06-04-2007, 01:43 AM
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Do you get any that big in your parts birddog? My biggest so far is a measly 11 pounds. But, knowing that fish like that are around is what keeps me trying! I feel like I have kokanee, and almost any trout figured out. But, the dang lakers still have me baffled! LOL [/reply]
wow .. sorry I missed this post bkidder. Yea, we get Lakers like that out of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. We also have a smaller fishery for 'em in Green Lake as well that you can land some nice sized fish on.
Later on in the summer is when we start seeing the 20lb+ fish regularly out on the big pond. Personally, I prefer chasing Kings, Bows and Browns so I never target 'em.. they just appear from time to time. To me Lakers aren't as table friendly and the larger fish over say 4-5lbs get real fatty/oily and they just don't put up the fight as a comparible sized King or Brown.. However, if things are slow and we hookup on a few I'm all
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They're usually up top early on - I should say "dispersed through the water column", but later in the year If a guy wants to chase 'em all ya do is drop your rigger balls to the bottom and start dredging 150-200 FOW off the Sheboygan Harbor.. now that I think about it, a few years back I ran into a few of 'em that actually got air.. not Rainbow acrobatics, but they broke the surface! Thats something they're not exactly famous for so it was a treat for us.
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Do you get any that big in your parts birddog? My biggest so far is a measly 11 pounds. But, knowing that fish like that are around is what keeps me trying! I feel like I have kokanee, and almost any trout figured out. But, the dang lakers still have me baffled! LOL [/reply]
wow .. sorry I missed this post bkidder. Yea, we get Lakers like that out of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. We also have a smaller fishery for 'em in Green Lake as well that you can land some nice sized fish on.
Later on in the summer is when we start seeing the 20lb+ fish regularly out on the big pond. Personally, I prefer chasing Kings, Bows and Browns so I never target 'em.. they just appear from time to time. To me Lakers aren't as table friendly and the larger fish over say 4-5lbs get real fatty/oily and they just don't put up the fight as a comparible sized King or Brown.. However, if things are slow and we hookup on a few I'm all
s [] They're usually up top early on - I should say "dispersed through the water column", but later in the year If a guy wants to chase 'em all ya do is drop your rigger balls to the bottom and start dredging 150-200 FOW off the Sheboygan Harbor.. now that I think about it, a few years back I ran into a few of 'em that actually got air.. not Rainbow acrobatics, but they broke the surface! Thats something they're not exactly famous for so it was a treat for us.
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