Water Temp: 66-67 Degrees
NEW PALTZ, NY -- Arrived at the lake about 2:15pm today. I was supposed to hook up with a buddy but an emergency kept him from the action. Well, he didn't miss much cause I left after 3hrs and three fish later. All the fish came in the last hour as I searched out where they could be. Nothing was near the pads as I worked spinnerbaits and plastics along the edges.
I made my way into the creek channel but didn't go too far in because I wasn't getting any bites or nibbles for that matter. I decided to work the deeper shorelines and that's when I got lucky. The fish were sitting on the shoreline ledges in or around 5-6 FT of water with an immediate drop off into 8-10FT of water. As I fished the shoreline edges feeling for these "shelves", that's when I found my bites.
All the fish were small. I've only been to this lake a handful of times and I seem to hook into better fish during the summer than I do in the fall. I'm not sure if I'll be back out here this season but I'm finding it to fish better in the summer months when the fish are under the lilly pads.