Oneida 6/27 Evening Troll

[Miss em]

Ended up scratching out 8 keepers and 6 shorts in the 30 to 40 fow North of Shakelton.  Bare Naked Reef Runner and copper spoons were best fished near bottom.  Action was not hot and heavy but sure was a nice evening.  Buddy of mine was up there same time as us drifting worm harnesses near 123 and only hooked one.

[power dive]

Nice!! Good report!!

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[Fish Hunter]

Good to hear that they are still going on sticks/spoons.

Going in the morning to see if I catch a few.

[Steelman]

Wonder how many boats are hitting Shakelton LOL.  Lots of reports coming from there lately.  Time to find a new hot spot I guess.  Sometimes we are our own worst enemy myself included.

[Fish Hunter]

No where even in the same zip code as Shackleton Point, with almost no boats near us whatsoever,  but we had a tough time keeping a particular J7 in the water for a while.

Caught 15 fish total, with 2 doubles, including our 6 NICE keepers hovering at the 18-19" range, and was basically done by 8:00 am, and ran back in by 9:30 to beat the heat.(too lazy to put the top up)

Oneida has warmed considerably in the deeper water during the past week.

With the 3-day, 4th-of-July weekend coming, I know where I'll be in the mornings.

Batting a perfect score on Oneida this year so far, but in spite of that, hopefully Ontario will be setting up soon, and we'll be concentrating our efforts up there well before the end of July.

[Steelman]

Its crazy how fast Oneida warmed up this year.  76 yesterday in 40 fow.  With the fireworks show friday night seems to me you could fish anywhere on the lake and have it to yourself for a nice night trip lol. 

[Fish Hunter]

I was going to bring my Fishawk TD from the other boat just to see, but forgot it again.

[traveling man]

I was thinking about heading there sunday am. i haven't been on Oneida in 3 years. can i launch my 22 islander at south shore? last time i was there we had trouble putting it back on the trailer, it was very shallow.

[Steelman]

South shore is a really shallow launch, its moslty all sand though.  If you head a couple more miles east you could launch at Fremac as its much deeper launch.  Unfortunately its not free like the state launch.  Will cost ya 10 or 15 bucks to launch at Fremac.

[Miss em]

I see some big boats getting launched at the South Shore launch.  The two docks in the eastern slip are the deepest.  The sand washes into the western bay and makes it pretty shallow.

[Fish Hunter]

I believe that you could hop in the water over at Snug Harbor, in Verona Beach, just right off the NYS Barge Canal.

[traveling man]

I will give south shore a try if the winds are kind.

[Rocky Maxwell]

Marion Manor is $8 bucks and only 15-20 minutes east. I have a 22 foot sea hunt and can't launch at the south shore state ramp

[Fish Hunter]

I've put my 22 ft. Islander in at Marion.

Kinda of tight squeeze in between the docks, but doable.