Seneca out of Lodi - 6/12

[LakerTaker85]

Launched out of Lodi around 6 pm and ran the east side north about 2-3 miles. Set up in 100 FOW and dropped the cannons down 30-50 foot and started picking up some nice browns. SS stingers in chicken wing pattern took the majority. Couple browns were in the 6-7 pound range.

 

We boated 8 lakers with an average of 7-8 pounds. All lakers came on the copper set up. On the fingerlakes we run our copper right on bottom with a 10 foot, 30 pound flouro leader, and a flat fish in the frog pattern. We also remove the treble hooks and replace them with one single hook on the back to avoid zebra mussels. If you haven't tried this technique your mssing out on a serious lake trout set up (but don't tell anyone )

 

The cotton was terrible so top lines were impossible to run, but we had fish surfacing all around us and schools of bait boiling right out of the water! The HDS-8 was lite up the entire time with massive bait balls and tons of marks in the top 40 foot, along with lakers all over the bottom.

 

Our cannon probe battery died, but the GPS showed our speed at 1.8-2.0, with a surface temp of 64.

 

-Tom

 

[Sk8man]

Nice report... good going! The flatfish on copper is an old school technique and also using a black (or dark colored) Twin Minnow as well...deadly this time of year and early Spring as well. They seem to think they are fresh water Sculpin....

 

The cotton seems really bad this year just about everywhere.....including lawns.

[LakerTaker85]

I know the old school copper box and pullin suttons and twin minnows but we run our okuma copper rod set ups off the planner boards . It just drags along the bottom and releases when the fish hits! Works great.

[blingbones]

awesome report thanks as im headed up there this week

[mjones 59]

What type of release do you use on the copper off the planet boards ?

[Sk8man]

Ah.....the joy of modern technology....   What I want to hear about is (like with the old copper rig) you snag up on bottom How does that work out (especially if it fails to release)?   I have a similar copper set up by the way... . 

[Iron Duke]

Nice job guys!!!! You two are always pounding the fish up there....The cotton wood is all over the lake making it so much fun when your running a big spread...

Mike

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[Frogger]

Nice report Tom, how much copper do you think you have out when in that 100ft depth to get to the bottom?

[LakerTaker85]

We use laurvick releases and we've never had an issue with them releasing. We have about 600 foot of copper on our okuma clarion and it takes about 3/4 of that to hit bottom in 100 FOW, but the flat fish will start to dig in once you hit bottom and you can see that in the rod tip or you can hold the copper in your hand to feel for bottom (you'll know).

[Frogger]

Thanks Tom, I've been dying to finally break down and do the copper rod deal. This just may lean me to get into one and try it.