Billy V Cayuga report May 26, 27, 28

[Billy V]

May 26th - We had some longtime friends join us for an evening troll on Saturday. We used to fish with Matt & Kelly all the time before kids so tonight was a treat - we were able to introduce both of their children to Cayuga Lake and trolling. Once we got all the kids settled down we headed out of Myers at about 4:30pm and pointed her north towards Ross Point. We set up in 70FOW and trolled up to Lansing Station and all the way back to Myers and never left 60-70 FOW. The lake trout were there in numbers and were more than willing to entertain us. Best set ups for us were Walker Deeper Divers out 150 and 180 pulling a Green E-Chip/Sigg's Rigs Green Hypnotist and a Dalmation Spinny/Sigg's Rigs Blue Dolphin. Hot spoons fished off the Cannon's were DW SS 42nd Spoon and Dave's Salmon Slapper down 52' and 60' over 60-70 FOW. We only ran a 2 diver/3 rigger set up to keep it simple for the kids but those 5 rods were rarely in the water all at the same time. We fished for about 3 hours and had a ball. It was good to know that we had the lakers there in our hip pocket but we were going to be looking for silvers in the morning!

May 27th - Jay, William, Benjamin and I headed out of Myers at 5:30am and pointed her south to Portland Point in search of some browns and atlantics, and boy did we hit the jackpot! We doubled right off the bat in 90 FOW just south of the salt mine and Ben landed a beautiful atlantic and William lost a good one right at the back of the boat. From there on out it was a steady diet of atlantics and a couple of decent browns. We made the troll down towards Bolton Point but the further south we went the slower the action was so we spun her around and headed back north. Once we got back over our first waypoints the rods started going again. On our second pass through Ben (with a major assist from Jay!) landed our biggest atlantic of the year - just shy of 9lbs. We kept circling our waypoints and kept taking fish till it slowed around 9am and then we trolled over to the west side and fished our way up past crowbar with only a couple of small lakers to show for it. Hot baits for the silvers were spoons fished off the Cannons at 25' and 35' in 70-120 FOW: NK Die Hard, DW SS Midnight Special and Gator all took multiple shots. The biggest fish of the day came on a firetiger J-9 Rapala fished off of a 2 color core - something William had picked out not 5 minutes earlier. Water temp was 54 degrees on the surface and 48 down 25'.

May 28th - Today we were joined by Buck, Peter, Jim, and Paul for a morning trip. Buck is the CFO of Chick-fil-A and they were in town to celebrate Peter's graduation from Cornell. What better way to celebrate than by getting out on the lake! We had our fingers crossed that the atlantics and browns from yesterday were still there so we pointed her south at 5:15am and set up right on yesterday's way points. We managed two small atlantics on our first troll south - one 20" and the other a throw back. The water had definitely changed from the day before - we had 63 degrees on top and 58 degrees down 20'. To top it off, there was a ton of debris in the water that just wasn't there yesterday. The further south we went the worse it got so we looped around and went back up through our waypoints again but we just couldn't keep our gear from fouling. We gave it some time but finally decided that we needed to get out of there so we trolled back up to Myers and found a ton of hooks in 90-120 FOW right off the point but we couldn't get them to go no matter what we threw at them. Bummer. At about 9am we pulled gear and ran up to our laker spot from Saturday night and set up in 70FOW - we had to get these guys some bites. As soon as we got set up there the rods started popping. Walker Deeper Divers out 120 and 150 pulling a Green Dot Spinny/Sigg's Rigs Gangster and a White Spinny/Siggs' Rigs Billy V Glow Ghost each took multiple shots as did a NK Die Hard and a DW SS Lazer Glow Spook fished off of the Cannon's and 65' and 55'. Our 10 color core pulling a DW SS Green Alewife also took a fish. We did very well on our troll north through our laker spot but it slowed to a pick on the troll south. We were just about to turn around and go back through it again on a north troll when we checked the satellite weather and saw a couple of major storm cells bearing down on us. The guys decided that they had had enough fun so we pointed it south and ran back to port and just beat the rain. We lost about 40 minutes of our trip to the storm but still managed a decent box of lakers and the one atlantic for them and they got to experience the highs and lows of Cayuga Lake all in one trip.

Congratulations on graduating from Cornell Peter - and good luck at the University of Alabama in your new role as an economics professor!

[W.W.IV.]

Looks like you and your friends had a great weekend and got some dandy fish to boot.

[Reel Doc]

Bill

Thamk you for the in depth report. I learn more about what I'm not doing properly just reading your reports. I for one am glad to have you back on Cayuga this year.

Greg

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[Billy V]

Greg,

Glad the reports are helping you - that's what they're all about!

[rshubuck]

Awesome report Bill and Nice LL

[vogel451]

Nice report Bill, Grats on the 9lb LL! Thats a Pig!! Hey stop over and check out the boat with the new cannon rod holders you suggested on it. Its really coming together. Thanks!

[143447]

Incredible job in there..awesome LL

Thanks for the great report!!

[Billy V]

I'll stop over tomorrow to check out the boat. Can't wait to see those holders on your Penny!

[Jonboy Walton]

Nice report...Nice to hear all the good news...as a guy from PA, I'm envious of you guys from NY who can be fishing in minutes...2hrs of driving is definately worth it though.