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I never remember any shad being in oneida lake until the late 70’s. But there were a lot more buckeyes. We caught a lot of eyes from when I started fishing Oneida in 1944\1945 until the shad appeared. Size was 12 inches and 25/day limit. Those days are not remembered by many. I have seen the Sylvan Beach pier lined with fishermen in the spring when the west wind blew, all with stringers full. I think the shad have helped the perch population as the eyes go more to the shad but the eye population was very, very good when there were no shad.
if you are having trouble catching crappie over 8" your doing some thing wrong, I've lived in Fulton for almost 50 years and I fish the lake every year and I get alot of 12 to 14 inch fish and some that are larger
timmy you live on phillips street?i lived there my hole live i know right where the deep hole is and i can say if i see a couple other people is fishing on that lake a year i'm surprized before the limits i have counted 60 lanterns on the ice in one night from my bedroom window ....those days are long gone ..... you hardly get a crappie fisherman in the creek in the spring
i lived on west fourth until I was 12, remember the " salem house", i live on west first now
Great memories and stories guys. I’ve been blessed to have grown up on the shores of Oneida Lake. Such a great place with awesome fishing history.
big area just opened up off of dutchmans running towards chapman
i remeber the lips or the back and a ice shack was plywood no pull alongs ...spoon augers or a old eskimo ....or the spud and we spudded a lot of holes back then .....dacron line and red and white bobbers lol
Lots of memories of OL. Night fishing was big when the limits were big. I don’t remember many lights at night when ice fishing. Some guys would do a 10:00 check of their 25 tipups for hangers. Could leave them in nights then. I do remember counting 50 or more boats with lanterns, fishing between 109 and 113. That would be weekdays, weekends upwards to 100. We anchored and fished straight down. Remember well the smell of bugs burning on the coleman lanterns. It was a big deal when they went from one to 2 mantle lanterns. They burned “white”gas. Also know as marine gas. It was unleaded. I’m blessed knowing I went through the best times of lady Oneida.