DEC Official: Fish are plentiful this winter in Cazenovia Lake

From David Figura at the Outdoors Blog on Sryacuse.com:

Earlier this week I was told by a local bait store owner that ice fishermen have been complaining lately about Cazenovia Lake, saying the fishing there has taken a dive this winter because of this past summer’s milfoil eradication efforts.

Not so, says Jim Everard, aquatic biologist at the DEC’s Cortland office, who fished the lake through the summer, fall and was out on the ice as recently as Thursday evening.“I was out from 4 to 6:30 p.m. I ended up with 10 keeper crappies, and 17 nice blue gills, which isn’t bad for a little more than two hours of fishing,” he said, adding he caught most of them on a glo-jig a small fluorescent jig that glows in the dark. He recommended using either pink or green jigs.

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