Laker tackle

[manitoubass2]

Well ive officially been hooked and cant wait to get out fishing lake trout again. Too bad the season is just about to come to an end, boooo. But i want to set up a really good soft tackle box dedicated to lakers. So the question is, what would you have in your box? I mean lures, spoons, terminal tackle, line etc. Man im looking forward to this!!!! Thanks in advance!

[jimmy v]

I`ve found that lakers show a preference towards chartreuse/green tones as well as a good silver finished lure,both trolling or jigging,Good Luck!

[gaspumper]

Can't go wrong with any of the Williams spoons,also the canoe spoon.

[Broker]

Green,blue,silver,gold any of those colours for little cleos and williams warblers. Vertical jigging on very calm days can produce with soft plastics aswell, the colour white for those are best.

[bare foot wader]

green is visible fairly deep in the water column, which explains why it's such a good colour, here's a graph and a link, soon as I read up on colour absorption I think it explained why black/purple is my fav colour to pull on lake O

 

1/2 oz jig with a white tube or grub is a must for me, if I can't get them downriggin soon as I mark baitfish or big arch's on the screen i'll pull the riggers up and jig

 

http://www.educatedangler.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=921

Edited August 20, 2012 by bare foot wader

[adempsey]

You can use all sorts of spoons, spinners and minnow baits.

 

I currently use a three-way rig with a MH rod and braided line. I don't own any leadcore/steel or line counter reel type setups since I don't regularly fish for lakers in the summer. So I use the three-way setup and it works.

 

 

So, if I were putting together a "kit", I would definitely have:

 

Sutton (Savant) Silver Spoons in sizes 44 and 72;

 

Lucky Strike Half Wave Spoon in Nickel;

 

Rapala floating/jointed minnows in size F-9/F-11 in black/silver and/or blue/silver;

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I also have some X-Zone Swammers in pearl that are popular, but I haven't had much opportunity to try them much.

 

 

and as already mentioned some Williams Wablers and white tubes.

Edited August 20, 2012 by FishLogic

[adolson]

I haven't caught lakers on anything other than white tubes (as I said in your other thread) but I also have only targeted them a couple times and didn't really know what I was doing.

 

That being said, my go-to for other trout is the blue/silver Little Cleo. It landed me my first brook trout of 2011 and many since, including trolling, casting, and jigging through ice. It also caught my first soft-water splake this weekend, so I would say have at least some of those in there. I'm confident they'd catch lakers too, I just haven't tried much yet.

[4x4bassin]

White/Silver or Black Shad bucktails tipped with a 4" gulp minnow and homemade treble stinger , probably catch a 100 lake trout

on this set up each year !

[Stoty]

If you plan to fish through the ice at all for them, then DEF get some Xzone Swammers in pearl as mentioned above!

[manitoubass2]

Tanks for all the replies guys, much appreciated!

 

Now how about rods, line and terminal tackle?

[Cudz]

Trolling - William Dartee blue prism

ice fishing - Xzone swammer white or smoke blue flake