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BB good point, as a trapper one of my most common saying is "they sleep in the kitchen". And that is exactly what are saying. But this year we have found more and more bait in the southern part of the lake and very few lakers. Now of course that could mean that up at the northern part of the west branch there is more bait then I am seeing. I just have this feeling they are not the travelers that I thought that they were. More comments appreciated. One other thing my boat (yatch) is a 14 foot utility with 15 hp Johnson so this lake is comfortable size for us, Cayuga we all feel a bit intimated by the size being twice as wide, that is why we keep going back. And coming form Pa the south end is 30 minutes closer that the state park at 2hours instead of 2 1/2 hours......jk

With all that has been written about Keyuka in the last few months, my thoughts. Years ago we felt that the Lakers moved south in the winter to the end of the lake near the motel as that is where we found them March-May- LOTS of them. Then they populated the bluffs and beyond. Then ice fishing we got them real good at the at the bluffs, we got a limit every trip, those two years, now to my of thinking it seems to me that they are home bodys, never leaving a very small area of the lake at any time of the year. At first I thought that there were a few that acted like home bodys for a while then the big school came by and reloaded those spots and some of those resident fish joined the big school while some of the transients took to living a local life on that point for a while reloading the points. What is your all thoughts on the general movement of them in Keyuka?????? They stay where their egg was laid.....jk

First happy Thanks Giving all. And we are fisherman so we are nuts. I never thought of the ice covering for those two years as a factor in the decline in the bait fish. I was fixed on the flood and dirty water. Will have to give that a thought. Guff, what size fish are you getting, down at the south end we have not gotten a fish over 24 inches since june and all the fish there were very thin, more like stream rather than lake trout. And in previous years we have seen spawning fish as early as August(loose eggs in the skein). Again be safe and have a good Thanks Giving.....jk

You are right, I could not remember that name ouond spot has also been good to us in the past as sometimes we launched form Jakes gas dock and went straight out. about them spawning, we have found some of the with loose eggs in the skein form August to December, there seems to us to be no one time for them ALL to spawn. And about the bait fish, we have seen more this year than we have in the previous two year but nothing like 4 or more years ago. There used to be schools of bait dred acres in size and from near the surface to 30 or more feet down. Now all we see are an acre or two of them and they are located on the bottom???? Just our observation.....jk

Our catch is WAY down too but we have not fished the north end except for ice fishing. So don't feel bad there. Our last catch was up by the point two miles above the bluffs on the east branch. We call it the camp ground point but e is a al name for it I can not think of. The trip before that was form the south launch and we got our few fish from in front of the restaurant 2 miles up the wet shore and the had some action along the east shore points-here se did not do so well as there was a boat ahead of us . But definitely not like three years ago.....jk Oh Goldseal had a lot of bait ad fish but no action either

Good to see someone is still out there. Last year it was us but not this year

It is but I would like to meet up with this guy and this is the only way I know to get in touch with him, Sorry to bug you that was not my intent.....jk

Met someone at Webster this weekend who fishes Hemlock a lot, hope he reads this and gets in touch with me......jk

Good job, great in fact. Will be a while before I get back there....jk

X 2 !!!! I have ice fished form the south but never put a boat in there.....jk

Wow that is great, our biggest out of Keyuka Lake is only 32 inches and we have caught at least 2,000 lakers there. In Cayuga our biggest is only 34 inches(many 30" though) but have only caught 250 there. No rainbows jigging and only 5 browns, one 12 pounds. Small mouth bass, half of them are over 18 inches, big fat and they come to the surface fast. We have had a hard time to get anything out of Hemlock and never fished Canadice. We have lost a lot big fish but didn't think any were that big, how do we know, we guess. We don't troll, but have friends that always ask us to go. Much rather jig.....jk

Zack, how big is that laker you are holding? Jigging? If so I am jealous, good job.....jk

That is a pretty fish, I have never had much luck in that lake. As you we only got a few smallies but n that big.....jk