KevinFarrell

Cormorants were hammering the little browns at Webster Pier yesterday.  Why can't a 4lb bird just be happy with one nice fat goby per day?  These things eat like my mother in law at a free buffet....

Its written incorrectly.   All pleasure activities are obviously non-essential.  It would be like banning a walk in the woods.

37 minutes ago, lyteline said:

What's a,China virus?

The consensus among researchers studying the spread of the virus pinpoints COVID-19’s likely origin to a “wet market,” or live animal market, in Wuhan, China.

Though experts have not ruled out the possibility that the pathogen could have been brought to the market by an already infected person, there is no evidence to suggest COVID-19 originated outside the country, and as a result many people refer to Covid 19 as the China Virus.   

Imagine if it originated in Canandaigua and the whole world had to learn to pronounce and spell that baby.

You are allowed to trailer boats as of today in NY.   

Just use common sense and don't hit any rest areas, bring wipes/gloves/sanitizer for gas pump handles,

keep your distance and think everything through so you're prepared and safe to yourself and others.

Fishing is the oldest form of social distancing.

That Brown looks like he has a bellyful already.  Seems to be a lot of chunky, well-fed fish from the pics so far this year.   Another great year for Alewives in 2020?

13 hours ago, Nautitroller said:

Super excited to find the sheds to my bow buck from last year. They were in great shape for laying out all year. Thanks to the Fisher I have very few squirrels on my property. They laid in his bed that I walked by last year!

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What a great set of photos.  Wow.   Great buck, quite a body on that dude, I hope you had help draggin him out !

Um.... so if thats a 4 foot 40lb king then that lady is 6'5 and her fingers are bionic.

Why can't the Canadians just admit they politely fib about everything?   My buddy from Mississauga said the other day he LIKED paying 60% income tax because the roads are in such good shape.

What?

Wha?

40kb kings my asss

26 minutes ago, rod hog said:

fished Friday from 6am to 1pm 100ft to 140ft was best. white on white 11in flasher with meat had three bite early then nothing on cut bait.  rigger set at 78ft temp was 48. mag spoons green glow pro king and diehard stingray set at 52ft and 62ft. divers at 180 and 275 with pro king green glow and mag stinger lazer spook. 300 cooper with a mag DW gator took 3 hits and biggest of the day 24lbs. we had 18 bites 17 kings from 17 to 24lbs and 1 steelhead.

 

sat. 7/27 we left the dock at 330pm fished to 7pm had my neighbor and her boyfriend with my wife and I.1st king was 5lbs 50ft on rigger green glow pro king mag.next king around 20ish also on the pro king mag .a 22lb was next same pro king 60ft down.  a spin doctor gold 42 second with a green glow fly set at 80ft was next  and a rigger set at 60ft with pro king mag went off  at the same time my neighbors are hooked up with big guys, 5 minutes into the fight a brown hit and then the diver set at 180ft went off. we landed all 4 my neighbors had pair of matching 25lbs I landed the brown and the last king about 18lbs on a green glow pro king mag.I wanted to set back up my neighbors said they were done. 6 fish for the night we fish 70ft to 120ft, slow troll 2.0 to 2.2 at the probe. the pro king and die hard uv have been our best spoons the last few seasons 

 

 

A QUAD !!!! That mustve been complete mayhem.  Hilarious.   Nice job thx for the report.

I respectfully disagree w Captain Carl, as two charters will probably cost you more than your entire cottage rental for the week.  On top of that, just floating, relaxing, swimming, tubing the kids etc is a huge part of boating.  If you don't bring your Grady you're going to regret it.  (Just make sure those trailer bearings are good before you roll out!)

..... one other thing I forgot to mention in my previous post,  that blue plastic barrel system works really well, you'd only need two.  We put them on the docks and fill em with water from the hose (or bring a little submersible pump) and the weight keeps the wave action from getting under the docks and lifting them, which can crush the docks in a bad blow.  If they arent using any barrels to prevent this (they should be) you can find them for $15 each on craigslist near Sodus.  The apple industry uses tons of them and they're everywhere.   Go get a pair, fill em to the top and position them just over the edge of the dock about 10 feet apart.  They will keep your boat off just fine.  Tie to the cleats as u normally would even though they're underwater it doesnt matter.  We've been using our docks all summer this way.  P.s.  if you dont have a pump just bring a jigsaw and cut the entire top off the barrels, get the kids a bucket and 50 scoops later she's all filled up and weighs 400 lbs.

Just be sure to get the barrel in position as u add the water because once they're filled you can't move em!

You can still tie to a submerged dock if you use the wind to keep the boat off, and set an anchor off the other side to keep it off the dock.  If they have blue barrels filled with water on the dock (lots of us do right now) slide a few of the barrels over so they're hanging off the edge of the dock a little and they work nicely to keep the boat away from the dock.   Keep an eye on the winds and forecast of course, (we pull the boats in the evening if the wind is kicking up) but the breeze usually quiets down at night, you won't have to pull em every night.

Also, make sure your anchor is set well and there's plenty of scope.  When you go out just tie a boat cushion to the anchor rope as a marker and snag it with the boat hook when u come back in.  Some people use 2 anchors, one stern one bow.  It works!  

Going to be targeting lakers in the 80-120 range tmrw, have a few cowbells w peanut fly, wondering if there are any other rigs/lures you guys would recommend I try.   Any thoughts appreciated...

Going to be targeting lakers in the 80-120 range tmrw, have a few cowbells w peanut fly, wondering if there are any other rigs/lures you guys would recommend I try.   Any thoughts appreciated...

4 hours ago, TheToadHunter said:

 

The laker fishing out of Sodus in late March through early May is usually good. I never specifically targeted them from June on, but have only caught one 14” in the last 6 years (using the same setups through the same areas).

I agree with the other guy about Cayuga. You can catch as many lakers as you want, and they are generally not too picky. Plenty of big boys around too! Launch out of Taughannock and head whatever direction you like. I prefer straight down the middle in 300’+ for the bigger fish, but tend to get the bigger bows and lls around the 150’ drops.


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Are the cayuga lakers good eating?

What kind of spoon is that?  

That laker is a hog

Heard u were catchin a lot yesterday.  My brother said every time he went by you guys it seemed like u had a fish on.  Were you running straight stickbaits off your planerboards early?

Looks like he'd make a good meat rig...

Noticed in most pics everyone has treble hooks on the spoons.   Better than a single hook?

Triples on kings had to be hilarous.  Talk about mayhem.  We were wondering if having a fish on excites the other fish to hit.   Do the odds of another hit increase when you're fighting one already?

So are the 4 year old kings good eating?  Seems like you'd want the younger ones for the table....

3 hours ago, Bustersit said:

did you mount that king?

The captain was a real douchebag, said I had to throw it back.  I'm never speaking to THAT guy again.  

Awesome.  We went a little west out of the Genny this afternoon and had a great time, went 6 for 8 with my son getting his first big Lake Ontario fish (fat ol' laker).   200 copper was working, everything hit spoons. We were hittin em at 40-65 over 75-95 deep.  Caught the world's smallest king, this little dude was fearless, I'm assuming he was just stocked this spring?  He was a foot long.

Not sure why they close a launch like that one.  Not ideal but still usable.

Funny post.  Man I can relate.  Yesterday we were laughing out loud in front of the Genny as these guideboats (most notably a boat named Candy) were fighting at least one fish every time we passed them, and here we are in the same water, trolling the same speed, presumably running the same lures, and getting skunked.   Actually we landed two beautiful kings including my nephews first one ever, but your post hit home.   Thats why I love this site and how helpful the ninja fisherman are to those of us who dont know what we're doing out there.

And all this flooding in a year that's basically normal rainfall.  New York is getting screwed so bad with plan 2014, this is a joke.  They said 2 inches higher than normal was all we'd see, they meant 2 feet.   

I understand the record rainfall two years ago was at fault, but this has gone too far.