Lily 2
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As the dust has finally settled some I am finally at a point I can reflect on what occurred to me. The previous thred started by Captain Mark Lewis was about what happened to me at the beginning of the month. My boat was cleaned out in the middle of the night by 4 individuals dressed in all black and wearing gloves and face masks. They stole a life time worth of work from me and even stole my garbage bags to help load my stuff in to to carry it all. The list of things they took is long but the other post has had people sharing market place listing and I don't want innocent people being accused of things. I had 4 spoon pads taken consisting of over 200 spoons various makes and sizes. 11 rod and reel combo's taken. The reels are all connectors or Mada pros some pen warfare and a few old versions of the cabelas depthmaster reels. All the reels were 45s and 30 series reels they also were spooled with short cores and short coppers and some with braid. The rods were all ugly stick gx3 rods at 7ft 6 inch. If anyone is interested these rods in a medium ligjt action are awsome for fingerlakes lake trout with both down gingers and junk lines. My diver set ups were also lifted consisting of connector 30 reels with wire on them the rods are diawa great lakes with twili tips. Also every fly set up every spin n glo / gambler rig set up was taken with over 80 of each. The out pouring of support and generosity from the marina and other fisherman has been humbling to say the least. We are still operating and trying to put this behind us. It has been like starting from scratch half way threw the season. I have learned over the years giving up is not an option and grinding it out only makes you stronger. Or first charter a day after the theft we.did with 6 borrowed fishing poles and 10 spoons and some borrowed Flys and we successfully bought fish to the boat. I thank everyone for keeping an eye out but I would hate to see someone get coined a theif for selling what is rightfully theirs. I am watching all versions of online forms for selling things.and will know immediately if the stuff being sold is mine. Thank you everyone and keep on fishing tight lines and we will see you on the water
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Lansing harbor. has an excellent mechanic an will do everything you are asking for.
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Just giving everyone a heads up the fleas are starting to become a pain on Cayuga. The 65 degree surface Temps on Sunday have increased to 73 on Tuesday bringing along with it the fleas. Weed mats are also scattered lake wide. Time for heavy lines. Water clarity is normal for this time of year as the lake is starting its transition. Good luck out there tight lines
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Spent my summers in the camp ground behind Kidders market. My grandfather helped establish the camp ground with the Havlans. In 1985 I would have been about 6. Unfortunately I don't remember you but I do remember Bunny and maybe your grandmother. My last name is Miner. The docks down near the cottages had my grandfather's old boat hoist on it the remnants of his spot was there until the new owners re-did the dock
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I'm not that old, The guy I spoke of was in his 80s when I was a child back in the early 80s. He was friends with my grandfather and lived in the farm house across the street from the old kidders market that is now an event center. Everyone called him Bunny
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After reading this post and speaking to some locals the information that I was able to come up with are its an old log barge. The wreck is known to some people and in conversation they knew it's exact location. Back in the 1800 many Salt and log barges went down in Cayuga. Many of them were not documented because of the time period. When growing up on the lake there was a gentleman I knew that actually used to operate the ferry between kidder landing and Frontenac. I only wish he was still alive so I could pick his brain. He was an old salt.
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Yes they are my son is my mate who is in the green shirt was hollering almost as load as the kid who caught the fish -
Had a great Groupe of folks out today and we caught a new boat record for Cayuga Lake. The fish came on a mag dipsy on a 1 setting out 220 ft. The fish tipped the scales at little over 16.5 lbs. And measured a.little over 38 inches. Best of all a 12 year old reeled the fish in. He was in complete amazement when we pulled the fish over the back of the boat then I told him in 30 years of fishing Cayuga lake that was.the biggest Lake Trout I had ever seen the lake give up. That was the Icing on the cake. He literally started screaming. Pretty sure they heard us back in Ithaca.
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Fishing was a little slower than it has been. Finding clean water to fish continues to be the biggest challenge because of weeds. Silvers were in the top 40 to 60 and Lakers were from 60 on down. Good luck go get em.
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Fleas were terrible again today. I don't know very much about cortland flea ficker line but the blood run stuff didn't and hasn't worked for me. 5 lb mono also has had no effect. The only thing that is working is checking your gear every 15 minutes or so that I have found
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Fished today the lakenis definitely clearing up from the green milky mess it was for most of July. Was north of Sheldrake some today and that was where the most weed mat problems were. Fleas on the other hand are a big issue. No 50 lb mono isn't keeping them off no flea flicker line isn't working when they are thick enough to stick to downrigger cable nothing that fits on a reel is going to keep them off. Wire divers are even clogging at the roller tip. Only solution is to clear lines often. Good luck out there be safe tight lines everyone -
Very true Les I have never really had much luck with all of the flea lines and heavy diameter line. When the fleas are bad they stick to everything and make a mess of everything. As far as it effecting the fishing I have never recorded any change in fishing that I could say was because of fleas. Fleas are temperature tolerant so I'm not sure how it affects trout and salmon species that don't spend alot of time in 70+ degree water. The effect they have is it makes it tough to keep rigs in the water for long periods of time. If your stuff isn't in the water it's not catching fish.
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Just giving everyone a heads up the alge bloom seems to have cleared up. The lake is back to its normal colors and clarity. Weeds are still a nusance but have also cleared up after we have had some hard winds over the last week. We now have replaced those head aches with fleas. Fleas were terrible all weekend. Sticking to everything including downrigger cable's. Heavy mono did nothing over the weekend. Be prepared to check your gear often for a while. Even had fleas gumming up wire divers today. Good luck all fishing remains great tight lines and be safe out there.
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The farthest north I have been in a couple of weeks was between Sheldrake and Long Point. More of the same weed mats and weeds its not unmissable but definitely a nuisance.
