Oneida Lake 11/7

[Yankee Troller]

Well, after three cancellations, two of which were weather related, we finally got back out on Oneida lake and ran a charter. Paul fished with us this Spring for Salmon on the Niagara Bar. Today, his brother tagged along. The goal today was to learn how to troll for Walleye.

 

We started the morning casting. There was a nice breeze to give us a good drift, so I couldn't let these guys not experience that. We tossed 1/2oz i1baits blades and size 7 jigging raps at eyes in 17-14' of water. Perch or Firetiger patterns were our best. After an hour or two drifting and catching a few eyes everyone's hands were cold and we made the decision to troll. We went upwind from where we had been catching the fish drifting and casting and set out a trolling spread. We ran Bay Rat Lures short shallow sticks 145' back on 10lb braid on the outside Off Shore Tackle Company inline boards. The two inside of those were deep divers 50' back on mono. Our best Bay Rat colors today were Can't Afford It and Jailbird. Other colors that took fish were silver blue, pink lemonade, perch, and fire tiger. On the troll we targeted 20-17' at 1.5mph GPS.

 

If anyone's interested we have next weekend available (weather permitting). Let us know if you want to target some tasty meals!

 

 

Edited November 8, 2021 by Yankee Troller

[greenhornet73]

Very nice.  I haven’t been able to manage more than a handful of walleyes jigging lately each time out and most have been short. The night casting has produced better quality fish for me. 2 nice ones from last night casting large sticks.

[Yankee Troller]

Never done the night casting thing. I bet it's fun!

[greenhornet73]

Sometimes it takes a lot of casts and a little moving around but when you feel that ‘tap’ it’s all worth it.

[justtracytrolling]

Nice work, and good report!  The cast bite is very addictive, and it's difficult for me not to go 7 days a week when it's doable and I'm always doing 5 nights all fall at a minimum.  If you know what you are doing and catch it right 10 casts in row isnt that rare.  Ive had excellent fishing this fall so far and I'll probably even go after hunting most days.  As mentioned it's all about the thump!  When you set up on a 10 lber after the lightest of bites it pretty surreal.  

[greenhornet73]

Addictive for sure.  My house got hit with Covid so here I sit after that last outing and will likely have to put the boat up once I’m released. There were some massive bass around inhaling lures at night pushing 6+ and my friend caught one a couple nights ago that went 5-8 and didn’t look a big as the one I had landed last week. Ended up being a solid boat season and looking to still get a lot more casting in before ice. Snow is piling up on my deck as I am writing this.