Lakers

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by townsde

What type of jig works? What color? What weight? I will give it a try this week

A split body jointed jig with a single treble hook in 1 ounce works well. Color varies day by day but I have always had good luck with anything that looks like bait fish in the lake such as rainbow smelt color, shiner color and white has worked well for me.

Good luck!

Dan

[bigdog]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

A split body jointed jig with a single treble hook in 1 ounce works well. Color varies day by day but I have always had good luck with anything that looks like bait fish in the lake such as rainbow smelt color, shiner color and white has worked well for me.

Good luck!

Dan

How deep are you jigging? My understanding about jigging for trout, you drop jig near the bottom, then raise up 2-3 feet. Now you raise (jig) lurer up, let it drop down, then repeat. If you're jigging deep water, you'd need a lot of line!

Do I understand jigging correctly ?

[townsde]

I found some good info at the following URL on this subject. I am going to give it a try this weekend.

http://cayugafisher.net/pages/jiggin...ackle_jigs.php

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by bigdog

How deep are you jigging? My understanding about jigging for trout, you drop jig near the bottom, then raise up 2-3 feet. Now you raise (jig) lurer up, let it drop down, then repeat. If you're jigging deep water, you'd need a lot of line!

Do I understand jigging correctly ?

Anywhere from 80'- 140' and it must be calm on the water! Send jig down to bottom, bounce off bottom a couple times, reel up a couple feet and jig, repeat until you come up through stacked lakers seen on fish finder screen. Lakers are normally stacked from bottom to 40' off bottom. A standard spinning reel with a 20 lb super braid as your main line with 10' of 15 lb fluorocarbon as a leader. You want to minimize stretch as much as possible. I use a Mitchell 300 reel on a 7' Fenwick medium power graphite spinning rod. Great fun bringing them in on this light tackle...

Dan