Simcoe Lake Trout eating Perch?

[J-M]

Just curious if anyone has dissected a Simcoe lake trout - what are they mostly feeding on at this time of year? Is it cisco, perch, shiners?

 

Thanks for your insight!

 

J-M

[richyb]

mine have all had herring and smelts. I have caught them in the past with perch in them.

[MJL]

3yrs ago while fishing out of Lefroy, I was reeling up a perch and a laker took a swipe at it 10ft below the hole. I saw a line on the sonar rocketing up off bottom, I looked down the hole and saw an 8lb laker miss my perch by inches.LOL

[chefboi17]

Last one i kept was full of small 1"-2" goby's ( they might have been sculpin, they were tough to identify as they were a little digested). This was 2 weeks ago on kbay

[flippin]

I remember cleaning 1 a couple yrs ago it had a smallmouth bass in it.. Bass was about 1/2lb.

Caught em with perch in em too.

[4x4bassin]

I have never caught a lake trout in Simcoe but many else where and I can tell you that they will eat anything when they are hungry . I have caught them with perch , sunfish , rock bass and even smaller lake trout in there gullets . I read an article in a fishing mag. a little while ago and they wrote about a laker that was caught and it was full of rubber worms and senkos and they even had a picture of it

[OhioFisherman]

Most fish eat other fish, or what ever else is easily available. I cleaned a late fall Steelhead from Lake Erie one time and it had like 24 smaller fish in it's gut, emerald shiners, shad, perch, so I assume what ever was easily caught by it.

[BillM]

Lake trout will eat anything like Dave mentioned above. Whitefish, perch, gobies, smelt, whatever.

[Christopheraaron]

I'd think that it mostly depends on which part of the lake you fish.