How to catch tulibee

[gkl]

My dad and I like to catch a few tulibee to smoke. Last year on LOW, we caught quite a few on rattle spoons tipped with minnows, but I've been told that they don't typically take minnows. We're coming up early next week and would appreciate any tips about how to try to catch 'em. Thanks!

[Fisherman For a Lifetime]

I catch most of them on Waxies.<P>Smoked Tubliee's & Whitefish, Yummmmm.<P>Good luck !<BR>

[gkl]

Thanks. On a plain hook or some sort of jig? I've also been wondering what the difference between Tulibee and Whitefish is?

[Fisherman For a Lifetime]

I've caught 'em on both.<P>My unofficial difference is that Tulibee are very similar to Whitefish, but Whitefish get bigger. <BR>

[Northlander]

Small spoons with a minnow head or waxies.

[Tailgunner]

Try this. Take a sweedish pimple (silver or Gold) and take the trebbles off. Use lite line of about 8" to 12" under the pimple with a small weighted croppie jig. Tip the croppie jig with waxie and watch the fish finder you should be able to see both the flasher and small jig on the screen. You have an attractor and the bait, when you see them come in, [PoorWordUsage] them off by pulling the rig away from them by raising it or dropping it, then let it sit after pulling it away. Use a spring bobber and watch the tip, WHAT A GAS it gets them every time. I use the rig on Leach Lake. I also use small silver dare devils with the paint scraped off as the flasher and a swivel on top to keep things streight. Try it, it works. Watching them react to your moves is the most fun. <P>Tight lines

[Kingfisher]

The upper lip of a tullibee protrudes further out than the lower lip. The whitefish is just the opposite. Taken from the same lake the whitefish is usually larger.

[Dr. Bob]

I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time. But I can not tell you how to do that.<P>Last winter I was fishing in a sleeper out of Arnesen's to the west of Gull Rock Reef. I was jigging with spoons and minnow heads. I did not catch very many walleyes or sauger, but I could not keep the tulibees off my hook! I must have caught at least 50 of them that weekend! It was a lot of fun but they were not what I was after. It really surprised me how those little mouths would try to eat that big jig! I have caught several White Fish on big crank baits too? I guess if they are hungry they are going to eat anything .

[gkl]

Thanks everyone for the tips. I'll give the waxies a try. My experience last year was just like your's, Dr. Bob. We found them annoying until we figured out how good they are smoked! They put up a pretty decent fight too, although they seem to swim in such big circles that they would frequently foul up our other lines.