Nightcrawlers For Lakers

[iceintheveins]

I have always wondered, have any of you had any luck ever on nightcrawlers for lakers? I have never tried them, instead sticking with sucker and anchovy pieces fished on tube jigs.

Tyler

[TroutFishingBear]

I doubt that they would work extremely well.
Maybe if they were very passive... But if you have success, good success, why change your method

[olgeezer]

I've caught lake trout using a silver and gold Sutton spoon with a nightcrawler. Jig on the bottom. Takes awile to get them interested but they will bite. Last year I got 13 lakers that way on Caspian Lake in Greensboro, Vermont. Not real big but lots of fun!

[sweet446]

i use smelts they work great

[hard_waterer]

Touge will eat anything

[deadsmelthead]

Last year I threw a worm on a tip up for the hell of it,now we were fishing in a spot where the only fish we have ever caught in the years that we have fished it are Lake Trout,smelt and an occasional LL Salmon.. By the time we reached the tip up about a 100 feet away it was almost spooled.. Now I know a smelt didn't drag it that far, that fast, but a Laker or a Salmon definately could,but I can't say for sure because the fish came off  the second I picked up the tip up...