LAKE GEORGE BS THREAD

[Raquettedacker]

. I just grabbed the pliers and forced it right through my flesh, flattened the barb, reversed it out and went tarpon fishing 

  Your a beast....
Go to the Med Center in Old Forge and they have a whole display case with hooks and lures that were removed from people....   

[JAGER61]

Awesome John! True Grit! 

[hot tuna]

Pictures ? I was gagging. Unlike yours ship, this was bloody and meaty. A giant treble with little room to cut the shank and push through . Not a pretty sight and a picture I wish not to see again ..
I think I would have to wussed out and go to ER if it were me, or drink more alcohol first.

[bigredonice]

Fished the lake yesturday.   Drove on with the car at Pilot Knob.   Ice was a solid 15"-20" over the deep water, more up shallow.  Lots of trucks on the Lake.   Caught some lakers.   Switched up to perch in the afternoon and went home with a bunch.   Great day to be out on the lake.   

[aj454]

How did the hook get in there that deep tuna??

[Fidlerontheice]

Had a jig and a #12 trebble in my hand this year.. at differnt times. The trebble burried itself on the outside of my thumbnail all the past the bend. Thats what I get from being rough pulling it out of a pike!

[JigSchtickGeorge]

I saw a deer carcass up near pilot Knob on sunday.  When I was walking out to my spot i noticed some chuncks of deer fur on the ice.  I wondered a bit how it got there..  After an hour or so of moving around trying to find Lakers I noticed murder of crows in a group on the ice on a big reddish pile.  It got the best of me I went and looked.  Sure enough it was a big doe chewed right down to the bones actually missing some ribs and a leg.  I could tell where the chase started ( where I found the deer fur ).  The coyotes chased it several hundred yards before there was any blood, just fur chunks.  then there were 3 20X20' sections of ice that were just a blood bath.  I hope the deer had a quick death but I doubt it.  I would guess there were 3-5 coyotes judging by the tracks in the blood and snow.


I also ice my personal best Lake Trout. 26" and 4.5 pounds.  Only fish of the day, PK was the dead sea yesterday.

[chuckrudy]

Ouch

[hot tuna]

How did the hook get in there that deep tuna??

A feisty wiggling lake trout with a hook. The lure was a PK something with trebles on both ends, top & bottom

[duckmidgetshark]

Hot tuna what a wimp . I walk over to see if someone's got side cutters and you think id been gut shot  by the look on his face and lil tuna's. Thank god someone in the group wasnt afraid of a little blood  or id of had to fish the rest of the day with that hook in my finger.  Oh yeah human blood is a great laker attractant.  The next hole I dropped that spoon in a laker slammed it as soon as it hit bottom.  Thanks for the hook out doc.

[eyesfishing]

So I've recently had some luck in finding perch (finally) and I noticed something interesting. There was a small area, approximately 100x100 ft where I could drill a hole and instantly see perch on the bottom. If I dropped a jig down, any jig, they'd come up and take it with a little play. I then moved to some deeper water in search for lakers. Found one hole where there looked to be fish. They were moving around right on the bottom, but no matter what jig with what bait I provided, they would sniff a little and then swim away. Some would come up to get a closer look and then turn right around before even getting close. I think I may have gotten 1 hesitant nibble, if it even was that.

What's your theory on this? Were these perch of a different appetite? Or was it a different species? I even tried getting a minnow down there on a tip up and still no takers..

[hot tuna]

Hot tuna what a wimp . I walk over to see if someone's got side cutters and you think id been gut shot  by the look on his face and lil tuna's. Thank god someone in the group wasnt afraid of a little blood  or id of had to fish the rest of the day with that hook in my finger.  Oh yeah human blood is a great laker attractant.  The next hole I dropped that spoon in a laker slammed it as soon as it hit bottom.  Thanks for the hook out doc.

Your quite right and I admit that human blood and torn flesh are not my fancy.
But then again I haven't been bitten by a shark either .. Lol
Your a trooper I would have probably had to take a week off of work for that wound

[prchslyr]

So I've recently had some luck in finding perch (finally) and I noticed something interesting. There was a small area, approximately 100x100 ft where I could drill a hole and instantly see perch on the bottom. If I dropped a jig down, any jig, they'd come up and take it with a little play. I then moved to some deeper water in search for lakers. Found one hole where there looked to be fish. They were moving around right on the bottom, but no matter what jig with what bait I provided, they would sniff a little and then swim away. Some would come up to get a closer look and then turn right around before even getting close. I think I may have gotten 1 hesitant nibble, if it even was that.

What's your theory on this? Were these perch of a different appetite? Or was it a different species? I even tried getting a minnow down there on a tip up and still no takers..

They could have been cisco or smelt.
Or just perch, but not in big numbers. Competition creates aggression with fish. You're going to catch more when there's more around. Not only because of the numbers of fish, but they will eat before they let another fish get the easy meal in front of them. Hungry or not. 

[eyesfishing]

They could have been cisco or smelt.
Or just perch, but not in big numbers. Competition creates aggression with fish. You're going to catch more when there's more around. Not only because of the numbers of fish, but they will eat before they let another fish get the easy meal in front of them. Hungry or not. 

I didn't think they were smelt. Looked pretty large on the Vex FL-18.. Ciscoes on the other hand..I've never caught one and have been dreaming about it.. What do they bite on?

[adktony]

Eyesfishing usually you can get them to take smaller pimples, buckshots or any other smaller spoon. Easy way of making sure it is a Cisco a buddy showed me yesterday.  If it's got teeth throw it back it's more than likely a smelt have seen to be able to get them first thing in the morning and right before dark gotta put in some time for them too but if you can have them stacked like perch. Buddy smoked me yesterday using them

[SSmokinn SS]

I saw a deer carcass up near pilot Knob on sunday.  When I was walking out to my spot i noticed some chuncks of deer fur on the ice.  I wondered a bit how it got there..  After an hour or so of moving around trying to find Lakers I noticed murder of crows in a group on the ice on a big reddish pile.  It got the best of me I went and looked.  Sure enough it was a big doe chewed right down to the bones actually missing some ribs and a leg.  I could tell where the chase started ( where I found the deer fur ).  The coyotes chased it several hundred yards before there was any blood, just fur chunks.  then there were 3 20X20' sections of ice that were just a blood bath.  I hope the deer had a quick death but I doubt it.  I would guess there were 3-5 coyotes judging by the tracks in the blood and snow.


I also ice my personal best Lake Trout. 26" and 4.5 pounds.  Only fish of the day, PK was the dead sea yesterday.

wow thats funny you found that. I found the same thing last season over behind Phelps island which you walk out of PK to get there. Strange.

[Chase88]

Not so strange , every year coyotes will run deer on to the ice in that area. They have figured out once the deer get on the ice they are dead meat. Every night they also go on garbage patrol seeing what was left on the ice by the fisherman.

[mikerudy]

I didn't think they were smelt. Looked pretty large on the Vex FL-18.. Ciscoes on the other hand..I've never caught one and have been dreaming about it.. What do they bite on?

Fished out of Vet's on Saturday, not a great day for perching. It was OK, but not great...caught a bunch of dinks, but what was really surprising was the smelt that I got into and even some cisco's. It was really weird catching the perch and everything on a Hali. Perch and smelt would come and go intermittently.

[mealworm]

Buddy smoked me yesterday using them

mike???

[SSmokinn SS]

Not so strange , every year coyotes will run deer on to the ice in that area. They have figured out once the deer get on the ice they are dead meat. Every night they also go on garbage patrol seeing what was left on the ice by the fisherman.

I figured it was something like that. I have seen deer swimming across lakes during the summer. I assume thats because of the same reason?

[ejp419]

There was an Eagle on that carcass Saturday. Then he was up in a tree on that small island north of PK.....

[JigSchtickGeorge]

I briefly saw the bald eagle as well.

Maybe not that big. Prob a yearling actually

[JigSchtickGeorge]

Me an a 4.25 lb 26" Lake Trout

[JigSchtickGeorge]

Coyotes are smart to run deer onto the ice,  hooves are useless out there.

Good to save them, but the guy who did it prob sold some hovercrafts on the evening news.

[catchnofishthisisfun]

nice fish george ! are those glasses polarized?

[EasternCentralNY21]

ciscoes will bite small 2.5 inch or smaller minnow shaped plastics.. or pretty much any bright colored tiny i mean tiny jigs with a mousie.. havent found anything else yet... also i noticed on the fish finder that if you jig they wont bite just set your pole down and when you see that tip bounce set it like a wild west quick draw lol

[bigfish1212]

Anybody ever used a hand line with smelt rig (big flasher long shank gold hooks and grubs) for ciscos. Seems like it would work great, can get a really good hook set and can get up and down really fast when they're deep.

[TC5]

out on the lake yesterday.there were smelt ciscos perch and big trout.not big numbers but all good fish.they were full of small fry of some sort.all fish 23 to 30.

[JigSchtickGeorge]

Has anybody caught a LL Salmon in LG this year?  Or heard of someone catching one?  A guy at work said they caught 6 or 7 two years ago..  I've got a few weeks left to either keep trying for a 30" trout or ice my first salmon. 
I've seen one pic of a Salmon this year from Schroon.

One theory I had is if people are finding them they are smart enough to keep a tight lip. 

[prchslyr]

Has anybody caught a LL Salmon in LG this year?  Or heard of someone catching one?  A guy at work said they caught 6 or 7 two years ago..  I've got a few weeks left to either keep trying for a 30" trout or ice my first salmon. 
I've seen one pic of a Salmon this year from Schroon.

One theory I had is if people are finding them they are smart enough to keep a tight lip.

I heard of one being caught and turned in during the Hague tourney.