cayuga fleas

[bandrus1]

have not seen much reported... anybody care to weigh in?

[dbutts]

I fished t-falls to rocky dock last night. I run 20lb flea flicker and had no problems at all. Did see a trace on the wire divers, but they take care of them selves. Sounds like it's worse farther north.

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[Skidplate]

Out of deans there bad I'm using 30 LP mono and its not working

[Captain Jim]

  We've been fishing Cayuga in the Wells College to Long Point area. I have 20 lb flea flicker on the down riggers so they were ok. However I took somebodies advice and put 65 braid on my Dipsy reels and they're a mess when they come up big around as my finger. The heck of it is, we're catching Lakers on them, so they aren't taking a long time to get loaded up with fleas.

 

  Anyone ever tried 30 lb flea flicker on Dipsys?

[rustyrat]

Believe me, don't use mono on deep divers especially FF ot the Blood run Sea flea.

Fleas are bad for my wires, 30 lb big game has been fine. I've seen it worse.

RR

[stinger]

  We've been fishing Cayuga in the Wells College to Long Point area. I have 20 lb flea flicker on the down riggers so they were ok. However I took somebodies advice and put 65 braid on my Dipsy reels and they're a mess when they come up big around as my finger. The heck of it is, we're catching Lakers on them, so they aren't taking a long time to get loaded up with fleas.

 

  Anyone ever tried 30 lb flea flicker on Dipsys?

 

Mono and dipsy's don't mix   . To much stretch so anything past 50' out you will start to have trouble triping the dipsy. At the depths we are fishing now the dipsy won't trip.

[Captain Jim]

That's what I thought. I'm running them back 200'. We've been catching nice Lakers on them but it's tough to get the fish to the boat with so many fleas on the line.

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[dbutts]

Wire cuts right through them. Just give the rod a little shake and they fall right off

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[Captain Jim]

Copper wire or monel?

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[Hookedup]

Copper wire or monel?

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Seven strand wire 30 or 20lb if you don't have much experience with wire get the 30 pound. The twenty is less forgiving but it runs deeper and will hold up to kings or what ever you hook with it.

[Skidplate]

7 strand

[Captain Jim]

Copper?

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[Skidplate]

No its steal Pam has it I can show you the knots

[Captain Jim]

Will it ruin my rod guides or do I need different rods?

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[Skidplate]

You have to put a twili tip on and 7 strand goes deeper

Edited July 31, 2015 by darkwater1

[Skidplate]

You have to use a snubber with it as well

[Captain Jim]

I use a snubber with the braid too.

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[dbutts]

I'm anti snubber !!

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[143447]

Snubber ?? Nah toss em out. But what ever works for you . man I hate snubbers

[Skidplate]

Why do you not like them?

[suttontroller94]

Fished out of t falls on west side today for a ways north with seth green rigs and a mono and a braid dypsy rod. Hardly any fleas only a few on braid rod after it sat for 2 hours. Was surprised. Hope it aint a different story tomorrow

[rustyrat]

Fleas were not as bad this weekend as they were last week.

[bandrus1]

we fished for 45 mins (had ladies on the boat and it was a drinking swimming day)

 

hit 2 lakers and 1 brown all on spoons down 40 and 55 in 70 fow.. just used 2 rigger rods to make life easy

 

no fleas on flea flicker 

Edited August 3, 2015 by bandrus1

[Captain Jim]

That's good to hear Rustyrat.

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