I’m gonna be fishing the north tip of Cayuga Saturday and the Seneca Cayuga canal pre fishing for a tournament that’s Easter weekend. 

 

 

Yesterday was NOT last Sunday, t least for me.

 

Fished from 7am-10am when the heavy rains came and chased me off the water. In those three hours I had three bites. One got off, the other was a pike, and only one fish made it to the boat, a 4lb smallmouth.

Trout and Perch are the only things biting around here. Went out Friday, Saturday and Sunday I averaged a fish an hour on all three days. I saw a big Chain Pickerel cruising around but he was real skittish.

Rain and snow melt caused a lot of flooding this weekend. The local rivers are swollen with that cold mountain runoff.

Mother nature has not been playing nice for me. We had some nice days last week, that turned lousy just about the time I got out of work each day, so I have no evening trips to report on from last week.

 

I did get out for a few hours this morning. Waited out the heaviest of the rain, which passed by 8:30am or so. I was on the water by 9. It wasn't spectacular. I put three average size smallmouth in the boat in the first hour, then they started getting off the hook on me left and right. I had enough of their nonsense and went largemouth fishing. They were not on fire. I caught two right away, one of them a decent 4.5lber, then a pike, then a bite off. It was not warming up much, and I was getting cold and wet from the steady mist in the air and called it a day around noon. Water temps are not coming up real fast. Still low to mid 40's, and we have had a lot of heavy spurts of cold rain making the water quite stained. Cold, high, dirty water is not my favorite. 

 

Family Easter stuff to do tomorrow, so no fishing for me. Hopefully I can get out a couple times after work this week if the weather doesn't pull the rug out from under me.

Saturday was a wash out. Cold and rainy day caused river flood alerts around here.

 

Easter Sunday started off with mid 40’s air temps but got into the 70’s. I was able to get a short fishing session before having to leave for Easter festivities. Got three stocked Brook Trout, all on live crawlers at a local pond. Good thing was I finally saw Bluegill cruising the banks. It won’t be long until the Bass action heats up there at least.

 

Got out on Honeyoe for about 2 hours around lunchtime on my kayak.  Had three in the first six casts.  I didn't get another one for about 30 minutes, but ended up with seven.  All on bottom presentations in 6-10 feet of water--six on a wobble head with a rage bug and one on a finesse jig.  Nothing else even got a sniff.  All of them between 1.5 and 2.5.    

On 4/8/2019 at 9:40 AM, clayton86 said:

Made it to sandy creek last Wednesday managed 2 brown trout on a lipless trying for smallies. My buddy who took me on his boat managed a brown and a stew head one on a Ned rig the other on a drop shot. We were trying to find some early bass but no luck. 3 days later our buddy went out and crushed some stud smallies same spots we got our trout judging by the pics on FB.

Might wanna watch out.  I'm pretty sure Sandy Creek is still in the "No C&R outta season" zone.

19 hours ago, RichF said:

Might wanna watch out.  I'm pretty sure Sandy Creek is still in the "No C&R outta season" zone.

Definitely isn’t I’m talking sandy creek in Monroe County I know there’s another one up north as I head to coyote hunting camp that would be in the closed zone 

The weather was perfect today. Had the day off and took advantage of it. Spent the morning fishing and the afternoon was yard work time. 

 

It was a multi species day. 13 fish, 3 Sunfish, 3 Perch, 6 Trout (all released) second time this year I would have limited out. And the last fish was a Largemouth. Nice to see some Bass action again.

 

Another great multi species day. 12 fish in total including 2 Largemouth. They are getting bigger. Caught a pounder on a Dinger.

 

Sadly it’s back to work tomorrow and back to fishing on Googan Saturday’s.

Honeoye today from 2 -5:30. Caught 11 LMB; biggest was about 3#, the rest were all the same, about 1.5# each.  Beautiful day.

Made it back to sandy creek yesterday and the day before caught 4 smallmouth both days. Wednesday got 1 on a 2.8 kietech, one on a Carolina rigged goby soft plastic, two on a lipless crank. Yesterday they all came on a Siebert Outdoors spinner bait. 

Still not on fire for me yet. This weekend is a bust. Cold, windy, woke up to snow on the ground this morning.

 

Fished a couple of evenings after work this past week. A few bites each night from a handful of average size fish was all I could come up with.

Should I be ashamed that I don't know what a stew head is?

Yesterday afternoon, the sun popped out, the wind/snow/rain let up for a little bit, and it warmed up from the mid/low 30's to the upper 40's. Against my better judgement, I went out on Silver. I expected a suck-fest, and a struggle to get bites. Lake opposite struck again. Not on fire, but better than any evening last week. From 3pm to dark I caught 9 bass. 5 largemouth and 4 smallmouth. Best was a 4+ lber of each, a couple of mid 3lbers of each, and the rest were average sized 2.5lbers. It only cost me 3 Lucky Craft Lightning Pointers.....because the pike were biting too.

6 hours ago, ww2farmer said:

Yesterday afternoon, the sun popped out, the wind/snow/rain let up for a little bit, and it warmed up from the mid/low 30's to the upper 40's.

The weather was miserable this weekend. Saturday had air temps in the 40's and 15-20 MPH winds. I did venture out and caught nothing but a chill.

 

Sunday was a busy day, rainy and chilly. The sun popped out after 5pm. I was able to get out for an hour and a half. Redeemed myself with a Brook Trout and a Perch catch.

I'm heading up to NNY this weekend and can't friggin wait.  Fishing in NOVA makes me sad.  

Went out yesterday to Honeoye from 2-6. Water was noticeably colder than last week.  Action was slow to start, talked to several fisherman out on the water; no one catching consistently, some fish here and there.  Even the flotilla of pan fishers was struggling.  Things picked up in the last few hours and I ended up catching 8 LMB (LMB were 1-2#s, nothing big but good fighters) and 2 pickerel.  The first was good size for a pickerel (posted pic on other fish species section).  Last year, I caught just a few of the toothy critters; I'm off to a faster start this year.  I started using 12# test floro for my leader last year to help prevent breakoffs in the weeds and it also helped prevent getting bit off by the 2 pickerel I landed yesterday.  

 

Saw a lot more power boats out yesterday as people are opening up their camps and getting docks in.  I'll probably be fishing Honeoye for a few more weeks until the jet ski and waterski boat activity gets crazy and then I'll be kayaking in Hemlock and Canadice. For now it's still safe and enjoyable to paddle around there.

last place I was that I enjoyed fishing was upstate NY, Onieda , Seneca, Erie Canal out of Rome.
Just getting back into it, but honestly fishing in VA sucks... everywhere , it straight up sucks.
Planning a pike/smally trip soon,,, thinking Seneca , but looks like Cayuga has more weeds.

Fishing is slowly improving at Silver. Spent 5 hours out there Thursday afternoon/evening after getting done with work early. Caught 6 smallmouth, 4 largemouth, and about double the amount of pike as bass. Had fun playing around with my new touch screen culling scale. Lunker of the day was a 4-9 smallmouth, and my best five were 18.30lbs. Not terrible, but still below expectations (for both size and numbers) for this time of year. Some of the "usual" stuff I do this time of year is pretty slow for me yet...despite water temps being about where they should be. I'm either not there when they are active, or things are just not happening yet.

Hey everyone I have a question about one of the lakes up in your area.  I live in Ohio, but my little brother lives near Syracuse and he has been fishing a small lake called Cross Lake.  I am coming up that way in July to fish with him, Cross is one place he wants to go fishing while I am there.  So my question is have any of you fished this lake and what is the best way to attack it?  I am just trying to get a better idea of what to take with me!  Thanks in advance

Silver finally fished decent today.

 

BR member kbeeb374 hopped on my boat today, and we caught plenty of fish. We had some slow spells, and certain areas were not producing as expected. But in the end it was a good day.

On 5/3/2019 at 2:21 PM, I'm Blue said:

last place I was that I enjoyed fishing was upstate NY, Onieda , Seneca, Erie Canal out of Rome.
Just getting back into it, but honestly fishing in VA sucks... everywhere , it straight up sucks.
Planning a pike/smally trip soon,,, thinking Seneca , but looks like Cayuga has more weeds.

You ain't kidding. I moved to NOVA 3.5 years ago from the 1000 Islands area of NY. I have to drive 8 hrs back home to catch any real bass.

On 5/4/2019 at 5:10 PM, FishinBuck07 said:

Hey everyone I have a question about one of the lakes up in your area.  I live in Ohio, but my little brother lives near Syracuse and he has been fishing a small lake called Cross Lake.  I am coming up that way in July to fish with him, Cross is one place he wants to go fishing while I am there.  So my question is have any of you fished this lake and what is the best way to attack it?  I am just trying to get a better idea of what to take with me!  Thanks in advance

I won an ABA tourney on Cross last year fishing docks and lay downs in the main lake.  It was at the beginning of July.  All my fish were caught in <5ft.  Word of caution...that lake gets BUSY with leisure boaters. 

RichF thank you very much for the info.  My younger brother fished there over the weekend and caught a 21" walleye and a 36" pike, he was pretty excited.  Like I said wanted to see what kind of stuff to bring with me to fish Cross.  Didn't know if the smallies were more plentiful or the largemouth.  Again thank you for the info.

11 days straight with some form of rain in the Northern Capital Region. The Hudson is raging and still very cold.

 

I was able to get out and bank fish a local pond on Googan Saturday and Sunday. Three hour sessions both days. 8 fish total, 4 each day. Mostly stocked Brook Trout and some Sunfish. 1 Bass hit on a wacky rigged Dinger I was casting parallel to shore.