10-10-2003, 02:05 PM
The fish were caught on several things. Fuzzyfisher suggested 2 different kinds of flat fish on leaded line. I couldnt find the "white with red dots" flat fish before I headed up there so I got one that looked similar. It caught one or two. The other suggested flat fish was solid silver. It caught several fish as well. And since I didnt have any lead line I went and bought a 3/4 weight. the weight was in the shape of a triangle. I put it on my line and then attatched the flat fish about 3 ft behind it.
As soon as I got on the lake I wasnt hooked up so I took my spare pole and threw on a size 1 Blue Fox spinner. It was silver wtih a blue bell. My thought was that I would buzz around the lake with that on while I was hooking up my main rod with the flat fish. I wasnt even on the water 5 min when I had my first one of the morning on that Blue Fox.
Later, after I had picked up Hal, he caught fish and only used one spoon. The spoon was solid silver on one side and kind of a tiger print on the other (orange, yellow, black). I switched around to a few different things like a kastmaster and a Jakes. The silver kastmaster did pretty good. The Jakes (Gold w/red dots) was awesome as well.
As far as where and how fast.....we caught fish pretty much everywhere on the lake. Maybe a few more close to the dam, but the fish seemed pretty evenly distributed. No "hot spots". I tried trolling on speed 1, 2, and 3. I caught fish on all speeds, but we stuck to speed #1 the most and I think did the best at that speed. On speed #2 we would have lots of hits and lots of misses. Speed #1 is where we got the hookups.
Not sure if that helps with the speed.......I was in a 17ft Old Town canoe. I was using a 35lb thrust electric trolling motor that has 5 forward speeds and 3 reverse speeds. The motor is about 8-9 years old.
Hope that helps. Today is the 10th. I will be going back up to Huntington on Monday the 13th. Hopefully to have a repeat performance of my previous visit. I'd be happy to post my report again after monday if yall want to hear it.
Let me know if anyone has any more questions and I would be happy to share the info. I'll try to get the digital camera out soon and take photos of the flat fish and other lures I used so you can see them.
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As soon as I got on the lake I wasnt hooked up so I took my spare pole and threw on a size 1 Blue Fox spinner. It was silver wtih a blue bell. My thought was that I would buzz around the lake with that on while I was hooking up my main rod with the flat fish. I wasnt even on the water 5 min when I had my first one of the morning on that Blue Fox.
Later, after I had picked up Hal, he caught fish and only used one spoon. The spoon was solid silver on one side and kind of a tiger print on the other (orange, yellow, black). I switched around to a few different things like a kastmaster and a Jakes. The silver kastmaster did pretty good. The Jakes (Gold w/red dots) was awesome as well.
As far as where and how fast.....we caught fish pretty much everywhere on the lake. Maybe a few more close to the dam, but the fish seemed pretty evenly distributed. No "hot spots". I tried trolling on speed 1, 2, and 3. I caught fish on all speeds, but we stuck to speed #1 the most and I think did the best at that speed. On speed #2 we would have lots of hits and lots of misses. Speed #1 is where we got the hookups.
Not sure if that helps with the speed.......I was in a 17ft Old Town canoe. I was using a 35lb thrust electric trolling motor that has 5 forward speeds and 3 reverse speeds. The motor is about 8-9 years old.
Hope that helps. Today is the 10th. I will be going back up to Huntington on Monday the 13th. Hopefully to have a repeat performance of my previous visit. I'd be happy to post my report again after monday if yall want to hear it.
Let me know if anyone has any more questions and I would be happy to share the info. I'll try to get the digital camera out soon and take photos of the flat fish and other lures I used so you can see them.
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