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Thank-you! i usually fish for perch and bass, but want to try my hand at lakers. I will try for a few hours and if I fail, I will go back to perch. Not a wasted trip at all
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If you have never tried Lakers digging on Simcoe, let me give you a few tips please.
Lakers will feed throughout the day that being said in the summer I find low light levels have more active fish. Fish that you see in the water column suspended if they are Lakers are very actively feeding. You absolutely can catch Lakers that are on bottom. One of the biggest keys to doing this on Simcoe is to make sure that you can mark your bait at all times. From day to day of the fish mood changes and they may want a different cadence. Sometimes the fish will prefer a bait hanging completely still, and then they will start chasing up from the bottom, and as you real away, they will chase and crush the bait or take a good look and turn away. Don’t stop reeling when they turn away. Sometimes they stop chasing and then reengage. Sometimes they want that retrieve away from them to be fast and sometimes they wanted to be slow. Do not get trapped into doing the same thing over and over and over if you are unsuccessful. Change something. In addition, sometimes they want a bait that makes absolutely no noise like a swim bait, and sometimes they wanna bait like a lipless crank that has rattles. Just keep changing and let the fish tell you what they want. If they do commit to a chase, but do not hit your bait then a very minor change is needed. Good luck. Hope this helps.
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QUOTE (Disco @ Jun 30, 2023 - 12:02 pm)
If you have never tried Lakers digging on Simcoe, let me give you a few tips please.
Lakers will feed throughout the day that being said in the summer I find low light levels have more active fish. Fish that you see in the water column suspended if they are Lakers are very actively feeding. You absolutely can catch Lakers that are on bottom. One of the biggest keys to doing this on Simcoe is to make sure that you can mark your bait at all times. From day to day of the fish mood changes and they may want a different cadence. Sometimes the fish will prefer a bait hanging completely still, and then they will start chasing up from the bottom, and as you real away, they will chase and crush the bait or take a good look and turn away. Don’t stop reeling when they turn away. Sometimes they stop chasing and then reengage. Sometimes they want that retrieve away from them to be fast and sometimes they wanted to be slow. Do not get trapped into doing the same thing over and over and over if you are unsuccessful. Change something. In addition, sometimes they want a bait that makes absolutely no noise like a swim bait, and sometimes they wanna bait like a lipless crank that has rattles. Just keep changing and let the fish tell you what they want. If they do commit to a chase, but do not hit your bait then a very minor change is needed. Good luck. Hope this helps.
Thx Disco ....all good to know....I got something out of this.
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The single most important thing to catching lakers is setting up your fishfinder, bar none. If you can't see them, you are fishing blind and you won't catch many lakers.
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