November 15, 2012

Not hearing a lot, but hunting pressure in the Northern Zone has increased with the arrival of cold weather, as well as some snow in the higher elevations as of last week. Fishing is pretty much on the back burner now until some hardwater arrives.

Cayuga Lake With the low water there is little salmon or brown trout activity to report in the tributaries. That could change with a rainy weather pattern, however. Seneca Lake Yellow perch were being caught on the south end off the pier, near the salt plant, and in the vicinity of Severne Point. Northern pike

Lake Ontario Salmon fishing is winding down. The recent rain has brought in some brown trout and steelhead into the tributaries. Egg sacs and egg imitations have been working well. Canandaigua Lake Trolling small spoons as well as flashers and flies in 50 to 125 feet of water was yielding lake trout and rainbow trout.

Lake Ontario and tributaries Hurricane Sandy left behind a pile of rain and some damage that many had to deal with. Still, for western New York it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as what it could have been. In the fishing department, the excessive rain could have blown out streams that were doing well —