misfish Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 (edited) The start It,s has been serving me well the past few weekends, getting me my whities. My confidence is through the roof with this bait now. I have heard and seen it will catch lakers as well. This, I had yet to conquor. That was until, this morning. First lets get the whitie out of the way. Yup, nailed one the first 5 minutes. In the well it went for adinner for me bud and his mrs,s. Back down goes the meegs. Theres a fish on the graph zipping around. Big marks from this one. I keep moving the jig up 3 ft or so, smash it back on the bottom and repeat. Then as Im lifting, the mark makes a beeline for the jig. Fish on. At first I thought it was a good whitie. Then it decided to make a run and another run and yet another run. Ok, not a whitie. A 15 minute battle, with a 46" R-TYPE ice rod,loaded with 10 pound Nanofil and a 4 ft leader of P-Line floro clear, joined only by a uni to uni knot. Get it to the boat,me bud nets it up. Inhaled the meegs Can only amagine the battle if it had a whole tail. Not sure what happen to it. My first on the meegs and biggest on a ice rod. A quick pic and back it went to the depths to rest and yet play with another angler some day. Both fish onboard just before 6am. The rest of the morning we washed spoons. LOL If the rain holds off, I,ll be out on the toon in the AM. Edited June 4, 2016 by Brian B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Nice! I gotta try those meegs up here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Nice! I gotta try those meegs up here No, you need to try a uni to uni for braid and floro. LMAO Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodbender Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Nice fish Brian wonder what happened to the tail of the Laker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 No, you need to try a uni to uni for braid and floro. LMAO Thanks I do, just not very often. Perhaps thats why I cant catch many whities lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Nice fish Brian wonder what happened to the tail of the Laker It looked like it was freshly eat,n off. Not sure what would trying to chomp down on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 (edited) see, relax...I got the net in plenty of time lol Edited June 4, 2016 by Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 see, relax...I got the net in plenty of time lol LOL Buddy, yes you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Ironmaker Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Brian your name and a Meegs are synonymies. I have caught exactly 1 whitefish in my entire life many Moons ago on Bear Creek on Nippising. It tipped the scales at 9 freakin' pounds and the Ontario record was 10 something then. It was the largest fish to date in my novice fishing career around 1980. We didn't even know what it was until we asked a neighbour to ID it and weigh her. I have to admit it wasn't entirely legal as I was having a nap in the cottage when I caught it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Beauty tank laker Bri! I wonder what the story about loosing half its tail. I've never heard of using an ice rod for open water jigging, what's the advantage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 (edited) Beauty tank laker Bri! I wonder what the story about loosing half its tail. I've never heard of using an ice rod for open water jigging, what's the advantage? Thanks bud It,s my set up for the toon, so it,s what I used today. I will say though, it gives the same feeling as when ice fishing. Movement wise. Although, I was using the same jig on a 6.6 UL Ugly stick last weekend and still got fish.LOL Those R-Type rods have some major back bone. I have 4 now, and love them. Edited June 4, 2016 by Brian B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Id imagine using an ice rod for jigging in a toon would be alot of fun! And save alot of space, increase mobility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Id imagine using an ice rod for jigging in a toon would be alot of fun! And save alot of space, increase mobility Space for rods is not a problem. I have rod holders behind the seat. I,ll be adding 2 more before the bass season opens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Space for rods is not a problem. I have rod holders behind the seat. I,ll be adding 2 more before the bass season opens. So whats with the ice rods? Just for vertical jigging lakers and whities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 So whats with the ice rods? Just for vertical jigging lakers and whities? WINNER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 I've got way more hours vertical jigging lakers on an ice rod rather than a long rod in a boat, so there's a comfort factor there too this could be a new trend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 (edited) I've got way more hours vertical jigging lakers on an ice rod rather than a long rod in a boat, so there's a comfort factor there too this could be a new trend Im already planning on trying it haha. Might even try for walleye/panfish Watch it catch on and ice rods get up to the $80/$90 dollar range??? Edited June 4, 2016 by manitoubass2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 There could be some money to be made on this, the bass guys likely NEED 3, 3.5 and 4 foot drop shotting rods to cover all their bases for all circumstances Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 There could be some money to be made on this, the bass guys likely NEED 3, 3.5 and 4 foot drop shotting rods to cover all their bases for all circumstances Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spincast Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 nice one .... you'll know that one if you find him again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimano19 Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 I caught one with the top of the tail missing 2 ice seasons ago, was wondering myself what could have caused it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meegs Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Way to go Brian. Your on fire!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Interesting to see a similar injury of 2 different fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Is it possible these fish are in an area competing for space with pike and or muskie? Ive seen pike take a swipe at other fish, not to eat them, but just kinda a "hey, this area is mine" type a thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimano19 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Is it possible these fish are in an area competing for space with pike and or muskie? Ive seen pike take a swipe at other fish, not to eat them, but just kinda a "hey, this area is mine" type a thing That's the first thing I though of was a pike since this laker came out of 25fow. It looks pretty fresh to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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