BlueEye

Hahah - now that is funny!

That is so funny about those gangster bullhead! Had the same issue throwing my 6" LEO! Never seen something like that before but I must have had at least half dozen bull head follows.... haha.

Awesome... love it

Awesome Bob - let us know how you do. I'm still trying to decide where I'm going.... weather is going to be nice NOT to fish!

Thanks for the kind words everyone! Had a great time and we released all fish we caught....... the weekend is looking really nice and my guess is that the water temps will break 60 there soon enough. So get out there!!!

By the way Tom (tcon) - I have the exact same 24v Minn Kota ipilot trolling motor and charged it once before we left on the trip Friday and ran it HARD for 4 days straights and it still showed 50% by the end of the trip - very impressive! You will love that trolling motor..... makes a huge difference. I use auto pilot and spot lock religiously out there to keep us right on the good water.

Hi LOU-skies, Had a fantastic birthday weekend with the family the last couple days as we rented a cottage on Conesus for family esox fun Special thanks to the wife for setting that all up. The fishing and weather cooperated nicely and made for a very memorable 30th! Started the trip with water temps at 52.5 (slightly warmer on the north and south basins) and ended the trip with water temps at 58! Had a nice bite going every day we were there with lots of smaller pike mixed in with some smallmouths, largemouths and even the occasional walleye. Took me a day or two to figure out that wanted a smaller (5" or smaller with spoons working good) presentation. My big lures got the attention of the fish (many follows) but nothing willing to bite. After my father pulled out the old trusty Evil Eye heavy caster, we started to put a good pattern together. Best lures on the trip were Evil Eye Heavycasters, Mepps Cyclopes, Lunge Lumber 6" (white & perch) and Phantom glide baits. We ended the trip with several pike over 35" and a Tiger musky at 35". We had a couple more tigers but they were all smaller guys mixed in with the smaller pike. Here some pics! (yeah.... I was working the bait SLOW ENOUGH for BULLHEAD to hit it!!!) This photo doesn't capture how LOUD my wife was screaming when she hooked the fish and got in the boat. A very proud moment for her! She lost another good fish earlier as well that I would have loved to have at least seen before it went deep and screamed off a bunch of line and threw the hook... Pike & Tiger population is in good shape for this lake's future! Bait fish size (look close - it's pretty small). Schools of these baits would boil on the surface in the mornings and you would see tigers/pike crashing through it - pretty cool to watch! I'd expect over the next week or two as the water temps crack that 60 degree mark on the lake for the fish to start responding to larger baits. We fished all over the lake from south to the middle bays to the north end flats and had had fish everywhere. Great time - biggest pike of the trip was 38" and biggest tiger was 35". Hope to get out there and do it all over again soon! Cheers , Chad

Thanks guys!!! Having a great time up here on Conesus lake with the family. Fishing has been great thus far. Will post full report when I get home on Tuesday. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Thanks for the info guys. Did any one catch what the lake surface temp was and how was the water clairity? [ Post made via iPhone ]

Had a chance to fish with Mike, Jenelle and Joe on Otisco on Saturday for the opener and had a great time (as I always do fishing with them). This was only my third time ever fishing the lake - fished it a couple times back with my father and brother when we were really young. We had a good day overall that started with a couple walleye first thing in the morning. Water was really clear and surface temps were around 50 degrees on the main body with the north and south ends being a few degrees warmer. The fished seemed to be keyed in the more natural patterns that day (whites, blacks, etc.). Best lures for us were the Lunge Lumbers, Sledges, Phantoms. Our tubes and bucktails got little attention that day for some reason (kinda surprised me a little). We landed 2 walleyes, 8 tigers and 6 bass for the day. The 8 tigers is a little mis-leading cause 3-4 or those were small stocklings. Had a bunch more follows on the day including one beast that Jenelle had follow her 9" sledge - would have loved to have got some hooks in that one. The lake seems to be in fantastic shape and should only get better IMHO. I'll be fishing Conesus next weekend - looking forward to that! Cheers, Chad

Sounds good Zach! And if I had a wooden boat I'd carve it into the shape of a lunge lumber prowler with wooly bully feathers on back [ Post made via iPhone ]

Thanks for the kind words bud. Glad u enjoyed the live updates. The tournament was a blast and VERY well run. Kudos to all the guys involved in putting that together. Despite not getting hooks into the fish we did see, I'm not to bothered by the fact we didn't hook up. I enjoyed the adventure start to finish and picked up some experience I'd otherwise never have got. Fishing within casting distance of guys like Thomas, Mullins and Kircher's was pretty cool. Mullins has one sweet boat!! I hope to maybe do the event again someday... [ Post made via iPhone ]

Wow Larry. It's a very humbling experience. You learn sooo much though. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Cost of PMTT Cave Run Event $600 registration $70 PMTT membership $224 Three nights at Confort Inn $500 Gas from Rochester $100 Food $30 Fishing License $9 parking permit ($3/day) Experience gained.... PRICELESS! [ Post made via iPhone ]

Match the hatch... Couple good follows but no fish... Blah... [ Post made via iPhone ]

Judge wouldn't let me count this one. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Couple door prizes we won from last night [ Post made via iPhone ]

Rise n shine - its fishin time!! Larry most all fish in tourney caught casting. The nice thing about the PMTT is that you are always only one big away from a top ten finish. Let's see if we can get lucky today! [ Post made via iPhone ]

You will have to double check my numbers here but it looks like out of 75 boats there was a total of 45 muskies caught with 24 of those coming from the top ten places. Congrats to those guys for really putting together a great day on the water! Should make for an exciting finish. Check out musky first for the leader board results. Cheers! [ Post made via iPhone ]

All lures over 6" got little to no attention. Mikes fish was on one of his downsized bucktails and mine was on a phantom. My best shot at winning something here might be at the raffle tonight. Haha. [ Post made via iPhone ]

On top of that I lost three lures today. Bulldog gone, perch prowler gone and joes custom red October tube.... Oops. Add that one to my tab Joey. Sorry bout that one!! Who knew there would be trees down 50 feet! [ Post made via iPhone ]

Can't say we didn't have our chances. Lost two and had a couple more follows. Swing and a miss for us today. Hopefully tomorrow goes better. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Rainy start. [ Post made via iPhone ]

Got my official CRO tshirt. Ready to rock n roll!!! [ Post made via iPhone ]