My New Trolling Setup

[Dan F]

My wife bought me a new trolling setup for my birthday. The pole is a 7' Berkely medium-heavy casting rod. The reel is an Abu Garcia 6500LC. I loaded it with 80 yards of lead-core line. I also got a few new trailer lures. I went out yesterday fishing for Rainbows for a couple hours. Fishing was slow, but I landed one keeper (around 11-12") and a smaller one that I threw back.

Anyone else troll for Trout or Kokanee?

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

no but i hear small rapalas are the way to go

 

[cichlid fiend]

Good stuff boss!!

Your lucky the only thing my wife every brought me was a trout doormate.

 

[Dan F]

no but i hear small rapalas are the way to go

Yeah, I have had some luck with small Rainbow pattern Rapalas, I've heard that fishing big ones behind a dodger is the way to get big Browns.

Good stuff boss!!

Your lucky the only thing my wife every brought me was a trout doormate.

I am lucky. It helped that I was with her.

These are some of my Rapalas and trolling lures.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

yes browns mainly eat fish so a bigger rapala will work good. I mainly fish "live bait" for salmon and trout such as shrimp,crawfish, night crawlers, spawn. I dont get to go troll for them much as I mainly shore fish.

 

[Columbian Shark Catfish]

Beast

 

[toolbox31]

I do some trolling here in NY, but more for northerns and lakers. We use a lot of spoons and spinners but a plug sometimes works too. There are some local guys that go out for rainbows and land locked salmon. They seem to have it down to a science, I'll have to see what tips I can drag out of them. I do know that they troll at a very specific speed, slower for walleye and a little faster for trout and salmon.