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Yes, I caught a largemouth jigging the bottom in 50'. BTW the boat we rented has no fish finder lol.

Lake trout have been absent so far. Been running a bottom thumper and have had one hit on that rig. Now the eight color is on fire. One short Atlantic and Smallmouth galore. After snorkeling the rock structure around the north part of the lake, it became apparent there were no smallmouth where they "should be". The food web appears to be Mayfly hatches as when it is calm on the lake, fish are up and feeding on the surface. I am catching smallmouth in the middle of the lake on leadcore with a small Northern king aluminum blank in blue/chartreuse with some doctored orange tape on the other side........wtf.

Oswego and Mexico fishermen like their green or yellow flashers. Green flies. Green or yellow colored meat heads.

Looks like you will want to go deep and East out of Olcott to find the warmer surface water. https://www.glerl.noaa.gov//res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=o&ext=vwt&type=N&hr=00

Yes, shoreline trolling renewed. Break out the April gear. Also, the top of the Niagara drop will have warm water and bait

If you need Plan B green fish ......your port cannot be the best.

I googled a picture of the marina across the lake from us. The picture shows the rental boats and there appears to be rail on around the front that I can put two clamp-on Tite-lock holders on. Then there is always duct tape as plan B.

Either olcott or as Paul said Oak Orchard.

Saturday to Saturday

Perfect. Fish are in trouble. Thanks gents.

Pelthunter, if you wouldn't mind, could you ask your buddy how deep the thermocline is set up? I won't have a temp unit. Thanks.

That fish's eyes bugged out when it saw that Gambler rig!

Ah but there is something very relaxing about putting some rods in their holders and puttin' around while taking in the scenery.

I assume smaller spoons sizes?

If the line is abraded from touching bottom, I am going to replace it no matter what I use. Fluoro is expensive. Mono cinches down on knots better than fluoro. On Lake Ontario the water is green, you don't need fluoro. If I was fishing Huron.....yes I would use Fluoro.

Good call Lucky......I just realized I have two on my boat I can bring along. I am going to have that ski boat looking like a porcupine yet!

How many colors of leadcore would be best for July? I imagine there will be no rod holders on the boat so it will be a limited spread.

Lake George equipment Have not been to Lake George since childhood. Back then I fished for bass off the docks. I will have access to a rental ski boat for the group so I will of course will bring some trolling bags!!!!! Plan on bringing a couple of thumper bottom rigs, an eight color and my spin gear for jigging bass. What else should I bring?

Slide out into the 200-240 range. Marks disappear but there are fish out there with empty stomachs that are hungry. Try some meat down 80-140' down this late in the day.

You have a swivel on your dipsy helping with line twist so I think you are covered. Yes a split ring would do similar to a duolock snap. The benefit is when you have a fish on, the knot isn't reefing across the metal blade causing weakness. With a split ring or duolock snap, the moving parts are metal on metal so the line is protected.