point you are referring to on the east side from the bluffs on the Penn Yan branch. We used to get a lot of lakers off there jerking copper and pulling cowbells with peanuts. For deep water jigging this time of year it can be good sometimes right at the edges of the two deepest holes one located on a southwest diagonal from the State launch and the other straight out from Marlena Point about in the middle of the lake arm straight out south from the bluff.

Heck of a buck he has there Sean

Dan - Very sorry to hear about your dad's passing. Hang in there.

Yeah Bob don't get too discouraged. Sometimes you can be doing everything right and it still doesn't work out and next time out you hammer them. I guess it is part of what keeps it interesting too.....kinda like pulling the lever on a slot machine sometimes

I think I may now know the answer after looking closer at the image. They are in fact Mag 10A's and they have been converted to what appears to be a Digitrol by adding the Digitrol board and activation pad. I haven't seen them configured that way ....most of the time when the pad goes bad on the old Digitrol people would scrap the pad and convert them to a 10A. I'm pretty sure these are conversions from 10A to Digitrol (probably Digi 1's from the late 80's - early 90's). Unfortunately I have no idea where to find a manual for the old Digitrols.

WTG Hunter

Bob- Not exactly sure what is happening with respect to your method/technique but guys have been getting them jigging recently but for so many years guys have just stationed themselves right straight out from the bluff and have gotten used to hammering them there but the bait moves as do the pods of lakers along with the bait. One of the probable reasons why you didn't see many other fishermen this morning is that it is the first day of gun hunting for deer and secondly a lot of folks (including me) have put their boats up given the snow is coming next few days. Most of the die hards you see from now on in boats will be perch guys and maybe the occasional trout fisherman. The lakers are probably spawning about now in the Finger Lakes and they migrate in numbers to traditional spawning areas and cluster together about now so they may not be in the usual spots so you may really have to do some looking around at this time of year especially. I saw a post very recently of some nice lakers caught on Kastmasters and swirl tail plastic here by jigging on LOU so they are in fact still in the lake . It looked like they were possibly caught a bit towards Penn Yan from the bluffs where you were apparently fishing from their pic.

They look like Digitroll 1 or 2 s. They are not 10A's They are somewhat newer than the 10A model and have the auto stop etc. but they are much more basic in features than the modern Digitroll 5 or 10 models. They aren't bad downriggers just slower than the more modern model and I think the maximum weight limit is about the same as the 10A's (10 lbs). I haven't seen any manual for them in recent years. The Digitrol 2 has a digital readout in feet instead of a manual counter.

Best of luck out there Keith and all you other adventurous souls.....does look like some snow coming soon around here so that may be a good omen

Yes something is VERY wrong there. I have fished there for them for over50 or more years and despite the comments of some folks to the contrary it is my strong impression that the perch are not there in the numbers that they have been in the past. I know that some guys on here who use cameras etc. say they are still there and that basically my thinking is all wet but although I admit there are still some perch out there they are not nearly as plentiful as in the past and many of my close buddies who are expert perch guys say the same. We are mainly north end of Seneca perch guys so that should be taken into consideration..... By the way here is what I'm having for supper right now (but not from Seneca)

The perch fishing has been very different this year from the past for most folks on Seneca and not in a good way....I think that anyone getting into them will be VERY tight lipped (for good reason) so your best bet may be to experiment for yourself at the southeast corner of the lake especially. The Seneca gold is not given up easily and is a very precious commodity these days

Many if not most of the things mentioned here relate to a central problem that is societal in nature and also related to a bunch of other things that are currently going on and that is the lack of respect for others and it isn't just prevalent in sports like hunting and fishing nor is it just characteristic of inexperienced youth and it is good reason for concern in terms of the future of our society.

X2 on the Walker Deeper Divers (124mm)

There are no 37's The 47's are a good choice for flexibility and line capacity if you fish for trout salmon and walleyes but if just for walleyes probaby the smaller lighter 27's would fit the bill better.They are both well made sturdy and reliable reels. I have a dozen of the 47's some of which I've had for 30 years without servicing of any kind and they work perfectly still.

This situation is a very good example of why law enforcement and the DEC conservation guys need and deserve our full support and not undeserved criticism. The unfortunate part of it is that our legal system (e.g. local judges) often does not seem to consider this type of thing a "priority" or important and merely dismisses the cases without adequate action (e.g. massive fines, incarceration, seizure of property etc.) to serve as a disincentive for these people who continue doing "business as usual" when they merely get a slap on the hand or nothing as a penalty. Many of these folks coming from authoritarian countries like the eastern block countries are used to severe penalties in their own countries for such misbehavior and thus they think we have a weak system of monitoring and disposition once caught so there is no disincentive when they are reaping financial profits from their actions.