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  JULY - 2010  
 
  • Phil Smock & Dave Baranyk caught this nice stringer of fish Sunday morning while downrigging on Seneca Lake.

  • This fellow (didn't give his name) submitted this.. I caught my first 6 lakers ever at Keuka on Suttons from a downrigger. This is the biggest. It was 24 1/2 inches. Maybe you can add this to your honor roll.

  • Ed Cragg started early Friday trying to beat the weather, that did not happen. Got into one mid 30” fish around 7:15 AM. Between the wind, rain, and lighting managed to get one more at 10:00 AM. The rest of the day was a wash. Hit the water at 3:00 AM Saturday, 1st fish hit at 9:00 AM, did not get another hit until noon when I picked up some new musky hunters. We were setting the rigs and a mid 30” fish hit. After that we hooked a fish an hour or so. Big fish of the day was 45”. Ended up with eight fish in all.

  • Dave Baranyk with a monster 10.6 lbs lake trout caught Sunday 7/18 9:00am.

  • Ed Cragg had another good day on Waneta this Saturday, went 6 out of 10 fish. I should have had 8 fish, I screwed up on two. Wind was heavy at times and boat traffic was not too bad. Fish were hitting all day, like one every hour. Had to deal with clumps of weeds that the cottage owners were cutting loose and sending a drift. One of the ones that I lost did a tail walk and I did not give her enough line and she was gone. I did see close to 3’ of her with her dorsal fin still in the water. Had a mid 40” pull the hooks at boat side.

  • Ron Steffan from Pa. with 2 nice fat lakers taken from Cayuga Lake trolling mooselook wobblers and krocodile spoons.

  • Millport boys Depew and buddy with this respectable 6 3/4 lb. pike from the pier at Watkins shiner under a bobber did the trick.

  • Doug Teed with this 40 in. 16 1/2 lb. musky caught on a live shiner from Waneta. The boys cut the line and hook but the musky wasn't able to recover. It is being mounted as it is the first fish for Doug over 3 ft. and Doug is going to get the tools necessary to do proper release for any other muskies caught.

  • Ed Cragg went out Saturday morning got into five fish, managing to boat one. Changed to braided line and realized that the drag was too tight and I was pulling the hooks out of the fish. Went back out Sunday after praying to the musky gods and got into eight fish, boating six. First fish of the day was 45 ˝” was on the water 15 minutes. One little guy that if it was 16” it was lucky I let go in the water with out a picture. Broke in a new musky hunter. She is hooked and will be buying musky tackle.

  • Here's Augie, Larry and Max with some nice trout on the last day of their season.

  • Ed Cragg started early Saturday morning on Waneta at around 12:35 AM, first fish hit at 4:50 AM, mid 30’s. Second fish hit at 8:30, another mid 30” fish, had two more fish on with in the hour, 8:45 hooked 45 ˝” and 9:20 a 32”. I pulled off the water around 1:30 that afternoon, between boats, water skiers, and jet skiers the lake was getting crazy. Went out Monday morning on the way to my niece’s birthday, got two hours of fishing in and hooked a 32” fish. After the party went back out and got a little guy, I think he thought he was a small mouth, got air 3 or 4 times, and did a few tail walks. It is amazing how a small fish can fight.
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      JUNE - 2010  
     
     
     
  • Summit to Stream Adventures took Brady out for his 10th birthday this past week. While casting for Bass we caught a combination of largemouth and pickeral using Berkley Power Worms and Yum Dingers.

  • Summit to Stream Adventures took a charter out on Cayuga Lake. Trolling Cayuga Lake with spoons and trout killer/flasher combos produced 9 salmon and 3 lake trout. 2 Lakers above 6lbs.

  • Here's Summit to Stream Adventures with another great day of fishing on the lake.

  • Here's Bobby and Mark with a 9.15 lb. lake trout and 6.5 lb. rainbow trout from Cayuga.

  • Ed Cragg took a fellow NMA member out Friday and went 5 for 8. Went out Saturday and got 3 out of 4. Did not take a picture of the 20” fish, released in the water at boat side.. All fish were released unharmed.

  • Ed Cragg hit the pond “Waneta Lake” at 1:15 AM and pulled this 50” plus out on open day, had three others on. Landed two of them. Fished father’s day for a few hours, lost one. Went out Monday morning did a lot of casting. Had quite a few follows, no takers. Around 10:00AM I had two small fish on, landed both. Picked up a friend and got in to two more fish lost one and landed one. All fish were released in good health. The musky gods were good to me opening weekend.

  • Max, Augie, and Larry.. Old Pals. After a good day on Seneca ..a yearly get together!
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      MAY - 2010  
     
     
  • Rich Sterling limited out on landlocked salmon off the Watkins pier fishing in the afternoon with sawbellys 12 ft. down under a slip bobber. The biggest was just under 7 lbs. the other 2 were 5 and 6 lbs. so some great grilling is coming up for Rich. He says he soaks them in maple syrup for about 4 hrs. He gets the grill red hot first then turns it down and covers the salmon {skin down} with brown spicy mustard and pokes a few fork holes in the skin while on the grill, close the lid and they are done in about 25-30 minutes. It certainly sounds interesting and I hope to be able to try that recipe soon.

  • Here's Larry with a nice 6-1/2 lb. landlocked salmon caught off the Watkins pier on a sawbelly, 15 ft. under a slip bobber. The fish was actually caught and landed by a camera shy Nick, the state inspector.

  • Ed Cragg went to Cowanesque Sat. and Mon. In all he hooked over 30 fish. They were hitting small baits in crappie and perch patterns. Lost three fish that were over 50" could not get a good hook set, tried changing the hooks to bigger ones, baits would not swim right. He'll be going there this weekend and the next two until NY season opens.

  • Jason is showing once again why he spends a good deal of his trolling time hustling the Big Weenie flies. He is trying to hog the honor roll til Ed Cragg starts Musky fishing again! Jason kept these two 5 lb lakers for the grill but caught and released 3 lakers that topped 9 lbs on his digital scales. Rumor has it that he was seen trying to tie one to a rock til the derby Ha!

  • Jeremy Brothers of Freedom Village, gospel troubadour at large with this very respectable for this late in the season 18.1lb. tom turkey with a 9-1/2 in. beard and healthy 1-1/2 in. spurs. Judging by the distance from one side of Jeremy's shoulder to the other he can hunt as well as he can sing! Good thing eh?

  • Anthony Blodgett is starting to get his health back by nailing 3 nice 4 to 6 lb. lake trouts. He's been running a variety of hammered Sutton spoons on his Seth Green rig up in the middle of Seneca lake above Starkey point. He says the lakers are still surprisingly shallow for this time of year ,but with that limit we photoed and the 7 he landed and released who can argue with the man? He also said the best time of day was late afternoon to evening when the sawbellies seem to start up into shallow water as the sun drops from being right overhead. Thanks for the info old stud!!

  • Here is Rita again with another slab of a large mouth bass caught on a juicy worm. It was released to fight again another day!

  • Phil Smock caught this 4lb. 10oz. pike friday evening while casting with a spoon just south of Painted Rock on the east side. Nice one, Phil!

  • This father and son from PA. landed this nice pair. The landlocked was 6-3/4 lbs., and the brown the boy caught was a very respectable 4-3/4 lbs. They also captured and killed a nasty lamprey eel that was stuck to the brown. Good job boys!!

  • John Abeline's Posse Herb and Brenden with their beautiful catch of 6 landlock salmon. All these fish were caught on "little Phobe" lures. Colors were firetiger, gold, silver. The boys toplined these lures out in front of the mouth of the canal and the results speak for themselves. The biggest was 6.4 lbs 26 inches, back up was 5.9 lbs 24 in.

  • Nick Joensen and Corey Pelot with their whopping 8.4 lbs 281/2 in. landlock salmon. Caught floating live bass minnows 3 feet under a bobber in front of the center breakwall in front of the canal at Watkins.

  • Eric Davis with two longbeards from this spring (first two longbeards ever). The first bird was shot opening day and had an 8.5" beard, 3/4" spurs and weighed 19 lbs. The second bird was shot May 15th and had a 10" beard, 1 1/4" spurs and weighed 21 lbs.

  • John Glick at it again with this 5-1/2 lb. 24 in landlocked salmon. He caught it at night on a white stick bait up by the US Salt plant.

  • Ron Thomas with this really nice tom turkey. It weighed 19 lbs. 13 ounces had a 9-7/8 in. beard but it was the razor sharp 1-3/4 in. spurs that made this bird capable of fighting it out with larger toms for the favor of the willing hens. Nature at it's best eh!!

  • John, Garrison, and Gwenoth Glick with a beauty of a 5 lb. 12 ounce 24-1/2 in. landlocked salmon caught out in front of the middle break wall past the canal at Watkins. They got it to fall for a white stick bait they think was a Thunderstick jr. Another bigger fish relieved them of ownership of the aforementioned stickbait shortly there after so they had to go on memory but no doubt it worked. Way to go you Glicks you!!

  • This is Scott with his nice 6-1/2 lb. brown trout caught up toward the salt plant trolling stick baits.

  • Ray Fleming with his whopping 9-1/2 lb. brown trout taken out in front of the middle break wall trolling a #9 black and silver floating rapala about 2-1/2 mph. top lining. He also caught and released 3 other landlocked salmon before he hooked into a moby dick of a salmon that jumped 6 times before it tore the treble hook right out of his stick bait. Ray says it was considerably bigger than the big brown he just landed!!

  • Rusty Lewis with his 19 lb. Tom. It had a 9 in. beard and 7/8 in. spurs.

  • Dave Matwiejow with a nice tom weighing in at 20 lbs. even, a 10-1/2 in. beard, and 1-1/2 in. spurs.

  • Here's young Mr. Doty and his pretty huntin' gal with 2 nice tom turkeys. Hers 19 lbs. and his 20.1 lbs.

  • Brandon Williams with a whopping 20 lb. carp caught in the swamp at Watkins.

  • These are 2 huge largemouth bass caught and released by Rita and Larry Carson from Lamoka Lake.
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      APRIL - 2010  
     
     
  • 13 yr. old Steven Shaffer of Watkins with his trophy 24 lb. tom turkey with 2 beards: the main one is 10 1/2" and the secondary 5 1/2". The spurs were 1 1/8" long. This is a whopper in any state and at any level of experience. Dad and brother helped out in Stevens success!!!

  • A nice salmon caught out in front of the canal at Watkins.

  • A beautiful 7 lb. rainbow out of Catherine above Millport, caught with egg sacs.

  • Michael Rhodes took this 21 1/2 lb. gobbler with a 4 inch beard (frozen off) and 1" spurs on the 2010 Youth Turkey Hunt. Brad Johns called it in while Mike's mother watched in awe.

  • Here is young Cody Bowen with his first turkey ever. What a way to start! This trophy tom weighed in at 22 3/4 lbs. A true 11 in. beard and stocky 1 in. spurs. Cody and his dad spent nearly an hour calling the tom in where Cody was true with the aim of his 20 ga. 3 in. magnum!!

  • These two pics are of The grampa Pete Smith and his two grandchildren Sam and Conner Smith. They were using blue and white stick baits toplining off the mouth of the canal in Watkins where the water coming out of the canal is much warmer than the lake. It sure paid off as they nailed these two brown trout beauties. The big one was 28 1/2 in. and weighed exactly 10 lbs. The back up was 23 in. and came in at a respectable 4 3/4 lbs. Later they trolled up past the painted rocks and landed 2 salmon which they released, they estimated between 3 and 4 lbs, but still enough to make the boys not want to go back to school after spring break. I guess the fish aren't the only things hooked after this day thanks to grampa!!!

  • Troy Kimble and Matt Shauger at it again from the canal in Watkins with an 8 lb. salmon another 5 lb. and a 6 lb. brown for a kicker. Caught on Mepps and Cleos from shore. Way to go boys!!

  • Ernie Barber had to really dig his heels in to land this beast from Catherine Creek!

  • Jacob Kelly with a whopping 8.75 lb. beauty of a brown trout caught just off the canal in Watkins from Dads boat on a Mepps spinner. What a fight it put up. They had to chase it with the boat to keep it from snapping his line but young Mr. Kelly hung tough, played the line just right, and now has a trophy bigger than Dad, HA!!!!

  • Troy Kimble with a nice 6.25 lb. brown caught in the canal on a silver and blue little cleo.

  • Here's one last brown Jason Matthews hooked himself. 6 lbs! Another Big Weenie success!!!

  • Here's more of Jason Matthews posse with browns, salmon and more lakers almost all of which came on Big Weenie trolling flies. He is usually working the top at very quick speeds.

  • Big Mark Sirko was hooked up with Jason Matthews and Antony Rovente trolling their way to 25 out of 30 fish that hit, including this 35 in. 13 lb. lake trout!

  • Jeff, Joey, Mike and Gino with no less than 63 Catherine Creek suckers for Grandma to pickle. Oh Boy!!!

  • Fred Tucker again in the afternoon after taking along a hitchiker got two rainbows one with skein eggs still in it and a nice salmon and even nicer brown!

  • Fred Tucker with a nice laker and a nice salmon in the morning he slowed slighty to just under 3 mph and went a little deeper and it paid off.

  • Mike and Scott with a mess of fish trolling.

  • Kyle Jacobs with a 5-3/4 lb. rainbow taken on the first day in upper Catherine on an orange egg sac.

  • Stephen Ellison with a 6lb. rainbow taken just above red barn hole on orange egg sacs first day.

  • If we haven't mixed Kyle Jacobs we need help!! Please e-mail us if we have mixed up someone!!

  • Here are some photos Mark Moskal of 'Summit to Stream Adventures' took of opening day on Catherine Creek. Thought we’d share. Had a great day!

  • Brandon Persha who got his deer mount back from the taxidermist. This 9 point beauty field dressed out at 210 lbs. and had a 16 1/2 in. spread that dry scored at 140. This fine buck was harvested up by Cayuta Lake , nice shootin' Brandon.

  • Jason, Tom, and Rodney at it again with the Big Weenie flies. I have them on order for sure. No wonder these boys are stout fellows eating all that fish. Mostly Lake trout.

  • Here's a cooler full of perch and bullheads. Larry went to the pier in the morning and caught about 15 fat perch until a northern pike came in and shut them off. Instead of quitting and going home he went to Cass Rd. and the swamp with worms, leaches, and cut bait and added on about 22 nice fat fresh bullheads. Thats got to be some good eatin'.
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      MARCH - 2010  
     
     
  • Here's Ed Cragg with 2 of the 8 fish he caught Saturday. Got all fish 40 to 50 feet down over 60 to 120 feet of water, running along the mud line slow. Brown trout and rainbow spoons.

  • Here's a beautiful shot of some Ringnecks getting off the water.

  • Fred Tucker who took two friends trolling and once again smacked into the landlocks. Green or watermellon spoons and streamer flies trolled 3-1/2 MPH from the surface down to 25 ft. down to the surface produced over twenty fish with the gang keeping just enough to grill. The big one was 6 lbs.

  • T.J. Donnell, Tyler Mosher, and Donna Price with 2 of the 11 salmon they caught trolling just out of Watkins Glen. They kept the 6 and 4 lb. landlocked for the grill and put the other 9 back for others to enjoy. Great job guys!!! Once again all the action was toward the surface over 60 ft. of water, speed over 3 MPH.

  • Matt Shauger with a 23-1/2" brown from shore in Watkins Glen. This 5 lb. male went for a #11 jointed chartreuse Rapala. Matt pitched the lure out, tugged it under a foot or two, then just let it float on the surface. The fish actually missed it once then came back and snatched it again. Matt said after landing this one, about 5 casts later he hooked big brother but lost him. Oh it's always the "BIG" one that gets away!!!

  • Here's Jeff Storch with his beastly 2 lb. 14 3/4 in. fat jack perch. Caught in Watkins Glen on one of Ron's silver headed jigs with silver tinsel tipped with a standard fat head minnow. What was funny when we went to weigh it it shook its head and a rosy red fathead minnow flew out of its mouth on the ground. A hungry pig indeed!!

  • It was a slow day on the lake Saturday. 5 fish on - 2 boarded.

  • Michael Fairfield with a 8.5lb landlock salmon using a shiner under a slip bobber from shore in Watkins.
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      FEBRUARY - 2010  
     
     
  • Here's a picture of Saturday’s catch with Ed Cragg. They had all of 20 fish in the boat that day!

  • Video of Fred Tucker of Reading Center, fishing for landlocked salmon on Seneca Lake.

  • This young man snagged this one February 6.
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      JANUARY - 2010  
     
     
  • Here are a few pictures of animals Eric Davis trapped in Schuyler county over his winter break from SUNY Cobleskill. The skunk was trapped in Burdett and the red fox was caught outside of Odessa.

  • Here's a picture of (left to right) Eric Davis, Clayton Crout and Ryan Muller from a January 4 hunt on Seneca Lake. 4 Mallards, 4 Redheads, 2 Hooded Mergansers and 1 Black Duck.

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