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| I'm going to Kishkutena in late July. It's going to a be a muskie trip for me. Some guys are going to fish mainly for smallmouth. This is a lake I've never been to, but several of these guys have been 10+ times. They know Kish has lake trout, but nobody has caught one.
My goal, besides catching muskies, is to be the first one to catch a lake trout. There is a deep bay that is labeled as Trout Bay on the map. It holds the deepest water on the lake (60'). I'm assuming that would be a good place to start.
Any lake trout tips? Lures, presentations, etc......
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Location: Duluth, MN | When we fish Crow and want to target trout, we just drive around til we mark them and drop heavy SONAR blade baits on em. Pretty easy to get em if you find em. |
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| How deep will they typically be? |
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Location: Kingston, Ontario | Usually Lakers are right on bottom, or very close to it. Whenever we fish them we use downriggers and try and keep our ball just ticking the bottom. A lot of times just after the ball hits bottom you'll have one on. Speed control is usually pretty slow. 2-2.5MPH that time of year usually is about right but try slower and faster until you figure them out. Trolling spoons are great, lots of guys use Cow Bells and swear by them. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Depends on water temps, and where the baitfish are. When were up there (end of June) most of the fish are between 60 and 100 FOW and a lot are suspended. The bottom huggers are generally tougher to get to bite. The suspendos are feeding and ususally hit the jig on the way down before you even get a chance to work the bait.
Just use your electronics and move around til find marks and balls of bait up off the bottom. Red/white yellow/white sonars seem to be the best. |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Use your electronics and get some River2 sea blade baits it's called the Vibe in the Ghost pattern find the food and you are on the trout fish the whole water colum top to bottom and you will get bit it's great fun always. |
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Location: Madison | We troll. 3-way swivel, couple ounces of sinkers on one end, flutter spoon with 2-3' leader of 8-10 lb mono on other end. Put boat in gear as slow as you can, drop line till hits bottom, reel up a few cranks. Usually doesn't take long. |
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| Probably 30% of Bondy Bait sales go to guys who jig for lakers. Either vertically jigging or slow troll while jigging.
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Location: Duluth, MN | What a great Idea! Im gonna have to try Bondy's on some of the big pigs in Lake Superior this sumer!
Thanks for the tip! |
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| If you fish the bait out on 'Stannard Rock' out there on Superior, you will be pleasantly surprised. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Ahh ya I will give that a shot! I'm also going to be bringing them up to Isle royal this summer. Jiggin lakers up there is phenonminal, but if a guy could target just the pigs with your bait, that would be even better  |
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| Thanks for the tips. May have to grab a Bondy or two before I head up there. |
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