keuka 4/5/12

[treerat]

went back up to Keuka yesterday launched at the state park . Fished from 11am until 5pm in tough conditions for this novice . Wind was out of the north west which made boat control a little tuff. Fished spoons off from the deeper divers back 160-190 one on mono one on braid . Fished fly flasher off the riggers down 60 -120 over 100- 170 fow . Only caught four fish but had the divers trip several times coming up empty most of the time . Should I be running snubbers on these to increase hookups? Still not sure I have the releases set right yet . Well Iam still learning this trolling stuff enjoying most of it

[Hookedup]

Dump the mono diver with 160 to 190ft of mono out thats like having a 100ft snubber. The hook up rate sucks with mono and divers. I would rig up a wire line rig and run that with your braided diver rig. The braid will get covered with fleas when they start next month. We dont run snubbers with our divers some guys do but I don't like using them. Sean

[treerat]

thanks Sean . How much wire will I need to run just fishing the finger lakes? Hoping I can get away with using an okuma size 30 reel . I do plan on running wire by summer end .

[Trolling Keuka]

When I first started running wire divers I bought one 1000' spool and split it between two reels. I was using this setup on Keuka for a few years and never had an issue. I do not recall what size reel I was using.