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Mission accomplished. Couldn't have done it without you guys. Thanks so much for your help. Got out for another 45 minutes and hooked up in 90FOW on a white swim shad.

Yup baby octopus we found while scuba diving. Not sure what kind it is. Very old photo, not sure how it became my profile photo. Now a days we wouldn't we picking up stuff while diving.

Day one was a few bumps and one follow all the was to the boat. Launched from Myers at 7am, fished mostly the power plant and a little bit South of Myer's. We marked a ton of stuff but not lot committing. Mostly marks were suspended mid water. We trolled half the time with dipsy divers spin doctors and flies. I don't think the divers were getting deep enough. Then when they finally would tick bottom to get an idea how deep they are they'd be full of weeds. Gonna try jigging around Myer's tomorrow. What do you guys see in these sonar readings?

Makes sense. Seems like sometimes they like it on the drop, sometimes on a faster retrieve. Dumb question.. does the style of jig head matter? Mine look like this while it seems most in FLX use ball head.

Thanks for the replies! I think I am ready to hit this hard, unfortunately still a whole month to go. Do you guys use gulp alive to jig? Is there any difference between saltwater gulp and freshwater gulp? I have tons of gulp soft plastic and the flounder over here destroy it.

Hello All, this is my first post in what seems to be a great forum! I fish almost exclusively salt water in NJ bays and shores from a modest fiberglass 17' boat paired with a 90hp yamaha, BUT we are taking a family vacation to the Ithica, NY area and I want to try my hand at some freshwater fishing! We plan to be there Aug 24, the boat will be docked on Southeast Cayuga Lake Shore and has a range of about 10mi on a 12 gallon tank. My boat is mostly setup for bottom fishing, drifting for flounder, anchoring over wrecks/reefs for seabass, porgies etc. I do some trolling for striped bass, using mojos (do you guys know what they are?) but no downriggers etc. My gear consists of: 3 spinning rods spooled with braid between 20-30lb test. 3 conventional trolling rods spooled with 50lb braid. From my research here I have to battle with: strong N/S winds, fleas?? getting all over my line, deeep water, and the best trout water not necessarily being so far south as Ithica I'd like to try to locate fish and vertical jig them, but I don't think my 30lb braid on my spinning setups will be able to get a 1/2oz lure down deep enough, also the wind may not cooperate. I don't mind trying to troll with 3 way swivels if possible, but not sure about the fleas and braid issues. What is the easiest (cheapest) way to get ready for lake trout, brown trout, anything in Lake Cayuga?? Please recommend some lures, rigs, bait options that gives us the best chance to explore this new fishery!