The Lure Lab - Fishing Tackle Podcast
Jun 24, 2023 · 34 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail On today's episode (Episode 39) of the Lure Lab, we are diving into the Okashira Head from Megabass. Joining us is Megabass pro and Guide Nick Cousvis from North of the border. Nick…
you know, generally my four inch starts to come into play in that mid summer when, you know, fish are kind of moving off their post-spawn it again, every fishery is a little bit different.
And, you know, in my, especially the last two, three years, I've done a lot of traveling throughout the great lakes, fishing many of the, many of the lakes from St. Clair to Lake Ontario, to the St. Lawrence, up to Cornwall near Quebec, back down into, you know, Lake Michigan, uh, I spent some time last week in Traverse City.
So what you know, and we always talk about it, but it's amazing how different the fisheries are, the bass are.
You know this, Andrew, if you just took what you had in Lake Erie and the way you catch fish there and then just try to do the exact same thing on Lake Ontario, on Lake Michigan, on Lake Huron, it would be tough.
You might have some success here and there, but it's almost like when you get into a different lake, you're starting from scratch again.
I know there are certain lakes where they'll come shallow to spawn and then you never see them again until the fall.
They're just totally pelagic out there with the walleye, with the salmon following balls of bait.
Isn't that crazy? Like, Because I believe technically the Great Lakes smallmouth, they're all technically the same species.
Genetically coded the same species of smallmouth, right? But then you could go from like, we'll take Lake Michigan, for example.
You can go from Sturgeon Bay to Chicago and those smallmouth probably act completely different.
you know, generally my four inch starts to come into play in that mid summer when, you know, fish are kind of moving off their post-spawn it again, every fishery is a little bit different.
And, you know, in my, especially the last two, three years, I've done a lot of traveling throughout the great lakes, fishing many of the, many of the lakes from St. Clair to Lake Ontario, to the St. Lawrence, up to Cornwall near Quebec, back down into, you know, Lake Michigan, uh, I spent some time last week in Traverse City.
So what you know, and we always talk about it, but it's amazing how different the fisheries are, the bass are.
You know this, Andrew, if you just took what you had in Lake Erie and the way you catch fish there and then just try to do the exact same thing on Lake Ontario, on Lake Michigan, on Lake Huron, it would be tough.
You might have some success here and there, but it's almost like when you get into a different lake, you're starting from scratch again.
I know there are certain lakes where they'll come shallow to spawn and then you never see them again until the fall.
They're just totally pelagic out there with the walleye, with the salmon following balls of bait.
Isn't that crazy? Like, Because I believe technically the Great Lakes smallmouth, they're all technically the same species.
Genetically coded the same species of smallmouth, right? But then you could go from like, we'll take Lake Michigan, for example.
You can go from Sturgeon Bay to Chicago and those smallmouth probably act completely different.
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