Hi Everyone,

I’ve never been to Knife or Kekekabic and I’ll be bouncing around the area for a week in mid June. If anyone is willing to share any Lake Trout spots with me I’d be very grateful. I’m pretty new to Laker fishing, but I’ve caught the Laker bug and I’d like to put my group on some Lakers this summer. We have 4 of our 6 have never caught a Lake Trout. We’ll be fishing Knife, Kek and possibly Sema. Any info on these lakes or others in the vicinity would me much appreciated.

Thanks paddlers!

Tony

Go fishing troll down bout 30-60 foot you’ll catch em.

Last year the first week of June I caught LT consistently in many different lakes 10-12' down suspended over 30-100 fow. Another year the magic depth the last week of May was 30-50' down on the bottom. Each year is different. I would start shallow and work deeper if you don't have success. You never want to fish under fish. If you have several in the group than you can fish different depths simultaneously to fine tune the preferred holding depth.

I've been in that area the first week of June and caught several lakers in Knife while fishing for smallies and walleye. We went to Kekekabic and caught lakers nearly every cast on spoons in water 10 foot or less. Nothing big in Kekekabic, they were all 16-18 inchers, maybe if we had tried deeper we may have found some bigger ones but we were having so much fun with the smaller ones we didnt try anything else. We started changing baits to cranks, spinners and even soft plastics and still were catching them. I'd love to make it back to Kekekabic one day. We took the small portage into little kek but didnt catch anything there. On the way in came through Eddy lake and the kek ponds and caught pike at each portage and some nice smallies in eddy lake. We only fished the east end of Kekekabic up to the portage into little kek, we caught lakers all over but the best was around the small islands just off the south shore. Also make sure you hit the area on Knife below Eddy falls, its a great spot for walleye and smallies.

Just grab some 3 way swivels. Tie 2 feet of mono on one with a jointed rap Cisco colored. Tie 10 inches of line off the other swivel and weigh em down with 3 One ounce ball sinkers pinched off with a split shot. If you get a snag you save the bait ehh. 3 ounces gets you down 50-60 footish.

Like someone said, every year is different, but here is a link to some good info. I used mcsweems map as a guide for where I wanted to start fishing for LT. We had our success using purple tail dancers and grey deep diving shad raps. Don't over think it. Put the right lure in the right waters and you will catch LT.