East Lake-Pickerel, Pike, LG mouth, No Small Mouth?

[Cloudy15]

Hello all, 

In-laws just bought a place in PEC on East lake,  and I've been told there aren't any small mouth in the lake, even though it's connected to Lake Ontario, by Medium/small river.  I didn't really believe people until about 10 days into my 2 week stay. I've caught a decent amount of Pickerel (no size), lots of Pike (no size), and lots of Large mouth (decent size, not targeting), and don't understand why I haven't caught a single Small mouth.

I've mainly been casting a twister tail, and Little Chloe.

Any thoughts on the lack of Small Mouth??? 

 

Cheers!

 

 

[John]

Can't really help on the lack of smallies but this is a pretty good read on the history of the lake ..

http://quinteconservation.ca/site/images/stories/water/studies/east_lake/el_sol.pdf

[Cloudy15]

Hi John, 

 

Thanks for the reply, I stumbled across that report when I first started researching the lake. But ya, you're right very interesting read! 

 

[Rizzo]

Love that lake. Spent a week there every summer with my grandparents when I was growing up. Stayed at Martin's Outlet Park or Log Cabin Point. Probably went for 10 years in a row? This is during late 70's into the 80's. Crap I am getting old. Wish I could remember better...we did catch a lot of fish, but can't seem to recall smallies. And just like you said, good quantity but no real lunkers. One time got around a 10lb pike but all the others were typical snotrockets