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Offline lowaccord66

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Forked tail fun.
« on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:34 AM »
Its that time of year again!  14 for me this weekend.  Largest was roughly 27"











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Offline BaitBucket

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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #1 on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:36 AM »
Well done man!!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #2 on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:40 AM »
nice lake trout man !!!! well done
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #3 on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:45 AM »
Nice job!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #4 on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:49 AM »
Way to hammer em Jon!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #5 on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:55 AM »
Nice job.  I need to target them this year.
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #6 on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:58 AM »
great pic's as usual!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #7 on: Jan 02, 2018, 10:05 AM »
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #8 on: Jan 02, 2018, 11:03 AM »
Well done Jon
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #9 on: Jan 02, 2018, 11:14 AM »
good ones, jon
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #10 on: Jan 02, 2018, 04:03 PM »
Nice job!

Without asking you to reveal any trade secrets, can you share which State you caught them in?
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #11 on: Jan 02, 2018, 04:19 PM »
Quote from: bogtrotter on Jan 02, 2018, 04:03 PM
Nice job!

Without asking you to reveal any trade secrets, can you share which State you caught them in?

This was NY Jim.
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #12 on: Jan 02, 2018, 05:01 PM »
Nice work Jon. Your hard work and drive for success once again provides fruits of your labor.  Looking forward to that bite soon.

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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #13 on: Jan 02, 2018, 05:05 PM »
way to find the fish  ;)
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #14 on: Jan 02, 2018, 05:30 PM »
Quote from: ctownfisherman on Jan 02, 2018, 05:01 PM
Nice work Jon. Your hard work and drive for success once again provides fruits of your labor.  Looking forward to that bite soon.

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Thanks Dave.  Its going to be a heck of a year for lakers, ill be looking forward to that mission!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #15 on: Jan 02, 2018, 07:07 PM »
Quote from: lowaccord66 on Jan 02, 2018, 04:19 PM
This was NY Jim.

Thanks, just curious. You had posted something earlier in the week to suggest you were heading to NY, but I was not sure this was the trip you were referring to.

A tremendous catch regardless of where you caught it.
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Offline Papa Sly

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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #16 on: Jan 02, 2018, 07:58 PM »
Great job as usual Jon!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #17 on: Jan 02, 2018, 09:49 PM »
Great job Jon. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Is BL safe? How much ice?
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #18 on: Jan 03, 2018, 05:00 AM »
Quote from: THE JIGGER on Jan 02, 2018, 09:49 PM
Great job Jon. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Is BL safe? How much ice?

This was the smaller lake Dick.  BL's perch water is ready but my understanding is you cant go that far.  This was as of yesterday.

One of our friends nailed them much better than I did Saturday and landed 30!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #19 on: Jan 03, 2018, 05:30 AM »
Can't wait to try jigging lakers!! Good thing I ditched the Jeep for traveling..15-30 Lakers sounds addicting and expensive
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #20 on: Jan 03, 2018, 07:21 AM »
Nice job on the lakers, they are definitely on my list this year. Would you recommend hitting New York or heading up to northern New England?
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #21 on: Jan 03, 2018, 09:14 AM »
Quote from: icetilt on Jan 03, 2018, 07:21 AM
Nice job on the lakers, they are definitely on my list this year. Would you recommend hitting New York or heading up to northern New England?

Ive done both.  It depends on how you want to fish for them.  I found Winni was a fun place to jig but the numbers were not like NY.  Champlain has huge lakers and I got into a bunch this summer so im waiting for that area of the lake to freeze.

If all goes well Ill get one over 10lbs this year from a lake ontario bay!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #22 on: Jan 03, 2018, 09:41 AM »
Nice! We caught some in Lake George once. Dead sticking smelt a foot off the bottom and jigging small bucktails tipped with sucker meat and some slight chumming was the trick. Only place I ever fished for lakers was in NY. I live in NH now and I will be hitting up Sunapee, newfound, and Winnie a lot on late ice. I'm deploying this month and will be back the first week of march. If this cold weather keeps up we should have ice till April. But then again you never know. Nice work man. 
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #23 on: Jan 03, 2018, 11:04 AM »
Quote from: lowaccord66 on Jan 03, 2018, 05:00 AM
This was the smaller lake Dick.  BL's perch water is ready but my understanding is you cant go that far.  This was as of yesterday.

One of our friends nailed them much better than I did Saturday and landed 30!

Great job. Man I though with those 10 to 15 below zero temps up there it would be ready.
Thanks for the info I'll pass it on to the Nephew.
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #24 on: Jan 03, 2018, 12:10 PM »
Quote from: Jetmec89 on Jan 03, 2018, 09:41 AM
Nice! We caught some in Lake George once. Dead sticking smelt a foot off the bottom and jigging small bucktails tipped with sucker meat and some slight chumming was the trick. Only place I ever fished for lakers was in NY. I live in NH now and I will be hitting up Sunapee, newfound, and Winnie a lot on late ice. I'm deploying this month and will be back the first week of march. If this cold weather keeps up we should have ice till April. But then again you never know. Nice work man.

Last year was a rough ice season and I jigged lakers on April fools and then called it a season.  Ive always thought it was neat how guys jig them in NH vs NY.  I dont chum and haven't had a need to use sucker meat. 
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #25 on: Jan 03, 2018, 12:52 PM »
Quote from: lowaccord66 on Jan 03, 2018, 12:10 PM
Last year was a rough ice season and I jigged lakers on April fools and then called it a season.  Ive always thought it was neat how guys jig them in NH vs NY.  I dont chum and haven't had a need to use sucker meat.

Ya when I was a kid my father would take my brother and I to champlain and some NY lakes a lot and we jigged them up with blade baits, sweedish pimples, and kastmasters. I started fishing with buddies in NH and they said they were chumming for lakers. I was like **censored**! Never heard of chumming while ice fishing until then. Used that tactic on a slow day on Lake George and it worked. Hey to each their own right. Just like pike fishing I guess. I noticed a lot of VT guys use spoons, beads and flashers on their live suckers and pondies with quick strike rigs and have good luck. I've tried it on pontoosuc, onota, and buel many times without much luck. But would you say lakers slow down on late ice? I'm really not used to targeting them strictly and would like to more this season and late ice is all ill be able to get on. 
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #26 on: Jan 03, 2018, 03:27 PM »
Hard to say definitively if lakers tend to feed less later in the season.  I havent been after them through ice for very long,  only the past 4 years or so. 

Late ice and the locations I fish for them can be rather dangerous.  The lust for them caused me to swim last year...no thanks!
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #27 on: Jan 03, 2018, 04:44 PM »
That is a day I have only dreamed of.  Nice job
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #28 on: Jan 03, 2018, 06:16 PM »
Looks like a blast. I definitely gotta do this soon
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Re: Forked tail fun.
« Reply #29 on: Jan 04, 2018, 07:57 AM »
Nice! Too bad they’re not better eating though, in my opinion of course.
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