trouts

[chanda]

I am surprised none of you are answering my trolling q's...

[nyc Canoeman]

well if i caught 4 rainbow trout, 3 lake trout, a brookie, and a smallie, woudnt i have 1 bass and 3 trouts? or is it troutes?

[chanda]

thanks but actually I was looking for help in trolling questions...

[nyc Canoeman]

I never troll..may be I need to adapt and try out trolling. So question:
1. when you troll..are you using a heavier sinker, keeping the line out longer, using steel lines or downrigger?
2. while trolling line is at an angle, so it is very difficult to judge how deep you might be.. and now with the heat, you want to make sure you are at least 20 ft deep?
3..lastly live bait or one of the spoons? you troll with 2 lines out from side of the boat or just one?

1. i'VE ALWAYS USED A DOWNRIGGER. But after reading these guys posts I have ordered LeadCore line to try the new fangled way.
2. the leadcore has colors and im guessing a chart to know when you have 3 colors out, your at x amount of feet. the experts can chime in here.
3. Iv'e always trolled rapalas. in ashokan, chartreuse or black/silver or rainbow trout colors.
last time on Kensico i tried slowtrolling sawbellies with a large egg sinker held 4' off the bait by a swivel, and a slipbobber at 25'. trolling slow should keep bait at about 22'. faster would bring it up to 20'. caught all smallies though. good luck and read the reservoir trout trips. they are packed with trolling knowledge.

Fish On!
Dexter

[KenH]

Chanda
If you type in "trolling" in the search bar at the top of this page you will be able
to read all the threads that are archived here about the subject.
You may want to read through them.

[chanda]

thanks Ken

[chanda]

I appreciate your post "NYC Canoeman"..I have a down rigger but never used it. why would you switch to leadcoreline when you have been successful with down rigger all this time?

[KenH]

I appreciate your post "NYC Canoeman"..I have a down rigger but never used it. why would you switch to leadcoreline when you have been successful with down rigger all this time?

I also have two sets of downriggers and although I have used them on the reservoirs and caught fish,
because you are limited to manually rowing, leadcore is much much easier to manage on your own.

[chanda]

I have been reading on trolling ..problem is, if and when I do hook a fish, I would prefer to fight it rather than just dragging the fish with heavy 1 oz or more weight. That is why I bought the down rigger, but it's another thing to carry back and forth...
Interestingly..I saw this gadget on the internet which is essentially a swivel kind, light weight to which you attach a leader with bait and a weight. I placed an order for a set of 3. $8 bucks with delivery.
anyway, what fascinated me was, once you get a hit, the weight drops off...! and now you can fight the fish! so I was thinking, but then each weight will cost me so much and so. But then I thought about it and looked carefully in the pictures on the site. He has the weight with a string--a line and in the pictures, I see big cast iron nuts tied as a weight. So i was thinking, may be I can use river rocks, 1.5 inch is diameter, which will hold my line down, wrap them in a net..used to make salmon bait, tie it with a string and I have non toxic weight that is affordable to use and easy to make and serves the purpose..
of course all theory..let me report on the gadget if it really drops the weight off as it claims!
Thanks KenH

[KenH]

Chanda,
Good luck with that and please let us know how it turns out.
 

[chanda]

 
I sense the humor in your remark KenH ! but I surely will report you on my river rock trolling adventure. I have 3 days lined up for nothing but fishing from Sat-Wed in upstate Cannonsville or Pepacton if double w's  (wife and weather) permits.

[KenH]

LOL. Chanda, I'm quite serious in wanting to know you fare. Just because I know that
if I were lucky enough to be able to fish Cannonville or Pepacton for 3 days straight I wouldn't
be pulling rocks behind my boat, it  does not mean that I can't be educated or enlightened by
something new. You just might floor us all with a great catch. Really, may the WW be in your favor
and good luck!

[G.Freshwater]

They actually make sinkers out of rocks in lots of varieties (trolling, egg, clamp on)  They say the noise they make on the bottom is an attractant like a rattle.  Like most ideas, I don't know if it catches fish but it catches fisherman!

[chanda]

i will let all of you know for sure. i am looking forward to fishing and reporting my RR adventure.