scott111

ok, sorry, here is what i look like...i didnt want to startle anyone

nice. i got a giant walleye saturday which i posted...i-bay 4/23. my first one in lake O. i usually get a ton of them in irondequoit bay in summer

im very proud of this walleye...dang!!!!!!!!!!

me & my brother....yea looks like a brown but the spots seemed unusual to me...im new to trout fishing and ive seen pics of cohos that look similar

finally caught some fish. half mile east of I-bay. flat lines. 2-3 mph. 3 - 6pm. 10 feet of water. water = 44 degrees. silver/blue or gold/black husky jerk and a silver shallow runner shad rap. got 2 browns and the largest walleye i ever caught, a lake trout, and perhaps a coho? looks not quite like a brown so im not sure..pics below..anyway, best day of fishing yet all were released in good spirits not positive about this fish

nice. i was there too around 1:30...didnt catch anything. forget my net too

great! i was in the same area for a few hours in the afternoon and didnt catch anything, as usual

tried summerville pier today for 2 hours. only one there. got nothing. saw nothing. tried webster park 3 times in the past few weeks. got nothing. saw nothing. very frustrated. last fall i got a lot off the piers tried from the boat twice out of I-bay going both directions. saw nothing. got nothing all i can conclude is that ive tried at the wrong time of day. when i catch them, its usually pretty dark outside. i havent been out early enough i think

Rapala Xraps of any color are my favorite plastics. The 4-8 feet divers are my favorite. I remove the barbs as they are a pain to unhook but they work consistently for pike, walleye and bass. The large husky jerks are also awsome in perch or silver color. Again, i remove the barbs

i saw the DEC on the bay from my house...in a center console unmarked boat..checking people yesterday morning

got two this morning at 6:50am. very rough water and very windy. noone fishing except me. got em on the east side of the pier on a copper spoon, mid-way out. my first trout ever im new to trout fishing...was wondering, since the water is so low in the creek and the mouth so narrow and mostly blocked by a stone beach and apparently very few fish moving into the creek, will the steelhead just hand out around the pier and mouth of creek until that water rises and mouth opens up a bit? how long can i expect to fish off the pier and catch trout at this location, until ice forms? end of november?

what i see jumping is not that big. although i did see one salmon, possibly a stealhead jump clear out of the water, about 50 yards off the end of my dock 2 weeks ago which was pretty cool

saw two guys get trout tonight on the pier. had a problem with my reel and had to quit. will go back in morning. definitely fish here

the carp are pretty easily distinguished from the large fish i see feeding on surface bait fish

they are definitely minnow size fish now and in spring. right now im seeing them along with very large fish jumping clear out of the water. they are much larger than bass so i suspect they are walleye since they dont look like pike...with maybe some large mouth mixed in hunting on the surface. i can see them jumping from bay village all the way north to the marsh area on the west side. in spring the evening surface activity is insane, right up to shore. i see with a flashlight, a ton of gar and pike. the pike are often swimming along the surface gulping air for some reason. i have snagged many shad in the spring at night so i know thats what the small fish are. there are times when the bay seems dead and other times when it just comes alive with swarms of bait fish, bass, walleye and pike. its a tough bay to catch fish in though, except for early summer and during ice fishing season. wish i had a kayak so i could get just a little further out there

more than 1 month and zero walleye caught near shore. in fact only 1 small bass caught in more than 1 month off shore, despite trying every day either early morning or evening. i hear fishing jumping off shore 100 yards though, every morning and all night after dark but have no idea what they are..they aint biting

i use the Abu Record 50. love it...dose not hold quite enough line for trolling for big salmon or salt water fish but otherwise, its the perfect reel for trout, walleye, pike, bass...its my go-to reel...been using it in the genesee river with spoons would love to get a shimano calcutta TE next

wow this is one of the reasons i hate leaving hooks in fish, whether they break off or you just cant get it out. ive switched to fishing with 20-30lb braid in order to keep big fish from breaking off with hooks in their body. not only dogs, but we have bald eagles here on i-bay, swans that eat big dead fish, and heron and more people get annoyed when i critize them for fishing with small hooks and worms, having the fish swallow the hook and having the fisherman throw the fish back with the hook in its throat. arggggggggggg pretty much anything and everything eat fish

it was nice meeting you by chance at webster park..gave it another 30 minutes and quit...but ill be back..i can see the spot has potential. be in touch another pretty cool spot is the Seth Green public fishing area on the Genesee River...just started fishing it. My first and only time there, very first cast I hooked something very large on a shallow diving rapala. I could see the shape of the fish but it shook off....trout or salmon my guess...i got three small mouth after that. seems like a good fly rod spot i think, and nice scenery too...ill probably be down there thursday early evening http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_ ... aterck.pdf

would love to hear more about catching big fish as webster park. i grew up in webster and fished the pier in the 1980's in my teens before the pier/break wall rocks and goby's ruined the experience. used to catch 20 small mouth a night there and ride my bicycle home. brought nothing more than my meps # 3 and pack of camel's. had to sell my fly gear but have good casting gear...where abouts were you? at the mouth of the creak? on the jetty? what time of day? i remember as a kid hanging out at the creek seeing all the dead salmon...

the past two weeks i have had no luck catching walleye from shore. in fact, i have caught zero fish, despite trying daily...im wondering if they are coming closer in much later than they were....used to be able to get them the second the sun set....the xrap both shallow and deep diving, has turned out to be my favorite rapala of all time, i have actually been trolling with them for salmon by the river lately...maybe im nuts

a big walleye got me in july. for a while, i was attached to the walleye via the hook as it thrashed on the ground. not fun in the middle of the night all alone. i now always fish barbless, carry strong wire cutters and use long pliers to unhook fish. i cant imagine pulling a barbed hook out without a nerve block

one of last night's fish...very plump. i gotta get a scale

hi...just discovered this forum while searching to see if anyone else was catching walleye at night on the bay. i have been catching very large, heavy walleye every night since early july when i by chance threw a lure in after dark and caught one...since that night i have caught about 2 per night...at a rate of 1 per 30 minutes to an hour...seems catching one scares the others away for a bit. been catching them in 1 to 5 feet of water just off my neighbors break wall on the west side of the bay, just north of Bay Village been using the rapala fire tiger shallow diving shad in both small and large sizes as well as rapala x-rap shallow divers in large and medium sizes....seems most colors and patterns work but i prefer to use the orange or perch pattern x-rap in the 2 months i have been catching them, there was only a short period of about 1 week when i caught zero. i definitely see a rise in activity during full moon periods and when the sky is clear. water temp has not seemed to matter at all. on my best night, i got 5 in 1 hour i am curious if the walleye fishing at night in shallow water is good every year and from when to when? this was my first summer living on the bay overall, i catch very little during the day...but at night, get big walleye and pike. cant complain about that