ONEIDA LAKE DIEHARDS

[DeadEyez]

Here's a shot for Deady...Venison meatballs and spaghetti with portobella mushrooms...just as good as it gets.

Dug that looks awesome!! Enjoy my friend!! 👍🏻

[filetandrelease]

👍🍽

[Birdslayer]

lake was peaceful as can be this morning.........had a 12" perch in hand before I even got a rod in the water.......explanatio n: driving to my spot I spotted a fishing rod and upon investigation it was still in the water.....picked it up and set the hook and lo and behold a nice jumbo was on the ice......needless to say if anybody lost/left a rod out of William's let me know and I will get it back to you......ended up with 15 counting the freebie.......ice is sloppy on top but as Oneida 1 stated it seems to be holding .......need a freeze though

I can't be the only one thinking this... don't know too many fishermen that just leave a rod with the line still in the water!! It's not uncommon for stuff to bounce out of a sled but to have the line still in the water!!??? I hope someone isn't reported missing...… Just saying IT IS ONEIDA and those damn gas pockets are all over

[Dug1898]

Scary thought; but it was probably a young Millenial and Scout was the early bird who got the worm, or in this case a nice perch, Lol...serves whoever it was right, that isn't quite kool to do...everyone knows you mark your hole with a branch from a christmas tree! Lmao

[filetandrelease]

I can't be the only one thinking this... don't know too many fishermen that just leave a rod with the line still in the water!! It's not uncommon for stuff to bounce out of a sled but to have the line still in the water!!??? I hope someone isn't reported missing...… Just saying IT IS ONEIDA and those damn gas pockets are all over
  I’m sure there would be more things laying around than just a rod if the unthinkable happened , I don’t know anyone  comes out with just an ice rod , I’m sure it just didn’t get picked up is all

[scout57]

it was really weird to say the least........how you could pick up and head in and leave a rod still in the water in plain sight is beyond me......your right Freddy, there was nothing else left behind......just the rod .......that's 2 fairly pricey items I've found this year with no one claiming them.....my garage is becoming a salvage yard

[filetandrelease]

 I picked up to move to another location a mile away and had to go back and get my vex 🤪
 In a hurry 4 times this year I forgot to reel up my lure and Nate wanted to know if I was ice trolling lmbo ,

[filetandrelease]

 

  Dam goat that’s a hell of thing to see first thing in the morning 🤢

[scout57]

I picked up to move to another location a mile away and had to go back and get my vex 🤪
 In a hurry 4 times this year I forgot to reel up my lure and Nate wanted to know if I was ice trolling lmbo ,

welcome to the golden years bud

[filetandrelease]

welcome to the golden years bud

Lol , least I keep goon boy entertained

[icefishnfreak]

https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/oneida-lake-could-produce-its-best-walleye-fishing-season-in-over-30-years/
interesting story on oneidas walleye #,s i hope there accurate

[filetandrelease]

 I can remember  there were so many they lowered the size to 12” I season
 Next year there will be more , those juveniles will be legal size and they like perch 😡
 The eye bite has been crazy starting last spring

[trapper2000]

they eat perch ......kill em

[filetandrelease]

they eat perch ......kill em

You bet we aren’t even fishing for the dam things and three seem to swim out of holes every outing lol

[hunts2long]

Here I am thinking "darn" all these guys must be "really" good fishermen and now I read this....h2l

[filetandrelease]

Here I am thinking "darn" all these guys must be "really" good fishermen and now I read this....h2l

Fooled you 😉

[reeleyz]

https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/oneida-lake-could-produce-its-best-walleye-fishing-season-in-over-30-years/
interesting story on oneidas walleye #,s i hope there accurate

Still no mention of the round goby???

Interesting that Cornell doesn't even acknowledge their potentially positive impact. The last regulation change was over 15 years ago...

Perch, bass, and pickeral are eating more gobies so they are eating less baby walleyes and less baby perch. Now the walleyes don't seem to eat the gobies and they still eat a lot of young perch.

It seems obvious to me. Maybe they will admit it in a few years...

[badbrad2186]

Still no mention of the round goby???

Interesting that Cornell doesn't even acknowledge their potentially positive impact. The last regulation change was over 15 years ago...

Perch, bass, and pickeral are eating more gobies so they are eating less baby walleyes and less baby perch. Now the walleyes don't seem to eat the gobies and they still eat a lot of young perch.

It seems obvious to me. Maybe they will admit it in a few years...

I don't remember where I read it or heard it but I heard or read that last time dec killed some comrades stomachaches where full of round gobie

[BillyGoat]

Perch had shrimp and walleyes had gobies in them , I bet all fish feed on them .

[reeleyz]

Perch had shrimp and walleyes had gobies in them , I bet all fish feed on them .

Is this 1 sampling or something you have seen over the past few years?

I have filleted 3 walleyes (all the same batch) with gobies in them since they arrived, the other couple hundred have had no gobies in their stomachs. The majority of the perch I have caught over the past few years have been puking up gobies.

Either way, it is saving the baby walleyes. 

[BillyGoat]

I got pic of a cormarnts hunt I went on.

[BillyGoat]

Reeleyz , I just stated to paying attention the past couple years . Seen it a couple times ,and like you said I see gobies in the perch more often but a couple times in the walleyes as well.

[trapper2000]

where do you hunt Cormorants?
what do you do with them after?
is there a use?

can you decoy them? be fun shooting

[chummer16]

I can remember  there were so many they lowered the size to 12” I season
 Next year there will be more , those juveniles will be legal size and they like perch 😡
 The eye bite has been crazy starting last spring

I caught two keeper eyes on tiny jigs with spikes last weekend.  I don’t think I have ever caught a walleye on my tiny perch jigs before. I target perch and they were a pleasant surprise. I must say I fried them up with the perch and my wife and both kids passed after one bite saying the perch were way better.  I had to suck it up and eat all the fillets myself. The sacrifices a dad makes...

[badbrad2186]

where do you hunt Cormorants?
what do you do with them after?
is there a use?

can you decoy them? be fun shooting

I thought it was dec only didnt think general public.could hunt them

[BillyGoat]

DEC gave my buddy a permit he owns a island and they were destroying the property lost half of the land. We were allowed to shoot 300 a year and 50 a day. Out of sight out of mind that's where they went.

[BillyGoat]

I thought it was dec only didnt think general public.could hunt them

My buddy told me he was the only person in the state that has a permit to do that. Don't worry we made the news and the newspaper.

[badbrad2186]

My buddy told me he was the only person in the state that has a permit to do that. Don't worry we made the news and the newspaper.

I trust ya and makes since they gave him a permit for is island. Did ya try eating any just curious how they taste

[reeleyz]

I trust ya and makes since they gave him a permit for is island. Did ya try eating any just curious how they taste

 

[Bug-Eye-Brew]

https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/oneida-lake-could-produce-its-best-walleye-fishing-season-in-over-30-years/
David Lemon, the Region 7 fisheries manager for the New York DEC, said, “We implemented a more restrictive regulation of 18 inches and three per day. Prior to that, it was 15 inches and five per day, in terms of what you could keep.”

Isn't the size limit 15" did I miss a regulation change ?