Letters from January/February 2026

As of right now in October 2025, the salmon are running good in the Genesee River, but like always there are many people using weighted trebles snagging and using multiple trebles above huge weights to snag (which is illegal there). It’s disappointing when they cast over your line when you have a salmon hooked and they break your line, but it’s fun to watch the NYSDEC bust them.

– Trevor Albro

This online response pertains to “The Wild Salmon Waterfall of Rochester,” by Derek Doeffinger in the September/October 2017 issue.


Hunt Country Vineyards Entering Its Final Year 

We will miss you! We do the “Keuka circuit” a couple of times a year, driving up from Brooklyn. We will be on Cayuga Lake in November, but will probably pay you a visit. All the best!

— Paul S. Cohen

To read the article, visit lifeinthefingerlakes.com/hunt-country-vineyards-entering-its-final-year.  

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