I if all you catch is 15/21 inch fish i guess it would be boring. In regards to the question, I like the tufline micro lead core. I can fit a 10 color on a 30 size reel with plenty of backing. Sent from my SM-G930V using Lake Erie United Mobile App
What are you using to try and get down to the fish? How fast are you trolling? Dipseys (what setting and how many feet back)?, downriggers (what depth)?, leadcore(how many colors)?
For the most part straight out in 85 to 105 ft has been best. The fish are all over and spread out. They are not hard to find and they are hitting just about anything you put out.
Caught a bunch today to the west. 90 to 105ft was best. Riggers down 66 to 70ft with spoons, 10 color lead, and dispsey set on one 150ft back worked best. Speed varied but 2.3 to 2.5 was best today.
It should get better. Some of that colder water pushed west since yesterday and in turn pushed the fish higher in the water today as compared to yesterday.
We did 15 total today. Most on 7 and 8 color lead, couple on wire dipseys set on 1, 110 ft back. Caught a couple on riggers 40ft down. All fish on stickbaits running 2.4 to 2.6 at the ball.
Fished tonight out of dunkirk. The water temp is 72 at the surface and around 54 degrees 50 ft down. The temp break is at around 45 ft deep. We caught fish anywhere from 67 ft ro 85 ft of water.
I have a few smaller steelhead that I cleaned up but did not fillet, thinking that the fillets would end up being too thin for smoking. Will this work on whole fish with the skin on?
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Like RD9 said, it's easy out there right now. You don't need to troll slow and run harnesses unless you really want to mess with worms. We have been trolling sticks and spoons at 2.5 to 2.7 for the last 3 weeks and have caught just as many fish as the next guy. Bonus of trolling faster and deep is you can pick up steelhead at the same time as walleye.
Spoons off of riggers down 85 worked best for us today west of dunkirk. Caught around 20 fish, kept 12, west of Dunkirk from 8:45 am to noon. Super slims in perch pattern, chicken wing and another that I don't know the name of. All were copper blanks.
I usually run 1.8 to 2.0 most of the time. I wasn't getting any hits yesterday at that speed so I sped up to 2.4 to 2.5 and started picking up fish so I left it there. Today I was trolling at 2.2 to 2.3 and picked up a few. I mix harnesses and sticks and pick up fish on both at the same time, most people run one or the other.