MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Welll you should have posted in the NY board but if you want lakers. go to bolton landing to rogers memorial park. Walk out onto the ice between the sagamore hotel and dome Island. really good area for lakers. Use tip-ups with large shiners or suckers just off the bottom. Jig a swedish pimple tiped with part of minnow just off the bottom.
I want to catch large Lake Trout, and don't know anything about the lake.
good spot for lakers and perch, I think the park is called veterans memorial park though.
46 inces
fished Lk Geo for thirty years, ice that is. Things are a little slower in March than first ice, but I average at least 10-12 lakers for a morning of fishing. I will toss back everything I catch including at least 5 over 15 lbs each year. My son posted a catch that was not photographed, but measured 46 inces from last saturday. Many others called him a liar...but I measured and weighed the fish before we put it back. It definately was a fish on it's way out. It had a head like crockadile and a very disproportional body...it weighed only 17lbs. Find 40-60 ft of water in the middle, bring a vex and jig your ass off and you'll catch fish. Good luck
Here's what I know: Longest laker I know of was 42", 26 lbs caught by Ted Hans in 1992. I had him on a charter a few years ago and told him not to expect to top that fish.Heaviest one I know of was 28 lbs, don't know the length, but this fish had girth. Caught with Justy Joe, who charters on the North end. I saw the fish wrapped in plastic in a freezer.Biggest ever on my boat was 41", 22 1/2 lbs, a male, fish was stocked in 1987, caught in 2004 on 8 lb test.Last years biggest on my boat was 37 1/2" but skinny, just under 14 lbs, also a male, most likely a wild fish with no fin clips. Caught and released the same fish in 2003, measured it at 38" and was definitely a couple pounds heavier. A lot of the bigger fish caught lately have been looking rather "gaunt". The same day we got this fish, E&R charters caught one 36" and 18 lbs, a nice healthy fish.Check out this link for some world class lakers: http://www.landbigfish.com/staterecords/fishrecords.cfm?ID=118