{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: advice needed: 4 days in Ithaca, NY

I fish Canandaigua Lake a lot and this time of year I have the best luck with bass.  Pickerel will bite, but fall and early spring is much better for them.  I don't have too much experience with the trout up there, but i'd imagine most of them have moved back into the lakes by now and are getting down deep. The same can be said for the lakers.  This time of year, you'd have to go out trolling deep.  Closer to Ithica is Waneta lake, a small one at the base of Keuka.  I grew up pounding this lake for bass.  It's an amazing fishery, buy horribly weedy.  I haven't ever fly fished it, but topwater at dawn dusk used to be the ticket with chuggers, jitterbugs, and poppers.  Whatever you would throw should either float or have a weed guard.  With all these lakes, I have the best luck around point and creek mouths where there is ample grass. Fish along drop-offs.  Clousers and crayfish patterns have been my late morning early evening ticket while I use poppers and big foam bugs at night.  Many of these lakes get busy during the day and the fisheries have certainly suffered for it, but you should be able to at least get into a few bass, a slew of rock bass, yellow perch, and maybe a few other critters.  

Sorry to say I don't have any Ithica specific intel, so worth calling some tackle shops.  

Gregg

On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 10:49:52 AM UTC-4, Andrew LaVigne wrote:

Folks - heading for Ithaca for a long wedding weekend, and have a couple days to play around on the water up there. Staying at a house on Cayuga lake with access to canoe/kayak. Have a car, but limited due to the group we're with, so probably not doing any drives longer than an hour or so to fish. 

From what I can tell, the lake may be an ok option for bass/pickerel/maybe trout?, as long as I have a full-sink line available, and some of the tributary streams have smallmouth below & trout above their falls. Looking for a little more in-depth guidance and recs, though. 

Anybody spent much time fishing up there? 

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