Captain Jim

We had the same experience in spring of last year right after the ice went out of the launch at Sampson. We didn't want to fight crowds at the park so we headed out on the lake. It was a calm day witch allowed us to look over the side and clearly see bottom, IN 40 FOW! It was both amazing and sad to see bottom that far down so clearly. Only to find that there was nothing moving anywhere. No bait, no perch, no pike to be found in the miles of shoreline we checked. I know this is a perch thread but trout fishing on Seneca was an all time low for us in 2015. I wonder how long Cayuga will stand up to the additional fishing pressure.

That 5 to 10 MPhil wind seldom holds true on Seneca Lake, especially mornings.

With a south wind you might better fish out of Watkins Glen. The fishing is probably better there too.

Yes they do. I'm betting browns and bass will eat them too, since either of them will eat anything that doesn't eat them first. I have heard they are a pita when they keep hitting perch minnows.

Cayuga is loaded with Gobies. It will be interesting to see what effect they have on fishing.

I like my Sub-Troll 900. It does use a coated cable.

I took the Pilot's hand as he stepped to the dock at Lodi point after he and his emergency raft were picked up by the pontoon boat. I have to say, any one of us would have been more excited coming back in from a fishing trip than this Pilot was after ditching this plane in the middle of Seneca lake. He was so calm it was very noticeable. I thought it was strange then, and still wonder why.

The plane went down October 28, 2007.

That location is about where that twin engine plane went down a few years ago. I wonder if they're practicing locating sunken aircraft etc.

Yes, Dean's Cove is on the Seneca County side of Cayuga.

I went to an electrical supply store and bought 40 feet of 10 gauge 2 wire "Low voltage lighting cable." Don't say anything about a boat or they'll say we don't carry boat stuff. For connectors I used 30 amp extension cord ends. The cable has a tracer along one conductor so you can keep track of Positive and Negative. I run the Positives to a fuse block and negatives to a grounding bar. Not a difficult job. You will have to seal the cable opening AND the joining surfaces where the two halves of the housing meet. I didn't do that, and my housings accumulated water and shorted out the circuit boards. That was an expensive lesson and down time in the prime of fishing season.

We launched at Sampson a couple weeks ago. We fished for perch from the South end of Sampson Park to where the Officer's Cub was and never caught or marked a fish. Then we went slowly out to 150 FOW thinking we might better jig Lakers, but we didn't mark any of them either. We went over in front of Dresden, still no fish. We motored back across and fished around Willard, nothing there either. All together after 5 hrs on the lake we got skunked. In my opinion and that of a lot of other experienced Seneca Lake Captains and recreational fisherman, this summer was a huge disappointment. When we can fish for 5 hrs and seldom even mark a fish, something is wrong. The launch at Dean's cove was packed all summer with people who were disappointed with their results on Seneca. Happy New Year.

I figured you were going to say it was a Brown. That is no doubt a "Beast of a Landlock" Salmon. Nice fish.

What were your water temp readings? We went out of Lodi last weekend and 38 - 39 was all we could find.