Catching Lake Ontario King Salmon on Cut Bait with Team Loonatics | The Energy Powersports Series

Nick goes out with Mike and Matt from Team Loonatics to learn about how they run their cut bait (meat) program. Mike and Matt go in depth about their whole program, from which flashers they run, when to run with or without a twinkie rig and even down to leader length and running depths.
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[@andrewkenny742]

The sharing and caring atmosphere of greatlakes salmon trollling is so awesome. Of course anglers have their little secrets, but for the most part it is such an open community and we all want to see each other catch fish.

[@jeremydelisle5407]

Great information. Thank you guys for sharing all of this hard earned intel. We are heading out of Ft. Niagara in May and this will surely help us connect with more fish. Much appreciated.

[@jeremygillette6843]

Love these videos. For me I used to be primarily spoons but over the past couple years I have honed the meat game and now have at least 3 rods with meat on them. I tend to troll slower than the pack but it's what works for us. A lot of guys that we fish around hate it cause they try the meat and no bites but at the same time it's the only thing we have going. I like the probe just for consistency. I will mark down to the degree what heading I'm on how deep the rigger is what temp and speed just to try my best to reproduce what's working consistently. Great videos.

[@paullahmers7939]

Great video one of the best information ones I saw yet

[@scottgarbs7761]

There are various proven ways to rig divers that don't require hand lining. I'm not as experienced as you folks but I've used a variation of NFN's method as well as the OR 16 method and these methods work. Love the videos! Thank you

[@silversalmonchallenge1807]

I agree slide divers are another option. Everyone has there preference no doubt. Appreciate your insight and taking the time to comment. Cheers

[@scottgarbs7761]

Hi@@silversalmonchallenge1807, I haven't used slide divers but I understand they are useful. The methods I was commenting about use dipsey-diver style divers and various methods to remove them from the line so you can keep reeling beyond the diver location. Thanks again!

[@harryhawkshaw4287]

Great video.

[@AndrewMcGhie]

I enjoy these types of videos. Great to see how many different ways there are to go about it. When they said slowing down to 1.8, 1.9 late season, was that referring to stagers?

[@dominichawkins131]

Can you give more details i how they tie the beads on the meat rigs? The video kinda cut out cause you got a fish on

[@silversalmonchallenge1807]

Mike just runs the line through the bead, then loops it back through. this allows it to stay locked when its tight and you can then loosen it and move the bead to change where your twinkies are

[@dominichawkins131]

@@silversalmonchallenge1807 thanks for the reply

[@silversalmonchallenge1807]

Thanks Mike for the quick reply we were back out on the water this morning but that’s exactly so just through loop back around and if you leave it lose its adjustable while setting up a Leader and evenly space the flies