suttontroller94

I like the derby and hope it continues but for the sake of it I hope the lake rebounds soon or the derby is going to lose ALOT of participants. I've already spoke to numerous guys who either fished it last year and didn't enter this year or fished it this year and aren't planning to fish it next. And I feel once participation starts dropping those people probably won't return unless the lake makes significant improvement. Let's face it many people bring kids to this as a family trip and it's hard to keep children interested when your struggling to put fish in the boat. And quite frankly is it worth the money that can potentially be won to burn out a child's or newcomers interest from lake fishing?

Way to go John hopefully these next few tourneys will be alot easier on us very impressive that's you've finished so great the past 2 tourneys with only fishing a few hours each time

That it a good tip especially if you fish with inexperienced guys often or truthfully anyone

For sure darkwater. For me and most the flta guys there's Kueka this sunday then 3 days on Seneca then Owasco the following Sunday. I think I might even get demoted to the dog kennel lol

Wish this derby wasn't same weekend as flta kueka tourney cuz the fishing has been great on Cayuga and would be nice to have a good weekend of fishing before NLTD

I buy em in any color but they almost always end up painted black

Big thing to be said I was targeting the bigger landlocks we didn't catch one under 18" all day and we lost a pair that jumped and I could get a good look at that were clearly 6- 7lbs as well as losing many between 3- 5 and catching some in that range aswell

Dont wanna give to much info out with the derby there this weekend but yesterday we found the Lakers above the landlocks and that being said the landlocks were big and spunky we lost many more of those than we caught aswell as losing a Laker that was an easy 14lbs at the stern of the boat due to some terrible netting... the fish are in and around bait for sure

We had 48- 49degrees on surface out of t falls and fish were in deeper waters

Another open seat for 1- 2 guys tm 5- 16- 17 out of t falls around 715am

If you have rigs your fine as sk8man stated. Just bite off one piece at a time and add things slowly. Before i had downriggers, leadcores, coppers and wire dipsys we ran a seth green and a mono dipsy on a 3 setting per side and a mono dipsy set on 0 right down the chute. Its not ideal to run dipsys on mono vs wire however it works well. We never even had line counters for them rods just level winds and i knew how many feet of line per pass of the level wind back and forth again not ideal but worked for broke highschool kids and caught alot of fish. Later i took those rods i used for mono dipsys and used them for leadcore rods. No need to over think it. Start with the rigs, add a rod or 2 when you can afford it start with dipsys if you like lake trout and move to adding coppers, leadcores and downriggers later

For sure. I just hope I can get on them better in morning last time out wasn't so hot

Open seat cayuga Have open seat tomorrow out of t falls can't get on water til 720- 730ish but plan to fish til 1 or so. Anyone interested?