ONEIDA LAKE DIEHARDS THREAD 2012

[reeleyz]

Back from fishing Black Lake with a friend, Managed 5 keeper eye's from 19 to 23inches. Fished most of the day friday until the rains moved in but we stuck it out for 2 hrs. Used sonars in 15ft of water. Gold seemed to be the hot color. Got a nice 21 inch pig under the edwardsville bridge friday night at 1am on a black and silver husky jerk. I had 8 walleyes right in front of me a foot and a half off shore, But only 1 taker that night. Love the walleyes in black lake, BIG AND FAT. 18in limit and only had one at 17 that we had to throw back. Got there at 10:30 thursday night and left this morning at 7:45am. Not bad for a day of fishing. The hard part was finding them. And thats my report from BLACK LAKE.

You guys did great!   

[LOA]

Do you just jigs the sonars like jigs? I assume? I'm going to try them in the morning for the first time ever.. Any tips?

I have been trying to read through the posts, but there is a ton to read through so i figured i would just ask

[FISH ON]

Do you just jigs the sonars like jigs? I assume? I'm going to try them in the morning for the first time ever.. Any tips?

I have been trying to read through the posts, but there is a ton to read through so i figured i would just ask

Yes, I jig them and so did the guy i was with. Pretty much every fish hit the sonar on the way down. We didn't jig them hard, Just a nice lift. But once we found them on bottom and suspended on the graph we just kept drifting over the same spot and through a marker out when we caught the first one. Good luck and let us know how you did? FISH ON.

[FISHFORPIKE]

Back from fishing Black Lake with a friend, Managed 5 keeper eye's from 19 to 23inches. Fished most of the day friday until the rains moved in but we stuck it out for 2 hrs. Used sonars in 15ft of water. Gold seemed to be the hot color. Got a nice 21 inch pig under the edwardsville bridge friday night at 1am on a black and silver husky jerk. I had 8 walleyes right in front of me a foot and a half off shore, But only 1 taker that night. Love the walleyes in black lake, BIG AND FAT. 18in limit and only had one at 17 that we had to throw back. Got there at 10:30 thursday night and left this morning at 7:45am. Not bad for a day of fishing. The hard part was finding them. And thats my report from BLACK LAKE.

Nice, you using 1/4 or 1/2 oz. sonars?  I've been doing Ok in that area drifting a bottom bouncer with a spinner and worm.

[FISH ON]

Nice, you using 1/4 or 1/2 oz. sonars?  I've been doing Ok in that area drifting a bottom bouncer with a spinner and worm.

1/2 oz. Where you out there yesterday?

[FISHFORPIKE]

1/2 oz. Where you out there yesterday?

Nope.  Almost done with Black Lake for the rest of the warm season.  I don't like the "pea soup" "green", "bathwater" in the summer months.  I turn my attention to the St. Lawrence until ice comes in.

[filetandrelease]

well it was a little lumpy today but did find a few eyes and that new rod and reel worked just fine

hey KP you know how hard you can set a hook with a 7.5 ft rod   

 got another one KP 

[Hollywood]

Monster Sheepie season has started...

[OTIS]

well it was a little lumpy today but did find a few eyes and that new rod and reel worked just fine

hey KP you know how hard you can set a hook with a 7.5 ft rod   

 got another one KP 

Sounds like a sonar rod.  What did you get?

[Hookinup]

Monster Sheepie season has started...

YeeeeHaaaaaw! Let the games begin!

That's a drag-peeler right there!

[SNAGGER]

Monster Sheepie season has started...

  Me and fred got a pile of those yesterday jigging sonars, nice one hollywood.. I had something just start going and wouldn't stop, broke 12lb. leader like nothing...We got our limit of eyes, but it took some time to re find em after that blow...what a chop out there.  looks bumpy again mid day today. 

[Munson]

Headed out to the white bass grounds shortly.   Hopefully, the winds won't be as bad this morning as yesterday.   

[Flukeman]

Monster Sheepie season has started...

I knew you were a trash fisherman at heart  I think those walleyes you get are just by accident   

[filetandrelease]

fished with the snag today got our limit of eyes for the tourny but fell way short on weight about mid pac , but had fun and caught at least 30 sheepshead little early for those in the spots we fished ,and a few monster sunnies , and a couple of smallies , and got a nice couple of showers

[SNAGGER]

  Well I learned alot in the last 2 days Fred. Never realised how little eyes weigh til you enter a tournament, I've only weighed maybe 3 eyes in my life...Alot of talented fishermen in the tournament, I was impressed.... 3 18's a 20 and a 17 1/2 I thought was reasonable considering the wind, but not even close, just couldn't keep those dam sheepsheads off our lines or find a couple pigs.....had a blast Fred, can't wait to do it again next year.  Got to meet hammer for the first time. long 2 days of jigging, think my arms going to fall off.  good stuff.