bosco
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Tough to beat Honeoye for the Crappie ang 'gills at the south end. The radar's out and I'll be keeping tabs on when it starts to get hot. Anyone else wanna chime in? Where's the action....other than the ponds in Greece where you have to piss off the local residents with the parking situation and fight for a spot fishing elbow to elbow for the Perch. Great action but I hate a rat race for my time at the water's edge.
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Probably a reference to size..not specie.
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I fish the old fashioned way. And if I had but one pick...it would be a booger on a paper clip. Gets em every time.
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Still better than a sharp stick in the eye....or working. For a first time out on a new body of water, I'd say you did good enough.
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Thanks. And I'd never ask anyone for their honey holes....just some first timer pointers to give me a fighting chance. It's all "time behind the wheel". Put in the time, I'll learn, and earn the experience and success. The Senceca's been on my short list for some time to begin a forray into crappie fishing. Now I just have to get the specific gear and get out there. Thanks again.
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Hey Sliderman...I've heard good things about the Crappie fishing in those parts. Ever fish that species there? If so....any pointers?
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I saw them too. But I could see small spots of open water not far from those guys fishing. Well, they've certainly got more guts than I do. I don't care if it's only 4 foot deep. I'd need another day or two of this weather to get me out there. God bless 'em though. They must really love their Perch.
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If you're really desparate....Mendon Ponds usually freezes over real quick. There's a little bay on the Southwest corner of 100 Acre Pond. Usually decent Pike on tip-ups. Good shot at some largemouth too. Panfishing has gone to crap the last few years although there are perch and crappie populations to be found.
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Where can I find this Trolling Part III article? Thanks
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I think yer talking like 70 FOW at the bridge pillars if I'm not mistaken. You get those eyes off the bottom, at that depth? Or suspended? I'll be checking it out. I've tried looping aroung those pillars in the past but the sonar bouncing off of them gives me a really funny looking screen, like there's huge clouds of bait fish or something. I figured it was interference and I couldn't really tell what, if anything, was under me. Very, very interesting info. though. Thanks. -
LOL!! Oooops! Thank you sir!! I RARELY keep more than 1 or 2 in the 18"-22" range anyways. Just enough for a fresh meal or two. I don't like to freeze it and I won't eat it 3 or 4 days in a row either.
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I've caught many walleye on the bay over the last 3 or 4 years. I specifically target them though. I've only limited out with 5 one time. I've had several nights where I've gotten 2 or 3 (I mostly fish at night). A few nights where I've gotten skunked too. They're in there. The DEC stocks them. I think it's just a matter of learning their tendencies for that particular body of water and developing tactics specific to them. I'm patient, and learning. I know there's got to be a few guys who know the bay that can light it up. But info. doesn't pass back and forth as readily as it does for say Oneida or Erie. Just not as many guys targeting them. But I moved to Irondequoit almost 2 years ago. I'm a mile from the launch. It's my new adopted home water, and walleye are my species of choice. I think it's just going to be a matter of putting in "time behind the wheel" and limits will be turning up regularly. Can't say as they're the tastiest I've had though. Something funny about that water or their diet.
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Say....do any of you perch nuts fishing off the markers out there ever catch an oddball walleye or two? I'm trying to improve my knowledge of the bay as a walleye fishery and I'm curious if they're ever out there feeding on small perch.
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As murky as that water is, they're still finding your bait huh? It looked like chocolate milk when I went down there this afternoon.
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How's the ice? Think it'll survive the warm spell? I'd like to get out Monday.
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Didn't set the bay on fire but got a couple Wally's tonight. Might have done better but I was interrupted for about an hour as I had to help a guy and his 13 year old son get off the sand bar just south of the Newport House. They went gunning after dark and never saw the markers and just buried it. I was the only other boat out at that hour and I hear this guy screaming and flashing his lights. I tried to tow him off but to no avail. His boat was too big and too stuck and my boat was too small. But small enough to get up to his with my electric motor a submerged about 6 inches and get the 2 of them off their boat and onto mine without burying myself with them. They ditched the boat and I rode them back to the launch. Man...it would've been a cold night for those two. They'll be busy figuring out what the hell to do on Monday.
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I plan on hitting it hard the next couple of weeks weather permitting. We'll see what happens.
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Well....10/22....BEAUTIFUL evening. I sailed right past the 2 dozen boats all huddled around the buoys doing the perch thing on the way to my spot. I hope they did better than me. I'm all about the 'eyes myself. Nice 24"er on my second cast. Nothing for the next hour and a half. A quick bay outing and a gorgeous night just the same.
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Must be Mille Lacs then
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I'd have to believe Eyes are better eating. Much more accessible too. And they're more cunning and challenging than bass or pike. That being said, I've never targeted Musky but I'd absolutely love to get a hook into one or two some day down the road.
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That is wildly fascinating.
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You got steel leaders above those walleye jigs? I can't imagine.
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Funny. My cousin's family just got back from a week at Wellesly Island yesterday and he, his father in-law, and his 2 sons (11 and 12) TORE-UP the smallies and had the pictures to show me. Crawlers on the bottom in 30-35 ft. Minnows and crawfish drew nothing but the crawlers lit em up. Conversly, my good friend also got back from a week in the islands yesterday and he reported the same as the previous posts. Fished his arse off and got 1 undersized smallie and his buddy got 1 small pike. Hmmm.
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lumberjohn- thanks for input on Owasco Lake
bosco replied to felixjayce's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Do you suppose that's why the Walleye out of Irondequoit Bay taste so bad in comparison to say Honeoye Walleye? because the Alewives are their primary forage? And ARE Alewives IN FACT the primary forage base on this body of water? I suspect so but would anyone confirm this? -
Smallmouth near Webster park and Hedges
bosco replied to t2fingers's topic in Musky, Tiger Musky & Pike (ESOX)
Gosh I sure hope someone can tell me I'm wrong on this one but it's my understanding that the smallie fishing has absolutely tanked out there the last couple years. The Gobies suck up any live bait before any of the few bass that might be there can get to it. I've also heard that the Gobies are sucking up all the bass eggs thereby jeaprodizing the future of the fishery further. I recall that last season guys were saying that they were countering this by trolling cranks significantly higher up off the bottom than they would be if live bait fishing. Getting a few, but defeating the purpose. Who wants to troll for bass?? A lot of guys bass fish as a respite from trolling. Again, I hope someone can correct me here.