Whats your favorite lake trout lure

[NORRM]

What is your favorite and most sucessful lure for lakers?

[MikeVT]

White Tubes and Chrome Buzzbombs.  Have just started using Deadly Dick's jigs, they work pretty well too.

[Wiener]

Anything White, but a white airplane jig is what I use the most.

Wiener

[TGF]

airplane jig played like a violin

[icedflies]

The makers of the swedish pimple made this lure called, "The Laker Taker" I wasn't having luck at one of our laker holes last year so I put that thing on for a laugh (it was like 4" long for open water) I swear that thing didn't even hit the bottom of the lake and POW!!.  I had a laker on and I was so dumbfounded it snapped me off.  I was like a deer in the headlights.  Needless to say I have had a heck of a time trying to find another one.  They have this thing similar to the laker taker but it has a big bend in it and I don't think it is anywhere near the same.

[Drifter_016]

[Cherwnvega]

perch colored bucktail tipped with a chunk of sucker

[salmon stalker]

Tsunami Ball jigs work awesome. Tip that with a filet of sucker and you are in business.

Another thing, dry dog food to chum up the area. Lakers and cusk love it. Then bounce your jig into the chum pile to stir it all up.

[HARDTOP]

be live it or not I have my best luck for lake rs at the gorge using bass chatter bates in white and chartreuse I tie on a trailer 3 prong 2 inches behind the main hook and add a 4-5 inch silverside Thislure makes a sound the macks seem to like.

[Wiener]

Jigging spoons -  Gold, silver, white.
Tube jigs in white, white / metalflake, purple and pink.

Airplane jigs - White, yellow

Hope this helps,

Wiener

[trout slayer 21]

perch colored bucktail tipped with a chunk of sucker

the state just banned suckers here in Vermont and we cant buy smelt any more vhs disease even though we havent had a case yet here

[surflizard]

The 3" berkley power tubes in white work real good for me The lakers don't care if the package says bass tubes

[Cherwnvega]

I just saw a couple of laker takers on sale on ebay if your still looking for thme icedflies

[Superpole]

Used to be a big pimple.  This year I have been slaying them with a buckshot rattle spoon.  Both tipped with a shiner.

[Merv]

Well it use to be a abu coster but they quit making them so now im on to a acme sidewinder coster and it kills the lakers around here where i fish.

[SebagoSlayer]

Swedish Pimple- White- Gold, Silver.

Airplane Jig- White, gold, blue.

All tipped with sucker or large shiner

[gavin16]

for me it differs from year to year, it use to be strictly spoons, then buck tails white or perch colored, now its strictly 3.5" to 4" white tubes with a 1oz orange jig head. sometimes with bait but mostly without

[dholmes]

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[dholmes]

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I have used williams spoons before trolling, how do you jig with them and do you and bait as well? Thanks

[Drifter_016]

I have used williams spoons before trolling, how do you jig with them and do you and bait as well? Thanks

I just jig them like any other spoon.
I start off at the bottom, jig it a few times and hold for a minute, move up 5 feet or so and repeat.
When you get near the surface, drop to the bottom and repeat. Haven't had to use bait so far.

[dholmes]

I just jig them like any other spoon.
I start off at the bottom, jig it a few times and hold for a minute, move up 5 feet or so and repeat.
When you get near the surface, drop to the bottom and repeat. Haven't had to use bait so far.

Thanks, im trying it on Sunday hope it works 

[er-e-is]

I just jig them like any other spoon.
I start off at the bottom, jig it a few times and hold for a minute, move up 5 feet or so and repeat.
When you get near the surface, drop to the bottom and repeat. Haven't had to use bait so far.

Drifter, Do you find a slow jigging action or a hard fast action better with your spoons?

[Drifter_016]

Drifter, Do you find a slow jigging action or a hard fast action better with your spoons?

It really depends on the mood of the fish.
Mostly I just give a couple of wrist flips and hold. I will then occasionally give a 2 foot sweep jig and rest to try and call in fish. Another trick is when you are down at the bottom to thump it off bottom a couple of times to stir things up.

[bigmike7272]

really like white bucktails

[NORRM]

Anybody use yellow or chartruse?

[Drifter_016]

Anybody use yellow or chartruse?

I've had good luck with Fire Tiger and these:

[HARDTOP]

without a dought it has to be 3 to 5 inch tube jiggs chartruse/white glow/1/2 to 1 ounceskirted jigs next best glow airplain jiggs with these you will catch macks with or with out bait

[splakeshaker]

Slender spoons.

[troutsdaddy]

The staple for the last couple of years has been tubes in white and glow but my bigger fish have come from a PINK bucktail.....troutsdad dy