Cayuga 8/2

[hermit]

In a nutshell... today was rough for me. It was the toughest laker bite I've had all year! Spent the first 45 minutes casting for browns with nothing going on, didn't even see marks in the areas I tried (and had previous luck.) Then visited I think 8 good laker areas over the next few hours with very little to show. It's okay, just happy to be out, been a very busy month and fishing chances haven't come easy, but I've made time in August so that's good.

First fish I lost at the surface, good size probably 8+ lbs. Next two were under 3 lbs each and they counted. By now it's 8:30. I found plenty of fish but could not get them to hang out with me. At least a bazillion looks, short strikes, and rod benders but only managed to get one more into the net around 9:30. Nice fish another ~8lbs. Maybe two bazillion lookers. 9:30-10:30 was smokin' hot if you like mangled soft plastics and hit and runs. I had countless fish follow the jig for 30-40 feet, even coming way out of temp to 20 feet down but very few solid grabs. Should've rigged up a stinger but I left my big tackle box at home, whoops. I've been using Gamakatsu B10S Stinger hooks, can stick it through the plastic which isn't really an option with a treble.

Anyway, I saw a lot of topwater action early, bass were on the feed. Maybe that would have been a good idea instead of looking for the browns- actually given the way the laker fishing turned out anything else would have been a good idea! I sure hope somebody had better luck than I did today. Can't complain though, back at it tomorrow maybe with a different plan.

[ioiosoiwork]

..........@ least you caught fish !.......hows that bottom pour furnace treating you ?, any better ?

[hermit]

Marty, yeah I had a couple productive hours last weekend, made a few jigs at last. I'm going to send you an email in a bit. Tough trip, like the pics though!

Let's blame the moon as FLXTroutman was hinting at I'm thinking the afternoon was probably better... but I fish when I can not always when the moon says I should!

[gonefishing71]

well the night bite wasn't any better.... started at AES and hit 3 more spots on the way back to myers

fished from 5:30 to 8:00 had 4 tail pullers no solid hookups

marked a lot of fish...just could not put anything out they wanted

[BrookTrout]

Sounds OK to me, at least you got a few and had steady action.

[hermit]

Yeah, you're right, three is miles better than nothing... just been spoiled I guess, Cayuga has been fishing very well for the last few months.