FISHIN AGAIN?

Nice Shawn, glad ya got out.

Welcome to the lake. Some of the best fishing anywhere right in our front yard.

There is a slot limit to protect the fish at prime spawning age. However there does not seem to be much natural reproduction in Lake Ontario even after all these years of stocking them. There have been some different strains of Lakers stocked in the past 10 years or so maybe that is why there is more. There has been a lot of pressure on them lake wide this year due to the lake condtions. As the lake sets up most will go back to chasing silvers.

Wow sounds like a blast. Hard to believe with that many fish there wasn't a 20 plus in the mix. Theres gonna be some big ones 5 years from now. Gonna try to get my boy out 2moro nite to catch a few. Lakers are a great way to keep a kids interest,mine too.

Nice Atlantic. Tough fishin out there right now.

I also label mine left or right on the Dipsey in case I'm drunk.

I had a new 1000 feet this year and then I had a king on and the spool got snarled. I saved the wire and tried the splice in the Torpedo video, had a couple Lakers on it this weekend but need a couple screamin Kings to see how it holds up.

Went out of the creek with my friend Matt yesterday morning at about 6. With a tip from one of the Sandy regulars I decided to start shallow for browns. We started at the creek and headed East in about 10 fow. Water color was awesome and so was the fishing. I ran spoons off of planer boards and riggers. We ended up 9 for 11 all Browns. 3 were over 10 pounds, biggest just under 13. One of the fish burped an Alewife and had one down his throat. A lamprey went back into the drink dead. We went in at 10:30 and was back home with the family by 11:30. I love livin near the Lake. Hope to get out later this week.

Great article. It really shows how important the food chain is and how it affects the fishery.

Sweet. Looks rough out there hold on.

We had a similar result off the Genny although we did get a couple Lakers. We caught them first thing after that nuthin. Hardly marked anything. We should have went west.

Yes it does really work well. We have had Steelhead revive and swim away when I was sure they were never gonna make it after we got them to the boat.

Just want to let everyone know that Oatka Creek will be stocked this year with yearling and 2year old browns on Friday March 29th. Looks like it will be a little while to the big lake gets goin so why not get some creek fishin in. The trucks will be in Canawagus Park in Scottsville around 9:00 if anyone wants to watch. Also if you have never seen it the trucks will be loaded with the fish at about 8:00 AM at the Hatchery in Caledonia.

Our first trip last year was March 12th and the water temp was 36 degrees and we went 15 for 20 on Browns. Its comin.

We were on Braddocks yesterday from 9-2, had 20 tipups in and we got 4 Pike on top. We had seven runs. I tried tip downs first for a while for Perch with not much goin I switched for Pike. Perch bite seemed pretty slow for most that I talked to. They are probably slaying them today.

I just wanted to let you guys know that the Fisheries Program Highlights have been posted on the DEC website. In general the fishing remains great and the Alewife populations seems to be doing well. Preliminary results indicated that 56% of harvested Chinook are wild.

We will be goin 2nite and will stop by to say Hi to you Sandy Captains. Andrew wants another Salmon fly of his own you gonna be there Scott?

I pretty much agree with the other guys on the set ups, however with one change. Run the 15# mono with the spoons until early summer and then when fleas start getting bad,pull off some of the 15# and add 100 feet or so of 30# mono to combat the fleas. I run 30# Big Game then add a 10 foot leader of 20# floro. Good luck.