Headed up to fish thursday, friday, saturday. Anyone been out? See some cold temps and heavy rain moving in before a warm over the weekend.
Headed up to fish thursday, friday, saturday. Anyone been out? See some cold temps and heavy rain moving in before a warm over the weekend.
Heading out tomorrow. Ill try to get you some information
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Clarkson University had a tournament there last weekend 3 fish I believe won it if that tells you anything, many teams didnt even have a fish.
Just came back from a 4 day trip. To say the fish were hard to find is an understatement. Water temps in the 60's, no fish grouped up shallow. We did manage to catch some decent largemouth, but I didn't travel all the way from Philly to catch them at Oneida.
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you got that right i have never seen a worse mid september to mid october in NY.. not sure what it is, but somethings gotta give. Had a tournament sunday water temps were 60 in the morning (38 degree air temp) to 62 in the afternoon (60 degree air temp). even with these water temps fishing is crap right now.
Yea I was thinking about fishing one of the fall tourneys. I fished two days last week and it was some of the toughest fishing I've had there in years. Decided to call it quits on Oneida for the year and finish out the year on some other lakes.
It’s my last hoorah this weekend. Gonna give it hell. 50 and rain Thursday might turn them on, who knows. I’ll be on the lake regardless.
Water temps 54-56 today, wind blew me around like mad. Had one real bite but it was a 5lb 3oz smallie on a 110. Fattest Oneida football I’ve ever gotten.
Was out today from noon till dusk. Was tough water was around 58.5 and it blew like hell the last few days. Took me awhile but I found them after awhile. Fish were fat and beautiful just not in any place I've ever caught them this time of the year and it wasn't easy. Was dead slick so that didn't help. Definitely not the numbers I'm used to seeing but they sure are healthy.
They sure are pretty. I'm still on the fence about the true cause of our smallmouth shortage. I still think having a post spawn cashion/bass open for 3 years straight was a lake killer. The bait is still there. The remaining fish are beautiful. Just no schools like I'm used to
Well the 10 I caught today knocked slack in my line so I wouldn't be so sure you hit him in the head....int hat wind it could have been tracking it and just missed. Like I said today was dead slick so it was tough. We still have a population of beauty's out there. Maybe it's time for somebody to step up and be the voice of oneida smallmouth.
Anyone fish the tournament this weekend?
Yea it's tough to tell how much the population is declining. For the past few years that's what everyone says in sept/Oct but everyone is fine when they're whacking them in may/june. However with so much pressure I wonder if by this time of year, the fish orienting to the obvious smallmouth areas have been caught a time or two and their behavior have changed and they are in areas that are difficult to target/predict. It's also tough because theres not the kind of focus on maintaining and tracking the population like walleye/trout