lyk2fish

fished saturday, lakers all over the column, best bait was up north. riggers at 70-80, wires 240 at a #3 white spinny and fly, 5 color cores even taking lakers. small stinger spoons took better hits. purple, chrome and blue ones did best. fished over 90-150ft with sets 35-80 foot down, all took fish, but all were lakers. good luck.

not saying you cant get them, but I know justin and myself at the same and different times fished the heck out of October with no result. bite was good till lake level dropped. Didnt bother the tiger bite though. like deer hunting,....gotta keep going even when the eyes of the rod freeze. there feeding somewhere in there.

Justin, If you and I lived out there between Cayuta and Conesus, we'd be having a ball with those eye's. As he said, and like I always said, fishing eyes fed on alewives ain't no riddle. while those alewife are in shore at night spawning those walleyes will be gulping them down. Fish with your ears boys and ride the surface, youll catch em like bass on jitterbugs. sometimes in less than 2 foot of water! and Bigfoot, you wont like em anyway cause just like Owasco, they won't taste good to ya! I had some lastnight from Owasco and they were Awesome!!!!!!!!

I know they got the extention for Gas Conversion Decision until December. Does anyone know if they are down for maint. Been since the first week in april that I haven't seen smoke/steam from the stack. Just wondering. thanks, kevin

Take this for what it is worth, Heard it from a real reliable source today who saw the survey. 2000 random surveys went out. of the questions asked, #8 wanted you to make a clear choice, either Rainbow/Brown or Walleye If this question was not answered the survey was nullified. there was no comment section on the survey. heard of the 2000, they were in reciept of around 70 responces. I heard the survey results closed today. this could be speculation rumor, i have no difinitive fact other than someone who is very involved. if true, all I gotta say is WOW!!!!!!!

Fella's , all said dont wage this war. I am a Walleye hard core fisherman in that lake and a fish biologist graduate out of the Cornell program. I love all fish but you all pointing at walleye, when your missing the over stocking , over balance of adult lake trout in that lake. As you all know, they are vicious predators that have had their own impact on rainbow and Browns. Want Fact: One, Read Dan Bishop's Thesis on the impact of too many adult lake trout and how they negatively affect recruitment of other salmonids in a system. was conducted on Cayuga lake back in the day. Second, those alewife which we all love are not only great at making fish fat, but they are high in thiamase, which affects reproduction, and they stay in shore all summer into august spawning, and eating everything up to 16mm. I believe this was the size supported in the Tunison study of alewife predation based on Owasco alewife samples. Thats alot of fry consumed and alot of fish that are rendured infertile after a life on the alewife feedbag. Third, stocking sites, other than the outlet, which has its own predator balance of Northerns, Largmouths, Rockbass and Perch along with walleye that fry have to get through, stocked fish have a tough time surviving being dumped off Ensenore, where the highest volume of lakers are thought to be, and those rainbow getting stocked in the outlet are really helping the lake. Four, for you old timers out there, when was the last time you caught 10-12 pound lakers out of the lake on average? Yeah there are alot of lakers and you can always bend a rod but...... Are walleyes at fault for this? or is there just too many lakers. I have caught a large number of walleye on that lake in the spring and fall, only found alewife and perch in their bellys, never a trout. Am I saying Walleye will not eat trout? No Can walleye compete? the answer is yes. When prey species like smelt and alewife are down, too many predators is not a good thing. but I have experienced great smelt runs the last 4 years there and the alewifes Boil in large numbers all summer long since ive been there in 2005. additionally as long as the nutrient load is high, their will be enough phyto-and zooplankton to support smelt, alewife, asian clam, zebra muscle, quaga muscle, spinny water flea, etc. Have walleye been stocked since 2007? No. Has the Rainbow and Brown fishing rebounded in the past six years? No. So ask yourself, were Walleye really the problem or were they just a small part of the overall mismanagement of the fishery that are taking all the blame. Remember, Walleye never were really thought to be a problem until the state put the blame on them in public making the walleye their scapegoat. As stated in the beginning, I love all fish guys, and the crew from the state.... there doing their best, however, .That lake can support walleye and trout, it just needs to be managed for it. I haven't been doing enough looking cause I can't find that survey anywhere, will relook at the state sight. My 2 cents supported by some experience and research fact. Kevin