Clint I hope you have a great vacation and your hands covered in fish slime.

Clint be careful buddy winds out of the wnw at 15 to 16 mph, thats alot on oneida, my boat is 231/2 foot and I wont risk it, if you are running out of godfrey again the 40 foot water has been holding alot of fish on the bottom but alot of bait still balled up and they are kinda tight lipped. Chartuse has been the color in worm harness and jighead color. Go get them, im gonna lay some block and get the garage door closed in and clean the pool, by sunday the wind is suppose to lay back down and will go get them then. 
 
cp did you leave out of oswego at night and how did you do? I used to go out there at night and we would pull 10 inch long thundersticks and jointed raps and get some 10+ pounders out of the driftboat. That year a boat came out of the marina and ran a driftboat over that had very little ligh and we stopped going up. we would set a lantern on the bow and both have flashlights and that was it, there would be 50 boats going in circles all night it was insane!

Thanks John, I will not mess around with Oneida  with alot wind  (or any other body of water for that matter).   If the wind stays this bad I will stay put.   I was going to try to the east a little by the  hazard  bouys in the shallow  water towards the evening.   I do not have alot of experience on Oneida, especially on that end,   so it is all trial and error right now.     I was also thinking of Greenpoint  (Sandy pond)   or even the res. for perch

Gust's still at up to 25mph,    putting a damper on my fishing

Went out of Godfrey this am.  I had the nephew with me and he was slow gettin' moving so did not leave the house until 730.    2 stops at bait stores looking for minnows and we were on the water  before  900.  There were a few boats there and they were all drifting so we did the same.     Wind was mild at first, but steadily picked up until the whitecaps  started coming.   Drift was so fast we had to drag the mushroom to slow down.  I got a few perch, lost a nice bass at the boat.   No eyes today, but this was the first time out in my boat this year, and with my nephew with me and the wind we stayed close to Godfrey.  Those we talked to had similar luck.   Had a OH CRAP moment about an hour in we are motoring  for another drift and the engine loses power, got that feeling in my gut,   looks like we are paddling.   Engine quit...............
 
After a quick peak the gas line had come loose.   Whew.    Winds were bad and had driven most of t he boats, and us off the lake by 100

Nice to hear you got out Clint, today was the first day since the opener I have managed to get out. Picked Uncle Matt up at 630 and left the slip by 7 west wind has been blowing for a few days usually balls the bait up at the east end so we deciced to fish the pancakes a mile or so north out of the marina.


it was choppy but we managed 9 bites and landed 5 eyes I dropped the ball twice and missed great bites but it was great to be out, and Uncle Matt is going to be having open heart surgery so was nice to spend some time with him he has shared alot of his fishing knowledge with me and is a good dude.

 

Great Holiday meal!!:)

 

Nice job John.  Walleye looks delicious as does the bird.

We pretty much stayed near the shoal (bueys)  just east of the launch.   We drifted  10, 15 and  30 feet and then started again.   Just tried to cover alot of ground.    Dropped a nice one in the deeper water that was probably an eye.    May try to put off the south shore state launch and hit shackleton next weekend if the wind is better.   Trying to learn.

Nice john!!! 5 days til my first oneida outting. Looking forward to a good dinner saturday night