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Thanks Dan! I laughed as well after he showed it to me. We marked a pretty good bait pod in the cove after deep run park in 110fow. I wish we found it sooner because every time we went through it we got a hit.

It would have been nice Les! This would of put me in first for the LT division.

My buddies and I had plans to hit up lake O out of iBay to try some night bite action but again the forecast was wrong and the lake never died down. Instead we decided to try our luck on the north end of Canadaigua. I typically have no luck at night on the finger lakes so expectations were low but the beer was cold. Got lines in at 645pm right at the 100fow mark in the middle of the lake and followed that ridge all the way to the east side boating 2 lakers on watermelon spin n glos. Once the sun set behind the hills the green glo spin n glo got hot bringing in 3 more including this 12.56lb beauty that took almost 12min to get in the boat. (I will post the video on my YouTube at some point)

This is a great thread with lots of insights and opinions. Like most complex problems the cause is a combination of things. All the finger lakes have zebra mussels but most of them still have baitfish. Cayuga, Seneca, Owasco, Canadaigua to name a few. Let’s not forget there was a major baitfish kill in the late 80s combined with the zebra muscles, chemical runoff and major development that most likely prevent the recovery of the lake. I chalk it up to the fragility of our ecosystem and any finger lake that has a bait kill due to a virus will most likely never recover

I had to get a pic myself. It was dwarfing the other browns on the board in the cooler. Amazing.. Fishstix I had the same thoughts as It would of snapped my line as I only run 12lb leaders on my spoons. I also don’t typically run mags on the finger lakes if that’s what he used? If my son was netting that fish he might of got pulled in. Lol..

Durand beach is loaded with dead bait from end to end. I would imagine it’s the same to Webster and then Greece

The tail is one clue but not the best indication if the LL is more matured the tail could square out. The best way is to look into their mouth at the teeth.

Launched out of deans at 515 and shot right across and went south to long point. We setup in 100fow and had the boards out with a 1oz drop weight, riggers were stacky at 45 and 65. Picked up a nice rainbow on the boards using a Berkeley hit stick orange right away and then things went silent for about an hour until the 45 stacked went of and a rainbow went tail dancing across the water. things were quiet again so we packed up the boards and set divers to 50 and set the riggers stacked at 50 and 70 picked up 4 more Lakers before we called it a day. One on a musky torpedo diver with a flasher spin n glo back 200, 2 on a green dolphin down 70 on a pro troll flasher, one on cowbells down 90. Hopefully I will see some of you Saturday or Sunday at the canadaigua derby. I am bring the wife and youngest with me.

Yeah!

What are double glos?

Watermelon has been good ..

I took a 1/2 day on Thursday and decided to hit up lady Keuka since I was going to be there Sunday for the FLTA and wanted to test a few spots. Launched from the state park in the dark and shot down to the hammondsport basin and had lines in by 515 out in front of snug harbor. I immediately picked up 2 small Lakers down 80 on green NBK stingers behind spin doctors. I shot up to the bluff after about an hour of nothing and put out some watermelon cowbells with some homemade spin n glos and got 2 more in about 30 min. I then pulled up and hit up the state park and picked up 1 and 1 miss on cowbells. loaded up the boat and drove back home and was back to work by 1pm.

Was there a lot of boats out? Saw a thread that the bite died down hard with all the boat pressure.

Thanks for the report Dan!

I need that 27h to make a matching pair. I am OCD like that. Having one has been bugging me. Pm sent

There is currently a massive mudline out in front of the genny west to ibay. I think it’s from the dredging of the river? It’s so pronounced right now it looks unnatural. I will drive by on the way to pick up my kids and get a pic.

Nice fish! were you running the cores on planers?

Last Night I was on the fence with the rain and gusty wind forecast but I am glad I went! Right off the bat we caught a 8lb 7oz brown on the planers right off the drop off of the south end. We stayed there for another hour with no luck and switched to a deeper program and went up the east Side and marked a good amount of baitfish but no takers. We shuttled across the lake just south of Bristol harbor, headed south and put the cowbells with some homade spin n glos at 102 on the riggers and bumped the bottom and picked up a near 6lb 5oz Laker. About 15 min later another hit and as we got the fish to the boat I jerked the line with my hand to get it in the net and it jumped off. Yeah I am grounded.. aways great to catch fish on your own spin n glos. Blue, green and watermelon were the hottest.

Yeah! Way to stick it out!

I am hoping this week we get some warm rain which should help for Sunday.

Woke up early on the water at 530am out at 10:30 am Started in 50 fow on the northend with led cores out 4 and 6 colors. Riggers set to 45 feet down. Fished for an hour and caught nothing. Marked pretty much nothing even when we went out to 150 fow. Lake temp is 45 on surface and 42 at 50 fow. shot down to the south end and marked fish deeper and target them at 70 feet down and stacked rods at 50. Led cores were tried at all types colors. 0 fish today and not even a release. Blarg I am going to run 4 planers on Monday and target more of the skinny water.