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Thanks Mike! Just another note, the state launch was fine yesterday. Water is up and you can actually tie your boat to it!

First trip yesterday to check out boat and store etc. Used the information from Hillsides post earlier in the week and headed out to 180 to start, then headed north. 220 feet hooked a medium fish, dipsey fly combo, had the fish for maybe 5 minutes, then off. Second fish came at 230 feet, same deal just different fly and paddle. Continued to 300 feet without any more hits, headed back in and at 230 hooked a good fish wire, dipsey, double glow white board with mag Happy Meal. Continued to work that 200 to 240 water for about another hour, no more hits. Didnt mark many fish or bait, and only saw 6 or 7 other boats. Fish survey guys met us in the shoot, they said Sunday every boat had caught fish, surveyed over 100 fish. Thanks to the guys who share Info! I still have a gas powered boat and truck so it saves the climate if I don’t go farther than I have too

Thanks for posting report!

I have a center console fishing boat, 20’. It is a great boat on the finger lakes but I learned my lesson on Lake O in it. Fishing on a fairly nice day, 1 to 2 foot chop turned into 3 and 4 footers. I was able to get turned around and headed to port into the waves using power to go up and over, finally took one over the bow, everything washes to the back of the boat, weight shift, about 6” off water etc, Floor scuppers worked properly and another wave over the bow! Repeat so to speak, those were the only two. That was my last trip to Ontario with that boat! Be careful and pick your days carefully!

I guess I would be considered a southender! Which I kinda like because there lots of other “Enders” you could be called. anyway, yesterday I made 20 or 30 casts off my dock and had at least 6 or 7 nice landlocks chasing the spoon in. It was encouraging and fun to watch them in the crystal clear water. A couple were decent, 3 or 4 pounds. The last couple of years things have improved for sure. Good Luck to the derby guys!

Yes! For $6000 I take you fishing and at the end of the trip you get to keep the fish and the boat!

Yes Boat is still for sale

There are only two strikes that really "trip my dipsy" anymore! A really nice trout smashing a really small dry fly on a very light tippet. And a very big summer king on an Atomic wet fly down about 90 feet! This is strike 1. Strike 2 is coming in July!

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I thought Frogger’s info was very interesting. Under normal lake level s it’s about 12’ off the end of my dock. For years we cut seaweed even in that deep water for swimming and boating. About 2 or 3 years ago the seaweed just disappeared completely and in our area it’s even gone from the shallow water. I saw nothing about any treatments or anything like that, just disappeared. Now for the last two years we get this nasty green slimey moss. Something changed for sure. it would be nice to know what is being done!

I spend 4 months a year on Seneca. There are some fish this year and the lake is improving, it showed improvement last year too. I’m not fishing the lake at all simply to leave the fish alone and I think lots of the other guys around there are doing the same thing. I do boat ride around, tons of bait and a few fish, it’s improving. Maybe in a year or two it will be even better! I think the guys on here that read the negative stuff on here understand it was wrong and way off base. Go Seneca! ”Make Seneca Great Again”