I'm trolling 4 " apex at 2.9 - 3.4 mph, is that not fast enough?.
How far are you letting your apex out before you connect to your downrigger (100 ft)?
and how deep are you running your gear (25,30,40,50+ ft?) at in the deeper water?
We are fishing from the Glatley bay marina and most days cross the lake and fish the Mission side.
Any suggestions......
Thanks
Doug: I should start by saying it has been 9 years since I lived there and as long since fishing the lake.
I used to fish mainly march/ April till may long. I found that after may long the boat trafic got too much for me so I would move up top to the upper lakes. We did fish first 2 weeks of june a fair bit on years wen weather had been cooler.
As far as gear I always ran a bucktail on 1 side and the 4.5 apex on the other. I ran the apex 100-150 feet behind the boat no down rigger and no weight, just naked. The 4.5 has a more slender profile and will stay under the water at a fairly quick troll with no weight at all. The 4 and 5's never seemed to stay down . Most of my fish came fishing right on the surface as mentioned. I would say we got a few more on the bucktail than the apex but the apex always seemed to preform wen nothing else would. Should also mention I fished out of a 12 foot tinny with no electronics for most years then got a fish finder but still fished the same.
Also to note the bucktails we used where leaded and sunk a bit. I posted a couple pics of them on another thread. I had Art and cindy at A&C get there guy to tie them up for me after Clem retired and stopped selling them. they worked well. Bucktail was 100 -200 feet back as well.
The middle of the lake seemed more productive the closer to june it got. Earlier on we hit many of our fish by starting in front of Glatley point and trolling south. I would line my self up with the tip of the point at green bay for distance of shore. that would be about 200 yards of the glatley point shore. Pretty sure you would find a contour at that distance out and just off the south end of the point. having a depthsounder /gps that we did not in those days. Like I said it was a simple way to fish.
Not sure how fast as we had no electronics but I did find many fish hit the bucktail if we stopped for about 30secconds or so and then hit the throttle to the point of creating a wake. I would gess I was probably 2.5 -3 miles per hour for an average troll .
Hope this helps,as I said it has been 9 years not sure how much has changed. This thread makes me miss that simple CHEAP fishing. I would come home from work hook the tinny up and have the line in the water within 2 minutes of parking the truck. Now this salt water stuff seems so complicated in comparison.
Here are a couple from well.way too many years ago I believe this was a saturday morning fish back in 1991. The buck tail got both of these that day. Think Fish Assassin posted this pic of me a year or so ago on another thread.
keep the reports coming I enjoy them.
