Thread: WHATS HAPPENING IN NEW YORK WATERS?

Fished Honeoye yesterday, got late start, didn't get on water till 8:30 about 40-50 boats in parking lot. NO DOCKS INSTALLED. We're a NORTHERN state that has our water covered by ice for approximately four months a year, you would think we had politicians with the intelligence to realize that a portion of their constituents actually take advantage of the outdoors. Then again the safe act and how it was passed into law, should be all the voting public needs to know.
All state docks should be in place by April 15. Date sound familiar? Give the general public some return on their taxes. Quite a few state launches have installed automatic teller machines for collection of launch fees. Well that was at least $300 in revenues lost at one lake times how many state lakes?
Well back to the fishing, very slow day. Only saw two other boats catching fish all day long. One boat put on a clinic, watched them catch 20-25 between the two of them. Throwing small plastic minnow type bait on 1/32 oz unpainted jig head,retrieved on a steady slowl retrieve. We got schooled on crappie fishing by these two guys. They totaled 42 crappie for the day. Slowed down dramatically around 11am. Fish were in 6-7 feet of water until 11am. Tried to move out and relocate school unsuccessfully.

Well there's a start to sharing your experience on the waters with others, hopefully others will follow. But I fear the number of viewers to actual respond will illustrate the difference in mindset between the northern and southern state fisherman. Even though, the southern states have many money crappie tournaments yearly.

From the launch head north along the East side, when you get 3/4 of the way up try for Crappie this time of year. I am usually there this time of yr but not leaving FL til 6/10 this yr. The Canal in Penn Yan is Fantastic this time also.

Originally Posted by John M

Well there's a start to sharing your experience on the waters with others, hopefully others will follow. But I fear the number of viewers to actual respond will illustrate the difference in mindset between the northern and southern state fisherman. Even though, the southern states have many money crappie tournaments yearly.

There's a wide difference in culture between NY and the south.Sarcasm and rudeness being at the forefront in my opinion.
I don't believe there is a large crappie following up here,I know dozens of walleye and trout/salmon fisherman,a hand full of Bass fisherman but only a few that fish for panfish.Most of the guys that fish for panfish are ice fisherman.

Yes, wish those southern guys would become more hospitable and less rude. Oh, did you mean New Yorkers are sarcastic and rude? Yes I understand, those New Yorkers just generalize about a whole region of the country they know nothing about and criticize those people on websites. Southern boys would never do that, being so refined. I spent two years in the army station in Fort Polk, Louisianna, and met many fellow soldiers from Texas that were extremely obnoxious about Texas this and that.(remember the Alamo ). But not everyone from Texas was as short cited as the rest, so I didn't generalized about people from Texas. As far as fishing is concerned us northern boys have to contend with the pleasure of having four distinctive seasons. Winter, spring,summer, fall. Not want to brag but us Northern guys have been known to walk on water(at least 3-4 months a year. I could go on making negative insinuations of the southern fisherman but have to much class and knowledge of southern fisherman to know their is no difference between them and the northern fisherman, they both have the good,the bad, and the ugly.

Just stating my opinion and why this board is not very active,Not intending to send you on a rant but your reaction is exactly what I was talking about.Which is along the lines of YOUR post #3.

Have a nice day.

Everyone needs to learn to agree to disagree with civility

Thought my response was civil and not a rant but I quess every perception is in the eye of the beholder