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Germination results are fantastic! So far so good with the no till method! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Been itching to jig Cayuga for the first time for Lakers and finally got to do it. I got married on 7/31, so the wife and I took the week off to kick back and relax for this full week. We launched out of deans cove and tried right out of the cove, plenty of lookers but no action. Ran south to a flat just north of sheldrake and started getting into them. I went 6/9 and my wife Rachel managed to jig one up all on her own! I also hooked something 20 ft down over 60 that was all over bait head shook like crazy before spitting the jig, was wondering if maybe it was a nice brown. Either way, awesome first trip out! Cayuga Lakers are much more willing than the Lake Ontario ones [emoji23][emoji23] Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Absolutely! Just PM me when you get back and we will link up! I can grab your phone number for easier coordination.

Started it pretty early eh? Any specific strategy to that?

Promised pictures and here they are! Brasscia seed is lying safely under its new bed of rolled and now today sprayed buckwheat (ReelFanatic). In a few weeks we should know what my germination results look like and of course I will document that. We did get rain last night but I’m hoping for a few more thundershowers to optimize germination. We might get one on Tuesday! Here’s to hoping we don’t have a total drought in August!

Alright, big n beasty was seeded into both plots tonight along with 250 lbs of triple 15. Buckwheat smashed over top of it and it looks so cool! I will get pics tomorrow. 70% chance of rain (in Brockport) tonight so it should be perfect. I will up front make a disclaimer that I had the seed setting on my spreader way too open for my longer narrower food plot. So if it comes out as weird thick strips, that will be totally user error. I may hit over the top with a generic brassica mix to make up for it. Either way, that plot will almost certainly be getting 100lbs of winter rye come Labor Day. last thought, holy cow does that buckwheat hold mosisture. My legs were getting wet just when I was breaking it walking through it seeding.

Little update for everyone, buckwheat is now easily chest high! In some places neck high! The time is near for seeding, fertilizing and then crushing the buckwheat. I will say this is working perfectly. The buckwheat has shaded and choked any undergrowth weeds and it’s just moist bare dirt ready for the brassica seeds. This has worked better than I could have hoped. Oh, and there are honey bees and butterflies in the buckwheat by the thousands!

When is the earliest you guys would do brassica? I'm toying around with the idea of this Friday. Looks like rain and I wouldn't mind have them in the ground prior to the 1st of August for a little jumpstart.

As of right now I would guess there is little to no browse, which is perfect. I don’t need them hammering the buckwheat 😂.

I won’t be disking mine in, but I will be top dressing my .5 acre plots with 200 lbs of triple 15 fertilizer and seeding my brassica before a rain. This will be going into standing buckwheat that I will be crushing over the fertilizer and seed with a cultipacker, the moisture insulation of the dying buckwheat along with the rain moisture should get that fertilizer working and seeds germinating. Going heavy on the rates to account for not working into the soil.

Do you gentlemen apply granular fertilizer at time of seeding or do you wait for germination?

Update, growing like crazy! Buckwheat is starting to flower and is over knee high! Definitely a smothering the weeds out. As an added bonus, the flowers are highly attractive and beneficial for pollinators.

Circling back through our productive zone in that shallow water was hugely important today.

Just a little update here, BW is growing great in both fields, as of a few days ago tallest stalks are around 10-11 inches tall. Thought maybe they would be taller by now but the lack of rain in the last two weeks probably has quite a bit to do with that. In any case if we get any rain I believe I’ll see a big surge of growth in July. Pics below.

For whatever reason it won’t let me upload the second half of the video so I’ll explain, but as you can see the buckwheat is coming in fantastic. It will act as a smother crop, that shades out weed competition during summer and acts as a pollinator crop. When brassica time comes I will broadcast the fertilizer and brassica seed into the standing buckwheat and then smash the buckwheat down with a roller and spray the plot with gly. This will ensure great seed to soil contact as well as creating a layer of “mulch” over my seeds to trap moisture and build my top layer of soil. On top of that it should kill any small amount of broadleaf weeds that did germinate during summer. The first portion is going well so I can’t wait to see the fall results!

Hey guys, I’m implementing a no till method for my food plots this year. Better soil health and way less weed competition. I explain it in my video below and I will be updating the thread throughout the summer - come failures or success! As of right now the program is off to a great start! Can’t wait to see fall results! IMG_4181.MOV

I do jig for lakers and I quite like doing it! I have jigged Canandaigua and Keuka with success, and I really have made it work well on Lake Ontario (but that is a beast compared to the fingers). I have always wanted to jig Cayuga for lakers as I know it is currently the most productive lake for it, but for one reason or another I just never got around to it. I would like some information on spots if you don't mind and then I have a question about the jigging method itself. Mostly spot lock related.

Can somebody please school me in this method of fishing for the fingerlakes trout? I am specifically interested in the browns (not that any other bycatch wouldn't be cool). I am a decent enough troller, I just don't love doing it on the fingerlakes, (the fight just isn't a lake O King ya know?). More interested in the 1v1 non moving fight of those trout and generally figuring out a new way of fishing. Anyway, I am not looking for spots or anything like that. I just want to know the how and the why of the style and the gear needed. Feel free to PM if you would rather not post in the comments! Thanks!

Thank you. Not gonna play the panfish game, gonna do the easy thing and go for bass and pickeral lol

Anyone have an idea of honeoye ice thickness as of today? Was looking to get out the next two days or so

Ice should be fine Saturday right? From a thickness perspective?

I kinda don’t get this. It’s the most walleye populated lake in the state besides Erie. Yet people treat it like a Rochester pond with 2 fish left in it.

Lewis Point, south shore