Barndog

I'm sure that I have parts to make something similar. I'll make one this weekend! With a foil liner...

Thanks for the guidance and advise so far. Very helpful. We target salmon and steelies. It looks like this year we will switch it up and not be stuck on trolling along FOW contour. We do have a fishhawk and gps and have figured out how to make them work for us to some extent, but we learn every trip out.

We are quick to try different techniques, methods and such, but have been damn pig-headed about the trolling depth thing. It seems that most other boats around us are too...lol. We get some crazy currents out there out of Fairhaven at times. It was just starting to make sense to me to keep everything in line in tough conditions. I want to say thank you to the replies so far. Randy

I think we may be a little too stubborn and resistant to change on this one and need advice. In general we try to troll along the depth contour on lake O and try to stay in a particular depth of water until we move either in or out depthwise and find a depth where cooperative fish are at. Sometimes there is a stiff crosswind (and waves) or cross current or both. We tend to fight it out and don't always make out so good. When we have these conditions, should we change direction of troll regardless? If this is so, I assume that the GPS will come into play then to stay on the fish and know where you are and where you been. I appreciate any input and advice on this. Thanks! Barndog

Atomiks for us. With the Echip. Hammer,Glow hammer, Glow green, Green crinkle. And LBB.

Looking forward to a great year. Thx for the welcome, all.

Hello All. I fished Lake O back in the 80's into the 90's until lfe slowed me down. Marriage, kids, and all that. Lucky for Me a good friend and hunting and fishing buddy bought a boat and we started to troll some adirondack lakes then decided to go back to tackle the big lake once again. So, in the fall of 2012 we bought up some equipment and such and headed to Fairhaven and docked for a couple of months and fell in love all over again. We fished all year this past year when we could. A lot of weekends! As we learned the techniques and with some help from the locals, we did well! Forums such as this one were also a tremendous source of information. So... I say hello and may we all have tight lines and screaming drags!