I haver caught a lot of these brood salmon over the last 8 years or so. Couple things I have found to be true whether you are trolling, wading and casting lures or ice fishing for them that have consistently repeated htemselves.
1. Salmon have certain periods of the day when they will feed. Most times I have found it more productive to fish later in the morning, from nine or so on till noon. ( this varies on other ponds)
2. For me and my friends that fish them, sunny days are way better than overcast.
3. Gold or gold/silver lures if you must chuck a piece of metal. A small piece of marabou on the treble does wonders. Fluorerscent colors are best.
4. Live shiners beat all in producing. From shore on a plain old bobber, trolled on the down riggers or under the ice.
5. Easterly winds just plain suck.
6. It takes week for salmon to finally acclimate to a new environment.
7. Salmon, no matter how deep the pond will always feed in the top ten feet of the water columm. ( only once did I catch a salmon deeper than ten feet, I was on Cliff Pond ice fishing and had a tilt down 35' for browns and took a salmon)
8. They are very wary. If you are ice fishing on good black ice, after you set your tilts get off the pond onto the shore.
9. They will come into very shallow water so don't be afraid to set your tilts or troll flat lines with lures such as Yozuri Pins Minnows or Rapalas in tight.
10. Trolling you should always tow a live shiner in back of the boat on a flat line with a small keel trolling weight three feet ahead of the shiner. Troll this flat line way back a hundred feet behind the boat.
There hope that helps.
