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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Trout => Topic started by: IDFisher on Jan 15, 2015, 11:37 AM
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Has anyone had any luck using whole, small, perch for lakers or maybe tiping a jig with a strip of perch? I caught a bunch of small perch and I was wondering if they would make good laker bait. There are a few perch in the Laker lake but not many.
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How small is small? Lakers do eat perch. Buddy of mine had a laker chase a perch he hooked right into the hole. He got the laker, and it never touched the perch.
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Perch or any panfish make good cut bait for lakers. Scale them and cut into the size and shape you like. I have some small crappies and bluegills set aside from yesterday's trip; now I need good ice on Superior.
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Make sure it's legal in your state, and if so definitely try it. Not legal in Maine, otherwise I would use perch here. Everything eats perch, including lakers. I think that's part of why glow perch or firetiger jigging spoons seem to work so well. Also great bait for open water too if legal.
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Like stated before we can't use a live Perch as bait here in Maine but cut Perch does work for Lakers. They eat perch in all ponds that they co-exist together so it is a natural food source for them.
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We can't even use dead yellow perch for bait in Maine. >:(
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Yeah our state law now says dead or alive, all baitfish must be on the allowed list. For those that can use perch legally, I liked this video and it seems so simple. I'm going do the same with sucker meat.
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See if you can find frozen Cisco.