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What happens when the lake level changes and moves the shoreline while there out there? Nice that the cg will have to patrol this town passes a law and another agency has to use funds to enforce? Thaats how you trim a budget wonder who gets the fines [ Post made via Android ]

Call boat us before it happens like AAA for the water [ Post made via Android ]

similar situation I am in now with a 14' aluminum great way to learn is to fish all the fingerlakes. lots of fish and your closer to shore most of the time so you can get out of weather in a hurry. I only go on lake O in the spring for browns and fall for kings because thats when I can fish close to shore. I grew up fishing lake O with my dad on his 24' trophy and the wind and waves could come up in an aweful hurry and make even a boat like that feel like an iffy propsition and with the small motor sometimes you cant even push through it well. That said the fingers are a great fishery and a lot of the leasons learned can be applied to Lake O I would recomend looking for a lead core rig or two best investment I have made so far. got the wire diver late last year and havent had much chance to use it yet so we'll see how it compairs but I have high hopes. the three rod rule definatly opens things up for the small boat two.

how much would you want for just the boat

That's got pike bait written all over it [ Post made via Android ]

i fished the lake last weekend for the first time and it turned into a disaster. launched out of the north end (should have brought waders ) caught no fish and had the wind turn us in a 360 when we had 5 lines and two boards out that was fun. caught no fish and had some issues at the end of the day. will try it again though just gonna modify some things and bring waders

just my experience but the affliction seems much more common on lake O than the fingers. once the big boats go in the water I stay off the big lake not worth the stress especially with such good fishing in the fingers just as close.

Also interested depending on asking price [ Post made via Android ]

i agree you should all get rid of your electronics I would be happy to take them and dispose of them for you ill also accept modern boats and highend rods and reels

vettman dont worry to much about me catching all your fish. my daughter is allergic so I have to be real careful about bringing them home and as a result keep even fewer than I used to. Last year I kept LL out of seneca once and one brown out of Lake O. I switched to a 4 stroke honda 7.5hp which seems to be much cleaner than the oll 66 johnson 40hp i had runs better two which is why i switched. I always feel out of place in my little 14 footer with homemade planer boards and mast fishing 6 rods on with all second hand equimpment that has been re-engenered to fit the boat. trolls suprisingly well but definatly unique

do to mechanical trouble i had to switch out from a 40hp to a 7.5 hp motor this year the most exciting part about that is now i can fish hemlock and canadaice with the wind thats predicted this weekend i may not be able to fish browns on lake O and that means i'll be on hemlock. bright side to every story right

i was gonna offer my wife to ya in her place

i only have a 14 footer but my trailier is from the 1960s and is very high off the gound its a single axel that goes all the way across so the boat has to sit over it makes it fun but the boat is small enough that I can man handel it when theres no launch dock. I'm going tomarrow afternoon if the weather isnt conducive to fishing lake O for browns I may go to one of these lakes instead of seneca

can anyone tell me where the launch is on canadaice and hemlock. this year I downsized to a 7.5hp motor so I can fish these lakes during open water with the small boat it might be a nice place to go for iffy weather as seneca can get a llittle rough for me real easy plus i love the lack of development. I used to fish canadaice in the winter for pickeral but that was 10 years ago.

I was adiehard stren guy for ever but when it comes to fluro p-line all the way I even use it on my tipups for pike and it hadeles the teeth well [ Post made via Android ]

i think the biggest thing here is that ralph wilson opened up the wallet and spent money. Thants like the first sign of the apocolypse next politicions will do whats best for the public than the aliens will land and kill us all

i fished there on sunday as well i only fished the top for LLs and browns didnt move a rod all afternoon gave up on those and went in tight and trolled up some pike on the spining gear. with the manual down riggers I just didnt have it in me to fish deep after the week i had espically with the pike option open like that. thats why i like the fingerlakes. and yes I think the LLs are a bit south but with the smooth water and lots of sun I think they were likely spread out and boat shy.

I fished the top 50 feet all afternoon looking for lls and such marked a few fish in 80a feet but no takers pulled the rods switched to spinning gear made the las pass in 10' and got three pike before dark at least the new to me motor ran well all day for the first trip out [ Post made via Android ]

Im on seneca right now and nothing going anyone know what color is working? Im out of severn but ill take reports from any whare [ Post made via Android ]

damn wish i saw this sooner thats a great deal on the planer mast i'll get in line for it but i have a feeling it wont fall through all of you

i have a 14' starcraft and am anxious to get out this year. lake o and watkins glenn are about the same drive for me Lake o will likely be to rough with a southwest wind like there calling for keep watkins fishable for a small boat? and can i get away with stopping at severn its a shorter drive for me I just dont know if the fish are that far north this early in the year. I've only fished seneca the last couple of years so i have a lot to learn.

i fish a 14' starcraft. watch the weather and the marine forcast closely for lake O. I fish spring browns and fall kings only as I am not comfortable to far off shore. The fingerlakes are a great alternative for trolling trout and salmon but the best advice I can give you is have a backup plan. I always have the panfish and bass poles in the car and always launch from a bay or river so if the forcast is off I didnt waste the trip. and in this area with rivers and canals I can almost always get out somewhere no matter how windy which helps with the limited days I have to go.

yes there are locks on the canal from the oswego but there are locks coming in from erie as well a ski could eventually get through them though I would suspect it does not happen often. the thing is from that side its in the seneca river which is not drained so a pure could live in the river system for years before actully getting to the lake. on a side my buddy caught a 20" juvie ski on the lower genney while walleye fishing two years ago I didnt post earlier because I wasnt 100% sure of my memory so I had to go back and confirm it. there was a pic but I dont have it on my comp to post it. tells me there is some reproducing populaton in lake O around rochester though not near the concentration as there is in other places on the lake like the st.lawrence area for example. I saw an article a few years back in infisherman about a guide who did a lot of open water trolling for them in the great lakes and caught some monsters. fished temp and bait structure to find them.

it could have gotten to seneca from lake O through the canal at oswego I would say that is more likely as part of the canal system in that area is the seneca river and is not drained also that is much closer to the 1000 islands area which definatly has a lot of ski in it. without having seen the pic of the seneca one I would say its also possible it was a tiger they are stocked in cross and from there its not a super long way up river to seneca personaly i have caught one pure in my life and that was while pike fishing on lake nissipping in canada and the fish was 12 inches long. i dont target them as there are no good lakes within my normal driving range.

I think seneca has enough of a variety of forage interesting that there are already some there mabey some stocking to boost the population is in order. as far as ontario goes I think there are a lot more in there than people know other than the st lawrence not may places get targeted but i know of many that have been caught in research nets and there are a few guids that work the great lakes its a fishery that requires a lot of learning and paitence but it has some monsters in it. I heard of one that would have been a record that was caught during an electro fishing study for browns in the spring off of sandy creek several years back but never did find confirmation so that may just be a rumor.