chautauqua opening weekend

[wharfrat]

anybody fish chautauqua last weekend? if so, where and what was hot, if anything?
heard it was fairly crowded (water wolf).
thanks,
peter

[BGunn]

Saturday,
Fished South end around Grass Is., and from White Wall for about 2 miles towards bridge using stick baits, plugs, worm harnesses, and plain minnow. Not one Walleye (caught SM Bass, and White Bass).
Drifted the north end in the bay just north of long point, and from the Bell tower North about 1 mile. Same results.
Seen on the board here that in the turny they had on Sunday, 17 boats only got 14 Walleyes, and 7 boats got none.
Tried Silver Lake last night from 7:30pm to 12:30am, and talked to 4 other fishermen there. Nobody caught any Walleyes.
I think I'd try Honeoye, or Oneida. (Or take up knitting for a hobby!)

[water_wolf]

Saturday:
Fished from 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM trying stick baits and worm harness rigs in anywhere from 9' deep to 25' deep from north side of Long Point all the way down to Dewittville Bay also tried drifting worm harness and floating jig heads off bottom bouncers...NOTHING!
Switched to jigging. Vertical jigging in front of Prendergrast Point....Chautauqua Institute....Long Point.....only caught white bass.;
Went back out at 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM. Went up to Prendergrast Point (along with about 50 other boats) Ducked and Dodged boat traffic trolling floating Rapalas, jointed Rapalas. Got a few hits in 7-8' range but never boated a fish.
Didn't even launch the boat Sunday....when we got back from the launch Sunday AM the 2 other guys I was with said they were giving up and going home. Didnt take to much convincing to get me to agree.





Rich Ferguson

[Gilligan]

Rich... it was a real tough weekend with the cold front that pushed through. I wanted to go out searching Friday but Sluggo got lost! (Actually looking for an excuse to not go out in the snow and 30mph wind!)We didn't hardly mark a thing in the deep holes. The exception was a few fish taken along shoreline from Long Point back toward the launch in 30-40'. Full of snags though had to be a tree went in there. We marked a fair amount of fish in the 20-30' range at Warner Bar, Pendagrast, and Dewittville off the creek. We lost a good fish off Pendagrast Saturday and boated our one and only tournament fish there Sunday, another tournament boat also found a fish there. Sluggo picked up one nice fish Saturday off the silos on south end. Memorial day is usually the key to the south end bite just off the weed edges. We did tail hook a muskie, think that glow in the dark Renosky scared him!

All fish came off worm harnesses/pink #4 blade.

[Sluggo / NY]

Peter..Gilligan pretty much covered it with his reply (except the part about me getting lost). He really needs a lesson in giving directions! The bite was really, really slow. We know the fish are there and that they have to eat, but they took last weekend off! We did get one good fish on the south end trolling worm rigs. We also lost a good head shaker there. What little action we had came in the 12-13' range close to the shoreline. Sorry I can't be more help...Good Fishing, Sluggo (Chris)