We took our annual 3 day trip from this past Saturday through Tuesday. The weather was volatile to say the least but the fish were there, although not always willing. We found a good number of fish to the North, although the water had a distinct green tint to it. I'm not sure if that was just surface algae, but the fish did not feed well in it. Further south, the water was clearer and in Willsboro bay, the water was very clear. As always, our approach was jigging. We had 2 boats and 4 fisherman. On Saturday from noon to 7 we boated 23, but it took some traveling to find those that will bite. On Sunday, we dodged storms, got out late and finished early, but managed 41. Monday should have been our best day, but at noon we had 2 fish and could not see hardly any fish in the normal spots. By chance, we started looking shallower and found big numbers and they were hungry. Lost count at some point we had triples. Fish bit spoons, jigs, plastic. Leave it down there or reel it up, they were willing. The afternoon was epic. Big fish was about 12 pounds all the way down to 15". There was a high number of 10 lb fish. One thing that we noticed was that there were very few with lamprey marks and many of the fish were bright and younger looking. Tuesday morning was similar to Monday afternoon, but less fish, but they were still shallow biters.
A few questions about the green water...algae or runoff from the floods?? Have others experienced this? It was prevalent near Schuyler Island.
Already looking forward to next year!