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Great info thanks! That's a lot to wade through! For Ithaca anglers it looks like they want to keep Fall Creek open year round, with the catch and release period now extending from Jan 1 all the way to March 31, so it won't be closed the last two weeks of March. This would still be closed for March 2015.

Maybe I'll try it again next year, never had much luck there but I didn't really know what I was doing, despite some good tips from a local. It's been 10 years since that conversation though and I forgot the details by now. As stated most guys won't talk about it though. It's only 15 minutes away but it gets pretty weedy and it's small. Most people have told me the spring is the way to go. Best luck I've had was ice fishing where I got bit off three times in a row by something big, never saw it.

The Ithaca Journal has an article about a shipwreck found in the northern end of Cayuga. The ship is interesting but I found the pictures to be the best part, they aren't too exciting on their own but it shows the chartreuse/green color of the lake in 70'. That color is the same color lake trout see the best, also why chartreuse and white work so well down deep. An alewife is going to look green to the fish down there. It's pretty cool they found it with a Humminbird and not some super fancy equipment.

Ebay for comparison purposes? That may only get you what people are asking, not what they're paying, but it could help.

Brief trip out this morning looking for lakers with my brother, fished 8-11:30. Had planned on a bit more fishing this week but had to unexpectedly leave town for a few days. We still squeezed this trip in on a beautiful day! Found fish near Taughannock and Kingtown Beach in 80-110 fow. A handful of small lakers came to the boat, all about 4 lbs. Bunch of little fellas today! Limetreuse tails worked well. They started off chasing 30-40 feet but only slowly, and were biting the tails a lot without getting the hook in their mouths even after a 40 foot chase. Good opportunity to double our catch with stingers but we weren't keeping them and kept it simple. Eventually it got a bit lighter and the sun started to shine through a little, but unfortunately it didn't help the fishing much, instead it slowed down. We were hoping for the opposite of course! Anyway, there wasn't much bait near Taughannock and some good schools were up by Kingtown. Wind was anywhere from ESE to SSW around 10 mph. One guy fishing the wall was hooked up on what looked like a decent laker when we went out at 8. That's about it. Great morning!

Justin hey it's too bad you've run into a few problems, unfortunately it's not surprising. I think many of us who post a lot of details have had a few similar issues. I don't regret my own posts as I know it's helped a lot of people over the years but after getting burned a couple times I don't post specific locations other than "the power plant" or "Kingstown Beach" e.g., that's what I had to do to feel comfortable sharing all the other details. My first summer jigging lakers I found a few spots and posted report after report about the great fishing in two tiny locations. I mean I did everything but give GPS coordinates. Well I'd been fishing during the week and come a derby shazam! Easily 20 boats in the current spot. Learned a lesson that day! But overall I'd rather help out than shut out, so it just made me alter the info in my posts a bit. Otisco is tougher as it's just plain smaller and it can be harder to escape the boat traffic so the simple technique of not giving specific spots may not work for you, but I hope you can find a way to keep sharing. Guess what I'm getting at is that many of us love your passion for walleye (and it was your great posts last year that got me interested) and I can probably speak for others that we hope you keep posting! Find what you're comfortable with sharing and please keep it up! It's been great just reading your reports as the enthusiasm is obvious. Many of us can't fish as often as we'd like and reading about it is the next best thing. So a big huge thank you is in order! THANK YOU! Finally that's too bad about the water level, any idea if it'll be back up this week? I'm okay with slow fishing but if the water's down I may go elsewhere with my brother. We're looking for relaxing! Edit: I'm thinking if they're doing dam work it'll take longer than a few days... thanks for the tip, we'll figure something out.

Nice Ed, it was a heck of a day! Great week to be at camp.

Very cool thanks for sharing!

Had a lot of fun with you guys! Maybe if we fished on a snotty weather day we'd actually catch some fish... real nice morning though so thanks and good luck this week. Oh sorry again I lost your lunch! Hoping for better luck tonight I've picked some tough days this year to fish. Have fun out there you all were cracking me up. Alec

That was a really nice morning to be out! Sounds like a fun trip.