Lakers

By contrast, ships that stay in the Great Lakes are known as "lakers"; really big ones can be called "super lakers." ❋ Erin McKean (2011)

There were no lamprey scars on the fish, oddly enough, as most Champlain lakers and salmon I get show lamprey hits. ❋ John Merwin (2008)

Report Abuse the rockets will beat the lakers aka nbas renegade ❋ Unknown (2010)

Report Abuse they're called the lakers because the team used to be the ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lastly, if piscatorially inclined, here is a boathouse with every kind of boat from the steam-yacht down to the birch canoe, and there is the lake, full of "lakers," sturgeon, whitefish, and speckled trout, some of the latter weighing from thirty to forty pounds apiece, -- a condition of things alike satisfactory and tempting to every owner of a rod and line. ❋ Various (N/A)

On Duluth, MN Shipping Canal on Lake Superior, reach out & touch 800 'International ships & 1000'"lakers" ore boats ❋ Unknown (2009)

For almost a century the area was home to a massive shipyard that built and launched the giant "lakers" that plied the Great Lakes. ❋ MARY GOODERHAM (2009)

Ice out is the only time of year that the lakers aren't DEEP. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I like to troll/drift fish with live bait, trout, salmon, lakers. this year I have caught more salmon on nightcrawlers, even a 6 pound laker on a crawler! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The reason for this area of the lake to fish in was because in '05, while trolling for browns, or atlantics, or lakers, I had a 25 minute battle with a huge muskie, (that I released). ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've recently seen where this very thing would have been priceless, when you're vertical jigging some lakers up and can't seem to hold still to get on fish, this would save the day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What we've seen with the muskies so far is that they winter and stage for spawning in the shallower lakes where there is more food (Clam, Skegemog), and after they spawn they typically move out into the deeper lakes where they suspend under lakers, cisco, and whitefish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of 26 lakers caught on a spectacular day of fishing in the Northwest territories, Canada. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Blue and white or silver for the lakers; red, white, orange, chartreuse for the northerns. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their slow, shallow, mega wobbly action will be great for these rare shallow lakers. ❋ Unknown (2009)