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Chautauqua Lake


JALA RUT
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For members in western NY, a couple buddies and I were looking to try fishing some new water and decided to give Chautauqua Lake a try this weekend. In looking at the map and the DEC site to find a boat launch, we were thinking about the launch at Lucille Ball Memorial Pk. Is that boat launch in pretty decent shape?

Thank you for any info

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Back when Moby Dick was a minnow, Chataugua was New York State's premiere musky fishery, for numbers of fish, although The St. Lawrence was king for size...  Perhaps things have changed as most fisheries in NY have changed over the years..

I don't keep track of musky fishing much, since I have little interest in it...Too much time spent for too few fish..I prefer   fishing for species where I can catch numerous fish in a few hours, rather than spend days trying to catch one fish..

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  On 6/12/2020 at 6:41 PM, JALA RUT said:

Thank you for the info. I was looking at the one at Bemus too. 

I've never fished Chautauqua and looking forward to it. Would love to hit up a nice musky over there. 

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Its not as hard as u think. Ive never fished strictly for a muskey and both myself and son got'm last year jigging for walleye.

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If you want to try for walleyes, the latest information that I have (from last season) indicates that the "hot bite" has been in the deep holes with jigging Rapalas.  I used to go for walleyes down there a lot in my younger days, before I learned how much better bass are.  I still have some good friends who are into them and they did very well down there last year.   

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