10-29-2017, 09:14 PM
I just came across this report. Good job on a great season up there!
I fished the crap out of Oneida this summer and fall and it didn't disappoint. Lots of good sized smallies, walleyes, jumbo perch, rainbows, and a surprise 10" bluegill (not green sunfish)! It was stellar up there this year and with the exception of the Labor Day weekend we had it mostly to ourselves. Only another boat or two there most days. It peeved me that they dropped it so much, but hopefully they will get the dam fixed quickly and it will be back to normal next spring. It never affected the bite for us, but made it impossible to launch on our last trip, so we just fished the river below.
Perch were always just an incidental catch and we never really targeted them, but this year I had a fishing chum with me that wanted to target them, so we tried. Caught TONS of perch between 8-12" when we tried and always ended up with a few walleyes while targeting the perch.
Seems like the smallies were a little smaller than normal this year though. We still caught several 16" smallies, but seems like the 8-10" size bass made up the bulk of them. Years past they seemed to be more like 10-13".
I'm wondering if it's worth the effort of ice fishing it? I've never tried and it seems like it should be ok.
Mike
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I fished the crap out of Oneida this summer and fall and it didn't disappoint. Lots of good sized smallies, walleyes, jumbo perch, rainbows, and a surprise 10" bluegill (not green sunfish)! It was stellar up there this year and with the exception of the Labor Day weekend we had it mostly to ourselves. Only another boat or two there most days. It peeved me that they dropped it so much, but hopefully they will get the dam fixed quickly and it will be back to normal next spring. It never affected the bite for us, but made it impossible to launch on our last trip, so we just fished the river below.
Perch were always just an incidental catch and we never really targeted them, but this year I had a fishing chum with me that wanted to target them, so we tried. Caught TONS of perch between 8-12" when we tried and always ended up with a few walleyes while targeting the perch.
Seems like the smallies were a little smaller than normal this year though. We still caught several 16" smallies, but seems like the 8-10" size bass made up the bulk of them. Years past they seemed to be more like 10-13".
I'm wondering if it's worth the effort of ice fishing it? I've never tried and it seems like it should be ok.
Mike
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