j_hudson

Well, If the lake doesn't freeze up this year and I can still get my boat in the water ( after I fix the impeller) I will be out trolling.

Thanks Less, it,s helpful info.

I just got a roll of copper yesterday, and want to get it ready for the weekend. Its 30# and I think its 200 yards. How do do I attach backing and leaders, I heard just twisting it to the swivel, or crimping. I'm not going after kings on Ontario, I'll be using it on Champlain.

I know that smelt and ciscos are the primary foods for the lakers in LG but they seem to hit Orange and black Dotted things the best like the flatfish I have had pretty good luck on as well as the same collored wobbeler so, I had been hearing about the whole peanut thing on this here website so I thought It may be an option to build it in orange and I paited some black dots on them and got some orange spinners and what not to try and get a better bite. Might not work but at least I tried. I know smelt are illeagal to have on the lake but the lakers will hit suckers, at least they did all winter for me. They won't touch a shiner but if you got a sucker you'll geta laker. I wish I could find a salmon in there but there doesn't seem to be to many left.

So I am new to the peanut gallery and need to now what is the best way to rig them? I good a bunch of peanuts spinners, beads, ect. to do this. WHat works the best.

So put some honey on them before I fish them then roast at 350 for 45 minutes and it will work better than plain dry roasted? Maybey some smelt oil in the mix too. Shell on or shell off? I pesonally always liked the beer nuts, with a six pack too. Com'on man Iam just trying to learn.a new technique. I got the goods know how do I set them up to catch them? I wish I knew it all but I am the first o admit I have only seriously been after them for a couple of years now. The tackle shop on Lake George didn't even have very many and looked at me like i was talking chineese when I asked for them so maybey I am way of line with them but I am gonna give it a go tomorrow.

So SK8man I got me some peanuts and a buch of beads, spinners and things what would you recomend as a good set up. What size treble at the end.

Well of to the tackle store to get some peanuts for tomorrow.

Thanks Sk8man, that is what you guys call a peanut?

Yes SHake and bake they sure are going to mess it all up with this new boat inspection thing so I am trying to get as much time as I can until then.

Today was a totaly differnt day out there. I launched out of Million Dollar beach and started right out with a laker in about 5 minutes on the same orange and black dotted flat fish that had worked before about 70 down. Trolled that and another orange spoon on the other rigger with the cowbells with no luck. Changed that to a yellow, red stick bait and it wasn't 5 minutes and another laker was on. Trolled a little ways longer and marked a bunch of fish in 100 fow water and the 70' rigger with the flatfish popped and another laker. Then made a pass through the ledges at Pualist fathers and decided it was time to pack it in, or so the wife told me it was, while reeling in the last rigger there was another laker on the stick bait that never released. All in all 4 for 4 in 4 hours, much better than the last 2 trips. Nothing huge but made me think that I wasn't doing anything wrong. Also, what is a peanut? Thanks for the input every one. From what I hear there isn't alot of land locks in the lake, the stocking program has had alot of trouble in the past few years and from what I hear nobody is catching them, but that doesn't mean they aren't there though. I haven't gotten anything on the lead cores yet, but mybe I'm running them too deep.

Yesteday I went out on Lake George started in about 50 fow with 2 riggers down with sliders and 2 lead core both out about 5-7 colors. One rigger had cow bells. I was going any where from 1.6-2 mph. I switched lures about 100 times throwing just about everything in the box at them.I tried spoons of all colors, a frew repalas, flatfish with no luck. I marked fish at all depths. Water temp at the surface was 41-42. Weather as cool with a bit of rain and no wind. No my question is what am I doing wrong. Also is the black box I have heard about actually do anything. Also how far back behind the ball should I be running my lures. I tried 20 ft to 150ft behind the ball. It seems to me that I could have found at least one fish that was hungry. I got skunked the last time I went out too, But the time before that I got a nice 10# laker on a flat fish in 50fow down 30. Any advice I can get will be greatly aprieciated.