Sk8man

WTG Joe and company!

I was supposed to go to Lake O this morning with Admiral Byrd early but woke up ill at 4 AM bowed out and went back to sleep. Woke up later feeling better and decided to fish Canandaigua so launched at the north end 9:45 AM and started at the water plant and trolled up the west side (south) toward middle....quite a bit of large grass pods floating. A lot of recreational boats out already and a sailboat regatta pretty much as expected. dropped in a 250 copper with spoon and two downriggers one at 45 and the other at 55 ft both with sliders Trolled south until about 12:45 and caught 3 rainbows along the way biggest about 3 lbs others about 17-18 inches. Each rainbow was caught on the same Great Lakes 44 spoon with orange tape. They were down (2) 45 and 55 respectively I had 2 Sutton 44's with the same orange tape on the other downrigger and they weren't touched. Switched out copper for wire rig with flasher/fly and trolled back north on east side and nothing. Quit and picked up my wife and daughter at the Steamboat Landing public dock and went swimming to cool off. The entire north end was more of a "zoo" than I have ever seen and later it took us over 2 hours to get in the canal to the launch because of all the boats waiting to get in and circling around in the canal....unreal! So today my boat joined the recreational boating crew but I looked a bit out of place with the rods etc. but we paid for it too waiting to get into the launch. No fish on sliders and no fleas noted at all

Nice fish and great pic....that sky in the background really sets things off. Looks as though the lake is finally being kind to you folks

I've gone back to 50 lb mono (Big Game) for flies after breaks with the commercially tied fluoro flies without noting any difference in hits etc. even on the Finger Lakes....and I tie my own flies now I've also gotten away from using the single hook above the treble....unnecessary and snags more easily in the net

Nice going Mark and good report. We're hoping to get out early AM and get after them

Better find that banana on board quickly Nick

Was it this year or 2012?

Jimski is right. The connectors above are "clean" too Here is what the receptacle looks like installed and on the second shot you can see how close the back ones are to the riggers

It is possible that you had the trigger too tight but also possible (given the wrapped leader) that somehow the leader wrapped up past the dipsey and prevented the arm from triggering at all

Nick .....the "master of rod switching and net management" I was wondering if Theresa was going to get on your case about the messy floor and your shirt....nice ending (sounds just like "home" to me)

Good one Gary! Yeah I suppose next you'll recommend a good psychologist

I think we hit the 560 water too late today. I think you were headed in about 11:45 when we spotted you underway. We made the mistake of not going right out there and screwing around in shallower until about the time you were on your way in. Live and learn

Nice brown Ed....hey are you guys hooking an air hose up those fish's butts or what? Man....they must be chowing down 24x7

Great news Jason and about time you guys caught a break.....lets hope this is a good omen for the future.

Thanks Pete Here is what mine looked like

I hope you don't have any more of those but I'm sure you'd enjoy the wine country if you do. There must be well over100 wineries to choose from.... Let's hope tomorrow brings some good king fishing....we're going to give them a shot tomorrow AM at either Sodus or Hughes.Good luck folks!

There are various versions of trolling plates and they work but most you have to remember to disengage them after trolliing etc. and they can be a pain others have springs only and don't need to be disengaged but usually they are for relatively small motors (outboard). Something less involved is to get yourself a couple sea bags and deploy them they can usually do the trick for most folks...take a little getting used to but a more conservative approach to try first rahter than drilling holes in your lower unit.

nice brown Ed. Home today but looks like Lake O in the AM

Tim's point here is a VERY good one. There is always a lot of discussion about specific speeds for different setups and really it is all relative because of varying accuracy of devices, different ways of measuring (over bottom or water surface etc.) and various other factors specific to each situation. The most important factor is "repeatability" using the specific device you are using to measure. Thus the significance of 2.4 mph on one boat may be quite different on another in a different location with different currents, wind speeds etc. affecting the way the setup runs in that particular situation. Those "effective" speeds from one boat to another should always be considered as "range" factors or "guesstimates" at best and not as hard fast accurate measures.