Gill-T Hooker on Cayuga?

[Gill-T]

First trip ever to Cayuga. Spending the week with family enjoying the light switch trip into summer from a cold crapy spring. Water temps on Saturday was 62 degrees. Today it is 73 degrees. I am really enjoying this lake!  Dock fishing for kids, tubing, hiking the area state parks, Bass are spawning but pickerel and giant perch around AND....  great trolling for trout!  The lake is just setting up. I am trolling over deep water near Dean’s Cove for three hours each morning and have been clobbering suspended lakers with occasional rainbows and sub-legal Atlantic’s. Flasher/fly down deep on center rigger, otherwise all spoons. Slide divers are stealing the show. 1.8 mph downspeed  with R&R superlites on rigger outdowns and Northport Nailer Wild Thing spoons on divers. As the water has warmed considerably, we are using ice cooled water in our fish box to revive the lethargic ones for release. What a great fishery!  The graph looks like Lake Ontario with bait balls and big hooks all over. 

[justtracytrolling]

Nice report!  The finger lakes are definitely special...and very family friendly.  Water temp broke 80 degrees here today.  

[Gill-T]

Water temp is 75 degrees. We fished close to our rental up North near Verick. The goal today was to catch a brown. We set up at the North rim and played around in the 100’ zone. Tons of bait and hooks. No Browns but we quickly realized we could not stay out long. Warmer surface water at this end made fish revival difficult. We pulled lines at 8:00 with 5 of 6 lines dragging lakers, a undersized rainbow and an undersized Atlantic. We headed down the center Northbound over the north rim towing stickbaits for smallmouth but only got a pickerel. As usual back to the dock for breakfast by 9. I forgot to mention the great carp fishing at night. More pics. 

Lures for rainbows was a R&R alderton-type dodger Dave is offering towing a Warrior flutter lite spoon. The other two spoons are northport wild things. 

Edited July 5, 2019 by Gill-T

[Frogger]

Great report and pics. If you get a chance get some seinkos throw them around the docks.


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[Gill-T]

The delayed spring has bass on their beds. 10’ fow you can look down and see open shell beds carved out of bottom weeds. Every night DARK largemouth come into the shallows to pluck a few gobies before heading back to their beds. Tons of bass rigs around and I have yet to see anyone catch a bass.  First night here I took a kayak up to the next dock and caught a three pounder on a bladed jig. Have not caught another since lol. Yes, I have tried Senkos. 

[Gill-T]

Back home with lots of memories made. Cayuga Lake......all rainbows and Unicorns.