Lake Cayuga

Lake Cayuga
Cayuga Lake State Park, Seneca Falls, NY:

Lake Cayuga is where my next tournament took place. Unlike my tournament before this one I was fortunate enough to keep all my line on my pole.

My day started off with a decent boat ride out to a weed bed in the middle of the lake, where my boater had pre fished for a few days before the tournament. After we arrived to our spot and got ourselves situated we started to fish. Fishing that morning would be a little slow until about the three hour mark, which is when I hooked into about a three pound large mouth. Catching a fish that size first thing in the morning is nice, it allows you to relax a little bit, and most importantly it breaks the ice. Now that I had caught a fish, I was confident that the fish were there, but I was not confident on the amount of fish that were there. The reason I say this is because I had the only bass in the live well after about three hours of fishing, and all we kept catching was pickerel. So, after a few more hours went by which during that time my boater had landed a decent size small mouth we moved to another spot. Moving to another spot was not in my boaters plans, considering the days leading up to the tournament he had done very well in our present spot. But we moved anyway and unfortunately our new spot was no better than our old spot, so we moved back to our previous spot. Although, this time instead of going back to the same location we went about fifty feet to the east of that location. Bingo! After about a half hour in our new spot I had caught over a 2 pound small mouth and my boater landed two more keepers.

That would be all I caught that day. My total weight was 5 lbs 2 ounces.


I did learn a valuable lesson that day though. Which was, just because the fish are not in the same spot that you left them in a few days prior does not mean they are not close by.

Thanks.