WildLaker607

Winter is a great time to use fly gear from shore or a boat to go after trout, in Cayuga lake anyways. Streamers in dark colors for laker trout or brighter colors for salmon, or smelt patterns. Bass gear like tube jigs works great for Lakers in the winter, or casting blade baits is productive if it’s windy or you want to work a mudline.

A few hungry Lakers are already cruising the shorelines, more everyday. In my opinion the second half of November and into December are top notch laker fishing with an occasional bonus brown or rainbow. They hit hard and fight hard with the water being cold and they’re hungry after the spawn. I mainly shore cast tube jigs, blade baits, spoons, jerkbaits. You could troll spoons or sticks baits like Berkeley flicker minnow I’ve had luck with trolling the shallows try 5-20 fow around points or creek mouths

Chucked spoons for 3 hours off the pier at Sodus point. Nothing landed, went 0/1 only hooked up for a few seconds nearly pulled the rod from my hands. There’s a few fish jumping between the break walls but it’s a needle in a haystack right now

What did you catch it on, spoon?

Thanks FishingSkrip27

Do you have any spoon recommendations? I like Krocodiles and cleos and moonshines

Thanks for the replies everybody I think I’ll give it a shot chucking some spoons or maybe stickbaits or eggs

Don’t know about trolling but jigging has been good for Lakers and bonus silvers

Thinking of going up to Oswego or Rochester or one of the piers this weekend for my birthday to see about some salmon. Has anyone seen any Kings near the piers or mouths of rivers yet?

According to NY state guidelines you may not travel to New York for a vacation from the states on the travel advisory list. You may say “oh it’s just vacation we’ll get takeout and won’t see anybody” NO the 14 day quarantine is mandatory and restricted to no outdoor and public areas, you must have a residence to stay in and register it with the state. Please understand that this is for everyone’s safety. Don’t be selfish, even if you don’t feel sick you could still be an asymptomatic carrier and spread the virus when you get here. Find somewhere to vacation and fish in Virginia

Where are you coming from?

Hot Jigging bite this morning north of Long Point. Lakers of all sizes, a 24” brown, and a 22” male landlocked made it to the boat. Jigging plastic paddle tails did it in 65-75 fow. Best color plastic today was a pink/blue but all colors got bites. The landlocked has no fin clips, could it be wild? Couldn’t release him after the fight/hookset so I’m hoping it was a stockie Picture below of the salmon headed for the grill

Yea if you get there before the office opens you can launch and then pay on your way out

Very nice congrats

We were out Saturday afternoon near king ferry jigging for a couple hours, lots of green water, nice marks but all we got were fleas