Lucky # 7

Sunday, February 19, 2017
Size: 
21 Inches

Caught my PB and first ever lake whitefish on a tiny jig in shallow water.  This one makes lucky #7 new species for me this year.  Yellow bass, burbot, splake, rainbow smelt, lake trout, gizzard shad, and now a whitefish!! 6 trips targeting specific fish and 7 new fish species for my book and all but the shad thru the ice!!  We caught it after reading everything we could on whitefish here and watching youtube videos about them.  Andy was right these fish do swim in the shallows and right during the middle of the day too.  Some other people had caught one fishing for walleyes but it was not a big one like these, it was only about 12 inches long and they were in deeper water.  My brother caught one too but mine was bigger! 8)

My brothers and mine, he stole my fish for this picture, mine was longer and his was fatter:

The ice is very flooded right now, we had water gushing down our holes by the end of the day, when this happened we seen a few more but they were coming thru really really fast I don't think they liked all that new water coming in and it made it harder to see them so they didn't stick around anymore.

Comments

FishingPals4Life's picture

I don't think they are really that hard to catch, they are just really hard to find, like black buffs! 8)

SomewhereDownstream's picture

Nice fish!  I haven't yet seen any whites, mostly because I live in Pennsylvania.

SomewhereDownstream

Divemaster's picture

Beast of a Whitefish there dude!

FishingPals4Life's picture

Thanks guys!!  It was really fun to watch them swim in and hit my jig!

Billstrunner's picture

AWESOME!!

FishingPals4Life's picture

Thank you sir! 8)

Eli's picture

They're tough customers. Well done!

Eli

 

 

FishingPals4Life's picture

Thanks Eli!  It was a great fighter and tasted super good smoked.

Graceclaw's picture

You, sir, have had one heck of a 2017. Congrats on a monster of a 7th lifer!