I made it out there from 545 til 10am on my buddy ryans boat, early on sort of sucked I picked a couple loser spots then around 9am we found some good action on our third spot til the storm started making one of my rods start vibrating and humming, through it on the bottom of the boat and took off, didn't quite beat it, got a little wet. fished the east end, didn't feel like fighting an early morning east wind on the west end.. I ended up with 6 eyes and ryan got his limit, plus dumped some ..... a few other things like whities and sunfish, Ryan got a monster 13 inch jumbo, we hit a bass spot quick too and had some fun with some enormous smallmouth. wish the storm held off, was having alot of fun fishing a few places I've never tried before.
Has anyone else noticed all the adult shad everywhere you look on the surface of Oneida?, it doesn't matter if your in 5 feet or 40 feet, they are everywhere.. Man theres gonna be the shad hatch of the century in another month or so... walleyes could be pretty full going into this upcoming ice season.
Yeah. Last week I saw a ton of 'em. What kind of shad are they though? I'm pretty sure they aren't gizzard shad, which is what I thought were predominant forage in Oneida. American Shad?? I can remember fishing in the Seneca river almost 20 years ago near Onondaga Lake park and seeing them piled up dead on the shoreline by the hundreds. A game warden told me it was totally normal. I've seen a ton of them when I was working on the Oswego River.
http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz185/jlucky/image1.jpgFixed it for ya.
You guys are killing me I haven't got out much at all this year and it sounds like it has been game on. I completely disassembled my electric motor because nobody would work on it. The guy at Aero Marine said they used to service them but Minn Kota requires service shops to spend $2000.00 on parts/year or they won't allow them to be an authorized serivce center, they don't the manuals etc... Thanks for the great service Minn Kota, I won't buy another one. I figured I might as well take it apart and either fix it or completely break it and buy a new one. Turns out the neg wire that runs throught the shaft had worn away and needed to be replaced. Now I just have to put it together, I am pretty good at taking stuff apart, not quite as good at putting it together. If it works out I'm heading out tommorow afternoon, can't wait to get out.
you don't need a trolling motor for eyes, just a wind sock. Stay away from those bass!!!