Fishingbooker<\/a>, an online travel agency that connects anglers with fishing guides and charter boats, Oneida Lake, the largest lake located entirely within New York state, has been chosen as the second-best location to ice fish in the country.<\/p>\n\u201cEach morning I get out here early in the morning and get my shanny set up before clients arrive,\u201d \u00a0Sokolowski said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a real catch for his business.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to see that our lake ranks that, with walleye perch, because it does drive a lot of business into our towns,\u201d Sokolowski said. \u201cAnd, Oneida Lake’s a fun fishery. You can, fish shallow, deep water. There’s a lot of offshore structure points. There’s a lot of areas that you can get away from crowds, also and have your own space.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s willing to overcome the winter elements and Mother Nature, to continue to pursue his passion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love what I do and I am blessed to be able to do this every day,\u201d Sokolowski said.<\/p>\n
And to expand the love for the sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I see the smiling faces at the end of a trip,holding up the fish, and then getting people, you know, messaging me later on in the day saying, Nick, we had a phenomenal time out on your charter or out on the ice,\u201d Sokolowski said. \u201cLike, we look forward to seeing you again in the future. Makes me push that much harder to do better next year, the following season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sokolowski’s business will continue to offer ice fishing charters from mid to late February. Open water charters begin May 1 on Oneida Lake.<\/p>\n
“If you’re definitely looking into getting into this industry, you can either get one of us guides out on the lake to teach you and get you out,” \u00a0Sokolowski said. “I love seeing everybody have great success out on the lake, not just my business.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Ice fishing is a favorite pastime across New York, and one of its local lakes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":559616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[31311,5229,5281,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-559615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-adriana-loh","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ctv","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115997831866273957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}