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Weather: Sunny & Warm 80*
Water Temp: 76-77*
Bait(s): Senko, Tube, Spinner & Frog

MONROE, NY -- Met up with my buddy Bill to fish Round Lake where he hasn't been to in many, many years. The last time I visited Round Lake was exactly one year ago to this date and fishing was much better this year.

We arrived to the boat launch at 6am and about 20 mins later we were on the water. Within the first half hour I hooked up with the first fish of many to follow...



Nothing was of huge size, they were actually all smaller fish that we caught today. Last year the few I caught were small as well so it leaves me wondering if Round Lake has any bigger fish; which I'm sure it does (it must have). We fished the center island on the lake and worked our way around most of the shoreline landing fish pretty often considering we were not out long. The fish were picking up tubes and senkos with little effort so we almost didn't know that we had fish on until we lifted our rod tips. Bill was worried he wasn't going to find a fish until this bad boy made his appearance...



There was no solid pattern that we could put together cause the fish were coming from everywhere; lilly pads, wood, rocks, etc. Several baits worked so they were not picky to see a certain presentation. We had a great time and ended our day fishing the lilly pads landing another two fish. We headed for the boat launch at 11am with a total of ten fish in the boat for our day; not bad at all. I actually expected a bad day because there was a posting at the boat launch that weed treatment had taken place only 3 days ago so it warned of swimming until treatment had settled.

Weather: 72* & Very Windy
Water Temp: 80*
Bait(s): Tube

FLORIDA, NY -- Had to take my defensive driving course yesterday to keep my auto insurance discount so fishing today was my only option. Since I don't like to miss Sunday services for fishing I left for the lake at about 2pm and met up with a friend. We got to Glenmere lake about 3:15 and were in the water in a matter of minutes. This was both our first times at the lake and from the initial appearance it was a nice size lake. The lake has posted hours at the front gate showing; open 7AM & closing 9PM. The gate does lock so it appears someone does maintain it's opening and closing so don't expect to fish this lake prior to 7AM.

After launching the boat we headed for a point I had seen on a map that I thought would produce for us. Within the first 45 mins we both landed fish, my fish was barely a keeper but my buddy landed a nice keeper; probably about 2.5lbs (we didn't weigh it).



My fish wasn't photo worthy but my friend enjoyed landing his bass. Take a look and see how much fun he had landing his fish...

Glenmere Lake Video

After helping my buddy land his fish we continue searching for the elusive bass. From what I expected the lake was going to be very weedy, however it's not weedy but rather choked up with lilly pads all over the place. Weeds would have been easier to navigate through with the trolling motor but since it was lilly pads that were actually all over the place, the trolling motor prop kept getting wrapped with lilly pads. I ended up having to row us around as if we were on a reservoir where rowing is the only means of propulsion.

The wind was absolutely brutal and without the use of the trolling motor rowing was a pain in the neck! We tried doing the best we could despite the heavy winds and simply could not find any fish. We found calmer water about 6PM and gave it a shot and finally called it a day at 6:30PM with only 2 fish in the boat. Glenmere looks like a very promising lake if the water is dead calm. For windy conditions this is not the lake to be at unless you have a 55lb thrust troller that can probably manage the heavy lilly pad coverage throughout the lake.

I definitely want to give this lake another shot on a hot summer day when the wind is zero and I can maneuver around the lilly patches and work both open water and the heavy lilly pad coverage with a frog. Overall it was a tough 3hrs on the water because of the wind combined with the poor ability for my 30lb troller to cut thru the lillys.

Weather: Cloudy & Warm 75*
Water Temp: 76*
Bait(s): Senko

SYLVAN LAKE, NY -- Launched at 5:15AM with a nice mist on the lake and was joined by a buddy; Ralph. About 15 minutes into our trip I landed the first fish on a spook coming in at a whopping 4lbs. Seeing this beast had our hopes up high for a great day...



We continued using top water lures hoping we would have a top water frenzy as we did at White Pond a few weeks ago but the top water bite never materialized. We worked the shoreline trying to find a pattern which was not easily found. We threw cranks, tubes, grubs, oh yea and I even have kitchen sinks in my tackle bag and we tossed one of those out but nothing. Ralph was able to pull off a miraculous come back from a skunking by landing his own 4lber on a "chatter" bait he was throwing. For the record, he got totally lucky. LOL!



My first fish came 15 minutes after our launch and Ralph found his lunker at 8am. After that we struggled to find a solid pattern of some sort. Finally at about 10am we found the pattern; the senko!! We fished the senko near a drop from 7ft of water to 25ft of water (yes it was that steep) allowing the senko to fall through scattered tall weeds. The fish would simply take the bait and run off with it, not a single fish made it known that he had the bait (no hard hits). The lines would move and "wack" we would set the hooks.

We ended our day about 10:45 after the feeding frenzy died down. We avoided leaving the lake with only two fish and ended the day with 8 bass and 1 rock bass. We had a great time and only wish we could have stayed longer but we both had other commitments for the remainder of our day.