tugger

Nice report Scott. Was the water chocolate milk all the way out to 109 from the runoff. How about the color out of the canal? Thanks.

The DEC stocks a pile of lakes in NY with Walleyes from then Oneida Hatchery. Does anyone know why they are not including several streams from eastern shore of Ontario?

Fished east side Saturday and ended up with 15 eyes,  3 SM, a northern and a few huge Sunnies. Most of the eyes were caught on Jigs. Water temp was 63 and water clarity is variable. Fairly clean in the lake but the creeks have been flowing pretty good so its a little cloudy at the inflows.

What the heck is up with all the cotton in the water this year. Black River Bay not too bad but I read Mexico has cotton issues. Oneida lake is nearly not trollable at this time what a PITA.

Why don't you look in to Henderson marina, they rent cottages and they have a house and a trailer, we stayed in their cottages and the price was like $25 or $35 a night with all the sheets and towels included, have fridge, stove, heat, airco all you need is food and beer, they have docks everything, we liked it or you could look into the Staiff out fit they also have room rentals. PAP   PS. Henderson has cable TV also that's included.

++ Pap......looks like the best deal going!

Wholly cow that place is expensive...

You got that right. I just checked it out,  It must be the most expensive KOA in America, LOL. Well maybe next to Aspen KOA if there is such a thing. What a Joke! For another option try Westcott State Park. That would be cheap (pitch a tent) and its only another 4 miles further than association Island. You can buy a lot of gas for that price difference!

Tried fishing BRB on Sunday. Wind was too much for my boat but I did manage to get to the north side for about a 1/2 hour troll before the west winds forced me back off. Water temp dropped like crazy with the north winds and mid 30's nightly temps. North side of the bay was 50 deg and South was 52. Crossing fingers for this weekend but looks like its warming up good tomorrow -Sunday.

FleetTracker

  Nice fish there. Were you in Black River Bay or out of Stoney Point?

WM

  Thanks for the Info.

Solo fished BRB late morning till 6pm Sunday and got a big fat "0". Water temp is 58-60 on the north side of the bay. The Alewives are there in full force now, bait all over the place in the Northern half of the bay. I trolled Deep Taildancer 11's, Trolls-To 15's and 20's and deep Reef runners varying speeds from 1-2.5mph. I figured the bite would be pretty good with the great cloud cover and a little chop but I figured wrong. I couldn't start till 10am though, perhaps they were cooperative early morning.

All

  Fished BRB today. Surface temp was 58 on south side, 64 on north side. Strong thermocline at 11 ft with temperature dropping to 49 from that point down to bottom.  Trolled north side from about half way out of the bay to Everleigh at various depths and only picked up one Northern. There is a little bit of bait showing up here and there in 50FOW but still not much. Also, there were a few decent marks starting to show on the graph at various depths (20-40). Probably needs another week or so. ???

Idk... We went from 50's to straight 75-80 and will stay that way till at least Saturday. I'll be interested to see how the weekend rolls out

LC

  True, things can change fast. The situation I posted from last weekend could potentially be reversed 100% this weekend. Just posted what I witnessed and that was pretty much a sterile situation. We will see!

All

  I made an "electronics only" scouting run Saturday to BRB and Sunday to Chaumont/Guffin bay. Regarding Chaumont/Guffin, no baitfish schools to be found at all, and therefore very little fish to be found. Regarding BRB there were "Very few" baitfish schools found and very few fish as well. Most of the fish must be in either less than 8FOW, in the rivers or still out in the main lake. I spent 7 hours each day looking with Side Imaging 2D sonar and Marcum camera. Chaumont search was done from Shangri La and inshore. Black River Bay search was done from Everliegh/Horse island and inshore. Not much going on out there yet as of this past weekend!  Also, the bugs were absolutely terrible.

Surface temps 51 deg., temp at 50FOW 43 deg.

Sorry about your luck! Ahhh, just give me her number and I'll take over from here.

Yes we did. About 15 years of pretty strict C&R is the reason we have the opportunity to catch trophies like her a mile from home. And she is not the biggest...we have returned bigger to fight another day.

Kyle

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Bobber

Great for the boy to have the example of C&R in my opinion. Awesome fish!

Very Nice fish....I have to ask, did you release her?

Guys

Yeah, I'll confirm weeds being an issue, they definitely kept trolling out of the options. I'm pretty sure if I had bought a few big fat minnows I could have jigged up a few fish but I was doing everything I could do to get them to go on Plastic. They were about as negative as they can get. It was more of an experiment than it was fishing LOL. Had fun though...any day on the water is a good day!

choo-choo

Thanks for the report. I fished Yesterday at Oneida (East side). Got skunked but there were fish all over my normal spots (confirmed on Marcum) Threw the whole box at them basically. Piles and Piles of shad.....your fish confirmed that as well. I dont think they are going hungry right now!

My friend and I were at the Oak several years ago in front of the Black North. They were jumping all around us but we couldn't get them to hit. I tried every spooon and stick bait in the box and they wouldn't hit. what were we doing wrong?

I casted plugs for 2 kings on Sunday....I am far from an expert but I believe it mainly boils down to number of casts frankly. I probably made 300 casts for those 2 fish. I suppose If there are enough fish in the area, one of them will hit eventually.

oldman

Whats the water temp now?

Nice fish. The walleyes have slowed down alot compared to normal years. I am hoping to try it down by the cape next weekend aroud ironman and carlten island never fished down that way but i have heard that the fishing gets good down that way this time of year time will tell. Nice to see your father enjoying it.

MH

If you want drum that is definitely the place to be. They are allover the drop off just North East of Roxy Island/Feather bead shoal. After I marked the mother load I had the camera down through that whole area and all I found was Drum.....hundreds of them...again, no eyes.

Fishhawk

Nice catch. Great to see the river giving up some nice eyes and great that you released them I fished the west side of Carleton last week launching out of Cave Vincent town launch. No eyes...A few non cooperative SM Bass (verivied on Marcum) and several hundred, thats right, several hundred drum stacked up along the wall in 35-65 FOW. No eyes though

Can you launch a lund like yours out of Grass Point now or is it too shallow. Did you have to launch out of Clayton marina? Thanks.

Kevin

Nice! I had a feeling I should dump in at Cape Vincent...I went to Guffin/Chamount Bay and got skunked....tried everything(except live bait) including various finesse presentations....nada. The fish were there...I marked them and viewed on the Marcum....they just had lock jaw...I should know better by now....find the current in Late August!!!! Nice catch by the way!

One word if you need to catch a Walleye.......Oneida!

I've never fished Whitney.

1) What is the water clarity like.

2) What is the current water level in relation to normal

3) How thick are the weeds there

4) Is the channel well defined by not having weeds in relation to the remainder of the reservoir

5) Are you using an electric when trolling those bouncers (it's not very deep looking at the contour map)