FRESHWATER TROLLING 101 - How to catch more fish!

g'day guys and welcome back to another video we're out here on a beautiful day on lake wanaka uh it's just after new year's it's beautiful summer weather out here dead flat water um but today we thought we'd do something a little bit different for you and do a bit of a how-to video so lately we've been getting asked a lot about how we catch more fish than other people seem to we do have really good success catch these decent sized fish and um yeah high quantities of fish at that so we thought today we'd show you how we do it with our setup how um yeah we've gone about catching fish it took us a few years to figure this out we had a look online and it just seemed like every video out there was either not really specific didn't give us the advice we're after or it was just poorly produced so yeah hopefully today you learn something from it if you want to follow us on instagram and see the fish that we're catching uh check us out at the anglers logbook but yeah without further ado we'll show you how we do it [Music] [Music] so there's two sayings that have really stuck with me uh well i've been fishing one is that you can't catch fish if your line's not in the water and the second is that you create your own luck when you're fishing but really both of these things mean the same thing but it's no real replacement for spending time out on the water and figuring it out for yourself but the hope of this video is that uh we will be able to give you a few pointers and point in the right direction so that when you get out there that you do have a little bit of knowledge to start with and hopefully have a better success rate but um yeah people use quite a few different setups for trolling for lakefish so specifically we're going to be talking about targeting trout and salmon but it does work for other freshwater species one thing you'll see um is our setup is a seven foot rod and we use a real setup so i'll show you that now so this is our setup here it is a bit covered in weed from being out virginia it's a little bit slimy around this part but what we've got is a six to seven foot rod um you can use a little bit longer but generally if you're trolling um yeah you don't really need to be beyond ceiling foot this is an akuma setup and it's been spooled with lead line you'll see so the lead line is a weighted line which helps the line sink through the water and then we've also got a deck counter on this one which is really awesome we also run this thing which you may or may not know about it's called a paravein and it um essentially dives through the water um so you see it's got a weighted tip on it and then these different adjustment settings so you can set it so it's either diving deeper shallower or at the back here you can see that dives out to one side so you can run multiple lines out the back and they're pulling away from each other um behind the paravein there you'll notice there's a swivel so from there we have a two meter liter um and that's just out of uh somewhere between six and eight pound trace and then you can use whatever lure you like the real common ones um that we use are these tasmanian devils pink color has an awesome success rate we're always hooking up to fish and uh we'll show you a couple a couple of other options you can use as well um other than tasmanian devils there's setups like utopia spinners that you can use rapala yeah so we find that the bright colors work best on overcast days and on brighter days we'll use some of the more natural looking fish but we find the pink tan spaniard devils and the brown ones have really good success as well as the silver and pink toby's so one of the other important points to cover is around where you're fishing in the lake so one area we're always targeting is wherever a river or a creek comes into the lake we tend to find there's a lot of fish congregating around that shelf so where the river's washing out gravel will typically be a ledge um just in behind there and then it drops down to deep water and we find that there's a lot of fish hanging out there so we fish just on the edge of that deep water you'll get a lot of bait first and food coming down out of the river and yeah the fish just congregate there so definitely target around there um but otherwise just anywhere where there's a change in depth in the water column so uh you might have something that's three four five meters deep dropping away to something like 20 and 25 meters and there's always a lot of bait fish running along there and so there's a lot of uh trout and salmon also um you'll be swimming along there feeding so definitely push those areas in terms of boat speed you want to be fishing between three and five knots we find this is like the perfect range and i personally have a theory that uh the faster you're going the bigger the fish you catch um you know the big ones can swim fast enough to keep up with your lure i'm sure that's not correct but yeah i tend to be in that higher range and find we do get quite large fish when we're fishing that speed you can either fish with an auxiliary motor so something between like five and ten horsepower uh just to keep that speed down low and a nice quiet running motor otherwise you can't fish with your mate motor and we do this sometimes as well just out of laziness but as long as you're just idling forward in here and generally that will be perfect to hook up to something if you are using other setups so if you're not using like a lead line setup with a paravein then uh you probably want to be fishing in the slower range even slower than three knots potentially uh just to help your line get down a little bit deeper than it would otherwise and just the last couple of points for you we find that if you're not using a pair of veins just a lead line set up the rule of thumb for your depth is that for every 10 meters of lead line you have out your lines going to be sinking by 2 meters deep so the 10 to 2 rule obviously if you have a pair of one you can get that down a bit deeper or if you're not using lead line it's going to be a little bit shallower and up near the top water but we do find that in winter the fish do come up a little bit higher in the water column so through uh sort of summer um we'll be fishing between probably uh 220 or 300 feet of line out without lead line and paravane set up if we're just fishing the line we might have a little bit more than that out even whereas once it gets to winter the water's a little bit colder so the fish do come up a little bit higher because the water is colder we might only be fishing between 180 and 220 feet out typically and that's what we find we hook up to a lot of fish yet you're just going to have to play around with dips a little bit depending on the time of year and just see where the fish are hanging out just keep varying up your line depth and yeah see where they are so just to recap those key points for you there's no replacement for creating your own luck spend time out there get to know the water give it a go and just see see how you get on but a few things that we can point in the right direction with we use a seven foot rod with a reel spooled with lead line to a pair of vane a two meter leader and then a lure behind that let us know how you do get on um and let us know in the comments as well if you have any other things that you think might help other anglers we're all out here trying to improve what we do and have high success rates so drop it in the comments if you uh you have any ideas otherwise we're gonna have another video for anglers specifically uh so this will be catered for novice anglers but hopefully anyone of any level is really gonna get something out of it but we're just hoping that that could yeah point people in the right direction if they're just new to it and know how to land the fish so once you're hooked up right through to get in the net and then also taking it home and preparing it so we'll link that video in the description below so go and check that one out as well but thanks for watching and we'll see you next time

Channel: The Angler’s Logbook

Views: 611

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: fishing, hunting, hiking, adventure, New Zealand, boating, angler, trout, salmon, lake, freshwater

Id: D0pIG8dmHTk

Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 09 2021