Benfolkhero

1. I'm NO expert. This is only my second season with a boat so it's all kinda new to me too! I only post things on here because I glean a lot of information from the guys here, so I like to at least give back a little, and say if anything is biting, and on what. However: We have had good luck with a body bait (rapala, bomber, thunderstick ect.) letting out 100' then clipping on the planer boards, then letting out 50-70' more to get it out of the wake. We use them all year with the lead core, and if you want to troll in close with the spoons then let out 1 color (after 50' or mono leader) and then clip on the board. Hope this helps you! Good luck Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

My son and I only got one small brown just as the sun came up this morning on a and then NOTHING... It was tough on the little guy. Lol Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

My fishing buddy (blk lab) and I launch out of sandy this morning at 6:00. There was nice chop, and a nice mud line and some color in the water. Surface temp was 43-44 degrees. We worked 8-12' of water and went 5 for 5 on cookie cutter Browns. 4 of the 5 came on the same lure! Jr thunderstick in "green fire" I had it on an inline planer. We left around 8:30, when boat traffic picked up and it was getting crowded. We will t Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

We were on the water at 5:30, awesome hazy sunrise. But the fishing was slow we worked 180-210fow with riggers at 70 and 50, #1 dipsy out 170 and a #0 dipsy out 210. And two leadcores out 7 and 9 colors on planers. After an hour we got a skippy on 70 rigger. Then a laker also down 70ish on the same rigger. The 10 minutes before we had to pull lines and bail out (working sucks) at 8:00 we got a ferocious hit on the #1 dipsy and pulled in the best steelhead I have caught to date! Amazing how one fish at the end totally changes the mood! Lol I was thinking about trying some "meat rigs" I don't know much about that, anybody wanna tell me were to get the cut bait? Are all the rigs created equal? Thanks for any info! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Good luck tonight Jeremy! I'm not qualified to give advise but next time I go out I will be checking my gear fairly often due to the amount of debris in the water. Nothing worse then dragging a plastic bag for a few miles.

My dad, my son, and I headed out for a quick 2 hr trip tonight started fishing at 6. Around 6:30 we got a nice steelie on a dipsy 170' out we were in 205 fow. On a red and blk nk28 spoon. After getting it in we picked up and small king 6-7lb on and rigger down 58'. On a flasher and dw spoon. The last fish we landed was another nice steelhead on 7 colors of lead and an inline planer board with a multi color dw spoon. (Sorry I can't remember the names/exact colors) around 7:15. We fished until 8 and pulled the lines to find that each one had sh!t on them... No wonder we stopped catching fish! All together we went 3-5 with 2 phantom releases on a 45' rigger. DEC was doing a fish survey so they measured the steelheads (we released the king) and I brought them home and straight to the grill. Thanks to all the guys who put info on this site! It really helps us get a good starting point and make the most of the limited time we have on the water. THANK YOU!!

I have been consumed by bass fishing for the last few weeks so today was the first morning back on the big lake in a while. We started at 100' going north then it got foggy so we bailed and fought some smallest and a white perch in the mouth, once it cleared out We trolled out and and back from 80'-240' of water. (Zig-zagging as we went) We didn't mark much of anything. Caught a tiny king early and that was it... There was a really cool break at 200' the current was so strong it wanted to turn the boat, tons of debris swirling around. It was pretty neat to see though... One side the water was like glass and 3' away it was really choppy. I'm new to fishing out deep. Is this common? Either way it was a beautiful morning with my kid on the water! Hope everybody else had better luck... Any insight on depth they are at? Thanks Ben Poor little guy couldn't stay awake! LOL

Wow! Thanks... So much goes into fishing deep and there are so many variables to learn and understand. For the blow back on the downrigger cable I have been measuring the angle and using the Pythagorean theorem (a2+b2=c2) that's a lot like work lol

I am new to this forum, and new to fishing in more then 12' of water lol. I grew up on sandy creek spring brown trout fishing, my brothers and I would troll in our parents canoe with stickbaits until the water warmed up, and the fishing slowed. Then we would focus on bass or pike. Now I have a Little larger boat and a couple manual downriggers and have been fishing out where the big boys play! I normally only use 4 rods and we have boated 46 fish so far this season. Including five this morning, 3 kings 1laker and 1 steelhead/rainbow (whatever they should be called this time of year). My question is dipsy divers... I run two (one on each side) and I have them adjusted all the way to one side to pull away from the boat. 1. How accurate is the chart they give you? Seems like I was bumping the bottom but I didn't have enough line out for the depth I was in. 2. Speed, does it change with the kind of flasher or bait I am using. (I bought 1 of each style to see what caught more fish.) 3. How badly do I need a down temp and speed device (fish hawk)? Haven't people been trolling for like a million years without it? Thanks for reading all this! I appreciate the info you guys post! Ben I listened to channel 72 today, very cool