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.