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Title: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: vexfl8 on Feb 05, 2009, 03:38 PM
top 3 for me is
                    #1  white tube jig 1/2 oz jig head
                    #2  fire eye minnow spoon   blue, green, yellow, glow backside 3/8oz and bigger #2 red trebble
                    #3  varmint 1/4oz to 1/2 oz white or glow #2 red trebble

       if u dont agree with these i willout fish u any day. if u like them u know your sH!t
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: bassinbrian_on_ice on Feb 05, 2009, 03:45 PM
Quote
#1  white tube jig 1/2 oz jig head
                    #2  fire eye minnow spoon   blue, green, yellow, glow backside 3/8oz and bigger #2 red trebble
                    #3  varmint 1/4oz to 1/2 oz white or glow #2 red trebble


Is that limited to one perticular lake ?

Because results could be different in other bodies of water  ;)
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: vexfl8 on Feb 05, 2009, 04:07 PM
i would have to say all bodys. because out of the 3 lakes that i fish i pound them on these 3 jigs all the time and have numbers of these jigs in case brake offs. my brother fishes all over the lake george area and me in the finger lakes and we use the same thing and both do really well. so yes
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: ice-t on Feb 05, 2009, 08:00 PM
i would have to say all bodys. because out of the 3 lakes that i fish i pound them on these 3 jigs all the time and have numbers of these jigs in case brake offs. my brother fishes all over the lake george area and me in the finger lakes and we use the same thing and both do really well. so yes

I'm takin your advice already.  Got any other tips for a newbie to Finger Lakes Lake Trout?  Live between Owasco and Cayuga.  Thanks ahead.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: SNAGGER on Feb 05, 2009, 10:23 PM
i would have to say all bodys. because out of the 3 lakes that i fish i pound them on these 3 jigs all the time and have numbers of these jigs in case brake offs. my brother fishes all over the lake george area and me in the finger lakes and we use the same thing and both do really well. so yes
WHAT FINGER LAKE DO YOU LIVE ON! I grew up on cayuga we use bucktail jigs there.Generally white with various color hair mixed in.We used to buy them off an oldtimer who would come to the park.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: GAMBELL on Feb 05, 2009, 10:25 PM
White 6"Mister Twister grubs on a 1/2 oz jig head (cut down a little)
White Flukes on a 1/2 oz jig head
White 4" Mister Twister curly tailed grubs
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: buckclub on Feb 05, 2009, 10:46 PM
for soft water I use a one ounce bucktail jig tipped with minnow, I don't see why it wouldn't work for ice sized down a bit.  I bought some bleeding white tube jigs I am going to try, as well as green.  I would think the pimple has to be up there. Some of the names I dont recognize, post some pics!
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: MikeVT on Feb 06, 2009, 09:39 AM
1 - Buzzbombs
2 - White Tubes
3 - Swedish Pimples

I've bought a couple of new spoons, the are called "Deadly Dicks" spoons and I think after this years field tests, they may make it into the top 3.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: Icefisherman01 on Feb 06, 2009, 09:17 PM
ANYTHING WHITE WHITE WHITE WHITE
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: laketrouthunter on Feb 07, 2009, 09:49 AM
1. pimple
2. bucktail
3. tube

 Question anyone had any luck with airplane jigs? 
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: vexfl8 on Feb 11, 2009, 12:05 PM
1. pimple
2. bucktail
3. tube

 Question anyone had any luck with airplane jigs? 
nope to that had them look at it, but???
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: erihick on Feb 11, 2009, 12:08 PM
had one hit an airplane this winter but missed it.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: yellabella on Feb 11, 2009, 01:40 PM
I wanna try with a senko I had a laker on lake george spit one up along with a smelt.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: BUCKSKI on Feb 11, 2009, 02:23 PM
Wow some bold statements on outfishing people. I glad you have some success!
1. White tubes
2. a bucktail with a large minnie
3. a sonar in white (sleeper)

Not a big laker fishermen in NYS, but in canada they crush white tubes in 80-90 fow
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: bigredonice on Feb 11, 2009, 02:33 PM
top 3 for me is
                    #1  white tube jig 1/2 oz jig head
                    #2  fire eye minnow spoon   blue, green, yellow, glow backside 3/8oz and bigger #2 red trebble
                    #3  varmint 1/4oz to 1/2 oz white or glow #2 red trebble

       if u dont agree with these i willout fish u any day. if u like them u know your junk

rotflmao

you didn't name anything good ;D   close with the fire-eye, but not quite there.  ;)
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: ICEROGUE on Feb 11, 2009, 03:10 PM
1. #3 chubby darter (smelt colored)
2. #8 gens worm tipped with fat head (white body w/glo eyes)
3. #8 rattle spoon tiped with smelt head (natural subdued color)
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: stringer01 on Feb 11, 2009, 07:16 PM
#1 laker taker #2 little cleo #3 kastmaster                                                                       
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: oneidawalleye on Feb 12, 2009, 12:08 PM
The Upfold Bucktail Jig with stinger hook. This jig has caught more lakers on Otsego Lake than any other jig in the past two seasons.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: bigredonice on Feb 12, 2009, 12:15 PM
The Upfold Bucktail Jig with stinger hook. This jig has caught more lakers on Otsego Lake than any other jig in the past two seasons.

I tried one of those that the dude sold me in the parking lot.  they look good, really good actually but they are not panacea for lakers there that I hoped they would be, head to head, the right spoons in the correct colors still out fish them.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: DianeOnIce on Feb 12, 2009, 02:02 PM
1. White Tube (4" with 1/2oz head)
Caught a 32" 12lb laker off Crown Island Lake George in 60' using this tube (see link)
http://www.fish307.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=14971 (http://www.fish307.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=14971)

2. White or Yellow and White Bucktail jig

3. White or Orange Ice Swedish Pimple, size 7, 8 or 9

 :-*
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: lostfishy on Feb 12, 2009, 02:10 PM
Although all those color patterns are very impressive, they catch more fishermen browsing the racks than fish. Do you really think that with a foot of ice and a foot of snow and 100' of water color really matters? I do think that a soft bait on a heavy head works very well with finicky fish. I also like nice heavy metal jigs like pimples, leadfish, deadly dicks, etc that jingle a bit.....
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: bigredonice on Feb 12, 2009, 02:29 PM
Do you really think that with a foot of ice and a foot of snow and 100' of water color really matters?

i've seen it where color made a big difference in 180FOW under a foot of snow...although 90% of the time, color doens't matter to a lake trout at all as long as he can see the offering good enough to line it up into his mouth. ;D
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: lostfishy on Feb 12, 2009, 02:39 PM
Yeah, I think alot is sound and smell versus sight feeding. Silly humans we are.... underestimate the latteral line/complex and a fish's sniffa....
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: skunkedbywalleye on Feb 12, 2009, 03:50 PM
What do you guys do with them after you catch them...they sure ain't to tasty  :sick:  Do you guys burp them and hope they survive  ???
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: bigredonice on Feb 12, 2009, 03:53 PM
What do you guys do with them after you catch them...they sure ain't to tasty  :sick:  Do you guys burp them and hope they survive  ???

99% of the lakers I catch I don't even touch, I have the leatherman ready, unhook them in the hole, and they all swim away very quickly, sometimes so quick i get a cold shower from their tails!

I do keep a few smelt-fed lakers every year, if you trim all the dark meat (fat) off the fillets, they are pretty darn tasty.   

Now those alewive (shad, sawbelly, etc) fed lake trout all get released, they do taste nasty :sick:
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: deadsmelthead on Feb 12, 2009, 05:21 PM
Rapalas.Pimples. and did I say Rapalas? Buzz Bombs work pretty good also.
Title: Re: lake trout jigs ! your top 3!!!!!
Post by: bassmaster#1 on Feb 12, 2009, 06:06 PM
Ok guys ive noticed that the whie tube has been pretty popular how do you work it and where in the water colum do you want it to be??