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Question for those of you that have fished tournaments; I see a lot saying “no frozen fish”. How the heck do you hero your fish from freezing?? Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Reports are saying a couple people fell through in Sodus. My guess is they were flirting with the edge. There was a ton of people out on Conesus at the north end today. South end shows a lot of open water still. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I just recently moved back “home”, landing near the north end of Conesus Lake. In doing so, I’m trying to find easy access places to take my 2 sons fishing (ages 5 and 6). While browsing Fishbrain, I saw a listing for Livonia Reservoir. Looking at the map it appears to basically be a pond. Does anyone know anything about it, or access to it? Barring that, does anyone have any suggestions for easy access/easily fished small bodies of water that are shore fishable? Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

For a cold rainy day, it was a lot of fun, especially once I started catching them.

They’re all rainbows? Man I suck at identifying them. The biggest of them had really bright red spots on it which made me think brook. (We didn’t keep any of them)

My dad and I have been fishing Springwater Creek, the inlet to Hemlock lake for the past couple years trying to latch onto a trout, something neither of us have done. The monkey key is finally off our back after 3 years. I THINK I landed 1 brook and 2 rainbows. Can anyone confirm?

Thanks guys. He's certainly turned into quite the little fisherman. We took a drive past Canandaigua Lake last weekend and he said to me "boy I really want to go fishing" when he saw it.

I hope he does. I didn't even plan to fish, and only went to help him and allow the other guys to actually fish themselves. Turns out all he wanted to do was run bait to people, and be on the boat, but he did help reel in a couple. He had fun and didn't get bored. That's the important part.

Fortunately for him, we're up there every weekend during the summer. He's crushing the perch on the dock. His birthday is in June, and we're going to get him a bigger pole next year, a step up from his Spiderman pole that he currently uses, so we can fish with own on the boat, rather than using mine.

The picture is hanging on our fridge, and he shows it to everyone that's willing to see it.

My oldest (5yo) LOVES fishing, and this summer has gotten to the point where he can bait his own hook (including ripping the worm in half), and removing his own hooks. It's pretty amazing. He's obsessed with fishing, and catching anything and everything, especially bass and pike (he's only seen pike, never caught them). On our yearly 2 week vacation to the river, he asked one of our friends to take him out fishing, and he 'caught' this nice smallie. He also helped reel in a beautiful 6lb smallie.

The dock at Frink Park in Clayton is a good spot, as well. Pretty deep water and you can often times fine some smaller smallies. Worms and just about any dock will get you perch and panfish until you're sick of catching them. Try a drop shot rig to keep the worm off the bottom and away from the gobies.

After the walleye run, I’m told the bullhead are next, but I believe those stay closer to the lake.

I know they are, and I did do a quick search first, but didn’t find what I was looking for. I also just prefer the hard copy. It’s easier to look through than dealing with web pages on my phone, especially with all the back and forth you have to do with how the regulations are written.

It’s running high and muddy right now. You can only see them swimming over the spillway right now, although I did see a couple in the flooded fields across the road. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app