lyk2fish
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Nothing wrong with keeping that beauty, they exert soon much energy leaping, it can sometimes be to their demise due to the warm surface temp, on owasco, I am in the 70 degree range all the way down to 40 ft. Those big bows come out of the temp, fight hard and don't always make it back down.......your fishing hard, don't feel bad about keeping a wonderful fish like that. Congrats!!!!
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Owasco Slow troll at the end of the month, bronze and small silverstill around
lyk2fish posted a topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Fleas, fleas, fleas......horrible.......wind shifted 3 directions in 2 hours, opposite blow from yesterday, mixing things up a bit. Ran copper and cores this morning.....no big silver, all skippers, bass still making it fun though, and going deep is producing Lakers. Temp still good between 50 to 60, north was 55-75 down......just gotta keep pounding it till I find them again.-
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Owasco Quick troll before the storms
lyk2fish replied to lyk2fish's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
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Fleas back bad with hot weather, pulled riggers out, put out the TD, temp good 50 to 60, adjusted copper and cores. We got a few, couple silver, bronze and Lakers, radar looks ugly, cut it short, fun quick trip for my buddy with the big smallies, thought we had good silvers on.....screamin bronze backs though, ...no complaints! Fun.
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Fished hard with a buddy on owasco, checking out usual spots resulted in fish, but many fleas too......brought the copper and cores.....but they wanted the riggers today. Lost 3 good bows leaping and coming unglued, including a hammer that stayed on the surface after he broke me, chased him down as he looked like a shark on the surface, but as i approached with the net......she slapped her tail at me an was gone.....oh well. caught many little bows with 2 doubles on slider and terminal spoon.....that was fun trying to land them.......all in all good day with mixed bag of bows, small browns, bass and lakers.......fleas came back bad though
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Cayuga Cayuga 8/13 no sunscreen needed
lyk2fish replied to quality time's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
I've ran into the same thing, took off snubber off and went to 20 pound mono......a little more stretch but I still get break offs on violent strikes......that's the problem sometime with wire, core and copper.........not a lot of stretch.....hard to keep them on sometimes, love watching that dipsey hit though, especially when silver is hitting those sets. -
Cayuga Cayuga 8/13 no sunscreen needed
lyk2fish replied to quality time's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Nice job, hey at least you got a workout reeling 600 copper for the day........I get my exercise on 300's.......can't imagine a ten pound laker or bigger on a 600! Makes the forearms burn -
Owasco Silvers, gold, bronze, and of course Lakers
lyk2fish replied to lyk2fish's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Owasco, yes the fog was crazy.....fun though.....yes the bass hit the core.....I released it, was a big smally.. Put a lot of time in to figure it out.....some guys go out and do it all the time....I have to work at it......and I do, feels good when it comes together .....still doesn't beat catching big walleyes though.... -
Owasco Silvers, gold, bronze, and of course Lakers
lyk2fish posted a topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Took a friend out today, got in the zone I found yesterday, didn't get third rig out and we had a taildancer behind the boat. Nice female bow, jumped 6 times and threw the hook, can't believe with 77 degree surface temp that she had anything left after 2 leaps.......reset and it was on, a nice mixed bag with cores and coppers king up high. First time this fella was trolling and he got spoiled, told him it wasn't always like this and that I put a lot of time in yesterday to find it....great day though, he is hooked! -
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Owasco Brown's, small silver, and a big laker
lyk2fish replied to lyk2fish's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Hey Justin, freed up now, baseball over, time to hit it with ya, was good to get back on the water.....i was in those browns when ya called.......keep me in the loop on that tiger.....got fish coming in and want to get that one going asap due to the size.......ih yeah.....small bows and some good double digit Lakers again today. -
Back after a long hiatus. Hit the water looking for bows, laid out the coppers and cores, and a few riggers.......good news is the fleas are minimal......slow start then hit a flurry of 14-16 inch bows, looked to be all same year class, all came on cores......found a sweet spot and the copper fired with a nice brown, followed by another copper firing with another good brown........circled spot few mire times and only took small bows and browns, ........took a break, hit it again at around 5, had my son and his buddy working small ones then a shallow, yes shallow rigger fires and my son's buddy was fighting a heavy fish for about 35 minutes......ended up being a beast of a laker.....(were was this guy during the tourney), anyway a great memory for him, and i had no net.......good times......fish are there......great screens produced nothing and blank screens took hits.......all in all great trip out.
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Outside of the fillet you have to trim, many of the finger lakes walleye consume primarily alewife, which are an oil rich bait fish. Walleye eating them will form an oil line which must be trimmed off in order to get your white fillet and make them taste like they should.........also if you catch one that has orange colored flesh this time of year, usually on males.....it tends to be from the spawning process up in the creeks, the rolling and battling with other males causes internal bruising. Your pic looks like out side of fillet......just trim and eat.....if you don't, it will taste fishy. Hope it helps.
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for sale : usa lyk2fish stick bait clean out # 2
lyk2fish replied to lyk2fish's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
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sold / closed lyk2fish's walleye stick clean out
lyk2fish replied to lyk2fish's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
Yeah, everybody.......just like the shipping post in terms of expense........the check in the mail process can be difficult too.........it takes a few days to get a check......and my bank takes 3 business days to clear it, which will be this Friday........once that is all done, I will ship , and tag the post as "sold"...........so PaP I am keeping up with my post, but thanks for your comment. Kevin -
for sale : usa lyk2fish stick bait clean out # 2
lyk2fish posted a topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
lyk2fish stick bait clean out # 2 2 lots of new unopened rapala sticks. Brown trout sticks #11's....2 scatter, 6 floaters, and 3 husky's $60.00 for the lot Rapala XR-8 X-raps,....3 in olive, 3 in blk/slvr, 3 blk/gold $50 for the lot. As stated before, my pay pal is down. I can meet in Binghamton, ithaca, cortland area or will ship once i receive and clear check. Shipping will run $8.00 on an individual lot, or $12.00 for both lots combined. If you want both lots, I will sell for $100.00 Plus shipping, unless we meet. Thanks, Kevin 607-743-5750 -
sold / closed lyk2fish's walleye stick clean out
lyk2fish replied to lyk2fish's topic in Classifieds - Buy, Sell, Trade or Rent
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lyk2fish's walleye stick clean out Cleaning out some extra walleye sticks......all Rapala and Smithwicks. 13 Rapala f-18's, all good condition, 7 blk/slver, 3 perch, 2 blue, 1 gold.(one blk/silver needs lip repair, lip included) $80.00 13 Smithwick super rogues, new and unfished $45.00 5 new HJ-14 Husky Jerk 14's in Glass Minnow, new $17.00 All are in good condition and if you want all of them, you can have the entire lot for $130.00. My Paypal account has been comprimised so it is either pick up in the Binghamton, Cortland, Ithaca area, or you can give me a call and we will work out check payment and shipping. 607-743-5750. Kevin
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Cayuga Trolling bite shut down
lyk2fish replied to scotch and sodus's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Fished owasco, found not much bait up north, came back down, set up east side, found bait in 90-120...........set them high....couple smaller silvers.........but slow even for them this time of year.......but the bait not in its usual spots this fall. -
Skaneateles DEC says Walleyes confirmed in Skaneateles
lyk2fish replied to JJBat150's topic in Finger Lakes Discussion
Ahhhhhh the good old Alewife, a great prey species but a vicious predator, however recruiting yoy walleye due to alwife predation doesn't mean that walleyes aren't successful in their spawn process.......it just means the only way will get a year class is if we have a down year on alwife population. Amazing that walleye existed in good population prior to Alewife being introduced into owasco, but yet the state treated a species that existed like a problem because people stopped catching trout.........let's just put more lakers in there and then make the smallmouth or northern pike the next scapegoat when people can't catch rainbows and browns. I caught 2 walleyes that were 18 inches out of there this spring, with that forage base and the last stocking in 2007.......I would think those fish would have been bigger at age 10.....there is hope for us walleye guys......maybe.