WildLaker607

Lewis I’ve seen reeldocs posts and I don’t care who you are or who reeldoc is

The lakers like the cold they are usually below thermocline

Please don’t hold fish by the lips if releasing them. If you need to pick them up hold the tail in one hand and support the belly with the other

Sheldrake is a good area in July you are likely to run into Lakers and there is a chance at salmon or other species. Wind depending but I usually like the area north of sheldrake where as you said the contours are farther apart. It’s kind of a broad cove. Early morning might be shallower fish but as the sun comes on the water generally have to move slightly deeper. Usually in July thermocline may be set up. Depths paddle around in the cove/ near the point would be 30-100 ft. Don’t get married to one spot. Paddle until you see bait or fish marks or both then start fishing. Some fish you can’t see on finder so looking for a bait school is a good bet they’ll be nearby. If you see a solid mark up high in the water it might be a non-laker and drop your jig right on it’s head watching the finder you might get a reaction strike. 

Taughannock is a good area too, same kind of deal fishing as sheldrake. with a drop off out front and coves on north/south side of point good for fishing. Taugh sounds like an easy launch for a kayak. And depending on wind you can go to either the north or south parking lot to launch and get on the downwind side of the point. With jigging it’s better if you can try to slow down your drift so that you can keep line more vertical and stay on top of bait longer

good luck 

The full guide is out now I am relieved there are no changes to the trout in the finger lakes and tribs. But I hope people aren’t confused by the publicized statewide changes as applying to finger lakes because I have seen people fishing in a closed creek this winter and told them it’s closed, they didn’t know 

The section for finger lakes says there are changes for warm water species. The section for region 7 says that all lakes and streams will be under statewide regulations. It’s not clear until they publish the full regs whether finger lakes tribs upstream to the first barrier still have special regs

https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/2022regchanges.pdf

US Lakeside Bait and tackle is right in Union Springs at 145 Cayuga st. Not sure what bait they have google says the phone number is 315 889 9038


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I’m not a scientist or biologist but my hypothesis is that with the goby influx in Cayuga a few years ago and some of the salmon and browns having the goby in their diet are not ingesting as much Thiaminase, which is allowing some of their eggs to hatch. There is ample spawning activity in tribs and even many marinas around the lake, I believe some are successful 

2 hours ago, cinnamon fish said:

 

Do they clip fins on stocked salmon?  Or is that only on lake trout?

I think so, some of the salmon have what looks like clips when I catch them

I’ve been seeing large schools of small Salmon and browns in near shore areas around Long point and also west side of lake south of taughannock, I caught a few schoolies on small jigs and none were fin clipped. Over the winter most of the large salmon I caught were without finclips. Make of that what you will

Jerkbaits and tube jigs have been working ok but not that many lakers in shallow this year

Hi i was at long point yesterday it is not launchable right now too low and there is ice

Thanks Spoonfed, it was amazing to see it in person

Woah that’s huge whaler1, where did you catch that one?

5 minutes ago, Bassin Bob said:

Released?

The fish was not in very good shape after such a long fight, it has made a couple great meals already

My buddy hooked this 17 pound 3 ounce brown trout, shore casting a small swimbait. It was 32” long and 20” around the belly, super fat. I bent the handle of my net lifting it up on the dock. Largest brown I’ve seen out of Cayuga 

Did some fly fishing this afternoon in a Cayuga tributary and found a run of rainbow trout. The water was very clear so light line and small small nymphs with an indicator did the trick, landed 2 rainbows 22.5” and 24.5” saw a few others. There’s going to be a great run this spring 

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 

13 hours ago, brucehookedup said:

Got one out front today and saw several others. I heard they got a few off of the charlotte pier last week. Todays massive sw winds might be a game changer along with this weeks ne winds time will tell.

What did you catch it on, spoon?

Thanks FishingSkrip27

57 minutes ago, FishingSkrip27 said:

Summerville pier is closed until November. So your only chance is Charlotte pier. Or Point Breeze. Kings are slowly showing up. They are stacked out in 60-100fow. Going out now late night isn't a guarantee but I bet you can get a couple rips off the piers on spoons right now. Good luck!

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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