Top 10 lake trout baits

  • Austin Billings
    Posts: 17
    #1655946

    Hey what’s your top 10 laker baits.
    Mine are
    1 live target bluegill
    2 buck tail jig in chartreuse
    3 4″ white and clear tubes
    4 air plane jigs
    5 3.5″ chartreuse xzone tube
    6 small sucker minnows
    7 big chub minnows
    8 big white swimbaits
    9 live target shiner
    10 jig and minnow

    Timmy
    Posts: 1235
    #1655951

    For Ontario:

    1) white tube
    2) white tube
    3) Cisco on a tip up
    4) white tube
    5) dead sucker on a tip up
    6) slender spoon
    7) white tube
    8) off white tube
    9) pearl tube
    10) white tube

    For Lake Superior (deep water)
    1-10) white jig of your choice tipped with meat.

    Tim J
    Duluth, MN
    Posts: 539
    #1655958

    I only need 5.

    1. ripping rap in pearl or chrome/blue
    2. white tube with 3/8 or 1/2 oz jig
    3. 4″ moxie in white on 1/4oz vmc mooneye jig
    4. jigging rap in…. WHITE!
    5. silver slender spoon with glow tape or no tape

    Matthew Sandys
    Inactive
    Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 82
    #1655961

    1 White tube
    2 Clackin rap
    3 Air plane
    4 Jig
    5 Pout Spoon
    No need for more then that.

    Timmy
    Posts: 1235
    #1655983

    In order of how common the occurrence is, from my experience fishing Ontario lakers, there are days where:

    1) a white tube outfishes all other offerings.

    2) dead bait under a tip up/deadstick/set line or whatever will either be equal to, or outfish a white plastic tube

    3) other baits (spoons, airplanes, jigs, whatnot) will fish equally compared to a white plastic tube or tip up

    4) flashy baits like spoons and raps will outfish a white plastic tube(personally I have not seen it happen very often at all(once or twice in the last 25 yrs, maybe), but I am sure it happens more often than that.

    Personally, I see the above scenarios play out in a 70, 15, 10, and 5% breakdown in frequency.

    Fife
    Ramsey, MN
    Posts: 4042
    #1655986

    My experience is all in Canada. Tubes, tubes, and tubes. Pearl with a blue or silver flake for everyone in the group. A dead Cisco will catch some too but we rarely stay put long enough to justify setting one up. Last year I tried white tubes, airplane jigs, and vibratos with no results.

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