Oneida lake ( Need Help)

[blkbearklr]

My brother took his family on vacation on Oneida Lake, they have been there for 6 days only caught one walleye and 3 bass. I used to fish it in 94-96 when I was stationed at Fort Drum. I cannot give him any places to start.

If you know of a good place for them to start fishing, he does not have graphs so just a general area.

Thanks

Joe

[otis2]

If he is targeting walleye he should concentrate on either the deeper water north of the buoys (117-111 have been producing), or in the weeds (anywhere in the lake from 3-20 fow).  In the deeper water try drifting work harnesses, jigging black/purple jigs tipped with half a worm, or jig sonar’s.  In the weeds he can either drift the weed edges, or pick the holes within the weeds.  In the weeds you can use smaller jigs, or live bait (worms, leaches, crawfish) with a bobber.  The weeds will also produce a lot of other species that the deeper water may not (sm bass, huge sunfish, chain pickerel, etc...).  Good Luck!

[Stretchhunts]

Right now the eyes are Deep. 20-30+ FOW. We are using Sonars, Bucktails and worm harnesses. Gold seems to be the color for Sonars and worn harnesses.  SLOW, REAL SLOW retrieval with the harnesses. Black and purple or Olive bucktails tipped with a crawler. Make sure you have a stinger hook into the tail of the crawler.

[blkbearklr]

thanks everyone. I will pass the info on to him

Joe