Seneca North End 7-27-14

[Sk8man]

Admiral Byrd (Bob) and I took awhile to check the weather this AM before deciding to give Seneca a try in his newly "reconditioned"   Penn Yan boat. We launched from the Chamber a little before 8 or so and fished until 1 PM.  A bunch of fish were marked at the 75 ft or so range yesterday by Bob and we had 48 degrees down about 90 ft today with low 70's on the surface so we trolled south with a combination of things(one 5 leader rig, a dipsey with spoon  a downrigger and spoon a flasher/fly combo, a leadcore and the weed patches started almost immediately. Shortly after we started the rig rod started thumping and taking out line and it turned out to be a 6-7 lb chubby  laker on the 4th spoon down (nail polish special Sutton 44) tossed back and kept trolling south then turned back north just north of Reeders and when the bottom came up a little quicker than expected we nailed a small laker on the dipsey /spoon rod set at about 250. We trolled north against the now 10-15 mph west wind and nothing happening ( thank God for his autopilot though) but when we pulled in the lines in front of Roy's we had another laker on the rig down on the last leader (another nail polished Sutton 22). We were trying to avoid "lakerville" by running up high but no rainbows or landlocks and browns were in the cards for us today.  It was mostly a test of Bob's "improvements" to the boat and it all worked great. The grass pockets were pretty annoying especially one huge one that temporarily disabled the trolling motor it was so thick and wrapped up the prop and the fleas were pretty bad too encrusting just about everything we had out and it was clearly a two man operation bringing in the lines. The pics were the highlights of our trip

Edited July 28, 2014 by Sk8man

[TileMan Dan]

Sounds like a good time was had.

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[Sk8man]

The weeds and fleas were annoying but the ball busting was great

[ERABBIT]

Poor Bob....

[Sk8man]

Don't worry Ed he can hold his own real good  (claims he needs both hands too)

[signalman]

I thought I saw that boat go by yesterday,i think you have to stay with almost all wire now or get annoyed as hell.

[ERABBIT]

wire + fleas + a tad of weeds =  annoyed as hell

Fleaflicker or Seaflea blood run = OK

[Sk8man]

On Sunday the wire loaded up bad with fleas too.