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Location: Montreal, Que. Canada | I was just hoping to see a picture. Or if the picture bellow is a green cisco already can somebody tell me?
Thanks,
David
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| Oh oh,
I smell a new bait getting cooked up 
The green ones that I have seen look almost like smelt. They tend to be smaller than the type you posted. They could be "dwarf ciscoes" .
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| There are many varieties. Their backs vary from black, gray, blue, green, copperish and blends of any of those colors. I always wondered why a "Cisco Pattern" was solid blue with a white body and some silver scales. I've seen many Ciscos and have caught quite a few and have never seen a blue one.
Besides Cisco or Tulibee, lakes contain Whitefish, Mooneye and other species of the Whitefish family. I've researched as many of those as I could, just to see how many color variations there are, and the color options are endless. They range from Silver and Gray flanks, to ones that have bright Copper scales like the ones I watched eating Mayflies on Vermillion this year. We sat in the middle of an active school while muskies fed on them, just like Shark Week, and all of the ones we saw were Copper and Gold and Bronze.
Some varieties are flat, like the one pictured, while others are actually shaped more like a Sauger.
Get the BLUE CISCO out of your mind, and think of them all in more exciting patterns with a rainbow of colors from their flanks to their tops, with scaling from silver and gold to copper and more. The one trait they all have in common is a dark back and head. And yes, there are ones that have a greenish tint like a Smelt. Google Whitefish, Cisco, Tulibee and Mooneye images, and you won't think of them as blue/white and silver anymore.
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Location: Montreal, Que. Canada | Hey Joe,
Could you be mistaking Dwarf Ciscos for Emerald shiners?
Thanks,
David
Thanks Beav that's a big help!!!! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Beaver,
Copper colored Big blades on vermilion are like money in the Bank,... Also "Smoke" or dark grey work pretty good too...............Green tinted Cisco????
Oh ya, that color also Rocks up here.
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Location: Barrington, Il | Tenn Shad is my go to color for fall trolling. |
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| When putting baits together, hands down the best cisco/whitfish/shad pattern I have come up with is a pure Pearl flashabou skirt with double purple or purple/green blades. I mean the transparent hued blades with flash, not painted. Down hear, double #* with this pattern is a dead ringer for shad and an incredible producer. |
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| When putting baits together, hands down the best cisco/whitfish/shad pattern I have come up with is a pure Pearl flashabou skirt with double purple or purple/green blades. I mean the transparent hued blades with flash, not painted. Down here, double #8 with this pattern is a dead ringer for shad and an incredible producer. |
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Location: mpls | David,
There is a strain of Cisco called " dwarf ciscoes". Look it up , you should find it pretty easily. I agree with Beaver though. In Mn. At least, a lot of the ciscoes look more copper/ bronze. The only blue/ purple ones I have seen were either lake superior or caught in the winter through the ice.
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