09-12-2017, 11:44 PM
I was there recently and caught a few of everything.
We were on the steep (eastern?) edge a lot. There are perch just outside the weedline that you can catch on just about any small jighead or lure tipped with worm or perch meat.
Just outside of (and sometimes mixed in with) the perch are small to medium rainbows. You can use spinners, or smallish (1.5" to 2.5") white tubes tipped with perch to catch those. In the past I've trolled 5-15 feet feed deep with a flasher and worm and caught a million small rainbows.
A bit deeper out, around where the steep drop flattens out, there are lots of other fish to target. We caught several larger rainbows, several splake, a brown trout, tiger trout, and even a couple skinny lakers vertically jigging anywhere from 40 to 80 feet down. 1/4 to 1/3 oz spoons and smaller 2-2.5" pearl tubes tipped with perch worked well. Larger lures are easier to get down, but most of the fish in the lake are small so if you want numbers go smaller even though it's a pain to get down to depth.
The bite from deep fish seemed good early in the morning, and then died around 10am, and then seemed to pick up again a few hours later.
If you want big fish, don't as me; I've had lots of luck with everything small, zero luck catching a big splake or laker. I've tried much bigger lures, but that just seems to lead to missed smaller fish.
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We were on the steep (eastern?) edge a lot. There are perch just outside the weedline that you can catch on just about any small jighead or lure tipped with worm or perch meat.
Just outside of (and sometimes mixed in with) the perch are small to medium rainbows. You can use spinners, or smallish (1.5" to 2.5") white tubes tipped with perch to catch those. In the past I've trolled 5-15 feet feed deep with a flasher and worm and caught a million small rainbows.
A bit deeper out, around where the steep drop flattens out, there are lots of other fish to target. We caught several larger rainbows, several splake, a brown trout, tiger trout, and even a couple skinny lakers vertically jigging anywhere from 40 to 80 feet down. 1/4 to 1/3 oz spoons and smaller 2-2.5" pearl tubes tipped with perch worked well. Larger lures are easier to get down, but most of the fish in the lake are small so if you want numbers go smaller even though it's a pain to get down to depth.
The bite from deep fish seemed good early in the morning, and then died around 10am, and then seemed to pick up again a few hours later.
If you want big fish, don't as me; I've had lots of luck with everything small, zero luck catching a big splake or laker. I've tried much bigger lures, but that just seems to lead to missed smaller fish.
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