Dear past registrants,
The 44th Annual Canandaigua Lake Trout Derby is on for 2025. The derby will be held on May 31st & June 1st this year. Please register online through the Canandaigua Trout Derby website by clicking on the registration link and registering online. If you need a paper copy of the registration form you can print it and mail to the address on the form. If you don't have a printer and are unable to register online please reply to this email with your mailing address and a brochure including a registration form will be mailed to you.
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Canandaigua Lake Trout Derby Committe
I'm no researcher or fish biologist but Keuka, I feel, has a laker problem. There's too many Lakers. The description of no food, characteristics that they're skinny, have big heads tells me their population is out of hand. Theyve eaten themselves out of house and home. Other fish in different temp zones seem to be doing fine. Maybe I'm simplifying the problem. I'd also say some are right in that mussels have contributed. Can the laker creel limit be increased or dropped altogether to help the problem? Adding predators will only make the problem worse. They stopped stocking browns and landlocked salmon in keuka from my understanding. Rainbows can survive on insects and other things that are outside the laker preferred temps. Someone mysteriously added walleye which I'm sure doesn't help the issue. Sounds like ALOT of Lakers need to be removed from keuka to slowly turn the tides. Sizes will recover. That lake is just overly successful in producing lake trout.
I recently bought a couple of the 5 color convector reels all set up from fishusa. Fishusa sets these reels up with braid backing to the leadcore and lastly the connection to the leader. In the past I've had mono as backing for my lead core and used my inline planers without any trouble. Will I encounter any issues using braid in my inline boards or should I put a section of mono between the braid and lead core for a better way to attach to the online planers boards? I use church boards. Any help is appreciated.
Had to use a few days for work before losing them. Finally took the maiden voyage of the season. Better late than never. Fished East side. All fish came on spoons 30-50' down. Caught two 18" bows, a 19" unicorn brown (#4), and a 28" #7.5 laker. Can't say the last time I caught a brown here. What a fatty it was. Most likely my first canandaigua trout slam with 3 species. Turned out to be nice day. Tight lines!
Got this 7 point about a week ago. My earliest bow buck in one of my favorite pinch points. Good luck everyone it's about to get good! Updated my post with trailcam pic of when I shot. The dark spot on the side of the buck is where the arrow had just passed through (before he bucked and ran off).
I hope to get out a few more times. Also been noticing less posts here over the last year or so. Have seen an increase of posts and pics on Facebook. Fb may be stealing the thunder a bit. Of course you have the fall transition of hunting and ppl putting their boats away.
Hopefully the fleas have decreased. We got into them pretty bad on the 10th. Even had to hand line in a fish or two bc of the fleas. Would like to break out the braided dipsys next but don't want a mess.