Better off catching Crappies, ther a lot better eatting.50 deg temp they come in close in places easy to get to.

oh swamp  now thats a good fish fry right there buddy 

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 😉