Saturday I took a break from deer hunting to take Russell and his son Shawn on a Cayuga Lake fishing trip. Russell has booked the trip as Shawn’s birthday present.
When Russell booked the trip, he said they wanted to jig for lake trout. I told him we would plan for that, but I’d bring some trolling gear just in case. I knew if we found the lakers grouped up, we would get them. However, after 4 spots, we knew we needed to go searching.
We started with two 10 color lines out that they could hold onto and yank every now and again, giving the baits extra action. This is like mixing trolling and jigging all in one. I wasn’t long before we had our first laker. I thought perfect this technique will get them and we will be good to go.
It turned out that was not true. After a while with no more bites, I put the down riggers out and both a 3 and 4 color lead core. We now had 6 rods in the water and the bites started coming.
At the end of the day we had taken fish on every rod out and Shawn had sore arms. His smile tells the story for sure. We ended with 7 lakers, a brown, a rainbow, and at Atlantic giving us the Cayuga Lake grand slam. We also lost about 7 other fish throughout the day.
The moral of this story is always have a plan B and C just in case plan A doesn’t pan out. I am offering trips on Cayuga Lake all winter. Stay warm inside the heated enclosure of the Hewescraft.
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