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Any one have any info on Stark lake
Hands down Oneida Lake is your best chance to catch walleye. I fish moon lake and red lake quite frequently in the spring and summer...red lake might produce scrapper walleye on occasion. If you fish the north shore of Oneida Lake and pick a day with no wind and good ice you can throw anything at em when the bite is on and you will produce. Of course one must mention location and the anglers knowledgde/skill also comes into play. Check the Oneida Lake BS postings from last week and you will get a good idea on the activity. There is no other option for good action. Sorry but the indian river lakes just don't have the same action...black lake is your next best bet if you're interested in waldo's. Oh I forgot to mention the Jumbo perch
if anyone is interested there were trucks out on Franklin Falls this morning
trying to get eyes on black lake is tough at best they just held a tourney this weekend and not one eye was entered.
Stark Reservoir. Heading up for the Northern Challenge a few days early hoping to fish some of the local lakes. Any advice on where to go within a half hour drive of Tupper? Pike would be great, but we are happy catching anything in decent numbers.
The whole raquette system is tough fishing, honestly. Stark and carry can be dangerous. There is swift water areas on stark I wouldn't fish either of them without enlisting the help of an experienced local. There's not but a few local guys who know where to go up there to be 100% safe.
Hey Ice - you offering your help? Someone should mark up a custom google map explaining and showing the dangerous areas. It's been 30 years since I haunted those reservoirs, need a refresher.
I'll see what I can do and I'll shoot you a pm
hoping to hook into a big nasty northern this weekend
Get a nice one I wanna see some pictures
hope so man, a group of use are meeting up in an area where some 20-30lbers have been caught in the past week so with any luck we will have one for the wall! so far ive only caught 2 this year (havent gone for Northerns too much yet) biggest was only 30" but its bottom jaw was deformed so I kept her..(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)
You must be talking about Cranberry. 6 of my buddies went there and they know what they are doing , several 20ish lbers in years past and the biggest they hit was a 16lber several other pike but an old timer told them that the 20 lbers are slowly turning into 10 lbers, which means it's getting over fished and or atleast big fish are getting over kept.People don't realize to keep a fishery full of big fish , you have to let the big brutes go. Think about it if you have 25 Jumbo's in a lake and you keep 23 of them what's left ? That old timer knew what he was saying. It's to bad that more people don't follow a rule where you let atleast some of the big breeders go. With that said I do not think keeping a big fish is wrong as we all have a choice and that choice is our own.
There is no doubt about it cranberry is being overfished. We were there the other day in our spot which coincidentally is a lot of guys spot because a lot of big ones come out right there, anyway... We're up there and these two fellas have a stack of pike on the ice, not eaters either. Couple 14-15 pounders. Couple 12-13 pounders. Drive by another shack on the wheeler and see a pile of frozen carcasses. Heads were big, all over 13 pounds it seemed. That's just crazy!!!!
Cleaned er out Clint! Good to go.I don't know about the Alex bay deal but I heard from a credible source that the black lake derby winner came from cranberry.
Not that it matters but they drove a long ways to enter a 34.75", 10.34 lb. Pike. It was worth 190.00$ though
Last year's alex bay winner came out of there. I beleive the runner up did too. Ridiculous to keep as many big fish as NNYIce was saying. Some people are greedy I guess, you will never change their minds. I have a couple buddies that keep everything big, they get mad at me when I let a big bass or northern go or try to talk them into releasing their big ones. Slots would be nice, I think thats something NYDEC should consider on Pike, Bass and Walleye for starters.