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Backwoods Lake Trout Report #2


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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.

 

 

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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

 

 

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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 .

 

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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.

 

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That night we had a lake trout shore lunch at camp , here is a pic. of my friend cleaning them up at camp.

 

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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 .

 

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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

 

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It was a great trip and I can't wait for the next one in September , hope you enjoyed !

 

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Thanks for the comments guys , it sure was strange catching smallmouth and lake trout in 20 ft of water on the same small point and the same crawfish jig in the middle of August . I guess

you just never know ! I am going back to the same lake in September and I will be going back to that point with a crawfish jig tied on for sure :good:

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