Fishing at Tomhannock Reservoir – 8/29/26

Fishing at Tomhannock Reservoir in Rensselaer County, NY is permitted with a valid NYS fishing license and a required $10 permit issued by the City of Troy. No boats/kayaks or wading are permitted. Details are available here.

https://dec.ny.gov/places/tomhannock-reservoir .
https://www.troyny.gov/169/Fishing-Permits

In this video, I don’t have much luck with topwater bass fishing from the shore, but it’s a beautiful evening. I had an underwater CanFish camera cast out there on some 50 pound braid line to spy on the fish. When I got home and downloaded the videos, there were plenty of fish, but they were white perch, yellow perch, and a couple walleyes, not bass! I did hook into a little smallie around 3:30, but it jumped and spit the hook. Lures used are a Truscend Revenge Plopper and a Heddon Spook.