Spoons behind dipsies/ anybody want to fish?

[chowder]

How many of you are running deep spoons behind wire dipsies? When I have enough rod holders on board I like to run higher slide divers w/ spoons to the outside of my wire divers, but last weekend's slow flasher bite(for where we were anyway) had me wondering if I shouldn't have switched to spoons behind the wire dipsies or mag slide divers. Most of the time I can usually only run 4 rods.

On a related subject, if there is anybody out there who would like to get out on a boat, PM me, especially if you can get out during the week and can deal w/ short notice and fishing in the rain. East side Cayuga, and Owasco & Skinny are pretty quick getaways for me( I am not a pro and I don't play one on my boat)

[rustyrat]

I will once in a while but this weekend my wires were on fire with flies. I have taken some nice bows on the wire spoon combo. We need to compare notes Andy, my riggers sucked this weekend!

RR

[chowder]

RR, I have the distinct impression that the fickle hand of fate plays a bigger part in what's working where for me than I would like to believe. I just don't I know the lake near well enough to work individual areas the way you, and some of the other "sharpies" do, so I tend to work long stretchs before turning and reworking an area. I think that consequently I run into different pods of fish this way and probably stumble into some that eventually respond favorably to my spread, when I do I am quick to duplicate it and so sometimes it actually looks like I know what I'm doing, to my kids anyway!

[rustyrat]

Thats fishing!

I actually think my riggers were up too high this weekend. But I was getting some nice marks up high, so thats where I parked em with sliders.

My wires are DEEP!

RR

[chowder]

I didn't work the 200s on Sunday,but I kept the MJ out at up to 210' ft out w/ a Mag on 1.5 over 110 to 140 FOW and that baby did some bottom bouncing! We actually dropped a couple fish on that just after setting it that I forgot about when I posted, so if you count them we had 5 fish on the flashers from 9:00-12:30, not wild fire but maybe not too bad either.

I am very frustrated w/ those nice hooks in the 45-30 range, can't seem to get them to go very consistently, just tool thru them. I am guessing they are mostly lakers that are full of alewives, just cuz 2 weeks ago I got so many lakers on the sliders.

[rustyrat]

I am very frustrated w/ those nice hooks in the 45-30 range, can't seem to get them to go very consistently, just tool thru them. I am guessing they are mostly lakers that are full of alewives, just cuz 2 weeks ago I got so many lakers on the sliders.

You and me both! I have been fishing the crap out of those marks. Cores, riggers. 4 dink salmon in 2 weeks and a few lakers.

RR

[Hookedup]

Its not you guys every year at this time when the lake sets up and the fish move down the lake those fish at 40' to 50' slow down. I did find one rig at the end of the trip that took 4 in 30 minutes at 50' it was not a spoon, flasher, or dodger. Give those fish a week or two and it will be like catching fish in a bucket

[chowder]

Sean, last week on Owasco I couldn't keep the lakers off a bleeding olive rapala behind 6 colors, am I close?

[lyteline]

Andy...not even close.We saw Shaun setting up Sunday AM and he was using spinner/worm rigs Zeke & Cyn(Strike 3)

[Mower]

Andy, When things are slow I have experimented and found running a small dodger, 4 inch size or so w/ a small 2 5/8 spoons 3 to 4 ft behind the dodger works well for bows and LL. in fact it is not a go to set up but seems to come more often than not when I'm targeting fish higher up in the water column. I like running wire and dipseys but don't get as excited when only targeting lakers w/ them. I will run them as shallow as 20 to 30 feet early in the season w/ mini divers as well when the planer bite dies off and the sun comes up.