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Kevin I thought 70ft was deep .....I would have never guessed they would ever be any deeper than that. 125 ft is amazing!!!

Kevin Bass 65-75Ft WOW. Were they stacked up good or spread out? Whats the water temp in the river? I've been fishing BRB and Sandy Pond today...77-79 deg in lake and in the Pond.

Kevin Nice Fish!! Jigging or trolling?? How deep are you getting the eyes? Are they mixed in with the Bass?

Nice fish.....Big south wind for a while this morning aye?

Kevin I was catching Sun Fish and a few gills mixed in, one right after another last weekend on Butterflied with similar technique. The fish were suspended from 9-22 ft over 25 ft of water. I just threaded half of a 2in gulp minnow on a #8 glow hook and a couple shots. Used the side imaging to find them, there were several schools, some with over 200 fish in each. No need for live bait and the gulp stays on the hook for several fish.

Like others have said 1) Fight like hell for the first 30-45 seconds then have nothing by the time they are near the boat 2) No need to target them as they are caught while trolling, jigging, casting and rigging 3) There is a good population on Oneida lake as well as Lake Ontario 4) Warning!!!! try to un-hook them while still in the water (they **** all over the place)

Jcar585 on the bass and especially instilling C&R with the boy. Great example!!!!

Kevin I reversed ya on Butterfield today. I got skunked on bass but found piles of gills and Sunnies. One right after another, there were literally hundreds of them. Couldn't get one hit from a bass though...Tried topwater, spinnerbait, Dives-to 6 and 10, Jigworm and Jig/Craw. Zippo. What was the average size of your bass?

+++ Couldn't agree more

Chas0218 Yeah.......I know!!!! Like this one????? I was by myself so the picture is not that great....a little tough to take a good one from your cell....this gal was a hog! How are the launches at Isthmus harbor and Hidden Harbor? How much $$$. Thanks.

Mhtrapper The only time I have seen a lot of boats out there was on opening day weekend and about half that amount the weekend after. The last couple times out there have only been a couple boats fishing besides myself. Many times in the late fall I was literally the only boat out there, but I fished up to the weekend before Thanksgiving and I was having a bonanza with bass/pike but it was cold! Frankly though, without a lot of explanation, I'm not a boat chaser. I am willing and want to pay my dues to earn the opportunity to semi consistently locate eyes here. If I lived closer to the lake and could get out more than weekends it likely wouldn't be as bad for me as it's been. For one, while things may look fine in the forecasts, a lot of times the forecast calls for 5-10mph winds and when you get out there it picks up to 15-20 or more and I have to move to protected areas. This area seems to take about 10 minutes to go from manageable waters to very rough. This has proved to be a blessing in disguise at times as I've found some great SM bass locations getting forced into protected spots. It seems I learn something new almost every time I go out so the process is moving forward. However, I've fished a lot of what you'd call "classic" structure oriented spots out there and got zippo for eyes, but again, REALLY big bass and plenty of them. The search goes on!

Bettie anne Thanks for the help! If you see a grey Lund MrPike 16 with 90 Merc say hello!

to you Mark

BP I noticed that also and it's a bit upsetting fankly. For walleyes anywhere I release anything over 20in. It would be nice to see the Charter Boats practicing what they preach, especially since the population decline from Zebra's.

I fished Guffin Bay yesterday from 10am till 6:30pm. Trolling plugs and spinners. Got skunked on Walleye again. I wanted to hit the north shoreline from Cline's Pt to Shangri la as I have heard this area is good but the wind came up and forced me back to the south shore. Picked up a bunch of Perch and small Smallies trolling the weedline as well as a 22in Drum jigging off Marsh pt. but another zippo trip on eyes. If someone in the know would kindly lend a hand here it would be much appreciated as I'm obviously not fishing the right areas. Trolling spinners in 15-30ft of water for a combination of 12 hours between the last two weekends should have produced at least one fish IMO. I'm lost!!!!

Here is the Northern I was talking about. I'm not complaining about this fisherey at all as I have caught my largest Walleye, SM and Northern here. They are as follows 29in Walleye (out of Black River, not the bay), 22in SM (pig) in the bay. and approximately 40 in northern (pictured) in the bay

Gators This place is tough on first year fisherman for walleye IMO. I'm going to try the outer edges of Chaumont Bay heading out into the lake. I'll post a report but frankly my confidence is not too high. I went to Oneida last week just to make sure I wasn't suddenly the worst Walleye fisherman in the world LOL! I was reassured, catching fish in the heat of the day in 15 ft of frothed up boat waves with Jet ski's flying by....... I think Henderson, Black and Chaumont require you to be on that water more than a weekend fisherman or have had several years in the area or be a pro or close in order to reliable locate and catch fish consistently here. However, I'm willing to put in the time for the opportunity to contact 5-12lb fish...

Silver Shad DT-20's ......Perch color spinners off 3OZ. bottom bouncer.

This is the first season of fishing Black River Bay for me after fishing Oneida for years. I fished the north side of Black River Bay on Memorial day afternoon just after the storm. From Pillar to Everliegh. I marked some good fish in 27-32 but couldn't get a taker except a couple perch. I was longlining Trolls to 20's with snaps and Bottom Bouncing a spinner/Trigger-X. I wish I had a camera to check if the marks were Walleye or Pike. I've caught a ton of Pike/Bass in BRB but the Eyes are really tough for me to figure out. Out in the main basin (60 FOW) There are still large schools of baitfish showing up on the graph but the large schools of heavy marks I was getting a couple weeks ago have diminished by about 70%. I don't know what they were because I didn't get a hit out of those schools. Most of these large marks were topping at 36 going down to 55 over 60FOW. I did manage a 40in Northern out there....weird got her 20ft down over 60......Maybe thats what those schools of large marks were???? Again, Im having a tough time on Wallyeys here...for the amount of time I've spent trolling I feel like I shouldn't be empty handed on eyes out there frankly! Please note the date on these images and again, these large marks have diminished significantly but there are still some there. Again, the fish I marked on Memorial day were near bottom between 27-32 but were not taking my offerings....perhaps the storm put them off???