Keep'n it Reel

To me the sinkers would not be precise enough on targeting a specific water column, especially if you have active fish at one depth seems like their would be a lot of variables to consider with this presentation

I agree with les on the copper I would not start with that mistakes can be very costly at that point!!! And my own opinion I would give go with down riggers and dipsy to start out they are simple to get use to can have a lot of separation in your spread to cut back on tangles very effective and very versatile Joe

I shot one with it opening day then started carrying my 308

The canal has ice I used the village marina launch ramp and it was fine all roads from the south are also fine at least! And thanks les yeah I did the same thing last year with my little boat just I had a buddy with a 2x4 in the front to break it up!! And yes I am very determined when it comes to my fishing I went to the creek this morning got 10 bows biggest being about 23" and as I write this post I am in the woods waiting on some more deer non stop action

Looking at the weather for the weekend was looking like yesterday would be the best chance on the lake so deiced the boat Thursday evening and loaded up the gear had a crew of 4 on board we where fishing right around 7 and as I was setting rods we had a hook up on a rigger on a flt tackle uv sea sick but with a green ladder back on it lost that fish continued to set gear working on getting the coppers in and we double rigger and 5 color core the core had a uv blue alewife and the rigger had a new spoon on it only second trip with it but it has been crushing the salmon for me but would prove to change species today up came a 5lbs laker from 62 down was a first fish for miss Allyson so good start!! Well the 5mph wind forecasted lasted about 10 min then the wind started picking up, finding new fisherman or women in her case that is willing to fish on the boat this time of year can be rough but she put up with the snow and the wind was a real trooper well we picked at the fish one here one their defiantly not the same spot I had a few weeks ago well had to drop ally off at the dock at 9.30 so started to head that way and ended the first part of the morning with a nice 7 fish flurry landing her a nice 3lbs salmon beautiful 2lbs bow and another 3lbs brown not bad for her first morning out and getting the slam!!! Well dropped her off thawed a couple of the reels out and back out we went the action was fast for about a hour with a lot of hook ups but not very many landed the flt kos paddle with a white halo fly behind it was doing it job on both the mag dipsy out 155 and also the rigger parked a 69 but the heavy action came and went trolled north of Watkins a few miles with a slow pick of fish turned and fished back to the ramp!! I dropped a Atlantic at the back of the boat that I sure would have liked to get a picture of but that's my fault my net was frozen and could not get it to extend and as they normally do all hell broke lose at the back of the boat under the rigger under the dipsy back across just could not get it to settle down for one second but lots more to get!!! For some reason I still can't post pics on the site had some good ones to add and can't!! Well back to watching the weather and decide when the next trip will be! Happy holidays to all as well safe travels home!!!

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Congrats on the successful year!! Give the buck time it will happen!! And I would not be concerned with arrows in the pic but may want to think about shot placement and practice hahahahaha I'm only picking once again congrats on the deer!!

Hahahaha nope never get anything above 5lbs on Seneca everyone should fish Cayuga over Seneca or maybe even keuka!! What do you think nick??

I know where they hang I will sell them to the highest bidder haha

Good deal and that's odd that the rig with the camera gets fewer strikes I had never noticed a difference before when we did it

Can't agree more some of my best fishing days came from a 15' northport troller no electronics at all on it had to listen to what the fish where saying and how they wanted the presentation, I got a fish finder and I notice myself giving that more attention then what I prob should be don't get me wrong they are amazing tools but I don't depend on mine to find me fish on the finger lakes at least

Nick from reel stories and I have ran the under water cameras before and have had some awesome footage but also some that can be frustrating seeing the number of fish that looked at a lure and didn't hit can some times be discouraging but also a great learning opportunity seeing how the fish react to the lures and follow them sometimes for a long time before striking or just drifting back out if view

Having footage of fish following makes you wonder would have made them strike speed change , lead length, depth change, slight color change cameras can be help full and having a way to do a instant feed back on board the boat would be priceless in a situation like that