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hi all.

what is your number one lures for lakers.


for me..its

for the past 7 years.

1-coton cordell ripplin red fin...silver/black.
2-white tube
3-westriver

but this year will try..kwikfish


joco

For me it has been the small Yo-Zuri Crystal minnow in Gold Black.
I run these behind a spread of slide-divers in mid summer to get down and away 50 to 75 feet down.




-s

my go to lure for lakers. is


- hook and sinker.

thats it. oh yeah and a smelt lol


no but i have used the kwikfish. and the action is pretty good.


but this year i'll be using mooselooks. my buddy swears by them for landlocked salmon....

I've only fished a handful of different lakes for lakers but I've had great success with Williams Wabblers #40 in a gold/silver scaled finish. Any wabbler is good but I find that finish is best. I jig them on the ice, 20 jigs at every 5ft interval from the bottom to the ice in Lady-Evelyn Smoothwater P.P. and they work great tipped with a minnow and a stinger hook on Larder Lake up north in the summer. My number two set up is the aformentioned hook, line, and sinker except I prefer using a live minnow about 10-15 feet from the bottom depending on the depth.
Tight lines,
Yannick

p.s. nearing 100 posts

Rapala, original floating minnow, F07 in silver.

Bobby

hey fisherguy.

20 jigs at every 5ft interval from the bottom to the ice

you save a few feet if you fett and time wit a flasher, .


but i do the same thing....we just never in deap water where they are in that water colonm.



and i di use smealth myself..greatfor brook trout in one off local lake and great for lakers in roddick/31 mile lake and pemichangan lake.

a lot off people jus trow them frome shore and wait...dead bait frome shore..can be easyer then that.


thanks guys.keep going.

joco

Sutton 44 Hammered Gold/Silver

hey joco great thread.


yeah i'll be doing alot of shore lake trout fishing this season.

i have done some drop shoting for spring lakers in the past. but i found that the allure of a dead smelt on the bottom will catch even the "un-catchable" trout. i have a friend with a cottage on a lake near blue sea lake. and last year we caught and release over 35 lakers in 1 hour. all we used were smelt on the bottom with an open spool.



i've never experienced laker fishing like that. and it was amazing.



hey Joco, you planning on going smelting this year??? i got couple streams near gatineau that are full of smelt when they spawn. just got to be there when they do. one day they are there the other they aren't.

i've done some smelting in chicoutimi and caught my biggest brook trout while smelting. 4 pounder. he was full of micro-smelt..... dwarf smelt...???

anyways there's alot of spoons that resemble smelt. and i think one that looks like a smelt will out produce a non-smelt-looking spoon.


man i love the smelt!!!

Ice out....flat lining bangtails

early and late season...Sutton 44

Midsummer heat....gangtroll (xmsa tree) tipped with a smelt

Icefishing....Red/Silver williams dropshot to a treble with a shiner or smelts

katch moore

smealthing.mmmmmmmm .

there a creek i been going for ages for smealth but the fence that creek up. so since then i havent went for them..i baught them insted.

but there easy to catch in the creek that have some..but the smalet are not in that creek to long...just to spawn..and dont last long.(med may aprox)

there great to fish wit and great to eat to..deap fry.mmmmm


joco

couple years back i saw a great article on lake trout fishing.by patric campeau french guide.

he was fishing lakers wit huge white jig wit a piece off strip chikens on it.raw chiken.

great article is in the outdoor canada april 2004 and in sentier chasse et pech 2001(cant remember the month)..in french.

suposely great way to get monster lakers.

just a little strip off raw chiken on a good size white jigs.


joco

Ice fishing...... nothing works

Open water, these are all you need.

Note: These only catch small fish. Don't use them

Joco I use a small flasher and cut bait durring the summer and a williams gold/silver spoon or large mepps spinner in the spring tipped with some sucker belly.

On a downrigger, dodger and fly, colours vary. Run on a short lead, maybe ten feet back from the cannon ball.

Most of the time in soft water, dead baits (large shiners) rigged with a treble pointing aft through the gill.

Winter: white tube bait and misc spoons.

Doug

If I can get shinner minnows, I polomar a 1 or 1/0 Gammy D/S hook with a #6 Excalibur® Tx3™ Point Treble Hook on a short tag end. I run the D/S hook up through both lips and the treble gets put into the meaty part of the tail just behind the dorsal fin. Drop of quick dry super glue keeps treble in place. I run the minnow a few inches behind a Sutton 88 "dodger" 15-20ft behind the release.
On very windy days I remove the Sutton 88 dodger, add a few beads and a painted cork attractor ahead of the minnow and just let the wind blow me along.

I also run Sutton 66 and 44 spoons.

I have a few old beat up Lure-Jenson Fire Plugs that caught a good number of lakers in their day.

Some of the new Rapalas look interesting for lakers too.


DropShot'r