My friend (her hand visible with the lake trout pictures) was learning to fish. New rod, new line, new net, new everything and after a couple hours on the water - voila, she gets a nice lake trout for dinner.
Caught on a blue silver rapala countdown. We tried some jigging and inspired by RJs dropshot success, I did that for a while but no luck, had to go back to tried and true sloooow troll and in 20 or so minutes of that, the fish hit. I don't think it was more than 20-30 ft down when it hit. Surface was 19C and the lake was susprisingly cool still.
The fish
and the dinner later that evening
Todays outing was less exciting - storm, winds and hard rain, we high tail if off the lake, give up, go home and then the sun comes out.
Gotta go again tomorrow
