greenhornet73

you do raise a good point there pap, especially since March snow tends to be the wet, heavy stuff and not the blow out of your hand kind. Glad my "boat" is back up in the sling in my garage until next Sunday

Yep, I remember when that happened one spring about 8 years ago when I went out for a test run with a charter captain friend out of Oswego and we ended up running into a pod of kings and landed 5 or 6 of them up to 20lbs. What a blast that was. i never did end up going for browns that spring

Not the results I was hoping for but I did catch an awesome sunrise at least and got the gear in working order.

I fished Fair Haven this morning from 7am -9:30 and the pond and Little Sodus are ice free with no more ice chunks floating in the lake. There was a lot of floating debris though and was hard to keep it off the hooks. Temps ranged from 39.0 - 42.2 between 6 and 11 fow and got 2 strikes in the warmest zones and dropped both. I threw all my sticks at em but nothing drew them in. Both hits came on a smithwick and the 2nd made such a mess of my lines I packed it in. Trolling with 2 rods out of the kayak with 100' of line out combined with a stiff NE wind made landing a fish difficult but didn't have enough confidence in any 1 lure to run it alone. It was nice to get out though and I got 6 passes in before the wind really picked up and there wasn't another boat on the water.

I don't go out without a life jacket on, even if it's 90 degrees out. All of my fish pictures are taken from shore since I usually fish alone and have someone take a photo when I get to shore.

Nice fish, how was the wind out there today?

Please don't run over the red kayak out there tomorrow morning!

To put things into perspective for this year, I was out in my kayak trolling alone last year on April 12th and was dodging those ice chucks coming out of the chute while the ramp was still frozen in. That puts us a month ahead of last year.

I launched my kayak from the fair haven beach last year on April 12th while the launch was still iced in and floating ice chucks out in the lake and I was the only one out there. That puts us about 4 weeks early this year.

I started a thread last year and it got a lot of interest so I am posting again for 2016. I broke the kayak in for the first time late last April at Fair Haven trying for browns with no luck but was able to work out some kinks in my set-up. Later in the season I got a new Lowrance Mark 4 Chirp with temp and speed sensors to eliminate the guess work. Had a great 2015 after that first trip starting with walleye season and quickly chipped away at the bucket list with a large tiger muskie, king salmon, 9 1/2 lb walleye and numerous carp up to 35 #'s. Hoping for another great year of fishing and accomodating winds. Kayakers be safe out there and share your stories, reports and pics here.

I'll be out there Sunday in my kayak in front of the small channel unless there's a south wind in which case I will go crappie fishing

Beautiful fish! Wrapped up my ice fishing season this morning and will get the kayak ready this week for the weekend, can't wait

I haven't fished with Justin before but have been fishing Otisco for 20 years and just this past year he helped me a lot with trolling out of my kayak. He was very willing to share advice and would definitely hire him for an outing if I had the money for it.