WildLaker607

Lewis I’ve seen reeldocs posts and I don’t care who you are or who reeldoc is

The lakers like the cold they are usually below thermocline

Please don’t hold fish by the lips if releasing them. If you need to pick them up hold the tail in one hand and support the belly with the other

Sheldrake is a good area in July you are likely to run into Lakers and there is a chance at salmon or other species. Wind depending but I usually like the area north of sheldrake where as you said the contours are farther apart. It’s kind of a broad cove. Early morning might be shallower fish but as the sun comes on the water generally have to move slightly deeper. Usually in July thermocline may be set up. Depths paddle around in the cove/ near the point would be 30-100 ft. Don’t get married to one spot. Paddle until you see bait or fish marks or both then start fishing. Some fish you can’t see on finder so looking for a bait school is a good bet they’ll be nearby. If you see a solid mark up high in the water it might be a non-laker and drop your jig right on it’s head watching the finder you might get a reaction strike. Taughannock is a good area too, same kind of deal fishing as sheldrake. with a drop off out front and coves on north/south side of point good for fishing. Taugh sounds like an easy launch for a kayak. And depending on wind you can go to either the north or south parking lot to launch and get on the downwind side of the point. With jigging it’s better if you can try to slow down your drift so that you can keep line more vertical and stay on top of bait longer good luck

The full guide is out now I am relieved there are no changes to the trout in the finger lakes and tribs. But I hope people aren’t confused by the publicized statewide changes as applying to finger lakes because I have seen people fishing in a closed creek this winter and told them it’s closed, they didn’t know

The section for finger lakes says there are changes for warm water species. The section for region 7 says that all lakes and streams will be under statewide regulations. It’s not clear until they publish the full regs whether finger lakes tribs upstream to the first barrier still have special regs https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/2022regchanges.pdf

Thanks Spoonfed, it was amazing to see it in person

Woah that’s huge whaler1, where did you catch that one?

The fish was not in very good shape after such a long fight, it has made a couple great meals already