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ryonybony ...sounds like was short a mile or two from being on steady fish . really didn't have a good starting point so i just wing it . was good lake conditions to ran out to 400 ft too . Les.... was thinking going out of Hughes but was to cheap to drive the extra miles and pay to launch so i op out for the long slow ride to the lake . hey Bob is going to start to think you have some thing to do with these tangles you guys are getting . just kidding bud good luck next time out ..

Sodus 7/19 went solo for my first trip to ontario day . showed up at the public launch at sodus pt 5:30 . got under way at idle speed to the lake , that was 30 mins to the end of the chute . made my way out to 120 fow ,set up with spoons on the riggers and a pro troll and fly on the dipsy , the fish hawk was reading 52 degs. down 50 ft . so i park one rigger at 65 down and the other 75 ft set the dipsy at 180 ft of wire and ran my down speed at 2.3 to 2.6 . didn't see much at all on the sonar , no bait or fish till i hit 180 to 190 fow . the first release came on the 75 ft down rigger around 220 fow ended up landing a small king . then i washed spoons and flies out to 360 fow ,seen bait and marks here and there but got nada .turn around working south east when i hit the 190 fow range had my second release . landed a smaller king than the first one . at 12:30 it was warm and muggy so i called it a day . it wasn't the greatest productive day for me but better than a skunk . salmon on the grill for dinner .

keuka 7/16 went out with my buddy and his son to see how Keuka lake fishing would be . left from Keuka state park at 5 30. we went 5 for 8 today all lake trout and were release to bite another day. the fish were small ,2 lb to 4 lbs . they all seem to have empty bellies . there is a big difference from Cayuga lake fish to Keuka lake fish . there was more face book time for my buddies son . we hardly mark bait but did mark small schools of fish all the way to the point . by 10 30 the recreational boats started zooming all around so we called it a morning . the water fleas were just about none . surface temp was 73 . we ran two rig rods with suttons and mi scorpion spoons one high one low with each rod doing about the same amount of hits . gps speed was 1.7 to 2.4 .

that is the first time i heard of anyone hooking an anchor and bring it in with a down rigger rod . way to play it out with out a snap off

seems to be that way. i see monday looks like a ft or less

the flea gobs come from bringing in the lines and have to strip them of fleas . the wire rods cut threw the fleas and they fall where ever . when i was waxing up my kicker i notice the water intake had fleas in the small holes of the screen wasn't plug but made me think the kicker must had to drink a few , the kicker ran two 12 hour days i look at the i/o intake holes they are bigger and didn't see any fleas there but the i/o didn't run much .

spent two days washing and waxing boat from gobs of fleas from last weekend derby ..

nice bow and brown Les and Mark, glad you guys got out for some quality time . we stayed mostly on the east side to the middle of the lake where we did so well for the past few weeks . it was a job with the wind, water currents and fleas . Deans Cove is pain for sure . we spent two days out of Long Point the state did a good job with this launch with as busy as it was easy in and out there .

some nice fish caught to win their divisions , congrats to the winners ... Saturday we did 33 lakers the top two weighed in at 7.12 and 8 lbs and that ended to be the two biggest for the weekend . sunday we did 14 lakers nothing over 6 lbs . i have never had so many tangles in my life today . made me start to think why do i fish ,LOL ended up just running the two rig rods to keep us from going crazy ..

fished last saturday in down pouring rains looks like a half day of storms tomorrow

lets hope the wind doesn't blow 20

no nick she didn't and i didn't think of asking neither .

i was talking with a college student that is doing a study of how the salt is affecting seneca lake. she told me that when they had a camera down to the bottom they seen a lot of dead predator fish . anyone ever put down a camera to take a look