Nice tank Laker

[bigfishy]

Work???you do that stuff>?? blastphamy... they dont fight like that in the summer....nice feesh!!!!

[Chrisper4694]

Originally Posted by bigfishy

Work???you do that stuff>?? blastphamy... they dont fight like that in the summer....nice feesh!!!!

i try to stick to the important stuff like eating and fishing...and sometimes sleep, if there's no night bite happening.

[JDTuna]

Beast! Youll get that 31 inch sooner or later. You know how to target the big girls!

[AndyS]

Nice Lakers. Would have kept the biggun for a meal

[Chrisper4694]

Originally Posted by AndyS

Nice Lakers. Would have kept the biggun for a meal

nah too rare here. plenty of 20-24" plenty of meat on them.

[oelgnal1]

Congrats, that is a really nice laker and I think your right about the available forage. The alewife is probably one of the big fish keys but an abundant plankton population is a required food source for their numbers and I don't believe it's sufficient but it can be increased by pumping water from the river into the Valley. It's also necessary for the state to consider regulations if we want big fish and that should include doing what you did, take a picture and put it back for another day. Here is a link of a Ct. study that is to me an eye-opener and the lake that I told you about had the numbers of big trout go way down.

http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/fish...gt_2014-15.pdf

[Chrisper4694]

here's one from saturday, had two like this and NJSquatch had a nicer one about 26" had about 5-6 hits too that didn't hook up. not too bad for a few hours. back at it today looking for that 30"+ monster.