how do you catch tullibee?

  • Alex browne
    Posts: 97
    February 28, 2015 at 10:10 pm #1517796

    Apparently you just have to drop a jig with a minnow tail in the water. Fishing for perch today and those SOBs would race up and hit my jig. Probably caught 25 between 16-23in.

    On the plus side I did manage a few perch.

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    Bryan Myers
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    March 1, 2015 at 7:17 am #1517824

    Well at least you didn’t have a shortage of action then. Those are some very nice perch though!

    steve-fellegy
    Resides on the North Shores of Mille Lacs--guiding on Farm Island these days
    Posts: 1294
    March 1, 2015 at 8:12 am #1517833

    Maybe some of those were White Fish? The Mn. state record Tullibee is around 20″ or maybe a hair more. Nice fish either way!! Sounds like it is time to fire up the smoker…

    Alex browne
    Posts: 97
    March 1, 2015 at 11:05 am #1517882
    steve-fellegy wrote:

    Maybe some of those were White Fish? The Mn. state record Tullibee is around 20″ or maybe a hair more. Nice fish either way!! Sounds like it is time to fire up the smoker…

    Given the lake I was fishing they are Tullibee. I wasn’t sure myself until I did a bit of research. Haha I guess I might of had a state record on the ice without knowing.

    I could see how fishing for them would be fun for a family.

    patk
    Nisswa, MN
    Posts: 1997
    March 1, 2015 at 11:25 am #1517886

    I catch them when we have a little gambling going on. Rule is you pay double the pot if you catch a whitefish. Seems that’s the only time I can catch one is when it costs me money jester

    Alex browne
    Posts: 97
    March 1, 2015 at 11:33 am #1517892
    patk wrote:

    I catch them when we have a little gambling going on. Rule is you pay double the pot if you catch a whitefish. Seems that’s the only time I can catch one is when it costs me money jester

    Haha I like the sound of that game. Although yesterday it would of been like Russian roulette. My jig would be 5ft off the bottom with nothing on the screen and then boom! A huge mark would rocket up slamming my jig with no way to avoid it.

    fisherman-andy
    Posts: 252
    March 1, 2015 at 12:14 pm #1517902

    If this is a MN lake there are only two lakes that come to mind for perch and tullies. That’s Winnie and Mille Lacs. At 23″ I doubt those were tullies. They rarely get beyond 18″. Or you had a mix of tullies and whites.

    Alex browne
    Posts: 97
    March 1, 2015 at 1:13 pm #1517922
    fisherman-andy wrote:

    If this is a MN lake there are only two lakes that come to mind for perch and tullies. That’s Winnie and Mille Lacs. At 23″ I doubt those were tullies. They rarely get beyond 18″. Or you had a mix of tullies and whites.

    You are correct on where I was fishing. We were on the north end of Mille lacs. I’m pretty good at estimating length, I called that bigger perch at 13 on the ice. When I got home and put it on a tape it was just a hair over 13in. So either I’m a liar or we were on a school of bigger fish in that lake. I myself was surprised when I saw the size of these fish coming through the ice.

    The dnr stopped by (Only us and two other groups on the whole north end) so we were bound to get checked. He mentioned that one group about a mile to the east was targeting Tullibee, they weren’t catching them.

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