Big fat pike

9 hours ago, ifishy said:

Again opportunistic middle of the channel is still near the edges if pike are hungry they will eat anything so goby colors work just fine as those are also crayfish colors and smallmouth colors and rockbass colors. If pike are real active Brite colors will draw fish in from father away. I never said they don't eat goby's only that I would guess it would be a smaller part if thier diet than it is for smallmouth. Fish behavior often follows tendancys that you can use but the rules are not hard and fast the fish will try to go where there is food and try to avoid danger

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True in my experience things like this can make the difference between having a 10 or 20 fish day when they arent as active

2 hours ago, HB2 said:

I catch a lot of pike in the middle of the creek on a hard bottom . Using Senko style baits fished slowly on bottom . So yeah I think they eat a lot of gobies  

 

Got this guy today 

Nice fish

13 minutes ago, ifishy said:

i have no real data to back this up but i would think that since gobys prefer hard bottom and pike tend to be more weed oriented that gobys would make up less of the pike diet.

 

that said pike are very opportunistic and will take whats available.

Thank you so goby colors wont be as effective as perch and bluegill colors unless they are holding in rocks or areas near hard bottom 

I know that gobies now consist of 75% of the smallmouth bass diet but I was wondering if gobies are a higher percentage of the diet pike now too or if the majority is perch,bluegills,bass other pike ect or if its 50/50

I doubt its the same person that would mean his body would have to drift from Somerset to Wolcott

1 hour ago, shu9265 said:

His body was recovered.

a body was recovered never say for sure until the identity is confirmed

How about the pond in Gates First Responders Park

any pike

2 minutes ago, wrinklestar said:

That is true! But it did say it looked like he had been in the water a long time.

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East winds wouldnt that mean he would end up towards buffalo

Also i doubt he would have gotten to blind sodus bay so quickly

2 hours ago, wrinklestar said:

Body found in Blind Sodus Bay in the town of Wolcott.

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They haven’t identified the body so there is a micro chance its not him 

22 minutes ago, whaler1 said:

I thought pike opened May 1?

That’s what I read too still found it odd it opened on a Sunday 

Went out yesterday for pike brutal northeast wind got one bass on the devle

Also advice in terms of what part of the canal ponds to fish for pike would be great as well 

Just now, GAMBLER said:

The entire pond.  You just worked around the pond looking for them.  We used fly rods with no weight.  Chum with bread and make flies out of white glow bug yarn.  You will also need dry fly floatant to make them float.  

My fly rod is pretty much K.I.A anything with a spinning reel

1 minute ago, GAMBLER said:

Yes.  My buddy still goes there and does it.  There is only a handful of grass carp in there.  Chum with bread and you will see them.  They are usually schooled together.  

What part of the pond and would a hook with bread work(no bobber or weight)

1 minute ago, GAMBLER said:

You have to park in the lot adjacent to the pond.  If you park along the road, they will boot you out.  There is a parking lot to the South of the pond. 

And do you still get grass carp at unity has i have fished there since 2014 and never seen one

9 minutes ago, fisherman21 said:

Grass carp put up a heck of a fight don’t they!? I have caught a few out of the pond on the corner of Flynn and Latta. Bread balls a foot underneath a tiny float 

Where do you park there 

Never even knew they were in there thought there were only regular carp unless they stopped putting them in 

9 minutes ago, GAMBLER said:

This one is from Unity.  

Never seen a grass carp in there also the back ground doesn’t look anything like either ponds besides the island

still a nice fish

10 minutes ago, fisherman21 said:

I was thinking of the pond at greece canal park off of elmgrove. He is referring to the ponds off of long pond. I have got some nice bass and panfish in those ponds. Haven’t fished there in years. I would try chartreuse and white spinnerbaits or chatterbaits for the pike 

Thx and advice in terms of what part of the pond. Im at a loss in terms of what part until they clear out a bunch of the weeds in front of the gazebo creating 2 weedbeds  

22 minutes ago, GAMBLER said:

There are tons of bullhead and carp in those ponds.  We used to fly fish them for carp and it was a blast!

That sounds more like the 2 ponds by unity hospital

8 minutes ago, muskiedreams said:

It is news to me if there is anything worth catching in that puddle. I tried 20 years ago and there wasn't much of anything in there except tiny panfish and minnows. It was very shallow and weedy.

Largemouth Bass, very few smallmouth caught one myself pike, carp, crappies, bluegills,perch and have been told catfish

Does anyone have any advice for the pike in the Greece Canal Ponds. I have seen lots of them including a 30+” swim up right by the gazebo and had one attack a carp I hooked but I only have caught 2 within the past two years and was wondering if anyone had advice in terms of what part to fish and lures besides a daredevle or a way to fish them weedless especially for the big ones

5 minutes ago, idn713 said:

Snags don't indicate bad fishing. Very often it means good fishing and you need to be more precise with the cast or change presentations to adapt to your current circumstances. If a snag keeps you away, then you are overlooking LOTS of good fishing around you. 

I was hoping to get in there at some point by boat

1 minute ago, GAMBLER said:

Genesee Valley park at Red creek can be good.  The Canal intersects the river there and Red Creek dumps in 100 yds from there.  

I tried there once and got snagged first cast