Cayuga Trolling Cayuga lake

[Reel Doc]

That photo is priceless!!  Reminds me of when we first started on Cayuga 6-7 years ago and my kids were shorter than me.  Now they are passing me by but got out with one this weekend for the first time in a couple years.  Headed North from Dean's Cove in the afternoon and stayed between 120 and 200 fow.  Marked loads of fish especially in the 80-100 range.  Brought in a hefty Laker and lost 2 others.  All hits on flasher flies between 80 and 100 feet.  Riggers never fired.  Excited to get back out and hoping to make some regular trips this year.  My question to you all is boat speed.  I don't have a probe to measure speed or temp at depth so just wondering what kind of top water speed I should be working.  Thanks in advance for your responses.

Greg

[relentless]

Im usually between 1.5 to 2.4.  Keep adjusting till they start hitting.  There wasnt much current monday but I have seen days out there where it is more than 1mph difference.  They seemed to like it faster around 2.2-2.4 monday.  

[Reel Doc]

Sounds good.  In years past we typically worked at speeds primarily between 1.8 and 2.2.

Thanks

[joetroller]

I like to run 2.1 to 2.4 that will get you a good mix of fish. Run slower if you want to catch more fish but most of them will be lakers [emoji4]


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[dry net]

Cheapest and easiest way to slow you boat down is to drag two five gallon buckets with holes drilled in the bottom. Not as cumbersome as you might think. 

[whaler1]

We did pretty good on lakers monday.  200' to 400' of water between taughannock and miliken.  Did 10 over 7lbs with 2 10lbers.   Lots of big marks at 150' down. Had a rigger parked there and two wire divers 180 to 200' out.  Flasher/fly and flasher/spin-n-glos.   All took fish.  Copper and lead core with spoons did nothing.  

That pic is fantastic. Don’t miss a minute.


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[relentless]

13 hours ago, dry net said:

Cheapest and easiest way to slow you boat down is to drag two five gallon buckets with holes drilled in the bottom. Not as cumbersome as you might think. 

We have some hanging off the sides of our boat.  They work awesome and suprisingly hold up really well.  Put them on 2 yrs ago and still going.  Helps to stabilize the boat in the wind too.

[sgilbert14]

Going out on the weekend and just will be dragging buckets. My boat speed seems to be in the 2.4-2.8 and will see what it takes to bring it down a bit. 

 

Im out of Ithaca so any hints are where the browns are this time of year. Thanks 

[Skidplate]

50fow on A 5 color with spoon last weekend

[sgilbert14]

Nice,, I can't wait to get my first fish in my new to me boat

 

[FishinIsLife]

On 5/28/2018 at 9:14 PM, darkwater1 said:

Yes definitely.i spent the weekend on seneca for some reason LoL.. 

You would not believe me if told you what happened on my boat last weekend mid lake it will take another 15 years to try again

So what happened?

[Skidplate]

I lost a bow that was a lot bigger than that one at the boat biggest I've ever seen

[sgilbert14]

Thanks for leaving it for me this weekend 

[Skidplate]

38 minutes ago, sgilbert14 said:

Thanks for leaving it for me this weekend 

No problem LoL. I'll be out there where are you going to start? 

[sgilbert14]

I'll have the boat at Johnson's boat yard and head up to the cliffs on the East. I have no issues with going somewhere else as I am really clueless and feeling my way through this until I find fish and get them to bite..

[Skidplate]

T falls and North should be good to I would work 150-40 fow

[sgilbert14]

great thanks.. hope to post fish pics by the end of the weekend

[sgilbert14]

Time to scream. 4 miles of trolling using spoofs and flys. Out deep and repalas and was skunked again.


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[58Johnson]

sgilbert14 you have a PM

[suttontroller94]

Gilbert what's your set up?

[sgilbert14]

ok I have 2 penn riggers and pucked up spoons, dippsy's, flys etc..off a guy on this site to get me started. I have a Garmin 7sv for a finder.. the slowest I can get the boat down to is about 2.4 mph so I am going to start dragging a bucket.. 

[Mills44515]

I feel like 2.4 should be fine for snagging a few Lakers.

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[sgilbert14]

ok I was thinking maybe the speed was the issue thanks

[joetroller]

Get the speed down a little and run the riggers down about 90 feet. run rubber band cheaters up higher to increase your odds just north of sheldrake has been good.


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[sgilbert14]

I can give that setup a gp.. not sure where sheldrake is though