Lake George Weekend Report

[NJSquatch]

gypsy...thanks for the info. i have always associated pickerel with weeds and lake george is generally void of them. I have never fished the south end of the lake.

My family has been going to the same spot for over 40 years at the northern end to the lake on Sabbath Day Point. It is the special place that takes me back to being a kid. If you get a chance take a trip up that way. It is a totally different world than the hustle and bustle of the village/bolton areas.

We generally target deep water bass and man are they a blast to catch. At least once or twice a trip I get delusions of grandeur and troll for lakers using three way rigs but just wind up catching perch and bass. Now my wife that is a different story. Two years ago we are carolina rigging senkos in 40 fow and she thinks she is snagged. Nope she reels in a 8# laker! She always out fishes me and I still hear about that trout. Ridiculous.

[Shameless14]

Great stories guys! I was fishing mostly docks the points and coves south of Pilot Knob all the way up to Plum Point. First pickerel in three years for me, I caught him sight fishing in the shallows. Tons of weeds in the back of coves, lots of quality LMB on them. Have fun fishing when you guys go up, make sure you post a report about how you guys do!

[Lard Almighty]

Lake George is a beautiful lake to fish! Crystal clear and loaded with bass, trout and salmon. Caught my PB pickerel from the south end of the lake. I'd love to get back up there someday.

[NJSquatch]

apparently i am a knob... everyone is catching pickerel up there....

the south end sounds completely opposite of the North end where i am fishing. we are lucky to find sparse bottom grass and when you do that is where the bass are...the shorelines are either rocks or sand with no vegetation to be had. the random blown down tree will have a larry or 2 but mostly we are catching smallies on humps in 30-40 fow

[Sharkyispy]

Nice report! Grew up going to that lake in the summer and got to fish there. Very deep portions of that lake, some great fish tales.....

[icebadger]

awesome report,catching fish and good times with good people hard to beat that.really nice fish and even a slime dart.lets hope squatch gets a slime dart or two so he doesn't feel like a knob anymore.. he seems to be a good angler,i have faith he will get the job done.it was nice of you to share some info to help him out god bless and tight lines

[gypsy]

Squatch, I fish in Hague also, up there from the dock you can almost cast to 100', over at Paulist Fathers before they populate that place you can walk in and fish, you can cast and hit 100' water from shore. That is a good ice out fishing spot, catching Lakers from shore!!!

[SplitShot]

Looks like you had a blast..... we're heading up to Keuka Lake (Finger Lakes) next week for a 5 day family getaway.... bringing my gear and hoping there's some good fishing.... we rented a house right up on the Northern end of lake and it comes with kayaks so I'm psyched for some R&R... never been up there so I'll be checking it out

[tradingfrank27]

Nice job, never caught a big LM there when we go there for vacation. Usually just fished off the point at the Sagamore

[Shameless14]

Tradingfrank27, actually one of the biggest LMB I ever saw at Lake George was no joke at the Sagamore. It was on a bed between the shore and where they were renting fishing rods out on the pier, untouchable to any boat. Everyone was casting to the main lake, but nobody bothered to throw back towards the hotel

Lard, nice pick!!

Njsquatch, out of curiosity, how big were the bass you were pulling out of 30-40 fow? Wonder if theyre any bigger than the ones that hang around the docks. And dont worry you'll get your pick one day. So far youre the only angler i've heard of angry NOT to catch one while bass fishing