After a slow day on Monday I managed to get out this morning with
a friend of mine.
We left home shortly after 5am and were at the
launch in Cobden, Muskrat Lake, by 6:30am. We got all set-up and started with a
troll in 15FOW with some spoons off of planer boards.
We thought we had a hit but once we got the board off and the line reeled
in it was just 5lbs of weeds that we had
caught.
We saw a couple of boats in an area off of a
point a couple hundred yards off so we decided to troll over and see if there
was anything going. By this time
we were in and around 30FOW and we were trolling some different
crankbaits.
As we got into the general area of where we saw
the boats they had already moved on to a new area.
We were marking the odd fish here or there pretty well right on bottom,
so we knew there were lakers about.
I was trolling a Berkley Flicker Shad in a white
pattern (a lure that I saw being used on The Next Bite with some great success
for pickerel, they called the colour ‘mouse’). We were trolling between 1.8-2.0MPH, I
had 240 feet of line out, which we figure had the lure down about 15
feet.
A solid strike and we had a real fish, no weeds
this time. Right away I was
feeling the headshakes. It took a
while to get the fish to the boat and what a fish she was.
No weight or measurements but my PB that is for
sure.
a friend of mine.
We left home shortly after 5am and were at the
launch in Cobden, Muskrat Lake, by 6:30am. We got all set-up and started with a
troll in 15FOW with some spoons off of planer boards.
We thought we had a hit but once we got the board off and the line reeled
in it was just 5lbs of weeds that we had
caught.
We saw a couple of boats in an area off of a
point a couple hundred yards off so we decided to troll over and see if there
was anything going. By this time
we were in and around 30FOW and we were trolling some different
crankbaits.
As we got into the general area of where we saw
the boats they had already moved on to a new area.
We were marking the odd fish here or there pretty well right on bottom,
so we knew there were lakers about.
I was trolling a Berkley Flicker Shad in a white
pattern (a lure that I saw being used on The Next Bite with some great success
for pickerel, they called the colour ‘mouse’). We were trolling between 1.8-2.0MPH, I
had 240 feet of line out, which we figure had the lure down about 15
feet.
A solid strike and we had a real fish, no weeds
this time. Right away I was
feeling the headshakes. It took a
while to get the fish to the boat and what a fish she was.
No weight or measurements but my PB that is for
sure.
After a pretty quick release we were back at
it. We decided we should stay in
the same general area to see what else was about.
Not too long after, again with 240 feet of line out, trolling the Mouse
Flicker Shad another was on.
Second of the day! Not as
big as the first but definitely nice to
see.
it. We decided we should stay in
the same general area to see what else was about.
Not too long after, again with 240 feet of line out, trolling the Mouse
Flicker Shad another was on.
Second of the day! Not as
big as the first but definitely nice to
see.
Yet again we set-up and trolled, using the same
set-up once again and once again it paid off. By this time the wind was blowing quite
strongly and it was getting difficult to manoeuvre the boat.
A solid hit and another battle was underway.
We got it to within 10 feet of the boat but it got head shaking and the
lure was spit. We got a good peek
of her and she was not quite as big as the first but it wasn’t much smaller
either.
We ended the day going 2 for 3; all caught
flat-lining a Berkley Flicker Shad in the colour white.
By far my best day out laker fishing, even though it was only my
5thor 6th time ever going for
them.
Hopefully my wife will let be out again someday
soon!
set-up once again and once again it paid off. By this time the wind was blowing quite
strongly and it was getting difficult to manoeuvre the boat.
A solid hit and another battle was underway.
We got it to within 10 feet of the boat but it got head shaking and the
lure was spit. We got a good peek
of her and she was not quite as big as the first but it wasn’t much smaller
either.
We ended the day going 2 for 3; all caught
flat-lining a Berkley Flicker Shad in the colour white.
By far my best day out laker fishing, even though it was only my
5thor 6th time ever going for
them.
Hopefully my wife will let be out again someday
soon!