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thanks nitro...hopefully i get into them there is an awesome point/deep hole surrounded by a nice weedned right out in front not 30 yards from shore where we do well on them in the open water season im hoping we can get a few...u gonna be out there by any chance? just look for the guy with a few tip ups passing the tmie waiting for flags by casting bucktails with my musky rod wishing it were open water season haha

well I was planning on drilling right out in front of my aunts...she lives just past the launch on the east side, think there is adequate ice there?

heading to conesus this saturday to try and get into some esox in front of my aunts house which is the next cove south of the launch...anyone gonna be out there this weekend? Im new to ice fishing so I dont know where the pike or tigers are going to be this late into the winter, have they moved into open water relating to any weeds that are left? deep? shallow? Any input would be nice and if youre going to be out there let me know!

I am putting in for the day off for work so hopefully I will be able to get it off and make it out there

yeah but the 20,000 fingerlings stocked in 96 is faulty i dont think they ever had a stocking program for oneida though...i wish the dec would do more for the pike thoug in that lake like try and provide a spawning habitat, with all the perch, alewives, and gizzard shad in there youd have excessive forage to have a real trophy fishery if they could reproduce better on their own

yeah i was thinking this must be some faulty information...but they are in the seneca river as well and that connects to the oneida, oswego, and canal by way of the 3 rivers junction so im sure it is possible they are in there in very limited numbers

i was reading in a western ny fishing map guide about oneida that said the dec stocked 20,000 fingerlings in there in 96?? i didnt know any tigers were in there does anyone else know this to be true or false?

Im lookin to get a nice low profile high capacity baitcaster to put on my 7' med heavy shimano rod for a nice downsize/piking set up...lookin to put like 30lb braid on it so I can use it for the likes of conesus or anywhere else where pike is the main target...ive got all abu garcia round reels and have never had any issues with them in fact im obsessed with my ambassadeur record reel (its amazing) but im leaning kind of towards the curado bc it has a higher gear ratio and will burn smaller bucktails and spinnerbaits...anybody have these or can give me some insight on them?

Thanks for the headsup nitro...I guess now we are going to try cross if it is safe enough hopefully we dont get skunked like we did last time we were very envious watching you guys pull tigers through the ice while we sat on our asses drinking beer

never heard of it...where is it? how big is the res and how long have they been stocking it with tigers?

Tiger I dont know if we are going to get down there on sunday or not my other buddy kind of wanted to try oneida or cross since he lives right in brewerton but idk how safe cross lake is in the winter...to be honest im just looking forward to open water season so i can get out my round reels and start tossing super believers and big in lines haha

hey tiger I was the other guy from canandaigua that came over when you got the big one! small world

yeah i know fish get killed and its of legal size and he has every right to do so but it just gets on my nerves that people like this get the opportunity at a fish like that accidentally but thats fishing!

sounds good to me zach i will be doing that im looking to get out as much as possible between waneta, conesus, otisco, and cross

i saw this on nyfisherman.net...even though it was 7 years ago it kind of sucks that such a nice fish was wasted on a walleye fisherman (no offense) so of course this thing was not returned to the water but instead made a trip to the local taxidermist...there are guys who spend years on the water for a fish like this and this **** happens ot stumble on one and the first thing he does is kill it

As far as serious muskie fishing goes i am still relatively new at it...mostly just tigers and northerns due to liited access to decent pure bred waters. Ive been looking into local areas other than the 1000 islands and chataqua since I live in the finger lakes region and started to dig up some stuff on waneta and lamoka...so far from what ive read is that its got mostly small ones with a few shockers here and there and is over fished with local scumbag rednecks who wish to kill the fish...Ive also read that it does get some of the fish from the chataqua fishery and have read many peoples responses on the board in regards to having other bodies of water stocked with pure strain muskies and possibly having the size limit increased on waneta to further protect populations. what would need to be done in order to get any sort of consideration on this from the dec? obviously its much more than writing a letter to your local dec but i thought id ask and im sure captain larry might be able to provide some or any insight on the matter and since its the off season it gives us something to talk about!

from what ive heard they were brought here by catfish farmers as pond cleaners down south and then when there was flooding they got into the mississippi river

im an avid fan of ctach and release but if i ever come into contact with one of these f**kers then i will go to town on each of them with a baseball bat

well it wasnt very successful for us but some guys next to us pulled a couple tigers through the one was 45' and faaaaaat.

so stay away from the narrows then? it averages anywhere from 5-10 ft through there up to the narrows right? where do most guys get into the tigers out there?

not too familiar with this lake other than it has a good norlunge population...was thinking about heading out there to ice fish the north this weekend but heard that the narrows is open water...does that mean the extreme narrowing on the south end or the narrowing on the north end? any help would be awesome

thanks Sully, now im not familiar with otisco are the narrows the narrowing on the front or the south where the lake is almost completely bypassed?

Cheers ive seen it happen several times on conesus. Whats even more disgusting is that people have been seen doing this with true breed muskies on waneta lake.

thinking about heading down there for some tiger/bass fishing...is the ice decent there? any pointers anyone can generously give me? even the slightest bit helps...thanks everyone!

too many times have i seen vacant holes with anywhere from 3-5 of these guys just left to waste. for anyone that just throws these guys on the ice to help "preserve" their panfishing or bass fishing with no intent to at least use your limit for a nice meal keep in mind that a lot of people highly enjoy fishing for them and would not want to see their populations start to decline bc some assholes dont think they belong in their panfish waters and like to waste fish. keep your no more than your limit, dont waste, and try to let the big girls go back...theyre crucial for spawning and maintaining trophy populations.