Kevin has declared this year to be “The Year of the Smallie”. Smallmouth bass are my favorite species, so I’m all game for them to be the focus of our addiction – our drug of choice – for this year. To this, I’ve added an additional personal challenge of fly fishing. Toward this effort, my …
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Late season lake trout
Water temps are much cooler this year but the air temps warmed up close to 80 degrees last Friday the 13th, so I went fishing for a couple of hours on my favorite nearby Finger Lake as a low pressure thunderstorm rolled through. I was targeting bass, but after getting drenched in the rain and only catching a couple of pickerel I started paddling back to the launch…
It’s great when a half-fast plan comes together
Since I got my Malibu Kayaks Stealth 14 last year and had a plastic vessel capable of going onto big water, I’ve been eager to take it out into open water to deep-troll for some of the salmon and trout species that are abundant in Lake Ontario. I got my chance yesterday when a couple …
A brief report from the 2010 State of the Lake Meeting at RIT
My son, Alan, and I attended the 2010 State of The Lake (Ontario) Meeting at the RIT campus last night as representatives of the Western NY Kayak Fishing Association. What transpired was a flurry of well-articulated 5-10 minute reports (overwhelmingly about salmon and trout) a la PowerPoint from fisheries biologists and staff from the NYDEC …




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