CayugaLaker

I fish a lot by myself I literally have a copper old Victoria rig in the center and run copper right down the middle and have the most success overall it's almost a guarantee that you catch fish that way every time in these lakes.. I have used Seth greens for a long time and have caught lots of fish that way but never as much as I have since I recently started using flouro line. I took your advice Billy v and bought the Berkley professional grade to 're-tie my leaders. It is a talent in its own working in a big trout with a Seth green but my problem wasn't that.. the leader was already snapped by the time I got the rod out of the rod holder and the leaders that I had caught the fish on looked all stretched out after I had caught them. The leaders also weren't snapped at the knot either but judging how weak the line looked I can see how important the knots would be. Great conversation though and nice to here that I'm not the only one using these old-school methods.

That was exactly my problem once you pull that flouro line in after you catch something on it it looks very week in some spots. I appreciate the pointer, will look into some flouro line this weekend.

Started trolling around 7:15pm yesterday north of deans cove and put down doubles on the rigger and seth green on the other side also dropped a copper line down as well with twin minnow in the middle. Started at around 80' immediately got a nice brown on the seth green about 30 feet down. Moved in to about 65 fow Dropped it back down and about 2 minutes later brought in a 26" laker on the bottom spoon on seth green. I was getting hits all night on the seth green. Had a big one on the 2nd leader from the bottom that broke my leader and stole one of my favorite spoons. I have been running 12 lb test florocarbine leaders on the seth green but now considering bringing the test up a bit heavier on my leaders. I feel as though I have had much more action on it since I went to a lighter test but certainly not worth losing nice fish either. Surprisingly had very little action on my copper line, honestly I blame the weeds for this, they are really coming in now. My buddy and I finished the evening out at about 8:30pm with 1 19" rainbow, 1 20" brown, 1 19" landlock and 4 lake trout 22"-26". Blue and silver spoons did all the work. Brought 2 lakers off the bottom on my down rigger and everything else on the seth green. Hopefully this helps.

Definitely run the copper setup with a twin minnow. I have been crushing Lakers on west side in 60' of water the most w/ twin minnows. There are always Lakers out deep but the really active areas for me seem to be at 40-60' right now..i have also been catching landlocks and a few rainbows at these depths on silver and blue stingers at all depths from bottom to top by running multiple lines on downriggers at mid range. Weather has been tricky lately, water temps are still cold, low 60's on surface.

I am new to lake ontario united but have been following posts for a while.. Fished north past Deans cove yesterday evening pulling copper with twin minnow, limited out in less than an hour with my last fish of the hour being a slob of a 10 lb 33 " laker. Catching them from 30-60 fow. It had been pretty slow until this past weekend, but it seems they are getting in shallow and things are really heating up.