Trolling Tips for a Newbie?

 
Is your boat safe for Erie? It can turn lousy on you FAST! - Last weekend we watched a "bass boat" out about 12 miles with 5 people in it...I pray they made it back in!
 
First thing I'd do is get rid of the 10# line!
What do you have for reels?

First do you have line counter reels? Second what kind of rods are you running? Easiest would be to buy a couple dipseys and run 2 of those and run some weighted plugs off your inline boards, you would need to spool up some reels with 30# braid(recommended) or some heavier mono to pull dipseys. If just fishing one or two days you might as well book a charter as you can spend that much on gear easily. If you plan to use it multiple times a year then it would be worth it. Let us know what you got,boat, rod holders, rods, reels, and gear and we can help ya out. If its just you or maybe you and one other I may have seats open for ya to tag along and see if you lake big pond fishing before you spend all that $$ on gear.

Best tip I can give you is that it's a bit like tobacco, once you start it's darn near impossible to stop...

Robski,
 Most of the larger fish have been deeper at this time of year, so you are looking to probably be having to get your lures down to the 40 to 60 ft range. You can get some shallower, it just seems the more reliable bite has been further out and in deeper water.
 To start out figure to run no more than 4 rods unless you have someone with a lot of experience helping you out. The two trolling rods you mentioned should be a good start but you need to switch up to some heavier line. 20+ lb, mono or braid is a preference that you can decide based on some of the reading research. I can tell you on our boat we run 30 lb power pro, but some folks love it, some don't, again, it is a personal preference.
 Plan on investing in some good quality swivels for attachments and some leader material also.  For depth, invest in the Trolling book mentioned in some of the posts I listed in my previous reply, it is an invaluable reference. As a start you can go with a few snap weights, mostly in 3-5oz size for the 40-60 ft range and dipsy divers.
 If it is choppy water and you are using your in line planer boards you may want to wrap your line once around the front clip to prevent it from sliding on the line or even pulling off, it su@ks to have to pull everything up to go back for a board that the waves knock off. In fact, we switched at least one clip on all of our boards to the type with the pin in it to prevent them from coming off.
 You also need a good net, longer handle and decent hoop size, and something with a net material that isn't a magnet for the danged treble hooks! LOL
 All of the basics are available from the fishUSA folks (except the net, didn't find one on there last time I looked) and they could help you get a basic set up without breaking the bank. 
This is only a very, very basic list, you can quickly get into a fortune setting up to fish the big water. Kingnuke probably gave the best tip, try to get out with someone who has experience and the equipment so you can handle it firsthand and then decide what you want to do...
 Good luck!

Get out with someone who knows what they're doing and pay close attention....no better way to learn. 

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