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Well stated Paul C.and Carl B.! Excellent Ray k Almost anywhere you catch fish, there will be some funky odors... even salt water. And it is wise to be aware of and critical of pollution sources. Lord knows folks can and have messed stuff up real fast.....

Boy oh boy... folks have to be super careful about boating after dark. Whatever they are doing out there. Add to that the young folks drowned in Long Island Sound on an over crowded boat on the night of the Fourth. Prayers for the survivors and bereaving loved ones and friends......And be really careful out there!

Ha haa haaaa Good luck! and tell her Happy Birthday!!!! And catch some fish!! Work it often and unlock the secrets there. That place and Canadice are jewels !

O.K. Gotcha, Thanks....Short but sweet. How much of a fight do those guys have?? Can't think they have much fight but they sure look neater than heck....

Rite-on!! Most folks complain about gobies, cormorants and strange diseases or any other excuses as to why they are not as easy to catch as they used to be, at least on the south shore of the Big O. But they ARE still there. There is something to be said about the gobies though. They often do get to the baits before the smallies do. But! The smallmouth bass and many other fish are getting fatter on the gobies....

Thanks.. 20ft or so on the bottom...I'll bet he was not alone!! Chances are there were others nearby, of the same jack perch size. May even have been some walleyes near there too. If U had a sonar, U might have seen other fish around there, as, even in jumbo size the perch tend to school, and sometimes 'eyes can be there with them. Hemlock has some big 'eyes which I had never known of until recently, as posted on LOU and in New York Outdoors News. Finding one perch that was willing to take an offering might have allowed you to "work" the area with other offerings and possibly catch some others...

Have pondered the idea of jigging for lakers in the big O for years. But, since the boats I go on R not mine and I am a guest of friends who are in to trolling, my constant hinting on trying the technique always falls on unwilling ears. And the Big O is seldom ready for still fishing. Have had great fun with jigging on the fingers.... Woody 184... can't wait to hear your post of how you nailed slob 8 to 15lb lakers still fishing in Ontario... and the fight....!

Nice pics of the action (except the first one!). I, too, thought that was some great info given on this thread about an unusual specie fishing...

Yes, the Fourth celebrations around Honeoye and Conesus would B a little tuff, but after those couple of days or so it should be excellent on any of the lakes. If U had 2 go out on those eves, because of work, vaca, or just opportunity, than Hemlock would B the one..

Honeoye. Just before sunset...Fish real close to shore on the southwest and west sides with floaters (original silver rapalas of any castable size, or any silvery floating minnow bait) till U can't see 2 cast. Then try trolling with any trollable minnow baits a liitle out from the shore, over about 6 to 15 ft. depth following either east or west shoreline. When casting. cast right up to almost the shoreline; "weeding" through those annoying bass can pick up some nice 'eyes. And do the same by the north end of the lake. There are plenty of walleyes in the lake, but usually the bass will "get in the way". These tactics have worked for us in the fall, and I imagine they would this time of year, too. If there are 2 many weeds when trolling. they will hit weedless spoons such as Johnson's Silver Minnows or any kind of weedless spoon, with maybe a small piece of pork rind or even Gulp Leech attached to the spoon....

U might have already been there. Noticed U got no replies about Big Gull. Never have been there myself so I can't offer any personal fishing info. But I Googled out of curiosity of where this is and found quite a bit. Just Google Big Gull Lake, go down to about the 15th or 16th offering called "Big Gull Lake- Open Lake Discussion" and U'll C a past Lake Ontario United thread complete with replies and info from members about a similar question on Big Gull. Hope this helps for now or in the future; BG certainly looks like a great warm water fishery. Good luck!

U the MAN!!! The big guys must like that Yuengling vest. It's the vest! THE VEST!!...

"No man, with a big fish, walks home through the alley".......Is this line from some movie or book...? Really fun report. Try the fleas with some finely chopped white or vidalia onions and a little mayo for a delicious flea salad on your favorite cracker or toast!.....with some ...

Wow! Where to start?? The fishing up here is as good as down there. It's all sweetwater, which may seem tame compared to the briney stuff.. but the fishing is great all over the state. Grew up on the Island and I know ... the fishing is great in every corner of this state! May pm U with some ideas, but just keep checking out this forum and you'll pick up some decent info and sometimes other stuff....It will B a learning curve, but if U R into fishing you'll soon pick it up.... there is lots and lots of really good fishing 4 everything all over the place!!! ...

Personal best yellow perch....in Hemlock? Verrry EEnteresting !! I know it's a perch, but a pb in a lake not particularly noted for them... But why not- the fingers are awesome, and Hemlock does have big 'eyes to boot. Care to share any details on the "take" of this pb perch......?

Yahoo... Success You know, I know it is way away, but we've seen bunches, possibly some kind of spawning activity, much bigger in size, of those longnoses in Chautaugua Lake. Around Memorial Day. in water not too far from the shoreline, maybe 6-10ft in depth. Looks as if maybe bunches of horny males might all be trying to mate with a lone female. Sort of looks like a cluster****. Maybe the definition of that...

...Ray....C'mon man!!!

Me too on the Yuengling vest...

Honeoye used to be really great for smallmouths as well as largemouths. Seems like the smallies have thinned out a bit, but I know they are still there. While you're exploring, try over the hill in Canadice... both are in there in good #s. No more than a 10 horse motor though. Kayak, canoes, or if U R lazy or hurting electric trollers will work. You can do some from shore, too, but you'll always want 2 B getting "just over there". Hemlock is good , too....with same motor rules. (Canoes and kayaks are nicer.....).

You can probably find largemouths everywhere now. Try under and around any docks, any structure, real or imagined. If you have sonar, anything U can "see" on the bottom or off the bottom, cast to and around (that's what I mean by imagined). You can even catch some nice ones right down off the side of the pier to the lighthouse at the point...Plain nightcrawlers with a splitshot or 2 will get nice ones, even with all the folks around on a nice day. For me the pike are usually incidental and a bonus....And definitely try along the dropoffs at Newark Island and around the others nearby.

Ditto... Mendon Ponds. Very nice largemouths, nothern pike and bluegills. With some decent crappies occasionally. For wading try Honeoye Creek, from anywhere from north of the village of Honeoye all the way to the Genesee for largemouths, smallmoths, pickerel, rockies, and whatever else is in Honeoye Lake. I don't know about the town of Henrietta area, but if there is any creek entry to the Canal in the township, try there...The canal can have surprisingly good fishing....

Yeah we used to catch both orange and blue colored "backyard pond" goldfish (really just another carp) mixed in with the "regular" common carp. Plus there would be the rather stunning looking mirror carp, with a few scattered, irregularly placed and sized scales against an otherwise naked (scaleless) skin; and leather carp, with no scales at all. All of these minnows seemed to be enjoying life together and would hit the same offerings. The orange ones and the blue ones were really neat looking, and they could get to about 10lbs. max (that I saw!).

Unless you are a little guy, if you can just about say "I can get my fist in his mouth" I would definitely say a 6-6.5lber...Nice job I've caught 2 largemouths like that in my life, one at the north end of Honeoye Lake on a regular 1/8 oz. black grub body jig by the bathing beach, and one in Hempstead Lake (on Long Island- Nassau county; basically New York city) on a black 6 in Creme worm. Both weighed in at 6.5lbs. on the scale. Yep. "I can put my fist in it's mouth" is the first thing that comes 2 mind after "what a hog!"...Then the scale, after you think it might be an 8 to 10 pounder. .... One of those bigger brutes is REALLY large!!!!

Hey ProFishermanJones......What lake R U referring to.... Or R U from the Detroit area (Lake St Clair)....??...... Oooops! Just checked out the video and associated literature. Guess that is THE Lake St. Clair. U guys have the massive amounts of gobies there too? Btw, nice fishing episodes !!

Kueka, like all the fingers, can be an awesome bass lake, for both species....I had the biggest smallie I have ever seen on my line, right at shore's edge. I was taking a break from rebuilding an old dock with a friend for someone who had a place a ways down from Kueka College, on the west side of the east branch. They had a small rowboat with a beat old pole with baitcasting, level wind and some I don't know how heavy braided line. A small "tackle" box with a couple of baits, including 1 lonely blue plastic worm and a couple of rusty hooks. I jumped in the boat, tied on the worm and went out about 10 ft from the shore. The depth dropped off immediately to "out of sight' depths... maybe 60ft or more. I just dropped the worm down to some undetermined depth till it went out of sight and began to jiggle it around not expecting a thing. Then something took it and I began to work up a nice and unexpected 2lb smallie. 4 fish of up to 3+ lbs. or so and I was lovin' my little lunch break! U could see the fish coming up in the clear water against the sandy drop off. Then something REALLY BIG took the worm. And I saw it as it was coming up. About what seemed like 10 min. later I could see it... the biggest smallie I ever saw! And of course the line parted when it was almost to the surface and I watched it slowly swim back down with the blue worm in it's face....Back to work!