HOOKEM & COOKEM

1 hour ago, Yankee Troller said:

 

Yup, definitely quite a few shorts out there. Good to see.

I had plenty of larger marks on my graph. I just think the shorter fish were more aggressive and beating the larger fish to the bait because the 3 keepers I caught were in the same area.

Shiver minnows and jigging raps were the ticket for me last weekend. Couldn't get them to go on blades or bucktails but the Mac Muffin was the hot ticket. 20fow was best. Boated 18 to keep 3, lots of 12-14" shorts. Fall jig bit is heating up.

Got a late start didn’t get on the water till 9:00 fished till 1. Trolled the whole day. Best screen was 30ft down over 40ft, best action was north side of 115. Deep Flicker minnows in blue and purples were best colors for me. Talked with others at the launch who has same results, same depths and patterns. Ended the day 10 for 12 with 2 shorts. Made for a great dinner.😋

Fished yesterday evening for a few hours. Found active fish in 19 FOW Trolling 

Went through my marks and doubled up. Turned around went back through and doubled up again. Great eaters 18-19”

Went out this morning 11/29 for a 4 hour tour 8-12. Best fishing was in 20fow. Mostly a blade bite for us. No Particular color stood out. Healthy fish though couple of 20” and 19”. Bonus perch in there also. Tight lines!

20 minutes ago, justtracytrolling said:

Did you look up north in town?  The fish are around and active out of temp.

Hey Justin, that's my usual trek is to go north from the launch towards town then cut across the lake by the yacht club and head south down the east side but the stiff south wind changed my plans (definitely like north end of that lake better). I don't doubt you can get a few here and there right now but I've found the best action on that lake comes when the surface temps are 53-55 deg. Usually you will see ladybugs and other bugs on the surface that those hungry bows will target and I didn't see any of that, the lack of leaves in the water also tells me its not prime time yet. Tight Lines!

1 hour ago, Mr Bluegill said:

Hi Hookem,  what temps were you finding out there Sunday?  I went out a week before that, found uniform temps of 64 - 65 from the surface all the way down to 40'.which was the deepest I checked. Way too warm for trout.

I had surface temps around 62-63 deg. I covered some water and went back through some concentrated fish when I found them. If there was any active fish shallow I would have caught something in there. Just not time yet still to warm, usually last week of October first few weeks of November till they pull the docks. Most guys are in the woods then and you can have the lake all to yourself.

I was out there Sunday. Ran south from the state boat launch and started trolling north with the wind. Was fishing a shallow water rainbow program but realized quickly that the water temps are not there yet.(Needs to be 53-55 deg. before it gets good.) Best screen I found was just before Mandana. Turned around and went back through but no takers. Changed up to a laker program and picked up 2 heading back to the launch. Your standard sutton 44 down 60ft. Still needs a few more weeks of colder nights and rain.

38 minutes ago, Todd in NY said:

 

How did you keep the grass off your hooks?

I fished there last week and I couldn't keep the grass off my hooks. I caught a small keeper on a perch colored spoon.

Wasn't much in the way of grass, there was some green moss-like/slime that would build up on the snap locks that I had to clean every so often. It was blowing pretty good that might have had something to do with it. I've found on calm days trolling I tend to have to clean more weeds of lines on Oneida. What speed do you troll at running spoons? I tried to keep it between 1.6-1.9 running the cranks, thought that might be a little to slow to run spoons but I thought about throwing one out there.

Took my son out Saturday afternoon fished 3:30 til 6. Trolled East south of 119 to 109

caught 2 keepers and 1 short lost 2 others blue flicker shad and blue flicker minnow was what they wanted. 

Slam fest this morning. Boated 18 to get a three man keeper limit of 9 biggest was 21 a lot of nice eaters. Trolling 27-31fow 

1.8-2.1 every color was taking fish didn’t matter, they had their feed bag on.

On 6/3/2020 at 9:54 PM, Brian said:

Just my 2 cents and everyone has their own style, but I would invest in a set of inline planer boards. I prefer wide wobble baits like reef runner, bomber, cordell stingers, and bay rat xld.Well tuned and fish the marks and I always run one high in the water column. My biggest fish almost always come on the highest line, even in deep water.even in 40 fow I will run one line in the 12-14 ft range. 30 years of meticulous notes on Oneida has also taught me that faster trolls produce bigger fish. So I would start there for what it,s worth. Like I said everyone fishes there own way.also might want to download the precision trolling app. The dive curves are very close.


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Well said. Always run one line up high for sure (outside rod). On my inside rod I will run a 3 way swivel with a short 4ft leader and a deep diving lure and a 6ft leader with a floating lure and a 3oz inline weight. That will be my deepest & shortest rod to cover the bottom and the floating lure will cover just off the bottom to cover those parts of the water column. Only thing I really play with is speed. When the barometric pressure is low I think the fish are more sluggish and like it slower and I'll run 1.4 to 1.7. On a normal day I'll be in the 1.8-2.2 range. I also think faster speeds produce bigger fish when I am seeking a reaction bite where the fish don't have time to "look the bait over" I'm going 2.5-3.0. Turns will sometimes give you an idea of the speed to run. On Oneida I've done well with flicker shads, flicker minnows and bay rats. Precision trolling app is a valuable tool and tattle flags are a must on Oneida for those 15" fish. TIGHT LINES!

Had a friend come up from PA went out Saturday morning. Took a while to find them and figure it out. Big girl was 23”. Got them trolling on my mid summer marks 🤷‍♂️
 

Went out tonight 5/22. Took a little driving around but when I found the screen I liked it was game on. 5 casts and limit.🙂 silver xps blade .

Took the kids out Saturday evening from 4-6pm that’s about all they could tolerate. Basically wanted to make sure boat was fine and just enjoy the nice day with the kidos. So knew going in that it wasn’t going to be a 100% effort kind of thing. Did manage to catch dinner and jig up 2 18” waldos and 2 12” perch on a silver XPS blade 14fow. 

Pap, you said it Gene is the man for eyes up there for sure! He's like a walleye whisper or something and he is a lot like Justin too, both Awesome guys super knowledgeable too!!  Gene also has Sam who is always right on top of things as well! We were picking away at the fish so I texted Gene, he came over and I watched them boat 5 eyes in one pass. I'm just a weekend warrior but it makes me appreciate guys like Gene and Justin and how good they really are.   

I had a front row seat watching Gene reach for the net  We went 4-7 today but that sunken treasure boat has a magnet on the bottom that just attracts walleyes nothing over 8lbs today but nice fish.

Nice bag! I'll have to get down that way, I have yet to make a trip to otisco this year.:-)

Nicely done! Fishing can be fun this time of year (end of summer) on skinny with the thermocline set up. Makes it a little easier to target the bows

Nice bow out of skinny today.

Well my daughter wanted to go for a boat ride so I grabbed a couple of poles and out the door we went. Not the optimal time to fish but quality time instead. Launched the boat at 10am and had a fish on at 10:30. New it was hooked up good so I handed her the rod and watched this bow come out of the water no less than 10 times. 20" 4lbs. Had the boat back on the trailer at noon. Fish took a white krockodile on a small dipsy 130ft back. 

Thanks Pap. I think I'm going back up tomorrow for another shot at getting that wall hanger. My previous goal was over 10lb and 30". I acomplished that but after losing one at the boat that was larger I feel I have to set my bar higher. Not that 10lbers are the norm but when you do 3-4 in a day I know there is bigger out there  

Went out of Henderson this morning in search of big eyes, took a bit but found them and it was game on. Went 4 for 7. Caught a 10.13lb 10.08 lb 10.02 lb and 8.8 lb. lost another 10lber right at the boat  Had a slob break a leader at the boat that was all of 10+. All in all a great morning.

Gene is the man when it comes to eyes! Super nice people too.

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Thought this was a decent deal if someone was looking.

So glad I got to meet and fish with you guys! Looking forward to doing it again!

Congrats on a great season