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Back home with lots of memories made. Cayuga Lake......all rainbows and Unicorns.

The delayed spring has bass on their beds. 10’ fow you can look down and see open shell beds carved out of bottom weeds. Every night DARK largemouth come into the shallows to pluck a few gobies before heading back to their beds. Tons of bass rigs around and I have yet to see anyone catch a bass. First night here I took a kayak up to the next dock and caught a three pounder on a bladed jig. Have not caught another since lol. Yes, I have tried Senkos.

Water temp is 75 degrees. We fished close to our rental up North near Verick. The goal today was to catch a brown. We set up at the North rim and played around in the 100’ zone. Tons of bait and hooks. No Browns but we quickly realized we could not stay out long. Warmer surface water at this end made fish revival difficult. We pulled lines at 8:00 with 5 of 6 lines dragging lakers, a undersized rainbow and an undersized Atlantic. We headed down the center Northbound over the north rim towing stickbaits for smallmouth but only got a pickerel. As usual back to the dock for breakfast by 9. I forgot to mention the great carp fishing at night. More pics. Lures for rainbows was a R&R alderton-type dodger Dave is offering towing a Warrior flutter lite spoon. The other two spoons are northport wild things.

First trip ever to Cayuga. Spending the week with family enjoying the light switch trip into summer from a cold crapy spring. Water temps on Saturday was 62 degrees. Today it is 73 degrees. I am really enjoying this lake! Dock fishing for kids, tubing, hiking the area state parks, Bass are spawning but pickerel and giant perch around AND.... great trolling for trout! The lake is just setting up. I am trolling over deep water near Dean’s Cove for three hours each morning and have been clobbering suspended lakers with occasional rainbows and sub-legal Atlantic’s. Flasher/fly down deep on center rigger, otherwise all spoons. Slide divers are stealing the show. 1.8 mph downspeed with R&R superlites on rigger outdowns and Northport Nailer Wild Thing spoons on divers. As the water has warmed considerably, we are using ice cooled water in our fish box to revive the lethargic ones for release. What a great fishery! The graph looks like Lake Ontario with bait balls and big hooks all over.

He went out for a little pussy?? If you watch PD live on the television you will see this is more common than you think. The opioid epidemic has ruined whole towns.

Reference to the trump banner. If it needs explaining, it probably isn’t that funny.

Nice mixed bag. However, you should consider naming your boat “Kool-Aid” or perhaps “sinking ship”. I also have some swamp land to sell you lol.

What were the names of the DEC representatives working on this?

I have never aggravated anyone.

Galvanism.

Include me as a future participant on correspondence for next year’s event. Thanks.

Beautiful Lake Trout. Nice and clean.

Much to learn young skywalker. You need to learn the business side. You need to learn how to talk to people i.e. smooze clientele, even though you don't have a thing in common with them. You need to learn basic boat maintenance in order to keep your rig fishing and not canceling charters. Marine mechanics don't just drop what they are doing just because you have clients coming the next day. You need to learn how to network (without offending). You need to have all your fishing and safety gear. You need to have insurance. You should have a slip- home base. You need to learn how to deal with drunk obnoxious smokers on your boat. You need to know what to do when a client starts turning green and goes quiet. You need to have probably 120 charters to break even. You need to have the patience of Job to deal with late arriving clients or clients that keep dropping fish. You need to deal with clients who cancel last minute. You need to keep in touch with past clients for repeat business. Last but not least........you need to learn how to catch fish in an East wind!

A bailing bucket!

With a dead battery your VHF will not work. I would say today with gps tracking, a cell phone is more important. If you had to abandon ship, you can take your cell with you. I have the local coast guard number in my contacts. If you go to the compass feature on your phone, it will give your gps coordinates.