Lake trout afternoon
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:52 pm
Friday afternoon, skipped out of work a little early and went fishing. On the water by 4 pm on the hunt for lakers. A small little Quebec lake. We went old school and used wood oars to propel the boat.
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
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
