[Chrisper4694]

Originally Posted by bulletbob

Yeah pretty weird right??These lakes are for deep water trolling . They are absolutely huge, and the fish aren't everywhere.. They are on alewives that are sometimes 250 feet down.. Guys regularly troll 100- 150 feet deep here, sometimes even deeper.... Not my bag at all...

First 10 years here, I had good fishing and did not miss what I left in NJ all that much. Great SMB, perch, huge sunnies, Pike here and there, and enough big Salmonids within reach to keep my interest, and keeping me from becoming just another troller putting 50 miles on the boat every trip... Then, the invasions started, Zebras and Quaggas first, then the masses of spiny fleas, then the hordes of Gobies, not to mention massive population spikes of lampreys, and huge devastating lake wide die offs due to VHS.... Fishing is a sad shadow here of what it once was. The trollers aren't as affected because all the salmonids are stocked, and as long as the alewives are here, they grow quickly... Near shore/shallow water fishing in many of these lakes is dead.. yes I can go to Lake George, or Black Lake, but the NJ shore is actually closer, so thats what I tend to do most often... bob

I know a guy that moved from NJ to guide cyuga lake (spelling?) he doesn't troll...fishes similarly to how we fish the deep lake trout lakes here... jigging and casting for smallmouth and lake trout... gets a good amount of salmon or browns (can't remember which) and musky too sometimes.