Early Start to the Season

[dmackinnon]

Good day. I was out over the weekend, partly to try out my new boat and partly to fish. I went to Long Point in Lake Erie as I heard there was Pike there and Pike is open in Lake Erie. We did go all the way out to the Bluff Bar, but had no luck. We marked a lot of fish on the depth finder, but from my guess they were Lake Trout, as that is also what the Marina confirmed. I did not have any of the proper stuff for Lakers and also have never fished for them. Anyone have any suggestions of where to go for the early season fish. I do understand that the water is still cold so the fish aren’t biting much, however it is hard to pass up the nice weather. Anyone have any suggestions on where I should try next? I Live in Guelph and my boat is on a trailer so I am fairly open to locations. Thanks

 

[dmackinnon]

I am trying to decide if I should make the leep and get down riggers? I mainly fish for Bass and Pike, but woudl like to get into Lake Trout and Salmon. Could also troll for walleye..... The other option would be to do a slow troll with a 3 way Swivel. then I woudl have to decide if I would use them enough to get the electric or if I shoudl just get the manual down riggers. Do any of you have or use downriggers or the 3 way Swivel for trolling for lake trout?

 

[NADO]

There arent too many lake Erie trollers on this forum, there are some but they are few and far between. Try this site for Erie trolling http://www.longpoint.on.ca/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2 its a fairly simple forum and doesnt have nearly as much traffic as this one but they almost exclusively talk about lake erie trolling for Walleye and bows.