troutman10

I'm no researcher or fish biologist but Keuka, I feel, has a laker problem. There's too many Lakers. The description of no food, characteristics that they're skinny, have big heads tells me their population is out of hand. Theyve eaten themselves out of house and home. Other fish in different temp zones seem to be doing fine. Maybe I'm simplifying the problem. I'd also say some are right in that mussels have contributed. Can the laker creel limit be increased or dropped altogether to help the problem? Adding predators will only make the problem worse. They stopped stocking browns and landlocked salmon in keuka from my understanding. Rainbows can survive on insects and other things that are outside the laker preferred temps. Someone mysteriously added walleye which I'm sure doesn't help the issue. Sounds like ALOT of Lakers need to be removed from keuka to slowly turn the tides. Sizes will recover. That lake is just overly successful in producing lake trout.

I recently bought a couple of the 5 color convector reels all set up from fishusa. Fishusa sets these reels up with braid backing to the leadcore and lastly the connection to the leader. In the past I've had mono as backing for my lead core and used my inline planers without any trouble. Will I encounter any issues using braid in my inline boards or should I put a section of mono between the braid and lead core for a better way to attach to the online planers boards? I use church boards. Any help is appreciated.

Ecstatic to see those January days again. Thanks to those who spoke up and those who listened. Hope to have the weather cooperate as well.

I hope to get out a few more times. Also been noticing less posts here over the last year or so. Have seen an increase of posts and pics on Facebook. Fb may be stealing the thunder a bit. Of course you have the fall transition of hunting and ppl putting their boats away.

Fished 7th a couple separate times. Caught a 20" ish landlocked out of there maybe 5-10 years ago with leadcore and spoons the switched over to bass. Also around the same time trolled on a separate outing and caught a small skinny laker one morning with spoons again. Didnt see much for bait but maybe there wasn't much happening the day i was out. That's about it for me other than casting and catching little smallies. I didn't have downriggers at the time. Fished on the outside of the big island in 7th. Theres a good drop along that island from what I remember. Sorry, not much else for ya

I've got a couple 45° berts if interested.