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jk1

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Anyone been on the Lake fishing yet?   Where can we get on?  I assume the college is still closed to us.   10 years ago we got on the power plant at Yates.  Is that ready with safe ice?......jk

reeltrout

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We are getting out from indian pines. Lake was froze a mile out. Last week it gave a pressure crack from a mile out in to indian pines with some open water an week ice, only about 20 ft. wide, you have to be careful and get around that. I'll be out tomorrow. Bass, pickeral, maybe a pike on tipups. Lakers out in 20 fow jigging. I dont do the panfish- perch jigging but there is plenty people at it.

reeleyz

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11 hours ago, jk1 said:

The state park at branchport s not iced in yet????

In my very limited experience it takes some serious cold for that part of the lake to freeze up. Many nights below zero. 

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dawsonscreek

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How far out would I have to go from Indian Pines to get to laker grounds? I hear they are in shallow and people are getting them while targeting perch, but would it be more productive to get them by fishing out deeper?

JJBat150

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20-40 FOW seems to be the sweet spot right now.   Not sure if the south winds last night ate up ice out that deep.

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dawsonscreek

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23 hours ago, JJBat150 said:

20-40 FOW seems to be the sweet spot right now.   Not sure if the south winds last night ate up ice out that deep.

 

12 hours ago, reeltrout said:

About 12 inch of ice in 20 fow,  I Haven't been out deeper but that thick original ice goes out almost a mile.

 

 

Thank you both!

Big fat pike

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23 hours ago, reeltrout said:

The Branchport side locked up the other night. Don't know if it will get thick enough before the warm weather thats coming.

Doubt it it only froze Wednesday night with major cracks being visible from dock bubblers on thursday and it still being open water around those docks on friday (source working right out there on the lake) 

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reeltrout

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As far as I know there isn't any ice there to speak of yet. The water should be cooled down but we need some colder calm weather for it to get started.

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jk1

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How about now?    Hay what happened to this message board, is everyone using something else?

rolmops

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People usually do not react to 1 year old threads. Try and start a new thread, that might work better.

What happened to this board? I think that it has become much less of an information source and much more of a sales point. People are just not as interested in passing on information as they were 5 years ago and with AI soaking up all possible info, people have become weary of putting anything online. 

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My experience is a year ago but may still have some relevance for you. I'm fairly experienced with jigging for lakers on both hard water and open. i talked with an internet fellow before going to keuka but his insights did seem not help me. We had a bathymetric gps iphone map of Keuka and following this fellows advice we started in 30 fow judt outside the crowded pack off the parking area. no marks on vex and moved laterally 3 times , no marks on vex. I believe we moved out to 40 fow, no marks on vex. we jigged with a variety of plastics and hard baits to no avail,  we were with another party that was unwilling to move from their first location because they were fishing with tip ups though they had zero activity. at some point around 2;00pm I had a laker smack my jig and after a breif fight got it on the ice. It was probably 18 inchs of medium to thin thickness. we actually saw a laker swim by at just about the macximum sight distance an hour later. That was it!  I have never been to Keuka for ice fishing before and I'm unlikely to return. My synopsis as a charter captain and guide is that either the population density of lakers in keuka is not very significant or the pods of active fish do not move around very much because food is prevalent ( although we never marked any) or it was a down bite day ( I do not recall the barometric conditions as it was the only day we had). Ive had excellent days on Cayuga on the ice on the west side but good ice there requires excellent conditions that did not occur last year. 

reeltrout

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On 1/20/2026 at 10:06 AM, jk1 said:

How about now?    Hay what happened to this message board, is everyone using something else?

It is froze out maybe .25 mile on Penn Yan end. I dont know how thick it is, nobody was out there yet. Also the south wind could break some of that up today. This weekend looks like it could do some freezing.

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reeltrout

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23 hours ago, Big fat pike said:

8" on Branchport

any advice for big pike in penn yann thinking about going out there tomorrow

There are a few big pike around there. But there not many, if you get one thats good if you get two your lucky. I would say the best is more towards the west shore, kinda west/center of lake. At weedy places towards weed edges. 10-12 ft maybe. Good luck

Big fat pike

Big fat pike

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10 hours ago, reeltrout said:

There are a few big pike around there. But there not many, if you get one thats good if you get two your lucky. I would say the best is more towards the west shore, kinda west/center of lake. At weedy places towards weed edges. 10-12 ft maybe. Good luck

Wish i saw this before i went to penn yann but thank you

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