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PostPosted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:04 pm 
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I've been dying to fish lake Nipigon and the Nipigon River, it's gonna happen eventually. Posts like this motivate me more to start planning a trip up there for Brookies. The summertime temps don't shut down the fish up there.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:52 am 
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naturenut wrote:
I've been dying to fish lake Nipigon and the Nipigon River, it's gonna happen eventually. Posts like this motivate me more to start planning a trip up there for Brookies. The summertime temps don't shut down the fish up there.


They sure do a lot of times. I go there every year and have found first few weeks in June to be best. You can get them in the heat but not nearly as active as when the water is still cool and in the heat on nipigon you just have to troll deep. If you can get up there in June from white river to marathon you will not be disappointed


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:29 am 
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Warm water means less oxygen, which makes those fish sluggish at best.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:53 am 
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Most of the speckie lakes that I target in Ontario are in the 50 to 60 foot range. Every summer in July and August and to late Sept. the lakes get very warm. I have marked the speckies on bottom in the deeper holes in the Lake and they are very sluggish. I know they have to feed because their metabolism is sped up because of the warm water conditions. I finally developed a technique about 25 years ago of catching when this happens.
Floating jig heads are the answer. Tipped with a minnow. I have also used night crawlers but you will also need a worm blower because the worms are too heavy and will cause the worm to sink the jig head.
I use a sliding weight like a Lindy weight or sliding egg sinker. A foot of free line from the split ring up will do the trick. As the season progresses into early Sept. I will opt for salmon or brown trout roe bags. I have had some awesome days when others have given up.
In Oct. as the lakes cool down and the speckies start rising and cruising the shore line I will switch up to strictly roe and floating them the same technique as river steelhead fishing.

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