this has nothing to do with current water levels but i found interesting looking at the oneida lake history

"Oneida Lake is a remnant of Lake Iroquois, a huge body of water that formed nearly 12,000 years ago when, as the Ice Age ended, a glacier dammed the St. Lawrence River, flooding much of Central New York. As global warming occurred and the ice mass shifted northward"

this means two things  global warming is not new but rather a repeated weather cobdition and  2 with out it we would never have had  oneida lake!!!!  or the world as we know it ......

 48, clear and breezy

 I remember a while back the hatchery called and that was the excuse that the gauges were off , so maybe a person should actually go check things out and fix the problem , a visual just above the gates gives a very good idea where the lake is at , but that just observing for several decades from an ol buzzard 😉

I always considered Mayfield to be the South end. Had our best luck along the "H" buoys but wouldn't rule out the "G"s either.

Kim, as I have said before, down your way would be another "lifetime" of fishing for me. There are so many good looking spots and I am sure many would be "great" jig fishing. Remember "all fish like structure but not all structure hold fish". (Buck Perry) Yes that is the "river" bed. Back in the day, we would put 2 markers out about 200 yards apart, then "backtroll" back and forth, picking it apart. Found stumps, rock ledges, stone walls, old roadbeds, etc. Anything that looked for felt different. Some became "hot" spots, some still produce fish today. I do KNOW there are a lot of "slip" sinkers down there. With the electronics today be thankful that the lake doesn't get the fishing pressure it use too.....h2l

Thanks for the concern 62 and yes that's a walleye or 2 in the livewell.. pic was taken when we started crappie fishing this spring which was literally months ago. I catch 1000 eyes a year so I definitely understand the book, believe me.. I haven't been on here in a bit so I figured I'd put some catches up. We got out on the big pond yesterday, same results.. 😉