[bucktail]

Finally a good bass trip. 20+ fish, 15 keepers with a 5,4,multiple 3-3.5, pickerel and yellow perch. About time.

 

[mako841]

im glad to here it i live off a lake in islip but yet to fish it yet this year...what have you been using?

 

[rac37]

not sure where your from but lmb are off limits till june 7th.did you keep 15 fish

regs

 

[bucktail]

ALL fish released unharmed!! Can't help it if the bass will not stay off yer lures.

 

[Cowboy1530]

C&R with artificals is legal in a lot spaces in NY year round. Freshwater guys should read up on the DEC regulations (handbook or online). Now if your keeping the fish its a totally different story, punishable by a hefty fine and confiscating all of your gear. If you see somebody keeping fish out of season, call it in, put DEC in your cell phones!

 

[CHEVY1]

Not complaining, BUT

report is missing many details. No need to spot burn, but a little more info would make your report worth reading. We don't even know what state your from.

Maybe even what the conditions where, time of day and your killer lure.

 

[rac37]

Freshwater guys should read up on the DEC regulations (handbook or online). Note: It is illegal to fish for bass during the period March 16 thru Friday preceding the 1st Sat. in June.am i reading this wrong these rules are for suffolk read it here

This post edited by rac37 08:47 PM 04/11/2008

 

[CHEVY1]

Nope

rac37 wrote:
Freshwater guys should read up on the DEC regulations (handbook or online). Note: It is illegal to fish for bass during the period March 16 thru Friday preceding the 1st Sat. in June.am i reading this wrong these rules are for suffolk read it here

That goes for Nassau county too. C&R is allowed in a few lakes in suffolk all year, but in Nassau it is C&R Only, and only when the season is open.

 

[bucktail]

eastern suffolk
afternoon
windy side of the lake
chatterbait

 

[bucktail]

area- way eastern SH town
lures-evrything worked today
total-25 bass-9 keepers, 30 pickerel and 2 yellow perch ALL RELEASED

 

[Globallyfishin3]

Guys ill say 1 thing I went up to the neversink 3 weeks in a row not even a bite not shorty zero nothing I'm upset any1 got any suggestions places to fish? Thanks

 

[rac37]

if its a reservior

try the pepacton reservior in the downsville area,great time of the year for smallmouth bass theres all so a lot of browns crusing the shore at this time of the year.i fished the neversink a few times mostly trying for walley never caught anything but saw some nice photo's in that bait shop.

nice day for you out there bucktail

POW30 picks

 

[frankiesurf]

From the handbook

For Suffolk County:

All waters except Lake Ronkonkoma, Belmont Lake, Artist Lake, Blydenburgh Lake and Fort Pond.

Black Bass- 1st Sat in June - Nov 30 15" length 5 - limit

Dec 1 - March 15 catch and release only

Note : It is ILLEGAL to fish for bass during the period March 16 through the Friday preceding the 1st Sat in June

Artist lake and Belmont Lake - Black Bass open all year Catch and Release only

Walleye and Pickeral aren't open yet either so I hope you are catching these fish on trout lures. If DEC sees you using big stuff it will certainly look like you are targeting these fish and that is a ticket.

 

[rac37]

bucktail :ALL fish released unharmed!! Can't help it if the bass will not stay off yer lures

frankiesurf wrote:
For Suffolk County:

All waters except Lake Ronkonkoma, Belmont Lake, Artist Lake, Blydenburgh Lake and Fort Pond.

Black Bass- 1st Sat in June - Nov 30 15" length 5 - limit

Dec 1 - March 15 catch and release only

Note : It is ILLEGAL to fish for bass during the period March 16 through the Friday preceding the 1st Sat in June

Artist lake and Belmont Lake - Black Bass open all year Catch and Release only

Walleye and Pickeral aren't open yet either so I hope you are catching these fish on trout lures. If DEC sees you using big stuff it will certainly look like you are targeting these fish and that is a ticket.

i do agree with frankiesurf try to leave them alone in the next few weeks they will be spawning.

 

[rac37]

frankiesurf wrote:
For Suffolk County:

Pickeral aren't open yet either so I hope you are catching these fish on trout lures. If DEC sees you using big stuff it will certainly look like you are targeting these fish and that is a ticket.

frankie where did you see the regs[seseon]on pickeral,i never know there was one on pickeral??

 

[frankiesurf]

It is all in the NYS Freshwater Fishing Regs booklet. Pickeral, Northern Pike, Walleye and Tiger Muskie are all 1st Sat in May - March 15

 

[bucktail]

no DEC out here, just town bay constables

 

[flukerr]

S. Hampton.

I am not sure, but i have heard that the Town of S. Hampton has special regs as far as their fish and lakes are concerned. Something to the effect that it goes back to the days of Kings and Dukes...I know there was a court action over the ramp at Wildwood lake and S.Hampton won....Maybe Bucktail will be so kind at to clue us all in on this matter.....

 

[bucktail]

hey flukerr: The town Trustees get their power from the Dongan Patent when in 1641 Kin George gave them control of all the waters in the Township and all the fish and shellfish therein. They are held in trust for the residents of the town. The deal wiht the Wildwood ramp was the state trying to take jurisdiction over the Town by saying that since we built the ramp, you have to let non-resident anglers fish here. The State lost. It seems that the State gave up on fresh water in the Town. It sucks if yer not a resident, I admit, but it works if you live here.

 

[bucktail]

much, much more of the same yesterday!