favorite ways to northern fish

[jay88]

What's everyone's favorite ways to open water fish northerners I ike to troll for them or use slip bobbers

[Bobby Bass]

Early summer/late Spring throwing buzzbaits back in the shallow flats!!

[mainbutter]

My least favorite ways are trolling or with slip bobbers and live bait! BO-RIGN! I will have a shad rap out while moving from spot to spot, however. I just hardly ever "work" an area just with trolling.

Chubby darters underneath a slip bobber is fun though. Probably my favorite ways to fish northerns are burning inline spinners or fast-stripping streamers. Soft plastics also are high on the list.

[jay88]

To be honest those are my favorites because my two year old son is usually with me and they are the easiest when he is with casting around isn't plus he really likes to help set the hook which is easier with those methods haha

[delmuts]

When you have a kid fishing; that's a different story!

I'm with the guys in that I prefer to cast, but a chub under a float can keep a kid happy and that's the name of the game.

[jentz]

I'm with BBass.I do however like a presun up,Midlake hump in 20-30 ft of water,Drop a LARGE sucker 3 ft off the top of the hump.Layback watch nature, sun up and sip my coffee and be out of there around 9AM.Largest northern I ever caught came this way few over 20,lots of teens.Its the 12 lber I'm after for the stuffed northern bake. I will take one all season and catch more than one would think.Patience is the game

[jay88]

Yea he is pretty easy to keep happy in a boat last summer we went out on mil lacs and trolled the flats for eyes for 14 hours and he loved it the whole day never fussed once

[DrJuice1980]

big classic circle bobber with a sucker 3' down if I'm lazy and just want to relax otherwise its ripping sluggo's through cabbage

[Slabasaurus]

throwin flies like this

from this

at places like this.

[dan z]

Jerkbaits all day long!

[Fowlmouth]

Either trolling a spoon or a sucker minnow under a big bobber

[leechlake]

I'm not the biggest northern fan but a few times a year we go out to catch some to make fish cakes, just looking for some hammer handle types. My dad's place has a lake full of them, we usually use a yellow marabou jig and a white pork rind. It's a method my dad used back forty years ago and we go "old school" and troll the weed edges and jig for them. Rarely don't slay enough for a few meals of cakes. God I hate cleaning those slime balls but they are pretty tasty as fish cakes.

[pushbutton]

Put me down under the big ole bobber list for my spot on the spot summer weed line action. Trolling something up really shallow over weed tops in the fall.

[Comit 2]

Trolling spoons over the weed tops. It is only boring if your doing it wrong.

Casting fishtraps to the edge of the weeds.

[CANOPY SAM]

Right now. Lake of the Woods. Bunch of good friends and family. Grillin' brats and burgers. Throwin' football and playing ice hockey. Tip up flags poppin' all over the place!

[OnAFly]

throwin flies like this

from this

at places like this.

This

[traveler]

Casting over weedbeds, without a doubt! Spoons, shallow cranks, bucktails...doesn't matter.

We've got a couple bays up on LOTW that are great for very nice sized pike...drifting over them on a warm sunny afternoon and watching big northerns come shooting up out of the weeds is about as much fun as I've had fishing anywhere.

Come to think of it, next time up I think I'll bring the flyrod and give it a go with some flies like the pics in the last post! Perfect water for that I'd think.

[Mastercaster]

Ripping 1/2 oz yellow spinner baits over the tops of weeds. My biggest pike (14.5 lbs) came trolling that same spinner bait across the mouth of a weed covered bay.

[ozzie]

put me down for trolling a big bobber with a sucker along the weed lines...relaxing and exciting when the clicker goes off

[20lbSloughShark]

My favorite is casting spoons. Thats followed by a large sucker under a bobber, or trolling a big crank along the weedline.

[Invader440]

Red and white Dardevle.

[rundrave]

casting a mepps#5

[ANYFISH2]

I rarely do thus anymore but sitting on the shore of creeks/small rivers watching a bobber being pulled around by a sucker. Some of the fondest memories as kid.

[th64]

On a Fly great pics.

Also tell me about your rig it looks great.

BTW safety pin style spinner yellow and black-best all terrain lure to get a reaction strike-if the lake is not weedy I might go in line-suckers are for ice fishing IMO.

[eyeguy 54]

I used to love to sit on the shore and chuck out a smelt and wait. Have not done that in a long time. Had many a fun outing.