Lamoka Is Dialed In...

November 15th, 2025 - opening day of gun season for NY deer.

The rut has been on for about 10 days...

Everyone else is hunting...and I own the lake!  

6:15am is still a bit early, even for false dawn, but we're going to launch...we're living on the edge!

By myself today, so the rope-a-boat trick worked efficiently for floating the boat off the trailer, tying it to the dock and parking the truck and trailer.

My old Yamaha is cold natured, but once cranked, it runs well...it seems we have much in common!

45 degree water, 32 degree air temp, and I was hunting my gloves before getting 100 yards down the channel...

Sunrise at the lake entrance was spectacular and a showcase once again of God's handwork! 

Passed up the Island and went straight to the Northshore "drop zone".  Trolling motor down and started hunting the 10' edge to fish deep to shallow, up the drop-off.  

There's a little morning chop, from the sunrise, but the lake layed back down, and the forecast was 1 to 3 mph out of the South through mid-morning, then up to 7 by noon and increasing as the afternoon progresses, with falling temps and rain by evening. 

Just like clockwork...chunks!  Big smallies on the ZMan minnow on a 1/0 finesse hook with a 3/8th drop shot down about 12 inches.  A total of 4 in the boat with 3 other solid bites that I didn't get hooked up.

Just fun, fun fishing...and it's now a very dependable pattern, with bigger than average bass!

Just have to mention this one!  Big fish for the day!  (And the squints are from this old blind guy trying to see the camara in the sunlight!) 

I had it in the boat and had my phone in hand for a photo...

...when my buddy Caleb called for our daily zoom!

He's always big smiles when we connect, and so of course I had to do some show & tell, so he could see what a "real" fish looked like! 

He grinned big-time when I showed him the 3 lbs, 7 oz green monster.

That may be the first real live fish he's ever seen, but it's only the first of a thousand more we plan to catch together over the next several years.

I can hardly wait!

Let the adventure continue...