Big fat pike

Either i was doing something wrong today or never noticed the clip on floats nick your line which one is it

Ive learned the 3 best types of lures on the ice are 

jigging spoon 

jighead and plastic 

jigging rap

i was wondering what the best were especially jighead and plastic for all species 

example being northland jighead and bobby garland crappie bait electric shad

Also what size float i perfer the clip on or the ones with the pin

55 minutes ago, Jomat said:

Bobber.....u need a bigger bobber for those heavy senkos

what about 3 inch would that work

40 minutes ago, Jomat said:

Bobber.....u need a bigger bobber for those heavy senkos

what does trickles mean

Will those work for the average sized ones in sandy, irondequoit ect or just the trophy

1 hour ago, Jomat said:

5” bubblegum yamasenko if u want to catch the big ones!

Do you use a bobber as well or fish it the same way for bass

Also will browns eat them too

Regular hook or jighead

What worm is the best to wacky rig for steelhead and should i fish it under a float or like a traditional wacky rig or on a jig

On 8/7/2020 at 10:48 PM, trouthunter24 said:

didn't see this sorry late reply

4lbs is an absolute giant in either lake. 

anyone caught anything over 2lbs ? 

biggest chains on live minnow off deep water close to weed lines i mean close . mid lake on Hemlock is best....good luck 

Are they there year round and on east or west side

On 8/7/2020 at 10:48 PM, trouthunter24 said:didn't see this sorry late reply

4lbs is an absolute giant in either lake. 

anyone caught anything over 2lbs ? 

biggest chains on live minnow off deep water close to weed lines i mean close . mid lake on Hemlock is best....good luck 

Are they there year round like during ice season or jus

9 minutes ago, gobyslayer said:

i used to troll the shoreline, depending on time of yr there used to be a inside and a outside weedline, any how follow the weedline, i used to use northern king 28 silver hammered finish with a piece of green tape on it.  we used to catch 6 lb plus pickerel (not walleye encase any one is from canada) ... however i was up on the lake a yr or 2 ago and noticed a huge difference in the shoreline weeds. zebra muscles have invaded one of our most pristine lakes. years ago most of us where very careful about the enviroment on the lake. since then though the lake has been invaded by kayakers.. and then the zebra muscles came.. while i am not blaming them ,  i am stating what i saw happen...  any how back to big pickerel, just flat line troll about 2.4 mph , black and silver jointed rapallas in a larger size are also a tried and true lure.. good luck

 

So the weedline midlake 

Thats the area its impossible not to catch a perch 

There are in most of ny but not in the 1000 islands

On 8/7/2020 at 10:48 PM, trouthunter24 said:

3 minutes ago, Sk8man said:

There are good fish of various species in both of those lakes but neither lake is easy to catch them consistently (trout or warm water species) They don't readily give up their fish and the learning curve is pretty gradual for even the very experienced folks.

I mean the least amount of people fish for them, i catch and release, and am willing to share where to go for big pike and another spot for a lot of them

My question is would pike prefer perch or gobies because while everything eats  gobies the abundance of perch to the point that there is no daily limit makes me wonder what which one they would eat

Sorry i backtracked one of my favorite catches

I caught my personal best pike on a green pumpkin blk flake in the erie canal i got stuck on a rock and it unsagged me swam towards me so I thought I had a rock bass and got it towards the dock and it swam the other way and after a brief battle got it in the net and kept it in the net in the water for 10 minutes until my friend came with my scale and tape measure it tried to burst out to at these minnows jumping around otherwise didn’t even care and after i revived it for 5 minutes it swam off slowly not caring about anything 

For me i found most of my success casting out a senko to imitate a dead fish and let it sit there and use spoons or spinners which brings me to another question should i use my daredevle or my booyah pikee spinnerbait color perch

Oh yeah by the way due to me being fascinated by pike,pickerel, and muskies I believe i know where to go at Conesus during late ice but not 100% sure so am willing to share

From my research it seems 10>fow in spring fall and winter and 15> in summer curious if canadice  had the big ones two or just the numbers 

Ive only caught one pickerel in canadice fishing there on my birthday

Being in Rochester hemlock is closest pickerel lake

17 hours ago, Sk8man said:

The south end of Canandaigua  has plenty of them and some real big ones if you can find some live shiners

The dec says hemlock is known for its big pickerel though i do want to try there

Though I have heard of that area

due to reasons i cant go all the way out there