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Just received an order that I placed Sunday night.. dozen Fish heads and dozen round balls. Gotta give Hermit lots of praise; Lot less expensive then any other 1oz or larger jig heads I can find, and wow talk about sharp.... they came packaged in a heavy zip-lock bag, with surgical tubing on the hook points. The tubing had fallen off a few jigs, and when I stuck my hand in the bag to remove them, I got stuck with 3 hook points. Can't wait to hit the ice an put 'em to use.

Pulled my first laker thru the ice out there this afternoon. Jigging a PK flutter in fire tiger pattern. Pulled her up from the bottom of 87 FOW. Got a new fish finder, so still getting it dialed in; guy next to us said he was marking lots'o bait on the bottom, but I wasn't seeing that.

What pattern / color would folks recommmend ? Maybe run a meat rig ?

So does that means the "Low water level at the launch" circus is back in town again? Sent from my SGH-I927 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I was in that neck of the woods Friday night... was gonna try launching from the Switz / power plant, but the south wind looked like it was gonna be too tough to jig, so i headed over to Lamoka Lake / Mill Pond for the bass action. Afterwards, spend the night at a friends house in the area before heading down to gun show in Harrisburg PA. Noticed on the way home tonight that the lake was smooth and no wind out there... to bad it was raining cats & dogs. Gonna try to get down there again the next few weeks.

Thanks for the info guys... Looks like for now I'll be concentraing on bottom bouncing a 3-way rig with either spin N glows or flys.

Looking to set-up a 12 ft kayak for some trolling action. Looking at targeting lakers / browns / bows in the finger lakes. Although I'm closer to Seneca & Canandaigua, I'm thinking that Canadice and Hemlock will be where most of the my trolling action will be at the beginning. It's been nearly 30 years since I've last trolled, so trying to refresh my memory and re-utilize some of the hand-me-down gear I've got. Back in the day we ran mostly braided on down riggers and pulled copper, so please excuse my lack of knowledge on some things. I was originally figuring on using a Dispy diver to get me the depth needed; but then I found this product so I ordered one to see how it will work. http://www.anglerinnovations.com/products/longliner. I've got a few Penn Peerless 9's and I figured with the long-liner I could run 20 lb Fluorocarbon line, and attach a ball bearing swivel for the leader to attach to. I'm going to pair these up to either a 8'6" Daiwa Wilderness Medimum action or a 9' D-Wave medium action. Some questions for the group : I'm concerned about the drag created by the water resistance from running this gear; Anyone know the difference in resistance between braided as compared to fluro or wire ? What about resistance created by Dispy divers ? What size should i be using for these lakes ? Is wire line over-kill for dispy's on the finger lakes ? How much line should I be loading up my reels with ? Anyone have any other kayak-friendly suggestions ? Figured I'd also be carrying the jigging set-up in case trolling doesn't work as expected.

Expert: Worst fish die-off in years on Canandaigua LakeRead more: http://www.mpnnow.com/topstories/x1806114249/Expert-Worst-fish-die-off-in-years-on-Canandaigua-Lake#ixzz2XorzSUqk

What he said

Me and the family were out there the same time & pretty much had the same luck. Probably saw us, we were the Bayliner bow rider dragging the drift sock with the sleeping kids up front.

Went out Yesterday morning (8/26) , hitting the water about 6:30 with my wife & 2 daughters. We stayed North of T-Falls on the west side and once I got the lay of the bottom figured out, we were marking baitfish @ 60-70 ft in 100-120 FOW, and what appeared to be bigger targets on the bottom. Not having a trolling motor, I'm utilizing a drift sock with 2 lengths of rope attached to it so that I can adjust how it's hooked to the boat depending on how the wind is turning me. (Still a work in progress; seems like every time I go out, the boat rides the wind differently, so haven't figured out the best pattern for tying it down yet), and the way the wind was blowing out of the south, and coming around Taughannock Point / Delta (not sure of the real name) it was tricky trying to stay on a good productive line. Anyways; we made a few passes through without any luck. The girls were starting to get bored and their stomachs and minds were anticipating a previously promised camp-fire cooked breakfast so rather then have them become bored and loose interest in this new-fangled fishing technique, we headed back to the cabin around 9:30 had breakfast and proceeded to enjoy a day taking in the Taughannock Falls experience sans water flowing over the falls. We headed back out on the lake around 5 PM, and took a quick run across the lake to take a peek at Meyers Pt and the salt mine, then headed back to the same area north of the park. We started out around 100-120 FOW, and were half-hearted fishing / snacking sandwiches / enjoying the quite time, and we weren't really seeing much action. The boat drifted into 80 FOW and almost miraculously the wind died down and the boat seems to sit perfectly still in the water. I was talking to my wife, not really paying attention, when I got a good solid hit, but once I started reeling it in, lost it. After that it was game-on for the girls... although we didn't boat anything, it was classic "video game" action on the fish finder. We could watch the jigs drop and marks come up from the bottom to take a look-see, but we couldn't get any takers. We threw a bunch of different colors mimic minnow tubes and even a few spoons at 'em, but nothing seemed to work. Although the fishing was a bust, the lake was almost smooth as glass, and just being able to spend time out on it watching the sunset, enjoying peacefulness and my daughters' excitement was enough to make the short getaway worth it. This morning my Wife & I woke the girls up at 6 AM and asked them about going out again, but they both voted on sleeping in, so we just sat drinking coffee, looking over the water and again enjoying the time-away and conversation.