Bigfoot

This coming Saturday is the day.

The fleas were the worst I have ever seen. They stuck to every thing. Lines (even 40 lb test rig main lines), hooks, downrigger cables, and even my blood run and flea flicker lines. Truly a miserable day to be on the water.

This laker was caught this morning near the state boat lauch on Skinny. 41 inches long and 24.3 pounds. Details are on Syracuse.com

Thanks! Good to know the money is headed to a deserving cause.

80% payback. $20 entry fee.....what happens to the $4 that's not paid back? If you have 100 entries someone pockets $400. Seems like a greater % should go to the purse. Please enlighten me.

With those fin clips I believe your laker was 13 years old.

No doubt you removed every one of those fleas from your boat and your equipment before leaving the launch......... Thanks for posting.

There was never a walleye population explosion on this lake. Alewives eat walleye and laker fry to the point where both species would disappear in Owasco without stocking. DEC dumped surplus lakers into the lake one year, at a time when the walleye and laker population was high. This was turned out to be a huge mistake and abundance of predators hammered the forage base. The result was a bottle neck in lake trout growth where several age classes were all about 20-23 inches indicating that growth was seriously stunted. This has noticeably improved in recent years as a result of the elimination of walleye stocking and reduced stocking of lake trout. When FLTA fished Owasco earlier this month 2 lakers over 10 pounds were brought to scale as well as several rainbows and browns. These are clear signs that the lake is returning to it's balance. The "bottleneck" in the laker age classes is gone. Each age class is a different size, as one would expect in a healthy population. The decision to stock walleyes was always a political decision with the DEC yielding to local pressure. The worst fish and game management decisions are made when we take wildlife management decisions out of the hands of the pros.

Nice 'bow. The name of the tournament is actually "South Shore Marina's 14th annual Spring tournament". There are 2 bass divisions, but I've never heard it called a bass derby. I have fished this event for many years. it killed me to have to sit this one out due to other obligations.

Congratulations on a fine day and your awesome points lead. First place and leaving the rest of us in the dust. We fished north and caught 20 fish or so (not counting dink salmon). After all of the talk on this board (and some pics) of the lamprey problem on Cayuga, I was amazed to find not a single fresh wound on any of our lakers. We did take a 5LB landlock at Long Point that came aboard with a lamprey attached. (30 foot down over 130 FOW) I'm wondering what your fish looked like (wound wise) and thinking that the lamprey problem might be worse on the south end.

Limit on rainbow's is one in Seneca.