ONEIDA LAKE DIEHARDS THREAD...

[oneida1]

2 keepers 2 shorts for me yesterday evening....

[xc600]

Got the ff working, marked a lot of fish in 20' at the bottom of a drop with no takers. Another nice nite to float around though.

[Deadeyez]

Got out last evening for some jigging , with deadly and snag , I had a rough time  4 perch , 3 short eyes , a rocky and an adult shad which was a first for me 😜
 Weather was pleasant , little lumpy , and the strawberry moon was cool
 The mayfly hatch is insane

The fish we were over definitely didn’t want to bite. Good number of marks though. Mayflies were insane. Ton of them this year

[cnypanfisher]

The fish we were over definitely didn’t want to bite. Good number of marks though. Mayflies were insane. Ton of them this year

We got skunked again, but my buddy got a fat goby on a spinner. Lots of dead bugs everywhere, like a blanket of them in spots. Last fish I cleaned last week had a belly full of them. Are the perch biting anywhere within 80 miles, I'll be eating rock bass soon at this rate.

[bigbuck]

Maybe the bite has been negatively impacted by all the mayflies fishermen are competing against and it will return when they all die off?

[filetandrelease]

Maybe the bite has been negatively impacted by all the mayflies fishermen are competing against and it will return when they all die off?

Bingo 👍
 The tourney, about  1/3 of the boats didn’t weigh in

 Here is a few mayflies 😉
 

[jperch]

That mayfly picture is amazing!  Great fish food.

[Deadeyez]

The whole northshore stinks because of all the dead mayflies. Crazy

[xc600]

The prevailing south winds must have blown the mayflies to the north shore, it really isn't that bad here yet .

[Perch-Pirate]

Almost Nothing on the south shore…I saw a couple on the house the other day. But nothing on the shoreline.

[Raquettedacker]

I saw Snags  radar report that showed them....  Crazy..

[Dug1898]

 Here is a few mayflies 😉
 
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WOW! Now that's a few mayflies alright. Lmao Look at the ground! I used to see them all over the village of Skaneateles too.
I told a story years ago about seeing on my ff a 2'-3' thick hatch of mayfly mymphs hovering just above bottom on Oneida heading out west from the canal. All the way out there was also a 2'-3' thick mass of mayflies hovering a couple of feet above the water...just as thick as the mass on the screen! We drove through the cloud of mayflies ducking down behind the windshield and laughed at our 2 friends in tiller boats getting the brunt of the bugs in their faces. They both ride, so bugs in their teeth was no big deal. Lmao
So, I can see how it can effect the bite...Hexigenia mayflies I think they are...they call it "The Hex" on Skinny...when the "Hex" is on, the bite slows!
Good luck fishin' ><{{{*>

[reeleyz]

The prevailing south winds must have blown the mayflies to the north shore, it really isn't that bad here yet .

The shoreline edge was brown with them yesterday on the north shore in several spots near Constantia.

It is a great food source for a lot of fish though.

[mcully]

Hex on skinny has been happening too but not near as crazy as last years. Had pound of bugs in boat every morning for a week then. Every fish comes to the shallows to feast it seems

[Deadeyez]

Dodged the rain and fished from 6:30-9 last night with Snag. Fish were pretty tight lipped. We managed couple keeper eyes and bunch of weed trout. Awesome sunset