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Maybe a bit of rain and a nice west or north blow will get the bait off the bottom of the lake. We did mark a lot of bait 260'  down in 450' of water. The laker had large alewifes in his belly. Good luck all

Fished south end, not much happening all morning.  Ended up 6 miles up west shore 130 fow 90' down glow white spoon caught a nice 28" laker, mission complete.  Salsa covered fish on the charcoal! Yum...  No takers on FF or small spoons water temp on top started at 39.9 got to 50 on west shore before wind came up.  Guess you have to travel north to consistently catch fish on Seneca. Comments?  Still love fishing the crazy lake cause when you figure it out the big ones are there!!

Point being the water is very cold and muddy, the kids were who I was worried about. One slipped oar and a kid could get knocked out and gone. Yes I believe strongly in wearing a PFD.  Yes thanks again for the report Dave! Good fishing all!

_{Fished south end also  this evening dodged 20 sailboats and a pile of Cornell crew. The temps were way down from Sunday.  Decided to head north along east shore. Seneca Special Flasher with UV fly landed a nice 28" laker full of alweives (6) that were about 5" long each .. am I using too small spoons or sticks?  Alpha Alewife also landed two smaller lakers. 70' down and 160 to 75 fow.  Temp was 41 degrees.     Dumb question but all those kids on the crew do not have life jackets on   exempt from NYS law???  If I dont wear one I surely will get ticketed  just saying....}

Thanks for all the great input guys.  I will stick with the prop on the motor now, it trolls great and top end is not that bad at 29mph.   Appreciate the comments.

Sweet! Great to see a 12yr old having a ball.  I remember my buddies dad taking me when I was that age he was so excited he had a new paper graph at the time! I remember huge bait clouds on that thing and a smelt run that blacked out fall creek. The good old days

Went 18 for ? lost count of how many small drop offs.  First hour was slow not much hitting stick baits.  Alpha alewife from fingerlakestackle.com was killer today catching about 5 to one more than any other lure.  Thanks to Billy V on the previous post caught a nice eater size laker with FF on dipsy 275' back north toward drop off.  Kept one nice 23" LL picture attached.  New boat for me (17' Tracker Targa 60hp four stroke) still working out kinks.  need more rod holders.... Thanks to all the guys out there everyone was aware of their lines kudos to all.   Speed was 1.9-2.2 but a few speed bursts seemed to trigger fish. 

you have a pm

Just purchased a boat that the owner says only hits 27mph top speed. The prop looks unproportionately small.  Does anyone have a place or a dealer that has specs for a 2006 merc 60 four stroke and can give me a recommendation for an ideal prop.

Pm me with price and a little more description.  No mast?

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Thank you everyone for the posts. Good luck to everyone! Everyone be safe and wear a full body harness, my buddy almost fell in his climber just this weekend but his harness saved him. Kill em and post em!

Early Sun Am got into this boys bedding area not yards from where I found one of his sheds this spring. He bedded about 80 yards from me and proceded to take about a half hour nap ( the boys have been running hard at night looking for that first hot doe, midday movement should be excellent this week). After watching him for over two hours I decided to try to call to him one problem though I had no calls on me. Gave him my best "lost my mom fawn bawl" with little reaction... Tried again about 5 min later he just looked my way. Decided to give him my best low tending grunt and he got up and b lined it to my tree stiff legged and looking for a fight. The muzzy did its job and he took a bit longer nap.

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Ok wasn't just me... 5 fish, 3 small browns and 2 tiny bows. Had two good releases on the rigger 90' down with flasher fly. Lots of marks in south end tight lipped fish though. Will try again thanks for input. Hot lure of day was M Stinger Blue UV.

Thanks for the input guys. Will give Seneca a try Nick O. Report to follow.

OK which lake to go to Cayuga or Seneca fall trolling which one is best and why. South end, middle of lake, shallow or deep??? Need to have a fish fry for deer camp this weekend

No we are totally independent. We have kept ourselves low key for the past few years but the dog is really ready to track!

Just an FYI we provide a tracking service for wounded deer, we are licensed thru the NYS DEC. My name is John and my phone is 607-738-7860 store it for future reference. I will travel up to 50 miles or so from Spencer NY (tioga county) Good luck guys hope ya don't need us.

Great job Nick. We can't wait.

Nice job! Same kind of bite for us today on cayuga LOU lost two good fish that may have put us in it.. 24lb 6oz.. two decent LL and some nice lakers nothing huge biggest was 7lb 13oz. But all respectable FF on dipsy killing the early bite Caramel Dolphin green bug eye fly. Looking forward to 21st!! JW

The winner was 31lbs. Great to see the kids that won having a blast. We boated 8 fish two LL and 6 lakers total of 24 something lbs. Lost two really good fish that would have put us in it.... Great event!

Fished out of Watkins today. Did the solo thing. Went north 5-6 miles North fished the west shore 75-90 fow 240 dipsy fired with flasher fly combo (secret colors) didn't set my drag light enough he broke me off lost my fav. flasher fly, hills and valleys here I come! Lost one more nice fish fighting NE wind in small boat WOW... Decided to go East shore (much calmer) fished back south picked up 2 small salmon on small flutter spoon. Trolled back north NADA... back to west shore pulled one more dink.... Almost gave up when nice 26" salmon slammed the right rigger down 70' killer lure that you may hear about after Seneca Shootout.... Should have been runnning em all day... Had an audience watching me fight boat, wind, and fish, he went aireal on me and the folks watching cheered! Well mission accomplished best eating fish around. Anyone want to help me out with some Seneca knowledge let me know your secrets since there are not many are entered into Seneca Shootout would love to hear from ya or sign up my money is gonna be yours . I need help this lake is tough. running different everything. JW

That may have been my fish if the snubber was part of the deal it was! Had one break the snubber north of there a week or two ago. Oh well good luck with the spinys!

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