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  1. Also posted in general forum. Oops. Also supposed to be 8/21. I'm on a roll!

    Went 2/3 this afternoon. Didn't get setup until 3pm but found a honey hole on accident. Funny story. We were following a course I had set and some garbage appears in the water. Turns out to be a rusty full can of Budweiser. Had to be old. Distracted by the shiny thing, my wife veers off course and I'm not paying attention. About 5 min later the port wire dipsey starts hammerin'. We were in 190' out 360 on a 2.5 setting with FF combo. Hypnotist I believe with glow frog. My wife gets her in...21lb female king. Her first, and biggest in my boat yet!! We circle the spot and an hr later I lose another in the EXACT spot after 30 min fight. Glow pro troll with hammer fly, again wire dipsey out 360. After a few tries (current was playing with us) we went thru the spot again and I hook up. 45 min later 23lb male on the pro troll setup. What a fighter!!! Almost spooled me, then had 3 runs to 400 and 2 to 200 before I tired his ass out. post-150963-13771419662897_thumb.jpg

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    Hopefully the pics turn out.

    The odyssey began when I tried to find a place go clean the fish at 9pm!! But all is well and back at it in the am.

  2. Headed to sodus this afternoon and would like to moor my boat overnight somewhere and find a place to sleep. I've only been up once so consider me a newbie with details. I see Katlynn marina and bay bridge as options from the Internet. Anyone have any other suggestions?

    Thanks for your help...I'll be sure to post a report later!

  3. Anyone have info on launches for Cayuga, mid lake west side?

     

    I hear Taughannock charges $10 to launch

     

    Someone mentioned Sheldrake but I've never been there. Is it a public launch?

     

    Deans is a bit further North than I want to go...and Ithaca is a bit south. I know, picky picky. :P

  4. You don't mention the size of your boat, but I have been very successful with 18 foot and under boats using the MinnKota Auto Pilot or I- Pilot motors. Use your outboard to push the boat, and use a low setting on the trolling motor with it set in auto pilot mode. very common practice for walleye fishermen in the midwest. Steering corrections are much faster due to the bowmount motor pulling the bow around, rather than the outboard trying to push the straight. 

     

    Thanks everyone for the idea's.  I have a 2011 18' Starcraft Superfisherman. It's not so much that the linkages aren't tight or the motor turns on its own, it's more the deep V acting like a sail heading into the wind.  It turns quickly.

     

    I am outfitted with an iPilot on the front and honestly didn't think about trying the two motors in tandem.  Well I did, but I second guessed myself whether it could be effective. I'll give it a try and see how it works!  Thanks again.

  5. Since I fish alone mostly it would be really handy to give my outboard a setting and have it troll straight while I tend rods.  I've seen something similar on bigger charter boats with direct drive and a rudder.  But is it possible on an outboard? What would it take? I'm not a gear head, but it seems like it might be cost prohibitive to do this....

     

    Anyway, just dreaming... thanks for your thoughts.

  6. Seems like our luck was at the transition of haze to sun and went from one color to the the other, we timed it just right!! Great bite between 9 and 12, then fell off. One good Salmon around 3pm made our day.

  7. What a glorious day! Started a bit late due to my partners having a "Saturday Night". And first I must say thanks to everyone on this forum, you have helped me beyond belief!!  Launched at Severne and ran North a bit, setup and BANG wire dipsy goes with a copper puke spoon before I can get anything else in the water.  Very foggy and hazy, we fished in close, about 35 FOW @ 9am. Nice Brown and on we go North. Started hitting bait bombs in shallow and the fish followed. Copper puke did the damage on the wire dipsy at 20ft!!!   3 more hits, 1 catch, and lost a "big one" after ripping line off. Turned around past Miles and went South, not much happening until Showboat thru Castle, then Bang-Bang-Bang, Browns and Salmon same lure depth but in 45 FOW.  Caught a fish on every pole except the copper. One nice brown at 6lbs. Riggers at 20', dipsies at 20-40', copper out 300' was probably too deep.  With the same setup we ran back an forth and ended up 9/14 by noon.  We went deep after the bite tailed off and couldn't pull a laker, so we packed it in at 3pm.  This was by FAR my best day on Seneca. And I owe it all to this site and the members who help us newbies out!. I just started trolling last year and I'm so excited that we finally got into the fish!  So are my partners!  Hopefully I can post pics soon.

     

    Seneca Brown

  8. A friend of mine has caught over 100 lakers in the past 4 weeks.  He was gracious enough to "show me the ropes" 2 weeks ago. We literally caught ~25 fish, mostly 2-4 lbs, in 2 hrs.  All jigging, within about 100 yds. We fished where there weren't many marks and NO bait and tried to find fish that would come off the bottom.  They played along and we could have stayed all day but my boy (6) was tired and my arm hurt! :rofl:   Down near H-port there is so much bait and the fish are stacked up in the water column.  Have been that way for weeks.  I just can't imagine how many lakers are in Keuka. After fishing Seneca for the last year, WOW.

  9. On a #1 Dipsy the avg ratio with the o-ring is 2.3, without is 2.9 on the 3 setting. But take a closer look and you will see why some find the depths are way off.

    For 10' w/o ring on 3 setting chart says 30. Perfect 3:1 right? nope.

    For 15' its 2.3:1

    For 20' its 2.5

    For 50' its 3.6

    Its not linear. Don't know why exactly but it probably has something to do with diminishing returns due to line drag overwhelming the dive.

    Thats why I programmed my own app with a best fit line. I'd be curious how the actual chart holds up to the fish hawk test and how line diameter affects the table. And does line weight (stainless) have an impact vs braid or mono. I cannot find any tables with this info...

  10. Maybe I'm confused, what is Clute park launch? right next to the Marina, the $5 launch with big parking? That was open tonight and normally where I launch.

    I never knew there was a ramp problem there. Huh. Guess I'll be more careful.

  11. I was just checking out these apps and I think they just use the standard chart...but there is a problem in the chart: Desired depth 45 w/o ring on 2 setting is a typo. It should be 124. The desired depth 10 line is also odd in that its the only one not on a linear ratio relationship. Not a big deal I guess. Even better than those apps though is you can use a best fit line in excel to figure out the equation and download a free iSpreadsheet app to create your own. :clap:

  12. I have the 2011 Superfisherman/115 Etec and love it so far. I've pulled my kids tubing, slow trolled Walleye, jigged for lakers using the iPilot trolling motor, and ran dipsies on Seneca in a pretty good wind...maybe 2-3ft white caps or bigger. It handles nice and I wouldn't be afraid to take her on Ontario is similar conditions.

    As far as width in the back, I've only run 2 dipsies and 1 long line down the chute. My riggers are coming this week and I can give you a better report how that whole program works in a few weeks if you are still interested. Based on what I can tell I wouldn't have trouble with a double if you move the third seat to the bow. I also like the traxtech system so I can change my style of fishing quickly. One thing I wish I had more of is rod storage.

    Overall I am impressed with the handling. The deep V does force a lot of steering corrections as it carves but its minimal.

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