New State Record Laker from the Chu?

[taxid]

[BassMaster12]

Wow, I take it I'll have some company there on Sunday once word gets out...

[ICEHOLE]

Awesome fish! Of course caught by someone bass fishing lol. It's like trout guys catching monster bass, right manny?  ? 

[lowaccord66]

Sweet.  Lots of those close to that size in champlain and its why im so addicted to jigging them. 

[manitron]

Awesome fish! Of course caught by someone bass fishing lol. It's like trout guys catching monster bass, right manny?  ? 

I am an equal opportunity angler. If a monster bass hits my small shiner or a huge laker inhales a black plastic crawbait, its all good.

[iceman260]

Awesome fish, congrats to the angler.

[filetandrelease]

 Congrats , great fish

[Csaw]

Nice fish for sure.

[lowaccord66]

I hear someone landed a 30lber.  Thats awesome.

[taxid]

I'm guessing lakers of that size that feed primarily on smaller Lake trout or stocked rainbows? Amirite?

[ICEHOLE]

I'm guessing lakers of that size that feed primarily on smaller Lake trout or stocked rainbows? Amirite?

I would still assume the assault big schools of smelt and perch

[lowaccord66]

They eat anything really.  Perch, cisco, smelt, alewives, other lakers, bass, ect.  Lakers are pelagic so most of what they eat are pelagic as well. 

I do a lot of 10" plastics and they dont shy away. 

[taxid]

They eat anything really.  Perch, cisco, smelt, alewives, other lakers, bass, ect.  Lakers are pelagic so most of what they eat are pelagic as well. 

I do a lot of 10" plastics and they dont shy away.

I know they are quite the predator fish. It's not usual for them to extirpate smelt when the smelt are in a down cycle in smaller lakes and reservoirs. Happened out here in Indiana when the state planted a butt load of lake trout in a 500 acre oligotrophic lake system. It's too bad as the smelt helped produce browns to 13 lbs,. but the smelt are gone and so are the big brown trout with rare exceptions. I was part of a trout org that wanted to import smelt fry from a hatchery in Maine, but the state nixed it citing the smelt are an "exotic species." Aren't rainbow and brown trout also exotic that are planted annually?