Any lake trout fishers out there?

[tarmitten]

When I lived in Teslin,  Yukon we use to fish for lakers all winter long.   I live in Newfoundland now and the ice fishing is quite different.  It's pretty good, however, I miss the frigid temperatures and the trophy trout.   Anyone got some nice lake trout or rainbow trout ice fishing pictures to post?   I would greatly appreciate it.   God bless!
Tarmitten <><  

[Pasquatch]

Lakers are probably in the top 3 of Iceshanty's most targeted fish! Alot of guys on here fish for them, but us NY boys don't pull ones through the ice the size of the ones that our Canadian neighbors do!


Me with a decent one at the King




Around seven pounds if I remember correctly.



I know the guys from Canada are going to make me look like a fool, but those are some of my Laker pics. 8)

[tarmitten]

That's great Pasquatch!  Thanks for the prompt post!  Nothing wrong with your fish! Your pics are right on!  Keep up the good work. Tarmitten. <<<>>><   

[littleoldlady]

Yep..and I love the Teslin area!!  GREAT FISH in that lake...

Here is one from Cold Lake, Alberta.

[PWR BAIT]

littleoldlady that thing is a tank how much does that thing weigh?

[littleoldlady]

littleoldlady that thing is a tank how much does that thing weigh?

Caught that one yesterday afternoon...just under 14 lbs.  IT WAS FUN!!

[tarmitten]

Littleoldlady! (you don't look that old) As we say in NFLD "WHAT A SNAP!" Snap shot that is.    Wonderful!   I'm drooling with envy! <<<>>><

[TGF]

This should clear up some of your Eastern blues....condolences





















If your from Yukon, then you will know this fish


I know its not a laker but it will probably make you a bit homesick. Cheers

[tarmitten]

Thanks TGF.   Boy, we can't compete with those monsters out here.   Great pictures.  Makes me want to move North West again.   Who knows?   Was one of those pics a rainbow? Cheers back at ya! <<<<>< Tarmitten.

[shawno]

Awesome Lakers everyone...great to see those pics!!

Please keep them coming...

shawno  8)

[TGF]

Thanks TGF.   Boy, we can't compete with those monsters out here.   Great pictures.  Makes me want to move North West again.   Who knows?   Was one of those pics a rainbow? Cheers back at ya! <<<<>< Tarmitten.

No rainbows in my pics. The last one is different though. Yes I would never want to leave here

[Kyle_]

If your from Yukon, then you will know this fish
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I know its not a laker but it will probably make you a bit homesick. Cheers

ask PGkris...he should know, err I think he should!!

[dugmore29]

those are some monsters!! i love fishin for lakers,hopefully thers ice by next week. newfound anyone?

[Home Wood]

Way to rub it in TGF! Those aren't fish, those are freaking lake monsters! Now we all know what is in Lockness Lake in Scotland. Beautiful fish!

[toguefisha]

I love fishing for lakers (Togue around here) but can't compete with any of those hogs.  An eight or ten pounder is a monster in most lakes I fish.
-Alec

[diehard22]

I know the guys from Canada are going to make me look like a fool, but those are some of my Laker pics. 8)

Nice trout man
A 7lb laker is alright where I'm from.

Way to go everyone with all the beauty lakers

[ice dawg]

Caught that one yesterday afternoon...just under 14 lbs.  IT WAS FUN!!

Beautiful fish, we don't have them here in my part of South Dakota and it has been about 6 years since I have been fishing for them in Canada. You are very lucky to be where you are. 

[littleoldlady]

Beautiful fish, we don't have them here in my part of South Dakota and it has been about 6 years since I have been fishing for them in Canada. You are very lucky to be where you are. 

Ice dawg...I couldn't agree with you more....just got in from an afternoon on Cold Lake...we count our lucky stars that we have this
remarkable fishery right at our doorstep.  Any time you feel the urge to cross the border to fish...let Sweetie and I know!!

[OZZY]

Hey Littleoldlady,

Are there big walleyes in Cold Lake also or just big lakers? 

[ice dawg]

Ice dawg...I couldn't agree with you more....just got in from an afternoon on Cold Lake...we count our lucky stars that we have this
remarkable fishery right at our doorstep.  Any time you feel the urge to cross the border to fish...let Sweetie and I know!!

I am planning to take my son up next fall and I usually go to northern Manitoba for walleyes, pickerel and Lakers. I will keep the offer to fish with you and Sweetie in mind. Anytime you and Sweetie would like to try some Walleye fishing on Lake Oahe or Lake Sharp, you will be very welcome.

[JJ]

32" laker caught jigging on 4 lb test, C&R

[littleoldlady]

Hey Littleoldlady,

Are there big walleyes in Cold Lake also or just big lakers? 

There are walleye, Northern pike, and perch as well as the lakers....

[littleoldlady]

I am planning to take my son up next fall and I usually go to northern Manitoba for walleyes, pickerel and Lakers. I will keep the offer to fish with you and Sweetie in mind. Anytime you and Sweetie would like to try some Walleye fishing on Lake Oahe or Lake Sharp, you will be very welcome.

Would love to fish for the wallies: our walleye fishery is collapsing in so many of the lakes around Cold Lake...they grow and reproduce very
slowly in cold water.  In most of the local lakes the limit is one, and the size limit is over 50 cm. or approx 20 ".  There is one lake that, I swear, the
walleye know the limit and grow to exactly 49 1/2 cm.!!

[mcwoody]

all great photos.  pasquatch, those lakers are great fish!  nothing to turn your nose up at.  and little old lady.  i've been reading your stuff and you are doing it!!! freakin fabulous fish!!!

we're just gettin the seasong goin now in southern ontario.  lookin to head up to the Haliburtons for some lakers on the coming weeks.  not gonna be the size of little old lady's lakers, but then again who else is catching those monsters?

[ice dawg]

Would love to fish for the wallies: our walleye fishery is collapsing in so many of the lakes around Cold Lake...they grow and reproduce very
slowly in cold water.  In most of the local lakes the limit is one, and the size limit is over 50 cm. or approx 20 ".  There is one lake that, I swear, the
walleye know the limit and grow to exactly 49 1/2 cm.!!

We have a good wallleye population around here and the limit is 4 per day with 1 over 20". We were reducing the walleye population on Oahe for a while and the limit was 12 per day with 42 in posession. 

[littleoldlady]

I am a hardcore laker jigger   Nothing beats pulling up 20 of those puppies in a day on a medium jig rod   They are super easy to catch, fight like crazy and taste just awful but you can count on em to bite pretty much all day on the brightest sunniest days when not much else will cooperate   The best day we ever had on Lake George here in NY was 4 of us caught 74 in 6 hours all on jig rods and we had doubles and triples the whole time, what a blast 8)

  I know they can be fun....but anymore I only catch what I need of the lakers....the survival rates of lakers isn't all that good in the winter time
if they are brought up from deep water, and if they are taken out of the water to be released, their gills can freeze.  I just talking to our local fishery
biologist, and he gave me the statistic of only a 15% survival rate in the winter, as compared to 75% in the summer.  I don't want you to think I am one
of these tree hugging, bug loving PETA types...it is just that this fishery almost collapsed in the 70's  before DDT was banned, and it took a quarter century to recover...I am sort of careful to leave the ice when I have my limit, or else go fishing in the bay for pike.

[dwayne]

You wouldn't beleive the clueless people here that catch em on tipups and then let the laker flop on the ice in 15 degree weather while they walk 100 yards back to their sled to get a tape measure, walk back to the trout while it's gills and skin are frozen into the ice and then take 2 minutes to measure it, realize it's too small and then kick it back down the hole to die and then commend themselves for releasing it while it streams a nice blood trail as it swims away   I see it every winter and just shake my head   If you're not going to keep it and it's real cold out you want to just leave the trout right in the water and unhook it as quickly as possible and get it turned back around and back in the water ASAP.  On warm days it doesn't matter as much but I see more people mishandle trout than any other fish, it's a shame. 

That is because most of those clueless guys up where we fish lakers have no idea what 23 inches is and think they need to measure every laker they ice.  I saw a guy put a ruler on a 17 inch fish one day.  Of course the ruler was at his base camp and the fish spent a good 3 minutes out of the ice in 10 degree weather. 

[littleoldlady]

That is because most of those clueless guys up where we fish lakers have no idea what 23 inches is and think they need to measure every laker they ice.  I saw a guy put a ruler on a 17 inch fish one day.  Of course the ruler was at his base camp and the fish spent a good 3 minutes out of the ice in 10 degree weather. 

Best way to measure is to have your fishing rod marked....have a mark for lakers, (65 cm) pike (63 cm) and walleye (50cm) right on my rod.
 No fumbling around with a tape measure at -20o that way!! 

[GAMBELL]

Not icefishing pictures but they are Lakers.  All of these came from Lake Ontario out of Rochester New York.

[GAMBELL]

I wish Lake Ontario would freeze.  I could go fish Lakers, and Kings.  That would be awesome.