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MFF US Northeast => Massachusetts => Topic started by: taxid on Apr 12, 2024, 03:12 PM

Title: New State Record Laker from the Chu?
Post by: taxid on Apr 12, 2024, 03:12 PM
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Post by: BassMaster12 on Apr 12, 2024, 07:37 PM: Wow, I take it I'll have some company there on Sunday once word gets out...
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Post by: ICEHOLE on Apr 13, 2024, 03:00 AM: Awesome fish! Of course caught by someone bass fishing lol. It's like trout guys catching monster bass, right manny? ;D? ::)
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Post by: lowaccord66 on Apr 13, 2024, 11:17 AM: Sweet. Lots of those close to that size in champlain and its why im so addicted to jigging them.
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Post by: manitron on Apr 13, 2024, 07:15 PM: Quote from: ICEHOLE on Apr 13, 2024, 03:00 AM
Awesome fish! Of course caught by someone bass fishing lol. It's like trout guys catching monster bass, right manny? ;D? ::)

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.
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Post by: iceman260 on Apr 14, 2024, 05:48 AM: Awesome fish, congrats to the angler.
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Post by: filetandrelease on Apr 14, 2024, 06:00 AM: Congrats , great fish
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Post by: Csaw on Apr 14, 2024, 08:51 AM: Nice fish for sure.
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Post by: lowaccord66 on Apr 24, 2024, 09:06 PM: I hear someone landed a 30lber. Thats awesome.
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Post by: taxid on Apr 26, 2024, 12:32 PM: I'm guessing lakers of that size that feed primarily on smaller Lake trout or stocked rainbows? Amirite?
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Post by: ICEHOLE on Apr 27, 2024, 03:51 PM: Quote from: taxid on Apr 26, 2024, 12:32 PM
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
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Post by: lowaccord66 on Apr 30, 2024, 12:52 PM: 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.
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Post by: taxid on May 03, 2024, 05:40 PM: Quote from: lowaccord66 on Apr 30, 2024, 12:52 PM
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?
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Post by: lowaccord66 on May 06, 2024, 07:25 AM: The ny lakes where the lakers grow big have ciscos. Would agree with your stocked trout comment. I was suppose to chase lakers tomorrow but my trailer needs a bearing so I need to stay close.