T-Rok

Does anyone know when they usually have the docks installed at the state launch at Skaneateles?

..only problem is fertilizer run off all too often makes for blue green algae. Which is the bad kind. The lakers were here for millions of years before farms. I think that they probably have enough food. They should just stock more fish... and bait too. Which they are doing with the cisco. Lakers take a long time to reach maturity/breeding age. Then when they get close, people keep them because most of the fish are small. Stocking fish would eliminate that. All of the fingerlakes that are stocked with lake trout annually tend to have many more/larger fish. Pretty easily made correlation.

Maybe actually stocking some lakers and rainbows would help. I think it is pretty unfair and imo kinda stupid of the dec to not stock some of these fingerlakes.. ie keuka and skaneateles. They say lake trout are self sustaining. Maybe barely, but they are tiny. Skaneateles has small skinny lakers too and few rainbows and almost no browns. Just like keuka, they stock landlocked, but never enough for them to do well, although they dont really seem to do well in other lakes either. But, at least they stock enough for some to make it. Cayuga, owasco, and Seneca almost every laker is a stocky. Self sustaining populations seem like a recipe for few and smaller fish in general. I mostly dont even bother fishing those lakes. You probably have a good point about water quality too. But, if you are depending on self sustaining populations, you will see poor fishing I think. Stocked fish have a major advantage over naturally born fish in that they are already much larger and have avoided predation throughout their early life. Dec should really look into opening a few more hatcheries and stock more fish. More fish stocked the better. If we can pay billions to put migrants in fancy hotels we can afford a few more hatcheries. Just saying. Dec states that keuka has a "large and self sustaining" lake trout population. Lol. That is either ignorance or stupidity.

Hello, my son has it in his head that he wants to catch catfish. He has not caught any yet. I am planning on taking him to the seneca river either launching out of montezuma or port byron. Can anyone tell me what area would be better? It's a 60+ mile long river. I am mostly a troller, so not a very accomplished catfish person. If anyone knows any good areas on that river this time of year, I would appreciate any info. I am assuming that the catfishing scene is not as secretive as most other types of fishing. Lol.