zackblain

Plenty of people still trolling with old two strokes, just takes time to get them dialed in.

where are you located?

Where are the rainbows and browns this time of year? All this is pretty interesting in that what I have read about fishing the first two weeks after ice out conflicts. As a beginner it's all pretty confusing. Fish are temp sensitive so it will be interesting to probe for temperature with the TD.

Bows are in the stream for the most part, browns are usually in the warmer water chasing bait. Do you have a fish finder yet?

no hemlock and canadice similar, more browns in canadice and bows in hemlock, but laker patterns are largely the same in my experiences.

probably get a better response over on the panfish board

The bottom of the middle is smooth you shouldn't have an issue just touching the ball to the bottom and cranking it up quick. We drag bottom with 20oz weights on meat rods and rarely ever hang up. 

There are no doubt some monster fish in conesus due to the alewives, for that same reason they're difficult to catch using the "traditional techniques" 

I think Justin's reaction bite techniques would really work well over there and I'm interested to see his results after he fishes it this year. 

If you're fishing blind, my recommendation would be go right to the middle, drop a sutton or other lightweight down on a downrigger til it hits bottom, crank it up a few feet and troll around 2mph. You will catch lake trout. 

lakers will likely be deep and browns will probably be in the warm water

I'm almost positive both are open now

I'm pretty sure this weekend was the first weekend the ice has been off

I was surprised to see hemlock still had ice on it, oh well maybe next weekend

Fished outta woodville tonight, launched at five. Only fish we marked were deep, felt good to be in the boat and everything ran like it was supposed to. Temp out deep was 34.5, probably shoulda stayed shallow and went after crappie but I had to scratch the trolling itch.

10-15, when the fleas show up on the bigger lakes you'll need to splice in some heavier big game of sea flee/fleaflicker

Canadice still locked tonight hemlock looked almost completely covered on the north end, tomorrows wind should start breaking it up.... I Hope

The newer ones agree good reels, the early models had some issues but Okuma took care of them.

for occasional use I bet you'd be fine just set your drags accordingly 

Why the 50' leader? I use 10' fluoro leaders with 20# Rosco snaps on the end and use sampo ball bearing inline swivels to connect leader to mainline. This combo works well for sensitive lures like Sutton flutter lures as well as just about everything else i troll with. http://www.roscoinc.com/fishing-tackle/product-detail/american-made-stainless-steel-duo-lock-snap

I'll check it out Thursday evening and post again

Forked tail and mouth don't look brownie to me

I checked the launch at canadice yesterday and there was maybe ten yards of open water where the creek comes in. Not sure about hemlock

is that second fish an atlantic?

Post a picture of how your transducer is set up on your boat, that's usually the first issue.

Just checked on canadice still locked up. I'm not optimistic about this weekend

I'll be on honeoye, should be a good opener this year