Lots of fish up here. We ate 15lbs of walleye fillets last weekend, during our annual family camping/fishing trip.
I've never been an avid fishermen, but I sometimes head out with the fish fanatic friends. Most of the time trolling, it's a sand bar or rock shelf edge.
The lakes east of here range in depth from 100 to 370 ft deep, with many having rock ridges will full depth water on either side.
The pike, walleye/pickerel, and muskies, we try catch, all like hanging out at the edge of weeds, and shelves, so they can ambush prey.
Not sure how that would work with a sailboat, since the local practice is to troll back and forth along the area.
It would be "interesting" sailing among all the aluminum fishing boats.
@Texas Gun-Man what do you fish for ? also deep/steep sided lakes ?
@Gene Neill hmm. I hope it's just bad luck. I've read more than a few comments about how you could easily catch fish on an long passage, or see dolphins almost daily on a offshore passage, whereas now the same passage, shows little of that.
@T_Cat So no down rigger...just the lead line to get it deeper ? I'll have to read up on that...
Due lack of experience, I'm simply guessing how much line I need out at a given speed to get the lure to the needed depth. If I'm too shallow I have no idea, but at least if I'm too deep I can tell right away, and help clean the weeds a bit
Trolling under sail seems like a challenge, but since I haven't tried it yet, I may be over thinking it.
