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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Spent a morning jigging for Lake Trout on Cayuga lake with friend Steve. The action was pretty consistent and started out very soon after we started fishing. We were using one oz jigs rigged with my homemade swimbaits and were finding fish consistently between 70 and 95 feet of water. We caught 7 including a surprise rainbow and had several additional hits with two fish on for longer periods before throwing the hook. We did not measure the rainbow on camera, but it was 18" and had no clipped fins.
Hey so im going to catuga next week.. how deep was the water u were at and how far down were u jigging? Id really like to try and get on some like this
That particular day we were fishing mostly between 50' and 90', but last night we found them between 80' and 110'. I only started in the 80' range last night because I was seeing some baitfish on the screen as I was passing over the 80' mark on my way to 100' and decided to give it a try. Caught 1 at that depth and lost another as well as a couple of fish on briefly, then caught another at just about 100. For more information watch: th-cam.com/video/suTPbKrPUCw/w-d-xo.html.
Should have added that most of the fish are hugging the bottom so you'll need to drop the jig all the way and just start reeling up. If you've jigged for other species, you need to forget everything you know in that sense - in the three years I've been focused on jigging lakers, I have only seen one fish caught by jigging the lure up and down. The rest almost always follow the bait for some distance before they hit. I've had some that I watched follow the bait all the way from 100' down to 20 to 30' before they hit. If you want to talk further, you can email me - not going to type the address correctly, but you should be able to figure it out - trying to avoid robots recognizing it and sending me a bunch of junk. dswanson at upnorthny .com. Just change the at to the symbol and drop the spaces.
As I’m getting older, I like your setup on that pontoon boat, looks comfortable and easy. Do you trailer it or keep it docked ? I know wind is an issue there, how does it handle rougher conditions ? Thanks Dave, nice work.
Hi Duffmeister6480, I keep it docked from late April (as soon as they raise the lake level) to around November 1 (when they typically lower the level), and you are correct about wind being an issue here. I'm on the west side of the lake and the topography protects me as it pertains to WSW winds through NNE winds. Anything from NE through SW does create complications in getting in and out of the hoist (dents in parts of the screen can attest to that). I can normally manage winds up to about 9 mph from the problem directions but don't really enjoy winds of over 11 or 12 for fishing (most of the time I'm spot locked, so the heavier winds (~12) make it kind of bouncy but not unmanageable. My fallback in case of winds coming up too aggressively while out on the water is to head to Dean's Cove boat launch on the west side about four miles south of me - a very protected cove that I could dock at during almost any kind of weather. Have not needed to resort to that so far. As for the set up, yes it seem to work find, but I have had issues with the Ulterra trolling motor (which is off of the boat at the moment) because it started shutting down after less than 15 seconds of operating time (second time it has happened). I bought a Terrova with lift assist as a backup and have been using that for the past month. The Ulterra worked well when it worked, but the Terrova is almost as good. Ulterra is now 4 years old and Terrova is 3.