Whitefish Fishing

Discuss anything and everything about whitefish, from tactics and tackle to posting pictures and sharing tips.

here is a pic of a white fish i pulled out of Wabamun.... caught this White on a Brass/Copper hook...no bait.

Lately things have been rather slow going for whitefish....however there are a few nice reports coming in from lakes like Pigeon as well as Gull, Sylvan and Wabamun. Be sure to try an assortment of different colored wire worms and bring maggots as the whites seem to switch up. Mainly i found that they have been going for brass and copper.

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Nice white.

I had success this year at gull and sylvan jigging a green wire worm, wetaskiwins and thumpers right on the bottom.

Hey Ice anvil meet our newist recruit Moosehunter this kid is a fishing legend, I wanna fish with him some day maybe he will show us the reel way its done.

Nice whites moosehunter. Try smiling once in a while dude. I would have a permanent grin if I was as good as you at hard water fishing man.

so whight like wire worms. wher do they hang out ?
in bays near struchers ?at dropoffs?
and they look big how hevey of gear do you need 10lp. test or is my littel perch rig going to hold up?

the whitefish at sylvan usually are in less than 2 meters of water and that lake is mostly sand bottom at that depth. we use ice flys and wire/san juan worms red maggots I tried a few flys that work well on rockies but had no luck

Picked up this whitie today on the trusty wetaskiwin, as you can see in the pic it absolutely engulfed one double hook completely and the other one went into my palm while grabbing it lol thankfully hooks nowadays are barbless or it wouldnt have come out haha. Im finidng the slower you presentation the better. Use an unbaited wetaskiwin and very slowly twitch it a few inches form bottom and they smash it. I even had them take it when it wasnt moving. The old slader jig was working good today too. For sladers you just work them like you would a buzzbomb, raise the rod slow then drop it back down and the jig cartwheels, unresistable to whitefish!

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