Cayuga 4/12

[EarlyRiser]

Went out for the first time this year. Launched at Meyers at about 6:45am and fished until about 12:30 when the damn sailboats ran us out of the south end. Wow, they make it tough to have planer boards out when they are out there in the tight quarters of the south end in any kind of numbers!

 

We fished from Bolton Point down south to the inlet and the trip can be summed up in two words -- Windy and Slow. The winds were whipping from the south, so there was quite a bit of debris up near Portland Point and the bay at the south end of Meyers, but not too much debris at the extreme south end. We had to fight the wind through most of the trip -- especially if we were north of the drop-off at the south end. Fishing was slow -- we only caught one fish -- a barely legal brown on a black and gold stick. Water surface temps varied from 36.9 degrees when we launched at Meyers to just over 44 degrees at the extreme south end near the inlet. The water didn't hit 40 degrees until we were in about 15' of water just north of the sailing center. We didn't target any lakers, just fished the top 20' of water with stick baits and a 4 color lead core. There was a lot of brown water down in the south end and that was where we picked up the one fish, but by the time we tried to head back through that same area about a half-dozen sailboats were coming at us from every angle and we had to make extreme course changes that don't work well with the program we were running. Rather than frustrate ourselves we decided to call it a day.

 

On the plus side, it was way better than being at work, it was nice and warm, and no major troubles with the boat.

 

Kyle

[bandrus1]

we were out there in the blue boat... we hit 3 browns and one LL all were tucked down in the south west corner in 7-10 feet of water

[EarlyRiser]

interesting -- never made it down there that far into that corner -- nice work. We were in the Trophy with the green awning (there were two Trophies down there Sunday)

[bandrus1]

yea we didnt expect much but needed to change the program and we found 44 degree water in the muddy stuff and then 39 degrees where it cleared up... hit all the fish on the temp break way way down in the corner in the red lighthouse area

 

all had lamprey on them