WORK AT THE GENNY GORGE ???

fished there today. still doing construction. have to park in the lot and walk down. good fishing though. caught 14 today.

i dont think so. im not completely sure, but the locals were doing as we did and parking in the upper lot, walking down the hill, and walking along the riverbank upstream to the dam/falls area, so i'd say no, you can't. we were hammering them on crankbaits and spoons up there man. just make sure to replace the trebles with singles...dont want a nasty fine. like i said we caught 14 and i want to say we lost just as many. also picked up a nice 12pound coho. guy beside us said it was one of the biggest coho's he'd seen. couple guys near the falls were killin' the steelies as well..

haha.thats awesome. yeah, the guy at the bait shop in town said trebles were illegal from the bridge up to the falls on "sinking" lures. floating lures(such as a floating crankbait) like i was using is ok. just as long as no weight is added. so spoons need a single hook and floating cranks can have trebles but if you put sinkers on the line, then you have to put single hooks on it too. at least this is what we were told, but i dont know why he would tell us wrong since we were buying stuff from him. that day the guy fishing skein caught 1 to our 14. they wanted big and flashy. it was awesome. its not that much of a circus right now either. we fished it all day friday and there were 3-5 guys beside us. thats it. everyone was real spread out and having a good time. saw one guy snagging, but he was also drunk so i didnt say anything. was afraid i'd have to call someone to come pick him up...but he was a terrible snagger and didnt hook but 1 fish, and it got off..haha...but its a good time right now...have a good one!....
 
zach

haha..yeah it was a bomber BO5-A black pearl, and red/black were the colors....thats what we ended up using the entire time..my buddy was getting thme on the mid sized little cleo's too...but i mostly stuck with the cranks...the guy fishing skein did alright but like i said, he only caught a couple..we  had probably 30 hookups landing 14 of them..but then again, its fishing and it changes from day to day.....but i was just letting you know so you could have them in your arsenal...but really, i think anything big and flashy would get them as well as anyhting you mentioned there..... at least that day..reaction strikes is where its at...we didnt snag a single one either..i figured we'd snag at least one reeling them through the fish but every one we landed was inside the mouth..one i caught i actually had to get the pliers out because he inhaled the crank!...good times..

no problem man...anything to help a guy catch some fish...in the morning he was using trebles...and i was using weight on my crank...cause we didn't know we weren't allowed to use them that way...but after we found out, i took off the weight(didn't seem to make  a difference anyway) and he put on a big single(didn't seem to matter anyway)...

Not trying to cause any problems but on page 31 of the 2008 NYS Fishing Regulations Guide it states that upstream from the Driving Park Bridge to the lower falls of the Genesee River even floating lures are restricted to 1 hook point with a single hook.  Hope this helps prevent any unnecessary tickets.

brown trt - Gadabout I'm gonna play it safe & take all the hooks off  LOL. Thanks for the updates. Hate to say it but those reg books are a knot to read. I'm sure I've seen the regs before but I seem to get caught in a fog after thumbing through. Should've in 03 - got a citation of the wrong kind for fishing 20 minutes before stated sunup. Think the man could have let us slide but hey, we wouldn't have it to laugh about now if he had. we did the "crime" and we paid the fine.  Dave

Will be fishing the 23rd, 24th,25th, and maybe the 26th. Between the Genny, Oak,Sandy,Marsh,Catt, Canadaway,  and others we should be able to keep busy. Will try to remember to post after we return (without burning spots of course). Dave

elephanthead where is the genny, have only fished marsh, sandy and johnson. Is it close to Oak Orchard?

ORIGINAL: elephanthead

Pappy, just got back. The gorge is right in the city of rochester. about 20 miles from the oak. Just google Seth Green Dr. on mapquest and you're there. The road is being worked on like BT said and you have to walk down the path and up the river bank to the dam. Little tricky (went down couple times got some bruises). Oh, and the Kings are there. We did good.   Dave

Those kings can get over the falls and up to the dam? Fish that powerful must fight like crazy!

Dave I don't think that is manmade at Seth Green. Its got the powerhouse, which is being worked on, but that's an 80 foot natural waterfall. Anything that gets over it and up to the Court Street dam is an EXTREMELY strong fish. 

Dave I am just playin. The crap on the banks and in the river are why its called ,among other things, the shopping cart river. Broke my big toe so I haven't been able to fish it this year with the road being closed. Its not an easy walk on those rocks with good wheels under you.  Color has looked to be off even when it hasn't rained in a while.

I know AN Andy. Same one I don't know. If he is related to Kyle, the tackle collector, I have fished with or near him many times and had some nice chats on the bank.