Geneva 6/16

Got out about 7:30am North to 45FOW. Marked a lot of fish. Started a west northwest troll to 55FOW halfway to cooling towers. Turned and headed East back past the marina. Only had 4 keepers and 20-25 shorts. Some white bass and one sheep. Tried every color of cranks, spoons , wormburners and a few harnesses. Didn’t matter. Couldn’t get through the shorts. Thought about taking a run out deep to try for big ones but wind started coming out of the northeast with white caps so we just called it a day around 1:30. My buddies have been catching limits out of Ashtabula with the shorts in the same depth with spoons off dipseys. Seems like that’s the place to go right now in close. A lot of boats were east of the marina. First trip of the year. Blazing heat this week should push them out deeper.

Thank you for the great report. The water temps were easily a month ahead out west this spring. I assume like you, and like what I saw last year....the bigger fish on average will be in a little.deeper water than the shorts? I was able to catch a lot bigger fish on average in like 70 -75 FOW than I. 50-60. Regardless, a great time and I look forward to getting out there again soon. Thanks again!

Kids and a buddy of mine fished out of Geneva on Saturday 6/29 after all the rain and storms. Only fished for about an hour before the chop picked up and was getting sketchy for his 21 footer. Ran straight out of the state park launch and targeted 40-50'. We were casting worm harnesses and got 6 keepers with about 12 shorties. Sunday was a small craft advisory, so no go then.

Good news Nick. Thank you and happy 4th Gentlemen!

Fished out of Geneva 40-50. Purple worm burners were the thing at 2-2.5 mph. Hot humid and lots of shorts. 11 keepers from 630-10 with the kids

Nice work and thank you! If theweather holds, I'll fish Ashtabula a week from tomorrow for 2 or 2 1/2 days.

Took the kids out again from 8 to 11. Probably caught 30. Tons of shorts. 10 keepers. Wormburners on purple seem to be the best 2.5 mph 50 feet to 60 feet was a better grade. Tons of boats fishing in 30 - 40 foot, lots of fish, just short

Geneva has been on fire for us. Caught a 3 man limit on Thursday. Spent most of the time in 43 fow and sorted thru a ton of small fish. Biggest one was 25.5". Went again on Friday right back to 43 fow and had 18 fish in 2 hours. Needed 6 more fish so we moved out to 50 fow and the grade of fish was much nicer. Pulled our 4th ticket quickly and was back to the dock by 10:30 am. We are still drifting and casting Erie Dearies and single blade/hook spinners. So much fun using a spinning reel to catch these fish. It probably won't last much longer and we'll head out to deeper water where we'll be forced to switch to trolling. It will still be fun, but obviously a different program than drifting and casting. Tight lines fellas and good luck!

Great report and nice work. The casting sure is a lot of fun. Especially with these big healthy fish. Looking like I will hit Ashtabula this Friday and Saturday. Will have 4 guys and two boats. Second boat is a rookie so we'll see.

I'll post my experiences and appreciate you all who do.

Love reading about good outdoorsman and good fishing!

Went out of Ashtabula Sunday got there around 5:30 pm shot out to 73 fow trolled west caught 6 keepers on the first pass with all the fish being over 20” turned around and went back through the school and picked up 3 more. Bloody nose worm harness was a killer yesterday couldn’t keep the pole in the water. Dipseys #3 setting 160 back #0 setting 120 back was a hot combination. It slowed down a little but we picked them off one by one to get our 18 and was done by 8:45pm. Good luck and tight lines

Congratulations and thanks so much for sharing! Great to know that there are fish to be had at a wide range of depths. Specifically though, that the bigger grade of fish are deep already. Not surprised as water temps were a month ahead of normal out west.

Many like the eaters better and that is cool and understandable. With only going a few trips a year for me.......I'll e
Take the big ones and be happier with the much larger bags of fillets. 😋

Nicely done getting 3 limits in only a few hours. Sounds like the fishing is great with some sorting. Hope that we can do the same and getting 12 per boat will only take a few hours.

Am excited as are my guests. Thank you again to all who post and share 🙂

Continued safe fishing and tight lines!

Bringing my boys (7,9) and nephew up to launch @ the Geneva Marina this Friday and Saturday. Anyone got intel on direction and FOW? Worm-burners? Colors on spoons doing good this week?

72' to 76' of water seems to be best straight North out of the harbor. concentrate on the 50' deep fish they have been the most active. spoons in blues, greens with silver backs have been working best for us. with shallow running cranks off the dipseys also. don't use worms so can't comment on them. there will be plenty of boats out there to use as reference. angle east if you need to stray E or W. tight lines................

PFK is right. Same depth is good all the way past Ashtabula. We also picked up a lot of fish deeper in the water column at 60-70 down. I don't use worms either but if you put them at the right depth you'll get them. Good luck!

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Bringing my boys (7,9) and nephew up to launch @ the Geneva Marina this Friday and Saturday. Anyone got intel on direction and FOW? Worm-burners? Colors on spoons doing good this week?

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I'm not getting to fish this year. but this time of year I recommend starting around 74' of water and fishing deep. if the wind allows try trolling north 1st. we just run straight north out of the harbor. we use large spoons with lite bite slide divers but just use a 7' leader. our absolute best spoon has been the Dreamweaver dw purple alewife spoon. but we use a lot of spoons with purple but catch many fish on other colors. we run 2 downriggers set at 50' and 55' and the bandit sunspot has been the best crank on our riggers. 2.7 to 3.0 has worked great running spoons. purple is always a good color add a little black and it's FISH ON.

Hey Nick. I answered your message but am not 100% confident it worked. Text me if it didn't or if you'd like to exchange some more info. 607-857-4628.
Best wishes.

-Don

Fished out of Geneva on Saturday 7/20 and what a beautiful day. Midges got thick around 11ish and we quit then, but the kiddos got 24 keepers trolling 70-75 fow straight north outta the launch. Spoons (any color) and worm burners were constant. City of boats out there......

Congratulations on a great day with the kids!

Anyone got intel to share about Geneva?

I'm fishing Tuesday and Wednesday straight out of the harbor till I see fish. Will report tomorrow.

Read somewhere else 70-75 fow and targeting suspended 50-55 fow. I'd appreciate any info!!!

I was there a few weeks ago. 72-76 FOW. Most of my fish were within 10 feet of bottom and they were hungry. Mostly 74-76 FOW actually. Bright chartreuse best color.