Chautauqua Lake

Surface temp is up to 75 degrees. There are a ton of floating weeds on the south basin according to Mike Sperry at Chautauqua Reel Outdoors. In part it’s because of a lack of wind. It certainly makes trolling tough. They did pick up a few muskies over the weekend. Trolling small musky crankbaits is working if you're willing to deal with the floating weed situation. Walleye has slowed down some in the past week. That should pick back up again as the water cools next week. The deep water jigging bite has yet to really get started. Perch are hitting minnows but you have to weed through the smaller ones.