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We fished Seneca with a evening bite on the 6th from 3:30 pm till 6:45 pm picked up a nice batch of lakers. Best depth was 170' FOW 81' down 12' back with a red/black and glow back side BTI. We went back out late the next morning with Pete as he got there to late for the bite the day before. Worked same area with only one dink that we picked up. The temp was way deeper than the day before so I was hung up with heading north and hitting the west side or going south and hitting the west side.......................south and west we had a slow pick with many light bites on a spoon 71' down over 86' to 110' FOW back 45'.

Glen I sent him a PM on that site and told him you were asking about him on here.

Glen he's on the Sanders Board most of the time now. He's still wacking those lake trout REEL good out of Samson. I have not seen him to talk to him in person this year but from his post every thing seem to be going OK for him. If you want stop over to that board some time and just say HEY Ray. Or give him a PM..................

Nice fish , here 6 we just got today NONE were floaters in the net and in the box............. ................and in my belly soon..........

If I playing catch and release on Seneca I don't net them just unhook in the water. If ALL your fish are full of air your are getting then in too fast play them a little more but not so as to ware them out and they come up on there side. I like to "spear" them back in I saw Ray G. do this and he releases a LOT more than I do I like eating them. He will use the fish like a spear and make it dive a few feet rather than just letting it swim away. Pick your floaters up and eat them Seneca fish are super tasting not any thing like the Lake Ontario fish !!!!!!! :?

There are two creeks there one small one that jason talked about and the larger one just past the park before you get to Sunset on Seneca Campgrounds. This one is much larger and has a falls about 3/4 of a mile or so up it as Ray said. It is posted on both sides one by Sunset on Seneca and the other who ever bought the old taxidermist place. I just came across both and the larger one is bone dry from the lake up past the park. The water runs under ground this time of year till we get a GOOD rain. As I said it is posted and they SELL fishing permits by the day in the spring BUT you better get inline for one because they only let just a few people fish per day.

Nice report muskybob but it may have been just as well you didn't hook a derby fish. I think you can not buy a ticket on the same day you catch a derby fish you would have to buy the ticket the day before. But they may have changed that rule we didn't enter it this year. Good luck net time out there.

fishman08 the temp was changing from day to day up there you had to use the probe every day to find the break. We got there on the 19th and the temp break was 105' down the salmon were hitting in the warm stuff out of temp for a few days there was a 100' of 72* water all over. Then as the cold water moved into the 70' FOW the temp was at 55' down but deeper out over a 160' of water,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Just got back from Catfish ...........wire was hot for a lot of guys we only ran it hard yesterday from 11:00 am till 4 pm. 210' feet out with a sliver 10" BTI sliver meat head and two red fly's on the leader. The word was out that a pro-troll in chrome with a sliver fly was on fire most of the week on wire. We heard that news back at the dock talking to a guy the went to 7 tackle shops looking for them because he only had one left. I had one on my boat and made his day when I offer it to him..................here's my last fish of the season:

Hey Capt.Seaweed just got back from Lake Ontario out of Catfishcreek the fish are in up there now. We didn't do as well as years past but did get 15 fish in the boat the past week. We fished for SMB a few years ago on Seneca and did well trolling. Using a mini-dics with small floating rapallas (sp) in black top brown sides white belly- black top sliver side white belly and the perch pattern both straight sticks and the jointed. I can't remeber the right one for what time but one worked real well in the morning and the other one was good for the evening bite. You may get bit off some more over here with all the pike on the evening bite.

Any lines in the water before 0001hrs. that hooks a fish would NOT be a legal no matter what time the fish hit and was landed.

T.H. yep the bows seem to have the feed bag on the past few weeks..... Seneca 8-14-2008 Ran down to park after 9am and Hoot was there so he hooked up with me for some fishing. Ran across to the Serven area set up deep and trolled in and north. Picked up two 20" laker that we put back in short order. Then it was dry for awhile. Next to go was a spoon on a slider with a 19.25" small mouth. Then the wire diver out 240' with a nice laker we lost at the net. The other diver went of and we lost that fish also. Then the spoon fired again with a salmon that jumped three times and off. Then a small laker on the spoon. I was three for 4 and Hoot was 0 for 4............... ....................

Seneca 8-13-2008 Don and I went down to see if we could hook a few around 10:30 am ran south about 5 miles and set up on the west side. Trolled north picked up a small laker we put back , then one on the wire diver that we boxed. Rain came down for a while but no lighting so I dropped some glow stuff down. Popped a 24" laker on the wire diver running a sliver bullet BTI with a glow BTI fly. Then we picked up a 17" rainbow on the combo in the picture also picture of Don working one in on the diver rod. The wire fired again but we lost this one and also had a small laker on the spoon rig that we sent back. Then it got black and we could hear the thunder thought it might just miss us so we turned and headed south giving it more room. Didn't work pulled lines in a hurry and got out of dodge. Beat it back to port with 5 minute to spare.............LOL...........we boxed three fish 20" laker , 24" laker and the 17" rainbow...................

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Seneca Lodi Point 8-12-2008 I gave the east side a shot this morning over cast and little wind out of the north west surface temp. 73*. Worked just around the point area till I ran into a HUGE weed pod. Cleared lines set back up and saw the kicker was not pissing any water. Shut kicker down cleared lines and started kicker back up weeds had floated away. I wanted to run the TrollMaster now that I had it back in and the wind was picking up some from the north west so I trolled across the lake into the wind to see how the TrollMaster would do. I picked up a 23" laker over 400' of water near the west side on a dipsy wire rig out 180' with a sliver BTI and BTI fly. Worked into a 100' of water and started south. I had a rip on the wire again and lost him. Then the rigger fired and I boated a 21" 4# 7 oz. brown. Lost two more fish before calling it a day. Looks like the kinks are out of every thing and all I need to do will be change the oil in the kicker and put one more inline gas filter canister on just to be safe. I ran the other wire diver rod/reel today and the last new rigger reel. Then it will be off to L.O. Catfishcreek on the 19th..

a little late Ray...................................

3.) Check the white fly wheel which reads the speed. The wheel should be moving freely, i.e. no debris in it, it's not hanging up, etc. This is about the only thing that was ever wrong with mine when I had a good temp. reading and no speed. I'd eye-ball it and spin it by hand and drop it back down and it worked.

Wow all good news on the Food Saver , well I have the FoodSaver Vac 550. Worked fair for the first year now any small amount of moisture and the seal will leak. Got so I had to put a paper towel in to pick up the wettness before it would get to the seal line. Also used to put meat in a zip-loc bag before I used it to get a good seal. Mine must have been the dog.............. :shock:

If I'm by myself one rigger with a spoon in about 53* water (about 45' to 55' down I use my sub-troll ) and the other 15' to 20' below that one with a attactor fly. With someone else I'll add a wire diver rod been running it on a 2.5 setting back 150' to 210' with attactor fly and a inline with a 5 colors of lead core if the weeds are not too bad. Dodgers are fine , I been running John Kings BTI'S with flys and having fair luck. I had been running dodgers before and they work fine also but this color combo of the BTI been great the last few times out. Like they say run green flys the BTI color is green base with chartruse tape. Mix and match your fly's till you get bit. Above all HAVE FUN out there..............

I know you didn't want cheap but this unit works great for fish. As the air is sucked out and the water starts going out also that will mess the seal up in most uints it's no problem with this one because of the desing of the bag. Only problem I've had is loading them up to much but after a few time you get a good eye-ball for it. http://www.reynoldspkg.com/reynoldskitc ... at_id=1337

That's a good area to fish and most often a lot of bait in that area. I've been picking fish up 71' down on the riggers , 180' to 210' out on wire diver. Working from 80' to 95' if not getting any thing slide out deeper.

Seneca 7-31-2008 Went out with Don and Hoot from the park today about 9ish till 1 pm. Boxed 9 lost two and a nice rainbow. Only one fish on the diver the rest came on the riggers. The 71' down picked up two fish so I put the same on the other rigger and he had a steady bite if I could keep the speed above 1.25 at the ball. The Secret One BTI with the BTI Fly was one fire fish went from 19" to 28" on the biggest one. Best depth down was 71' we picked the rainbow up 61' back 20' on the Secret One BTI with the BTI Fly. I was in the front of the boat sipping on a coffee when it fired , yelled for them to get it but by the time they got to the rod the fish was jumping out of the water, two jumps and was gone.......LOL..........good time had by all of us today. It was the first time Don got a laker using a pole and reel he's a copper puller.........he loved it ...........who say you can't teach a Ole Dog new tricks Don's 80 years young and is looking forward to going again. Fleas were showing with the surface temp 74.6* weeds were only a issue around shoals.

Seneca - 7-30-2008 Ran north two lines in the water at 7:30 am lot of weeds surface temp. 74.5* but no problem with fleas down temp. 50.1* at 71' wind out of the SW with a good chop. Picked up 4 lakers threw a 18" back the rest were 3# 4 oz , 3# 10 oz and 5.5 #. Best depth was 80' to 90' and 71' down. Headed back in at 11:00 am.

.................got it..............thanks................I think................. :shock:

Just kidding Ray but that was very generous (sp) of you , you can PM some names or pictures of your combo's. I did pick up some spinny's but have not had much luck with them on Seneca.