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Title: jumbo whites
Post by: walleyecrazyx22 on Feb 05, 2008, 06:54 PM
hope to catch more of these buggers in the next 2 weeks :D
Pegion lake, alberta
nice jumbo's
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh89/walleyecrazyx22/DSC00002.jpg)
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: SNAPFisher on Feb 06, 2008, 04:39 AM
Wow!  Those are nice.  The 2nd one is so fat!  Well, I hope to join you on that front.  Best part is Mulhurst is only 30 minutes from my front door now....hmmm....maybe time to sneak out for an early morning soon.

Good luck out there.   May jumbos decorate your life shortly  ;D
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: Neptune on Feb 06, 2008, 10:31 AM
did you mean Pigeon lake??

anyways, those are some fantastic Whiteys!!!   How deep did you catch them?   I love how they fight, always trying to sound.

Great Smoked too...mmmmm!

Good Fishing :tipup:
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: walleyecrazyx22 on Feb 06, 2008, 05:59 PM
Thanks guys :D oh yeah those baby's give a fight, its ridiculous how you see those big of fish on the camera!

Mulhurst is madd for late season whites. the bigger ones start moving.
there was a guy who pulled in a 7lb white about 25 yards from us.
biggest in the pictures is 5.6 i belive

7 feet of water, but i aint tellin u the hook. it aint no wireworm. and works fantastic!

uploading more pictures for you to see.

Good fishin,

David
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: walleyecrazyx22 on Feb 06, 2008, 06:01 PM
Yes its pigeon lake :D sorry for the error
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: Neptune on Feb 07, 2008, 08:35 AM
Until this week I have never heard of a "wire worm" and now you are the second person to mention one for whitey fishin....wierd.

I have never fished for Whiteys in that shallow of water!!!  How deep does the lake get?  I looked it up on Google Maps and it isn't a very big lake.
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: oleike on Feb 07, 2008, 11:40 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/roonie/jeffralphregdeiflk021-1.jpg)

we catch this size all day long at Lk. Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan...littera ly tubfulls if we wanted...no worms either. In the early summer they fight like no tomorrow. The biggest we have witnessed coming out is 11lbs. but did hear of a 13lb. My guess is (the above person) is using some sort of small  spinner or jighead...really not sure what the big secret is because what works in one place my not work in another. For instance..we use a trout pellet tied up in a ladies nylon stocking so as not to loose the pellet and have to reload everytime. The reason this pellet system works so well is the fact that the fish were born and raised on pellets from a nearby trout farm..this would definaltely work elsewhere. Just my two cents worth.
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: B.K.G. on Feb 08, 2009, 06:17 PM
Nice looking fish I hope to catch one some day ;)2
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: flagguy83 on Feb 16, 2009, 09:47 PM
Nice fish man!
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: kingfisher on Dec 14, 2009, 12:58 AM
great fish
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: sloughboy on Jan 06, 2010, 10:33 PM
Please, please, please....you have to tell me what you were using.  I have been fishing off Mameo for the last few weeks....a lot on the camera (like 75 +), in about the same 7 feet of water, but do you think I can get ANY to bite.... totally frustrating.  I need help
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: bigmike7272 on Jan 31, 2010, 05:23 PM
Please, please, please....you have to tell me what you were using.  I have been fishing off Mameo for the last few weeks....a lot on the camera (like 75 +), in about the same 7 feet of water, but do you think I can get ANY to bite.... totally frustrating.  I need help

I know what you mean, we had that same problem. We fish them with a single hook and spawn, if you had more that one egg on your hook they wouldn't even look at it, but still even if you had only one egg on they still bit so light and fast that you didn't have time to set the hook and you couldn't see the hit on the spring bobber
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: IceMan08 on Feb 01, 2010, 07:34 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/roonie/jeffralphregdeiflk021-1.jpg)

we catch this size all day long at Lk. Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan...littera ly tubfulls if we wanted...no worms either. In the early summer they fight like no tomorrow. The biggest we have witnessed coming out is 11lbs. but did hear of a 13lb. My guess is (the above person) is using some sort of small  spinner or jighead...really not sure what the big secret is because what works in one place my not work in another. For instance..we use a trout pellet tied up in a ladies nylon stocking so as not to loose the pellet and have to reload everytime. The reason this pellet system works so well is the fact that the fish were born and raised on pellets from a nearby trout farm..this would definaltely work elsewhere. Just my two cents worth.

Wow 11# thats huge,  must have been a crazy fight even the 3#ers fight like crazy!
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: Homewrecker on Jan 05, 2018, 07:40 PM
Just use a small single hook  on a minnow and let it lay on the bottom on the sand .
Whites are bottom feeders .
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: Yukoner on Jan 21, 2019, 10:48 PM
They also hit silver spoons jigged 15-20 feet of the bottom, and they hit them hard!

Ted
Title: Re: jumbo whites
Post by: Old Goat on Feb 22, 2022, 09:02 PM

  had these for first time in restaurant a couple days ago   Delicious