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Went on our annual August quad trip to Lake X a couple weeks ago with a couple friends and as always it was a blast . The night before we left I spread all the important stuff on the garage floor just to make sure I was not forgetting anything, nothing worse than working your tail off to get to lake X and discovering that you forgot your favorite/go too lure at home. I'm sure we have all been there before. A couple pictures at the trail head after the bikes are "loaded" up and a pic of the gang along a good part of the trail This time of the year we find the lake trout fairly deep (50-70ft) so the jigs are tied on , finders are juiced up and away we go . First drift through the bay we started to nail them .This one was caught on the first drop of the jig . The afternoon went on and the fishing was great with us boating around 15 lake trout and a couple smallies. The next morning the lake trout were off a bit but the smallmouth were on fire just off a point in about 20ft of water in front of an old hunt camp , This was one of the biggest I caught that morning. That night we had a lake trout shore lunch at camp , here is a pic. of my friend cleaning them up at camp. The next day started well with a couple nice lake trout but the lake trout bite tailed off quick and we resorted to the smallmouth . When we were fishing for the smallies up on the point we discovered that the lake trout were there as well in 15-25ft of water and surprisingly hitting our crayfish jigs . We caught around 10 lake trout this way , pretty crazy if you ask me . This was the bait/baits I was catching the lakers on that morning It was a great trip and I can't wait for the next one in September , hope you enjoyed !