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| tony |
03/29/2005 01:21AM I had good luck fishing lakers in daniels, mountain, and clearwater lakes last may. I would troll little cleos, red eyes, and forage minneows. Silver works well, silver and blue, silver and green, or silver and black. I also had good luck with a clown colored rapala. The lakers at that time were mostly in about 12 to 20 feet of water. I did catch a few trolling over some 50 foot or deeper holes. |
| Beemer01 |
03/28/2005 09:50PM Thanks for the detailed response - this is actually the technique I was trying to describe in another post on Salted minnows. Sounds like fun and I'm glad to hear that it might actually work. |
| matt_ewig@yahoo.com |
03/28/2005 05:13PM I am making my first boundary waters trip this year, but have done a lot of trout fishing nearby in Canada. The main thing about trout fishing is finding the depth the fish are feeding at. In July the trout are pretty deep and can be anywhere from about 75 feet to 110 feet deep. Typcially in the summer you need to jig deep water or troll with a downrigger to get down to where the trout are feeding. The good news is that in May they are much shallower and you can catch them by simply trolling a crankbait (simple black or blue count downs work well) or flashy spoon. In May I like to run the bait about 15 feet deep and you can troll the shorelines or find points / reefs that sometimes attract feeding fish on the structure, but don't be afraid to cicle out and look for suspended trout wandering over deep water. In the summer they tend to roam more and not relate to structure at all. The bottom fishing can also be excellent if you have frozen ciscos. there is a special rig with a needle that runs the hook throught the ciscos anus and out the mouth, put a swivel about 2 feet up from the hook and a small egg sinker b/w the swivel and your rod. Find a nice extending point and drop your baits in about 20 feet of water out on the point and then row to shore and leave the bail open. The trout will pick the bait off the bottom and run with it (you can tie a ribbon to the line so you see it running out or just watch your spool) with your line going through the sinker as opposed to picking it up. We usually wait for the run to stop, wait about 10 seconds and then hit them with a hook set. In clear water the trout are sometimes spooking on a calm day and bank fishing seems to produce the most fish and some good size ones as well. |
| Beemer01 |
03/28/2005 04:21PM Get the Michael Furtman book on BWCA fishing. Has a complete listing of all lakes in BWCAW and Quetico with species - also detailed instruction on how to fish every species up there including lakers. Not that it has done me a lot of good, but at least I appear to know what I'm doing. |
| imgrizzly |
02/08/2005 10:17PM As Travis suggests the warmer the water the deeper the trout will habitat. If you are going the last week of may they should still be fairly shallow unless we have an extraordinarily warm spring. I have caught very nice trout on Rose Lake in the 5-10 pound range. Other lakes that have produced well for me are Thomas, Fraser, Adams, Knife and fabulous splake fishing on Mountain. Casting or more usual trolling flashy spoons has produced the best for me. My personal favorites are in order; Crocodile, Kastmaster and Silver Minnows. For colors I use silver alone or with bright orange, chartreuse or blue. Lake Trout are generally sight feeders and home in on flashes in the water that look like schools of bait fish. When trolling I will often use a 4 -5 foot leader that I tie up with 5-6 willow leaf spinner blades spaced out every 8 - 10 inches, then a swivel to the spoon. It is similar to the commercially available "cowbell" rigs used by motor boat trollers using down riggers, only a lot lighter and more manageable for us canoeists. If you find you need to fish deeper try using a 3/4 to 1 ounce keel sinker in line with your trolling rig. If the water is really cold as in ice out times slow your trolling and / or retrieve rates down as it sometimes makes a difference. Good luck and have fun. |
| SIRT |
02/06/2005 06:21AM maxbluewater, Hello and welcome to the site, I don't if i can help much but here goes, i have been going in from gunflint trail,and depending on the lake temperature has alot to do with where they are. the warmer the lake water the deeper they are going to be,just after ice out you can find them right up close to the surface. I've found them just trolling past points,in the middle of the lake,on the bottom. i think you want to look for deep lakes,i think those are going to the best likely hood of holding lake trout. as for bait,i use spoons long skinny spoons,silver,silver with bright green markings,I've also caught them on rapalas,but shiny,flashy spoons have always worked for me. I'm not as familiar with all the lakes in the b-dub,but i bet some of these other guys can tell you what lakes are the best. good luck Travis 
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| maxbluewater |
02/05/2005 06:20PM First of all I would like to introduce myself. Southren Minnesota boy all my life and proud of it. Walleye, crappies and bluegills are abundant around here. Although from Southren Minnesota, we, me and my wife enjoy the BWCA area as much as we can. We have taken several canoe trips into the Boundry Waters from Hungry Jack Lake. We enjoy hiking on the Superior Hiking Trail, one of our favorite places on Superior Hiking Trail is the Cascades, there is some absolutely awesome scenery there. Here is my question to some of you experts out there. Although we have mastered walleye and crappie fishing in Southren Minnesota, we have always wanted to try some lake trout fishing, last year we took a trip into the BWCA,destination Duncan Lake.We were told by an outfitter that Duncan and Rose had abundent lake trout he gave us some tips on how to catch them, bait and location.With much effort we were unable to catch any we were trying in the deep water because it was in July we tryed the sharp drop offs and deep diving rapalas. There was other techniques we tryed with no luck. However, we caught some bass,but don't ever leave them on the stringer over night. How is it that a person would catch lake trout in July or other times of the year? We have a trip planned the last week of May this year. |
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