Lily 2

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

Lansing harbor. has an excellent mechanic an will do everything you are asking for.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We have been doing well with 5 colors and 100 weighted steal with silvers on planner boards. Still also picking threw lake trout with those rods also. Also.picked up.a really nice rainbow on a 300 copper last weekend. Best to let fish tell you what they're interested in. They can and will be any where right now

Questions concerning true depth fish fish hawk. My trudepth often times doesn't line up with what is displayed on my fish finder by some times feet. For example if I set my downrigger to 40 feet my fish hawk will read 50 ft true depth and my fish finder will read the weight at say 35 ft. My blow back would answer the question for the weight reading 35 feet on the sonar but how is it possible for my true depth on the fish hawk to be further than the amount of cable that I have out. Is there a way to calibrate the fish hawk my riggers are zeroed at the water line. It can be frustrating when wou are fishing out side of the sonar cone to be getting fish hawk readings that physically aren't possible. Anyone else experience this kind of issue. All of the other aspects of the fish hawk work fine as far as speed and temp

If any one stumbles upon a offshore planner board while out on the lake I lost one Sunday May 14th. It has my name and phone number written on it. I would gladly pay the shipping to get it back. Lost it on the north end of the lake near deans cove. With the wind and waves the way they were yesterday it disappeared pretty quick and by the time we got turned around we couldn't find it. I know it's a long shot but would be greatly appreciated