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Title: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: DANMAN on Sep 22, 2020, 10:03 PM: Been fishing cayuga. water 62 near the island. action is slow. anyone else been out?
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: Pequod1 on Sep 23, 2020, 04:23 PM: I might try Canandaigua tomorrow. Let you know if I do. Cayuga us two weeks away from starting. Try again then.
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: rgfixit on Sep 23, 2020, 04:25 PM: Quote from: Pequod1 on Sep 23, 2020, 04:23 PM
I might try Canandaigua tomorrow. Let you know if I do. Cayuga us two weeks away from starting. Try again then.

Yup!

Rg
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: Pequod1 on Sep 24, 2020, 01:11 PM: Just got back from Canandaigua. Water temps were around 65. There are scattered small schools of perch up at the north end. Nothing of any size. Most of my fish were around 9" Just head out to the middle and drift around 13-14'.
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If anyone wants to know where I was exactly, look for the balloon. He went right over me.
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: DANMAN on Sep 24, 2020, 07:06 PM: Quote from: rgfixit on Sep 23, 2020, 04:25 PM
Yup!

Rg

Back at it today. sameresults. different spots. will try in October..hot summer may mean delayed cool down
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: DANMAN on Sep 24, 2020, 07:09 PM: September 26. 2016

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Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: rgfixit on Sep 25, 2020, 07:26 AM: Nice bucket Dan. Won’t be as much traffic in a couple weeks. I’ve had the balloons float by me too. Fun to watch. Try down towards the Yacht Club on the East side.

Rg
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Sep 28, 2020, 05:49 AM: Found these in 50' of water on one of the eastern Fingers. The smallie coughed up an 8" perch next to the boat. Caught several in 5-10' of water too Saturday but marked fish on the way off the lake in 50' and went back yesterday to see if they were present in numbers. Thank god for spot lock and the 72" shaft because it was rocking. No jumbos but 10-11" fish middle of the day.
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Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: filetandrelease on Sep 28, 2020, 06:19 AM: Well done Mcully 9 and up get the knife at my house 😃
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: Raquettedacker on Sep 28, 2020, 06:23 AM: That is way better than we did yesterday someplace else...
Congratulations....... :thumbup_smilie: :thumbup_smilie: :thumbup_smilie: :thumbup_smilie:
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: DANMAN on Oct 01, 2020, 05:52 PM: Quote from: mcully on Sep 28, 2020, 05:49 AM
Found these in 50' of water on one of the eastern Fingers. The smallie coughed up an 8" perch next to the boat. Caught several in 5-10' of water too Saturday but marked fish on the way off the lake in 50' and went back yesterday to see if they were present in numbers. Thank god for spot lock and the 72" shaft because it was rocking. No jumbos but 10-11" fish middle of the day.
(https://i.postimg.cc/4YB8n4rw/owasco1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/4YB8n4rw)

(https://i.postimg.cc/K1fZzLGV/perch-22.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/K1fZzLGV)

so how much weight you need to keep,your bait down in 50 feet.?
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Oct 01, 2020, 06:33 PM: I’m using my Minn Kota motor with spot lock so even in 1-2’ waves my bait was straight down or casting behind the boat dragging was easy with a 3/8 ounce cylinder weight. I buy them in bulk from drop zone baits. Braid is almost a must to me w 10# fluoro leader. I use a really small barrel swivel between braid and leader usually or double uni knot.
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Oct 12, 2020, 06:19 AM: Water temp on the lake I'm hitting dropped to 60 degrees and fish moved into 25-30' but still chewing. 50 in a few hours yesterday afternoon. Size is going up a little too.
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Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: Raquettedacker on Oct 12, 2020, 06:47 AM: Nice. :thumbup_smilie:
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: iceman260 on Oct 12, 2020, 07:06 AM: Nice job on the perch, good eats .
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: filetandrelease on Oct 12, 2020, 08:23 AM: Well done mcully
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Oct 19, 2020, 09:10 AM: Tried Skinny Saturday and it's tough. Dropped on a 40' spot I marked fish and bam hit a nice 11" double and thought game on. Wrong. The perch are really moving around and that school was gone before I could drop on them again. Did figure out a little weed bite and ended up with a dozen with a few in the 13" range but fished a bunch of water from 40-10'. plenty of rockies and smallmouth to have fun but tough compared to where I've been fishing. Wife and a few of her friends asked me to take them on a short booze cruise or I would have stuck to the easy bite lake. Now I'm drawn back to skinny to see if I can get on those big ones better. Waters 59 degrees and waters down about three feet.
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: Pequod1 on Oct 19, 2020, 12:16 PM: I read that John Gaulke was recently in Skinny and one of his clients caught a 23" walleye. They also got a 14" perch and the normal bunch of rockies and small bass. I just can't get over how thin the fish are in that lake. Probably from a lack of alewives.
I am thinking of making an Oneida appearance later this week. Should be interesting.
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Oct 19, 2020, 01:03 PM: Skinny isn't short for the real name. You need 10 plus inch perch to get anything but they sure do taste good. Everything eats crayfish, shrimp or perch fry for the most part. The mayfly hatch is also big food source. It's not an easy big fish lake for sure. Much better in our area
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Oct 24, 2020, 08:43 AM: Little breezy for lake I was on but perch were biting still. Took 4 year old grandson out.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/JtZxSQ5K/C7-C88814-9001-45-A9-B6-D9-60-BA73-CA36-A6.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JtZxSQ5K)
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Oct 26, 2020, 09:06 AM: Some scrawny Skaneateles perch jumped in the bucket yesterday. It was tough for me but managed 20. 8-20’ near weeds.
(https://i.postimg.cc/jw1Rc1XM/4583-D78-D-11-DC-4539-9989-416-F7978070-C.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/jw1Rc1XM)
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: Raquettedacker on Oct 26, 2020, 09:59 AM: Looks like a good bucket to me...
Congratulations.... :thumbup_smilie: :thumbup_smilie:
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: Pequod1 on Nov 06, 2020, 05:27 PM: Went to Cayuga today out of union springs. The water is low at the launch and my back tires were in the water. It was doable though and I was alone.
Fishing was good in 17-18’. I caught non stop perch in all areas I stopped . Unfortunately, the size was no where near as good as Oneida but I did manage a bunch of nicer fish. I am back to releasing everything so they are there for the taking.. I even played around with my ice rod jigging under the boat for a while.
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Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: SeanP on Nov 06, 2020, 06:45 PM: Yeah the Cayuga perch are a bit skinny!!!!

SeanP
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: oatkasut on Nov 06, 2020, 06:48 PM: Practice makes perfect!
Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: mcully on Nov 21, 2020, 01:50 PM: Still chewing
Stuffed with two inch perch and one inch sunnies in 20-30’ water
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Title: Re: Fall perchin in finger lakes
Post by: filetandrelease on Nov 22, 2020, 04:57 AM: Well done , perch aren’t particular on what they eat even their own ,