Owasco 7/2-7/3

[rolmops]

We went to our cottage expecting a very busy lake,but the opposite was true.It turned out to be very quiet with very little boat traffic and even the jet fleas were few and far between and well behaved.

Saturday afternoon I tried the new Riviera planer boards and those things pull like mules. It is a learning experience and the weeds have a much greater effect on them than it has on Otter Boards.The jury is still out on which is better.I guess that they both have their place. Next week I will run an otter board on one side and a riviera board on the other. As for fishing,the lakers preferred 6 colors with a glow frog dodger and spoon at 1.9 to 2.2 mph. We took about 9 cookie cutters in 2 hours, on top of that we got 2 nice browns over 140 feet of water at 40 feet down.

Sunday,neither the lakers nor the browns wanted anything to do with artificials be they lures,suttons or flies,so we changed to mooneyes and we caught a bunch more lakers both on the 6 colors and the 8 colors trolling at 1.6 to 1.8. The browns took the day off. All in all a very nice trip.

[rusty1034]

I've never heard of anyone trolling using mooneyes. What set up do you use ?

Thanks- Rusty

[rolmops]

I've never heard of anyone trolling using mooneyes. What set up do you use ?

Thanks- Rusty

I use a #4 or #6 Octopus hook in the mouth that does the pulling and tied up to that with a line between 2 and 4 inches long a treble hook that goes through the mooneye near the tail ,or it is just held there by a small rubber band.

What you create is a live lure that gives of a perfect wounded fish smell and signal. Now you are no longer dependent on a minimal speed to make artificials effective. You are effective at very slow speeds.

Somehow it works better off planer boards with leadcore.

Cornelis