Cayuga 3/5

[Reel Doc]

After surviving his first trolling trip in January, (see Cayuga 1/15), Roderick joined me for a second go at it.

Turned out to be a very pleasant morning on the water starting with no lines no waiting at the dock.  As mentioned in the Long Pt thread, lake is similar level to previous years so no problem getting out, just trim up the motor.

Tried the South end first and marked fish but only 1 Laker to show for our efforts. Meandered North on the East side and picked away with a number of 3-5 lb class lake trout along with 2 Browns and a landlocked that were under 20 inches.  Stickbaits on Flatlines, 1 and 2 colors took fish and rigger with a copper backed Stinger brought 4 to the net

Finished the trip by crossing to the West side and dropping the riggers down past 100 in the middle of the lake.  The 26 inch Laker in the photo, (have to work on fish photo positioning!) was biggest of the day and gave Roderick a stout and different style fight compared to those caught in the skinny water.  Might just make a troller out of him yet!!

Surface water temps were consistently 40-41 all morning.  

Can't think of a better way to spend a weekend morning!!

[Reel Doc]

BTW,  While cleaning one of the lake trout, found an 8 inch perch in it's stomach.  The laker barely measured 21 inches.  I thought that was quite a meal for a fish that size 

[Trouthunter]

Were you trolling shinny water when you got browns & landlock

[Reel Doc]

9 hours ago, Trouthunter said:

Were you trolling shinny water when you got browns & landlock

Yup

[chowder]

On 3/5/2023 at 5:01 PM, Reel Doc said:

BTW,  While cleaning one of the lake trout, found an 8 inch perch in it's stomach.  The laker barely measured 21 inches.  I thought that was quite a meal for a fish that size 

Eating machine 😮

[dawsonscreek]

On 3/8/2023 at 5:19 AM, chowder said:

Eating machine 😮

They are so gluttonous, I caught one in July that was STUFFED! Had 16 alewives in his stomach and still inhaled the jig!

[rglabach]

Roderick takes good photographs!