Stephenleo

Line capacity and a smooth drag are big for salmon and trout with the fast and long runs. I enjoy using braid when i am able too but whenever it starts to get cold the line will freeze very quickly meaning mono is the only option. If your only fishing fall and spring running braid is a good choice.

10'6 6-12lb medium light okuma sst, Think i have a shimano sedona or sahara for the reel with 15lb mono to an 8lb floro leader when fishing for trout and 14lb when fishing for salmon. Normally throwing Rapalas in current and casting spoons and spinners around river mouths.

Update. After several trips between now and the first post finally a good update. Went out Friday september 1st. Slept through my alarm and didn’t get out till 8. Went to the genny to fish the pier heads for stagers until 10 with no luck. Headed out to 100 feet and trolled a mag spoon to 150 with no luck. Went out too 200 and started trolling my mag spoon, fish finder died around 220 feet but i continued trolling blind and slowly adjusting depth out to around 250 ft when my rod finally went and line started pulling crazy. Fought the fish and landed a small king but had the reaction of landing a 40lb fish. Finally something to show for all the hours spent. Planning on heading back out tomorrow and trying again, not sure if i should head back to 200 where i was and put more time into that water or if should fish for staging kings in search of size and skein for float fishing this winter.

Planning to go out at first light monday morning as the lake looks accommodating. Going to fish wonder bread, carbon 14 and probably flounder pounder at first light till the sun starts shining then i’ll switch to either a flasher fly or a yellow blue spoon. Planning on jigging when i troll over big schools of bait rather than trying to jig fish that i mark. Not sure what depth ill start in considering the winds we’ve had but i’ll go out and try to figure it out. Will keep updated and appreciate all the tips and information i’ve gotten. Definitely need to look into a drift sock especially towards fall with staging kings.

Only put like an hour and a half into that but had a good feeling about it. i spent most of my trips trying to troll for salmon in the 45 to 65 foot range

Appreciate the advice on the cowbells for lakers, i was worried it would be too much pull on my trolling rod but i think going slow enough i should be able to manage it. I’ve seen a lot of marks shallower in the 100ft of water range in my area with a decent amount being in the top 30 feet of the water column then a few marks around 45 to 65 deep i’m assuming are salmon and the occasional mark of a laker on bottom at 100 ft. Are the marks at the surface likely trout? and is it worth targeting these fish up within 100ft or are they more likley to bite if i go out and find deeper colder and more comfortable water for the fish. No fish hawk makes fishing the temperature difficult.

Fishing out of rochester with Gennesee towards Braddocks being my main stretch. I was fishing the spin doctor with a spin and glo 5 foot off the bottom with my deeper diver trying to catch a laker, however no takers. Not sure if that was the best approach for a lake trout off the jetski using a dipsey but it seemed the most possible at the time. Appreciate the information on fishing flies and depth i’ll likely give a try next time, probably tuesday morning, if the lake is permitting. Any advice for a better approach for trolling for a lake trout?

In my expierence on days without wind and minimal current the jetski does fairly well at holding its position especially if at a good angle with the current but with any wind my body and lifejacket acts like a sail catching enough resistance to help move and spin the seadoo. With decent waves or current the jetski doesn’t hold position for very long at all. Hoping to get out to see how a drift sock would effect this

So is there no reason to be trolling with the dipsey? I figured that allowed me to cover much more water than my jigging. Is a spread needed in order for trolling to be effective? I’ll look at getting a drift bag for my jigging because any more time over a spot would be very helpful.

I’m in rochester and typically fish genesse towards braddocks Any spoon, lure, or technique recommendations are appreciated

Over the last two summers i have spent probably 30 hours out on the lake trying to catch any sort of salmon or trout from my seadoo with out any fish to show for the time. This mainly consisted of me trying to jig for a lake trout using a deeper pro mobile fish finder tied onto my seadoo and slowly driving around until i saw a school of bait or of fish. this only resulted in one hit on a 3 oz jig head i poured with a swimbait on it, which broke during the fight. i’ve been trying to jig using 2 oz spoons but i can normally only get a short amount of time over the spot before being pushed away by current. Recently i was given a trolling rod so i went and bought a dipsey diver followed by a deeper diver. I’ve gone out a few times for 4 to 5 hours at time using my one rod dipsey setup without getting any hits. Still using the deeper ive been marking fish from 160 to 75 feet of water over the last two weeks and have tried fishing most areas of the water column but have spent most of my time around the 80-100ft mark mainly marking smaller fish in the 15-30 foot range with occasional lakers, bait pods and marks 40-65ft down. I have had a lot of apparent follows when fishing the top 15 to 30 ft but no takers. Nothing much when fishing the 40-65 foot range only a very few marks that would hover below for a while regardless of turns or speed changes. then i have tried fishing 5 foot from the bottom using my deeper diver with a spin doctor and a spin n glo attempting to catch a laker. I try to wash my hands frequently on the water with dawn dish soap, i have a flash light for my uv spoons and set my jetski from 1-3 mph with normally shows up anywhere around 1.6-2.8 mph on my fish finder. using a roughly 6.5 ft lead on my dipsey to a variety of spoons. Considering how new i am to this and how little i know i figured someone would be able to offer some guidance on the best way to catch any sort of fish from the lake and better decipher all the information i’ve seen and known what to do with. This is a decently long running goal of mine i would love to have a fish to show for Open to any suggestions and i can provide fish finder screen captures if that’s of any use.