how do you catch herring

Do any of you guys know how to catch herring in Nipissing?

pin head minnows and keep jigging ..lol

you catch incidentals on minnows. If you want to target them, use a flasher spoon like a williams w/hooks removed and tie a mono dropper with a small offering on it, like a pearl or a maramooska...jig it fairly aggressively (ie more aggressive than if you were fishing a walleye jig). They will chase a bait farther than a walleye as a general rule, and will also suspend in the water column. Without a flasher to help you, start about 3ft off bottom. Hang on they hit hard and scrap good

Tiniest pinhead on the smallest teardrop jig u can find. Flasher helps bigtime cause they r mostly suspended

all you need is a jig and a rod I was on them all day

another

Small white jigs and plastics are what catch most of them on and if your lucky and you have 10" holes you may see schools 2 to 7 ft down and sight fish with your jig or spoon. Only happens once or twice per season for me but it is cool to see. Usually I catch them while perch fishing in the bottom 5 ft..I throw them back they are just fun to catch especially in the middle of the day when your bored from slow fishing and then a 3lb herring hits on an ultrallight it wakes you up.

thanks for the info guys. now I just need to know are herring any good eating?
cause I have tried almost every kind of fish in lake nip except for herring

Very good eating,, Herring is a very flaky and oily fish its all on how you cook it

Ciscoe are a great candidate for the smoker!

I've only caught them by fluke but boy are they fighters.

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Nice work fishchaser67

Slab grabber, just on its own, jig it pretty hard then sit for a sec. they hammer it!

Good luck!

Great catch Fishchaser67

I will be making my first trip to nippising in March and I am also interested in catching some herring, is there a limit on them in nippising? And does anyone use them as dead bait for pike?

I have used small dead herring for pike in the spring - very effective. Cast out with very little weight and let sink to the bottom slow retrieve and repeat.

Smaller 6-9 inch jobs like the size they are in Lake Simcoe these days are ideal, or store bought.

I wouldn't try those herring Fishchaser 67 caught up above (awesome fish) unless I was planning on choking the Pike to death. I'm sure a big enough pike would try it though.