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08/10/2017 10:12AM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
Heading up next week, and was wondering what depth the Lakers are hanging out at on the larger lakes. A few weeks ago I had success fishing 30 foot over 50 to 80 feet, sure it has changed since then. Any info would be much appreciated!
 
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cschub13
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08/10/2017 10:36AM  
Would be interested to know as well.

Unless you are catching to eat, has mortality been an issue for those doing catch and release?
 
08/10/2017 11:58AM  
I wish I could help with this, as we made a pretty solid effort (at least in our eyes) to catch Lake Trout July 31-Aug 2 on Knife and Aug 3-4 on Alpine and Jasper and came up empty. We tried trolling many different depths from 30-100 ft with Tail Dancers and other divers 100-150 feet back from the canoe but never coaxed any into a bite, although we did extremely well on 18-22" walleyes in the 30-35 foot depths. This was our first attempt ever at landing a Laker, so we may still have been doing something wrong.
 
08/13/2017 12:14PM  
This time the trout are deep,but will venture up shallower for a very short time to get a snack. It is tough fishing now.
 
08/13/2017 01:21PM  
quote Pinetree: "This time the trout are deep,but will venture up shallower for a very short time to get a snack. It is tough fishing now."
I'm sure it will be tougher then a few weeks ago for sure. As far as "deep" goes, are we talking 70 to 100 feet?
 
08/13/2017 03:05PM  
This year the water temps are lower than average up north, so who knows they might be shallower than ya think. There are always trout way deep, some seem to stay down almost all the time, while others are roamers and feed up higher on baitfish.

I've caught trout in 30' of water or less this time of year, granted usually by accident, I've seen them bust the surface this time of year though, had one one on Earl jump out of the water to grab my lure I had hanging over the canoe.

If I fish for them I look for active higher up fish, they are easier to catch and you aren't going to stress them as much. My lure is usually in the 18-28' range but I'll usually fish over deep drop offs in 50-100' of water near a 20-30' reef. When I used to fish deeper, I usually caught one and had to quite as the fish did not appear healthy enough to know for sure it would survive.

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