Sk8man

Nice going Nick and Theresa . We didn't do nearly as well out of Hughes in the late afternoon and early evening in the rough water. The underwater currents there were terrible and tough to run things the way we wanted. Managed a small 9 lb king, 10 lb laker and 7-8 lb brown and those were the only hits all down about 125 over 140. Never marked a fish above 70 ft down most hugging bottom.

Just an FYI Nick the video works fine from Tapatalk on my Android Smartphone . Looks as though the download button on Vimeo has to be clicked on first to actually activate the PLAY function on the player otherwise it just displays as though it is loading the file so if folks are on the computer I think they can see the video OK if they click on that download button.

Nothing better than a pretty lady holding a pretty atlantic Nick Hey by the way the video on Vimeo on my Windows computer is sideways on the screen and it doesn't work as a video per se just individual frames when moused over

Here is an example of what the Spin-N-Glow looks like: There are many colors and some different sizes ans wing materials to choose from and different ways they can be set up. If you are interested in them Gambler on here makes the best proven setups already rigged from a very competent fisherman so that is the way to go if you are interested. The one pictured here is just the basic Spin N Glow

Nice going Nick and Theresa Now that is encouraging especially after yesterday....Lets hope there is a whole lot more of those bad boys out there

I hear you on the traffic tomorrow. Canandaigua will be a nightmare with all the rec boaters and partiers out at the north end and then everyone will try to come in the channel at the last moment and then folks will be putting their canvas down and sorting out their stuff right in the middle of the launch while folks are backed up in the channel out to the lake (don't ask me why I know this). Guess it will be worth waiting until later in the week here

Looks as though you did better than most today (as usual ). My buddy Admiral Byrd was out the re too in his Penn Yan and was unable to strike gold and he fishes it hard like you do

😄 Good one Nick....good luck out there. hope the weeds and fleas arent too bad. Thinking I may get out tomorrow or Lake O

Here I am sitting at the airport in Jackson Hole with mountains all around me and thinking I might be missing some action on Seneca 😰 My wife thinks Im nuts😄

Good going kempie. I hope to get out there after I return from Wyoming and Yellowstone in another week. Hoping the fleas won't be totally undoable by then Thanks for the report.

There are several methods but I used to anchor in anywhere from 75 to 150 ft of water often near drop-offs at the south end of the lake just before dark and use a light version Seth Green rig (usually two of them) (3 leader instead of 5 for simplicity) with a 20 lb test mainline and bead chains placed every 20 ft with 10 ft. long 10 -12 lb test leaders (mono back then now I'd use fluoro) and a 16 oz. sinker and LIVE sawbellies that I would catch by hanging two Coleman lanterns suspended from the 4 ft booms of my Riviera downriggers turned sideways in the boat on each side. I staggered the two rigs so they were at different depths. This would bring bait up to the surface (sawbellies) after the bugs that would be attracted to the light and I'd use a smelt net to catch my bait. Often I'd set out a spinning rod with a bobber and cast it out away from the other line (s) and just let the bait swim around below the surface often big rainbows would hit that rig. the bait on the Seth Green would swim around at different depths and get hit and you take the leaders off one at a time to get to the one with the fish. Sometimes when gathering the bait large fish could be seen coming out of the depths after it.... very eerie appearance with big lakers or browns looking like "Jaws" Night fishing is a VERY different experience from other fishing...it can be very disorienting especially when people go to bed in cottages along the shorelines and turn their lights out and you have few if any landmarks to go by ....not so bad on Canandaigua as it is a small body but on Seneca it was a different ballgame and Keuka because of the "Y" nature of it. There is no other like the experience of starting to nod off in the early morning hours in nearly total darkness and waking up to the sound of your drag screaming out with a huge rainbow or brown on the other end and you can't see where the line is going and you hoped it wouldn't get into the anchor rope (sometimes extended 300 ft ). . Nowadays you have LED lighting etc in boats but back then you had to watch running down your battery out there so no lights other than navigation lights or flashlights. There was a whole contingent of fishermen out there back then (largely out of what was Clark's Marina then. There may be a few guys on here that remember those times and were also out there . I know the Rainbow Kid was one of them as we have talked about it. Many of those fishermen (guys like John Roides and John Oravec) ended up as charter guys on Lake O when the salmon were introduced and that fishing started to take off.

The heavy boat traffic after 10 AM eeeven many week days doesn't help matters either and everyone comes in at the same time in the evening so the launch is a zoo too....sure loses some of its appeal at this time of the year. it is one of the most densely used recreational lakes around. Probably one of the reasons night fishing was so successful in the past.