Not worth  new thread-
Got in Sun nite and fished much of Mon and Tues.
Bugged out in a high wind and rain Wed AM.
Never had a bite and saw very very very few who did.
Even resorted to the Church Pool, stood in a dreaded Conga line for a long time.
Felt and looked like Tressel.
Heck ya can even stand up above and watch the show. Some fishing and most --------
Some caught fish here and there but they found the very few places where the very few fish were and generally stayed put for hours casting.
Never saw a fish on the move cept for some upriver dying kings drifting down.
Saw one guy with a Steel on a stringer and a couple of Kings on others.
Fella said his friend has a cleaning station and did SEVEN fish on Columbus Day.
Guy staying at a popular established fishing Motel said THREE overnight fishing guests on Tuesday.
IMHO this was  far worse than last season except for those who get out in the dark and sit on a few well established holds-after that its pure luck- and often some skill as well as a thousand casts - to find 'the one'.
Predict big changes up there if this continues through next season.
Sad commentary--
I aint perfect but have been on the river over 30 years and can catch a fish now and then ( when luck holds)but this was  a lousy season.
Felt that as bad as last season was this one is even 'worster'  than that.
Hope  for a few mild winters with little lake ice.

Thanks for the insight rg. I hope Fichy and uglyfish find that few willing.
I'm not pointing fingers or disputing others views but I still stand by the things I have been saying all summer from my insight of the lake.
If this is what has held true. Things will not change instantly, it will take time and seasons.
It will not deter me from spending another season every week on the Great Lake Adventure, it will though change my fishing. I will target lakers more and try to establish a jigging program for them

Sounds like Oswego for me on Monday for bows

We got alittle water logged but had a great time as always. We did find some players

Nice to hear FISH- 10% guys like you and Charlie generally do- the rest of us--oh well        lol
You fished  some lousy weather today- congrats on the players.
Will be back in a couple of weeks to make  myself nuts again.
Some of us will always be back- many will not.

Good to Ug.
The weather had Lucky and I put the trip back by a day.
Hope springs eternal!

The rain broke a lot loose along the lake. Stopped at a small trib while running errands yesterday PM, got 2 browns, one about 12, one about 6, in about 20 minutes before the wind and rain picked up.  Based on being able to be on the river today and manana, I figure the big steel break out will be Saturday!

Ours were coho numbers no steel players. Saw a steel landed but was foul hooked.

A 12 lb. brown ?   Don't be bothering with the SR.  I'll assume it was inches or you would have elaborated a little more, Lucky. Good luck to you guys. The soup du jour, was leaf of oak and maple, with beech and ash. I'll never order it again. Wow, at points it was hard to break through  the surface. Lights out in Pulaski. There'd have been a lot of accidents a few weeks ago!  We heard a couple of big trees go down. More exciting than the leaf removal ritual that followed  nearly every cast. Great time with a friend and some feisty ho's  played with, but glad to be back home.  My advice to those make the soup, a little more trout, less vegetable.

Why we didn't go on Wednesday, the forecast sounded like a time we walked to lower clay and then had Fred show up to tell us they were closing due to the winds.  I still have the pass he gave me, my legs cramp up every time I look at it.  Thurs started nice, there were some fish in town, but then we got an encore of Wednesday,  Cold blowing wind and heavy rain.  2bob was not satisfied that his outfit was sufficiently water proof, so he put it to the total immersion test, where it preformed admirably at hindering his resurrection from the baptismal waters, as it had been filled to overflowing!  This got us to Mike's early and limited 2bob's afternoon excursion to the wall, where boots are not absolutely necessary.  I went down and watched 2 or three hooked in the Unemployment, then about 1/2 hour later, a guy on the island that forms from the middle bridge support of the 52 bridge hit three in short order, another 1/2 hour and there were some hookups in the riffs and then about three o'clock the church hole lit up. Thy were mostly 7-8 lbers, with the occasional huge pig, and the wall was the wrong side of the river, although I did have one come up to a wet in the surface film, and slash but felt no take. A pod of maybe a hundred or so chromers, we were hoping this was the "first big wave" of fall 2015, but yesterday, there was not much around again.  Definitely an off year so far.
 
The Browns are lbs, if you are at the mouths of the little streams at just the right time, they stack up, but this was the first time I timed it right in a few years, and I live within 5 miles, and got a phone call telling me they were there.  I would have brought the bigger one home, but I quit using eggs except in the finger lakes in the spring.
 
The genny is blown right out again, so no prospecting this weekend.  But the forecast is shaping up to be great for end of the week, so Wed Thurs Fri, I'll be an Oswego County resident again