ADK POND TRIP COMING

Yank:  Not sure what species you are targeting, but if it is deep and you are targeting Lake Trout, I like to imitate their forage species which is usually either smelt or whitefish.  I rig a 3 way swivel with a sinker on about a 3 foot dropper and a flutter spoon of some sort trailing @ 5 or 6 feet back--longer is better, but your rod length may limit the length of the leader.  I don't like to use more than 10# on the leader, usually go with 8 for the lakers.  I pick flutter spoons that have a lot of silver on them (the Michigan Stingers at Dicks are good ones).  For lakers I use a 3 3/4" or @ 4 inch spoon, but I don't like the real wide ones as they drag too much and take more weight to keep them down.  Go real slow and jig the rod in long sweeps forward and ease it back slowly so the spoon can fall (flutter) some as it drops down a bit.  If you're not getting much action, change spoon size and or color.  Last week we were surprised to be catching bass as deep as 30 feet (near a drop off).  I suspect they were down there feeding on the smelt, as they hit the same lures we were using for Lake Trout.  We found the lake trout at about 30 to 35 feet last Monday.  Didn't catch any deeper than that.  I've also had luck with lakers using deer hair and/or curly tail jigs.  You need a fairly heavy jig head though to get you down deep and again, go slow.  Those should obviously work for both bass and lakers.  I haven't tried the flutter spoons for walleye yet, but have been reading about it recently and will try it on my next walleye expedition.  They use the same type of flutter spoons, but a little smaller and they fish them as described above.  The thing I like about the 3 way setup is that it is real easy to adjust your weight to keep it on the bottom.  With the sinker bouncing the bottom, your spoon isn't far off it.  If I find the fish at say 30 feet, I like to follow the contour of the lake at that depth give or take 5 feet and fish right on the bottom.  Look for structure on the fish finder that drops steeply from shallow to deep.  Hope you have a good day, I'll be looking for a report.  I expect to be in my treestand on Monday trying to fill last years archery tag!