here's another question for anyone that fishes for lake trout. My lake i was on this weekend is a spring-fed lake. The lake trout stack up where these springs feed into the lake in about 100 feet of depth. I just can't catch them by trolling or jigging for them. What should I do?
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here's another question for anyone that fishes for lake trout. My lake i was on this weekend is a spring-fed lake. The lake trou
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I fish Crystal lake in northern MI, where the depth can reach 250+ ft. We (and a crowd of other boats) were doing just as meagel suggested and dropping live minnows down to where we would mark fish. Did well with that route, but only in the early morning in the summer. All the boats would clear out around 7am.
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If you can troll with downriggers, you should be able to nail them. I know it is a major investment, but then you can keep your lures right off the bottom in a very controlled fashion. I typically use a chrome dodger ahead of a streamer fly or a flutter spoon or a clown colored or chrome snin-n-glo. I use an eight to ten pound lead ball to hold the downrigger down at 100 feet of depth. If these don't work, try just plain streamer flies with lots of silver and mylar or try a rattlespoon.
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