Bob, you're going to give me a false sense of hope that I'll catch anything other than catfish, sheephead, yellows, silvers and whites off the pier in Bruce
I've been there to see others catch walleye, pike and rainbows off that pier. They've always been close to me, (ie sometimes sitting right beside me dammit, like the last 3, one last year right beside me, and the two last Monday right beside me) but to date, it's never me who has been the lucky one. I've caught a smallie or two off it, but I have never heard of anyone catching a Laker off it.
Personally I've never caught a Laker here in Ontario before we moved out west when I was a kid, and I haven't caught one, or been out where I could reasonably have a chance to catch one since I've been back (be 10 yrs in November). Caught many in the NWT tho over the 17 years I lived in Yellowknife. My PB Laker was 16lbs.
I got that one in Walsh Lake ( just outside Yellowknife) in 1995 using a cisco. (not live, illegal in the NWT to use live bait)
My favorite lures in my bigger tackle box for them are shown in the pictures. First one are buzz bombs. The coloring of that big one worked great for them.
The second picture is of a custom made lure made by Dale Johnston who used to own and operate Wolverine Sports in Yellowknife, aptly called "The wolverine" They worked VERY well too, but he sold the business a couple years after I left the NWT, and you couldn't get them anywhere else, and you can't get them anymore, or anywhere because that shop has long since closed. They were exclusive to his shop until he sold it. I used to have 6, those are the only 3 I have left. Lost one to a snag, and the other 2 to BIG pike before I left Yellowknife.
I've also caught them using a jig tipped with a yellow twister tail, a jig tipped with shrimp, some rapala body baits, 5 of diamonds, ruby eyed spoons, (both single and double eyed) and red devils.
