alex1young

So I know I'm a bit late but thought I would share my experience jigging Owasco on Saturday morning.  Started off by waking up at 6:15AM and by 6:30AM we had found the bait and start fishing.  That's when the flurry began, for about 20 minutes the strikes came fast and furious.  We even started off landing a double on our first drops!  It was incredible to see multiple fish rising and swiping at our jigs every single drop until about 6:50-7:00AM.  At that point a switch seemed to flip, the clouds rolled in and the wind switch from South to North,  We fished for another 2 hours or so only landing one and hooking a few others off the bottom.   Overall, landed 6 lake trout and dropped/hooked another 10 or so.  The picture below is the biggest measured 27 inches and weighed just over 8lbs.  

Way to go Rusty!  All the lakers I've taken from Owasco this year have been very fat.  Recently the state starting reducing their stocking numbers of lake trout in order to promote a strong Brown and Rainbow population.  

The launch is nice. Fairly narrow but not to shallow. I have seen plenty of 20 footers launch with no issues.

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I run a treble tied from the hook eye with 30lb braid. Usually gets them right in the top lip, and always easy to unhook.

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Thought I would share my results.  Caught lots of very small lakers on saturday with nothing worth weighing.  Sunday was tough very few bites and only landed one.  Did anyone have better success?

So I know a few of you out there fish Owasco, anyone entered into the derby this weekend?  I'll be fishing solo targeting browns and rainbows primarily.  Roll call!

Where are you located? I'm interested!

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I've hit bottom with a 300' copper in 90 ft pulling a spoon at 1.2.  

After the 3 hour drived north on Friday, I was very eager to get out on the water.  Fished Saturday and a little in the morning Sunday until the wind and a bad fishfinder pushed us off the water.  We started trolling the west side at about 7am Saturday to a surprising amount of boat traffic.  It seemed as though we weren't able to get away from the pack until we crossed lake.  Anyway, only caught two but had tons of streakers and bait on the screen.  Both fish were very solid with the larger of the two in the 27-28 inch class.  We quit around ten, only to find our dock surronded by activity.  Schools upon schools of rainbow and brown trout working the surface and feeding on that morning's hatch,  Managed to catch one small brown and a stocky smallmouth in about 10 minutes of casting.  After lunch tried jigging and banged into another nice laker on my first drop.  Had tons of action until the fishfinder started acting up.  Sunday was a different story, strong southern winds forced us into trolling without a fully operational fishfinder...  Fished about an hour and half having only one small laker breaker my leader at the back of the boat.  (Still trying to figure out the new 300' copper rod...) After a transducer swap and some troubleshooting went out to test the graph one last time, and banged into a spunky lake trout in 18ft of water jigging a blade bait!  Anyway, overall a nice weekend other than losing a FF combo and still not figuring out the trouble with the graph.  Attached a few shots, nothing special but pictures make posts more interesting. 

Looking to buy a decent color fishfinder.  Please contact me through private message with a price if your looking to sell.

Thanks,

Alex

Downriggers are sold, others are available.  Also have downrigger balls for sale PM if interested.  

What type of swivel do you use to attached your copper main line to your leader/backing?

Anyone going out this weekend?  I'll be trolling the northend, we'll be in the green starcraft.

All still available

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Lot of spoons including Suttons, Honeybees, Luhr Jensen, and Mooselock.  Total of 26 trolling spoons $40

Pair of Cannon Uni-troll downriggers.  Extendable boom, weight retrievers, swivel bases, mounting blocks, (2) 10lb balls, single rod holder new cable $350

Misc lures: 20+ meat rigs/ 3 fly teaser rigs, several J-plugs with hooks, snubbers, (4) 11 inch flashers $50

Pickup only, located in Auburn NY

Please PM for more details

Thanks for looking!

We do well in the finger lakes with cowbells and a small Sutton spoon 30 inches behind.

I have a few Suttons laying around i'm looking to sell or trade if your interested PM me.  44's and some heavies

Not to take over your thread but has anyone ever run these 4 inch e-chip pro-trolls for trout?  I've heard rumors of guys running them as cheaters with small spoons for finger lakes bows...

Putting a bounty on eels would certainly help reduce their numbers.  Other states have implemented similar programs to help control invasive species with pretty significant results.  

We hit them hard with cowbells pulling a sutton on the bottom.  I bought a grease trap this winter and I'm excited to run them side by side

I use a white with green dots SD off my deep rigger in Owasco with good success.  

Once the hat goes on backwards the fish come.

Thanks for all the input! On a side note, has anybody ever had any luck running a fly behind a grease trap?

I was wondering the same thing.