Ideal troll speed for sewn smelt, LL's, early spring?

[Mr.Harry]

Curious if there's any consensus on this. Slower the better? Under 2 mph? Over? Opinions? Thanks.

[grgs]

Around 1.0 mph

[chillywillie]

Under 1 MPH for sewed bait or it will roll and spin too much.  One thing I've been experimenting with more is sewed bait about 18 inches behind a dodger.  You can go a little faster and the bait takes the motion from the dodger and doesn't spin and roll out of control.

[laxgoalie]

Soon the water will be warm enough that other methods/higher speeds are producing on par with the sewn on smelt game!

This rain we just got must have warmed the southern Maine lakes into the low/mid 40s from the upper 30s of last weekend already

[joefishmore]

37  degrees this AM at Sebago. The river was a little warmer.

[laxgoalie]

37  degrees this AM at Sebago. The river was a little warmer.

Well, slow troll it is then. I'm going to try my hand at tandem streamer action this weekend on a couple rods. Might troll big jointed rapalas right under the chop

[thedirtydirtyfisherman]

sewn smelt behind a dodger can work very well...

[Loves To Fish]

Curious if there's any consensus on this. Slower the better? Under 2 mph? Over? Opinions? Thanks.

It depends on how one fishes sewn smelt. I've seen speeds from .9 to 1.4 mph. The slower speeds are used when making your smelt do a slow roll or a fairly fast spin. The faster speeds are used for when you make your smelt wobble, side to side motion without a spin,  like a lure.

I will add that I am partial to the smelt doing the wobble because it produces big fish the whole open water season.

[Slammin_Brookies!!]

It depends on how one fishes sewn smelt. I've seen speeds from .9 to 1.4 mph. The slower speeds are used when making your smelt do a slow roll or a fairly fast spin. The faster speeds are used for when you make your smelt wobble, side to side motion without a spin,  like a lure.

I will add that I am partial to the smelt doing the wobble because it produces big fish the whole open water season.

X2.........earlier this morn we caught fish slow rolling at .84......in the afternnon 1.6mph was the magic ##

[joefishmore]

I seem to do better when they don't spin.
And if theys pin , regardless what swivel you use you leader may get twisted.

[rude the dude]

.84. Lmao

[jimmie333]

.84. Lmao

It was actually .839mph, don't pick on the slow kids! 

[Slammin_Brookies!!]

Thats 0.84 or 1.352 Kilometers per hour. I  understand its hard for you 2 guys to understand whole numbers if you can't use your fingers or flash cards.

[jimmie333]

Thats 0.84 or 1.352 Kilometers per hour. I  understand its hard for you 2 guys to understand whole numbers if you can't use your fingers or flash cards.

The Durty Lew Education, whole numbers do not have a fraction or decimal point. So in short if you round up,,,,, you were going a whole number of 1! Just riding you bro. Good luck

[jrelaxin]

The Durty Lew Education, whole numbers do not have a fraction or decimal point. So in short if you round up,,,,, you were going a whole number of 1! Just riding you bro. Good luck

Jimmie ......the question was trolling speed not net speed....