Native American Indians believed Seneca Lake to be a bottomless lake, with a monster that lived in its depths. The Seneca Lake Monster is a large, possibly prehistoric, unknown species of marine animal purported to exist in New York State's Seneca Lake. Thanks to our friends at Waterloo Harbor Campground (home of Fuzzy Guppies)!a flatwater race on the beautiful Seneca-Cayuga canal, Seneca County, New YorkThe loop starts in the Seneca-Cayuga canal at Waterloo, briefly enters Seneca Lake, then returns back to Oak Island Park in Waterloo, NY.Most of the course is on the Seneca-Cayuga canal, about 30-50 yards wide, with very little current. Seneca Lake. They were guided by Capt. The Seneca wine trail is a must for wine lovers. Captain Herendeen ordered full speed ahead and came alongside the thing when it raised its head, opened its mouth, and displayed two rows of pointed white teeth. It is also the deepest at 618 feet. So much to see and do! It was a great place to gather and relax after a busy day of taking in the area sites. Lifeboats were quickly lowered and boat hooks placed around the carcass.Adding to the theory of the tunnels and currents, supposedly the bodies of people who have drowned in the lake have never been found.Does something evil actually lurk below the water in Seneca Lake, or is it hearsay?
Most “sightings” have occurred in the summertime when the constant temperature is between 70 and 80 degrees.In a city-wide effort of planned events to promote tourism, the Geneva City Council seized the opportunity to promote interest in the lake and city by voting 7 to 1 on July 1, 2015, to approve an amendment to the city code to prohibit the hunting or trapping of the Seneca Lake monster. Could it be a lake serpent’s lair? Sightings of the creature have been reported from the late 1800s through recent years.… A legend like this is ripe for enticing hoaxes. Seneca Lake Monster Another of the finger lakes, 38-mile long, 617-feet-deep Seneca Lake is also the swimming ground of a monster. Seneca Lake is very deep, reaching depths exceeding 600 feet. It was about twenty-five feet long, with a long tail, which tapered until within about five feet from the end, when it broadened out and looked much like that of a whale." “I asked the boy before we went out if he’d ever caught a lake trout before,” Carter said. Seneca Lake is the largest of the glacial Finger Lakes of the U.S. state of New York, and the deepest lake entirely within the state.It is promoted as being the lake trout capital of the world, and is host of the National Lake Trout Derby. I felt that was a safe bet, considering he’d never caught one before.”When Carter finally netted it, the fish’s weight bent the handle of the net, he said.Carter said he started off the morning fishing for smallmouth bass midway down the lake on the eastern side. The Seneca Lake monster fell back into the water, slowly sank and disappeared. It’s even more unusual when a fish that big is a boy’s first-ever trout – and that it took him three strikes to finally hook and land the 42-inch fish, which approached state record size..It happened Friday morning when Liam Baird, 16, of Stamford, Conn., went fishing with his father, Scott, and a friend. But was it gone forever?The lake is fed by underwater springs and rumors of an underwater tunnel between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes persist as both lakes are below sea level. Twice, the teen missed it. Yet tales about them continue to proliferate, including this one about Seneca Lake.At this point, Captain Herendeen sped up the boat to collide with the creature but it slipped underwater only to reappear just as the Otetiani was in position to ram it and did so.