Sk8man

I hear ya Joe. The nice thing there is that you are into fishable water immediately and depending on wind can go either way. Good luck with it and hopefully we'll meet up out there. Les

Cool ...I look forward to it Joe...Les here. Usually launch out of the Chamber at Geneva or sometimes Sampson. See ya out there.

Hey buckboardjr.....you've got my dream garage....unfortunately my deed prevents realizing my dream...as well as the proximity to my next door neighbor's lacrosse practice area (he's a coach) Very nice job!

Congrats Nautitroller! ...you sure are having a great season on Cayuga! Congratulations to Bobber and Kade too...it sure sounds as though everyone that participated really earned their fish with that weather....derbies sure sort out the "hard core" folks from the fair weather fishermen Andy....something to be said for the "home water" advantage Lets hope next years Seneca Derby does it for us

Man... Kevin you sure have the fish dialed in this season. My crappie spots are mainly Spring only....I probably should go back to the old night time fishing for them here at the south end of Canandaigua....Honeoye is now virtually unfishable because of weeds, blue/green algae and other serious problems of unknown origin. You have it made up there in terms of opportunity and beauty of the environment and it is good to see that "life in retirement" is agreeing with you Keep up the good "work" Les

Mike - Jim has a Grady but my buddy Bob (Admiral Byrd) has a 19 ft. Penn Yan and fishes Seneca frequently) Keep'n It Reel - I sure think they had fed earlier...I know a lot of folks have been getting into the non-lakers during the early morning hours so they also may be feeding at night. There is so much bait there that it is a wonder they even bother expending the energy to go after a lure.

Jb235 and I launched out of Sampson about 4:30 PM and took initial temp readings down 100 ft. We then trolled south in 120 ft water with a wire rig and yellow puke Spin Doc/ green fly, A braid rig on a Tx 44 board with a black Fish catcher flasher and blue fly , 2 downriggers with spoons and sliders with spoons, and a medium dipsey with a spoon run off an outrigger. We went with only 5 rods because of the reports that there were masses of grass out there south and wanted a little room to play with on turns. We mainly trolled from about 90 ft. to about130 for the most part.We marked more fish and bait than I've seen in quite awhile. As soon as I got the wire and braid rigs out the wire rig bent over and started thumping hard.....6 to 7 lb laker Put the downriggers out and trolled south to just north of Lodi Point.....one hit but couldn't get to the rod in time (wire again with Spin Doc). A while later we were busy with other stuff and the 60 ft.downrigger went off but we had our backs to it.....comes up with no slider or main lure....snapped off at the slider apparently> had been down 60 over 105 and we had come through a mass of fish just previous to it...had to have been decent fish....broke 20 lb fluoro leader when it hit and it took 2 of my "one of a kind" nail polish specials with it . Trolled back to Sampson and no takers despite going through massive amounts of bait and fish. Put out two 5 leader Seth Greens and pulled out the other stuff. Trolled north to Reeders with a couple good hits on the way but they appeared to be off. When we brought our lines in later had two lakers about 20-22 inches on the bottom leaders of them. Our impression was that the fish were well fed already tonight ( all the lakers had big bellys and looked very healthy) that we were marking near the masses of bait and may have fed earlier and the lakers were up in the water column foraging. The lake was beautifully calm, nice sunset, some grass to mildly irritate us while trolling and only minimal fleas on the braid and wire...very doable, very minor amounts on the Seth Greens, and none at all on the 30 lb Blood Run Sea Flee mono downrigger lines. The three lakers swam away when released. Here is a pic of Jim and one of the lakers and some screens of the fish/bait we saw:

Nice going...not the easiest lake to fish this time of year (the doldrums). Interesting combination of fish too

Thanks Nick. I think we are going to give it a whirl tomorrow morning.Les

Sweet! ED.....tell her you deserve a reward....no...you already have too much fishing equipment Nice going man and nice report too felt like I was right there. Les

What kind of depth out there now?

Nice one ....those ole lampreys are at it too I see.

If you already have the recessed gimbals angled to the back here are some serious rod holders I've been using some of them for about 15 or20 years and never a problem with my Seth Green rigs , dipseys, wire ....you name it....The recessed part has to be angled toward the back for them to set up right on your boat though. Another nice thing is you can pop them in and out for use on another boat etc. and they never come out on their own (in my boat at least.). These are actually $25 cheaper than mine which I bought years ago on the Cape. http://www.wholesalemarine.com/stainless-steel-outrigger-rod-holder.html?utm_medium=cse&utm_source=nextag They are fixed position but on my boat at least they are exactly the right angle and height