Last weekend i had to pull the boat due to water levels at my dock. That doesn’t mean the lake season is over. It just means the boat is sitting on the trailer ready to go.
This weekend I’ll finish removing thr salmon tackle. Rods and tackle for brown trout and walleye are ready to go.
The boat being on the trailer means we can fish Lake Ontario for brown trout, Oneida Lake for walleye or Cayuga Lake for lakers, browns, atlantics and rainbows. I will be fishing until the launches freeze so if you want to get out give me a call. Don’t worry about being cold the full enclosure keeps everyone comfortable and ill bring the heater just in case.
Saturday I took a break from deer hunting to take Russell and his son Shawn on a Cayuga Lake fishing trip. Russell has booked the trip as Shawn’s birthday present.
When Russell booked the trip, he said they wanted to jig for lake trout. I told him we would plan for that, but I’d bring some trolling gear just in case. I knew if we found the lakers grouped up, we would get them. However, after 4 spots, we knew we needed to go searching.
We started with two 10 color lines out that they could hold onto and yank every now and again, giving the baits extra action. This is like mixing trolling and jigging all in one. I wasn’t long before we had our first laker. I thought perfect this technique will get them and we will be good to go.
It turned out that was not true. After a while with no more bites, I put the down riggers out and both a 3 and 4 color lead core. We now had 6 rods in the water and the bites started coming.
At the end of the day we had taken fish on every rod out and Shawn had sore arms. His smile tells the story for sure. We ended with 7 lakers, a brown, a rainbow, and at Atlantic giving us the Cayuga Lake grand slam. We also lost about 7 other fish throughout the day.
The moral of this story is always have a plan B and C just in case plan A doesn’t pan out. I am offering trips on Cayuga Lake all winter. Stay warm inside the heated enclosure of the Hewescraft.
If you follow this blog or my social media sites you know I am always fishing different bodies of water. This week is no exception.
Sunday I hauled the Lund down to Cayuga Lake to fish with my friends Mark and Jamie. While the fishing wasn’t what we had hoped for it was still good. Mark caught his first ever lake trout and reminded me that catching seven trout and missing a few others isn’t a bad day.
Today I had a charter on Oneida Lake. I was hoping to send Bob, Eric and John home with a limit of walleye but mother nature had other plans. After 2 passes trolling we had 7 in the boat and needed just 2 more. As we were setting the lines for the third pass we noticed a storm moving along the south shore. Checking the radar we realized we better keep a close eye on it. As we were discussing our plan the first bolts of lightening were seen and the scramble to pull lines and get to the launch begain. We made it back before the storm hit and it was very clear we made the right move. A big thanks to Mike from Full Tank Charters for backing my truck in and speeding up the take out process as everyone was trying to get off the water at the same time.
If you are looking to get out for trout, salmon, or walleye give me a call.
This weekend I had 3 trips on Cauyga lake. I decided I would camp near the lake rather then drive back and forth each day.
I stayed at Sned-Acres Family Campground. If you are looking for a campground in the Finger Lakes region I would recommend this one. It is a family run clean quiet campground. The owners are very nice and accommodating
The fishing was not easy this weekend. We had to work hard for what we got. The weather was not in our favor as it was far from stable. Friday I took Adam and Chrissy out for a four hour afternoon charter. We trolled a variety of depths and baits looking for silver fish. We no luck after 2 hours I switch baits around and we managed to land four lake trout before their trip was over.
Saturday morning Walt and Brooks joined me. We started where I had found the lakers the day before. Only to find they were not willing to bite. Weather was nasty at times but we fished through it trolling north. We found one good laker that wanted to play. They were fishing with me the next day and staying at the same campground so I offered to take a break and go back out in the afternoon. They decided that sounded like a good idea.
We headed back out in the afternoon and caught another laker and two rainbows in about 2 hours of fishing in some less than desirable weather. We probably could’ve caught more but the steaks back at the campground were calling our names.
Sunday morning the weather was supposed to be good and we found a good pile of fish and bait the night before. We were excited to get back out in the morning. Well the weather man was wrong and the fish had moved. We worked very hard fishing everywhere from 60 to 325 feet of water. We found 3 atlantics and one big lake trout that wanted to play before it was time to go.
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