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GeoFisher
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flynn: "Heading up the Gunflint this weekend and I'll be trying to secure a laker for my trip partner who has never caught a fish larger than 8 inches. Based on lake topo I know where to look, but I will always take tips. What are water temps at? What baits are working? What depth are the fish at?
If I had to guess, surface temps are around 55F and lakers are probably eating cisco/shad-colored baits in about 40-60ft of water?
Any success stories?"
Just north of Pickerel.......last week, we found 56 degree surface water, and lakers in 30 ft of water on ciscos.....
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flynn
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Thanks for the input... sounds like close to what I expected. Could get lucky and find some or could get straight up skunked. I've got a plethora of white and silver baits (and plenty with some color too) so hopefully I can locate a few and entice them to eat.
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flynn
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Heading up the Gunflint this weekend and I'll be trying to secure a laker for my trip partner who has never caught a fish larger than 8 inches. Based on lake topo I know where to look, but I will always take tips. What are water temps at? What baits are working? What depth are the fish at?
If I had to guess, surface temps are around 55F and lakers are probably eating cisco/shad-colored baits in about 40-60ft of water?
Any success stories?
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SinglePortage
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I was on Rose Lake last week and was catching them trolling crankbaits 15' down in 20 to 40 feet of water. My biggest was about 10-12 pounds. I found some very nice smallmouth in 15 to 20 feet of water relating to large boulders. I caught a personal best 22 incher on a #9 shallow shad rap.
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HawgHunter
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I was on Saganaga this past weekend, fished hard for two days with techniques and in spots which usually produce trout, 50-60 FOW, fishing anywhere from right on the bottom to 20-30 feet off. Water surface temp was 61 degrees. No fish caught and very few marked on the locator. Not sure where they went. Sometimes I swear there's a trap door in the bottom of the lake that they disappear into, only to re-appear later. Hope you have better luck than I did.
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Pinetree
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Fall lake trout fishing can be tough if water doesn't cool down by time of your trip.
Well season closed now.
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yogi59weedr
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Quess again
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flynn
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Got an update after the trip... fishing was pretty dead on West Pike as I suspected it might be. Trip partner and I threw the kitchen sink. Generally silver & white colored lipless & deep crankbaits, spinnerbaits, 3.8" Swing Impact Fats (on a swimbait head and as trailers), and jerkbait, along with red/craw colored squarebills and medium depth crankbaits, a couple medium sized topwater lures, a couple different Mepps #2-3 Aglias, a 1/4oz Texas rigged tube, purple Deep Tail Dancer, shad colored deep 6th Sense crankbait, 3/4oz and 1 3/4oz UV silver and purple flutter spoons, 1/2oz chartreuse round jigheads with 4" white twister tails. Seriously we threw it all out there, for smallies and lakers, and I only got 1 smallie, maybe 12" long, on a 3/8oz white-chartreuse spinnerbait. Pretty disappointing but I kind of expected it with the recent rainy/stormy weather and dropping temps. I didn't get a water temp but based on how cold my feet and hands got when I put them into the water, compared to mid-spring when I semi-froze my butt off this year, knowing that water was 52-55F, I'd say water this weekend was probably around 60F.
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