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Backwoods Lake Trout May 2014


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Our annual spring trip into the backwoods of central Ontario in search of lake trout has come and gone . The trip was very successful to say the least with lots of

trout caught , good weather , good friends and no bugs ! Here is a small report of our weekend .

 

Arrived at the trail head fairly early to a cloudy and cool start . A couple things I noticed right away was that there were no bugs to speak of and the surrounding trees

had just started to bud out , felt like March instead of May but I wasn't complaining it was just good to be out after a looooong winter !

 

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The trail ride in was the wettest I have ever seen it , with a couple small washouts but nothing we couldn't handle

 

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The main trail is really no big deal just long ( 10 km ) with a few mud crossings and rock climbs . Its the off shoot trail to the lake that is narrow , muddy and filled

with tire splitting rocks .

 

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Once at camp we set up the tents cut up some firewood and headed out to find the lakers . The water temp. was pretty cool ( 49 degrees ) so we knew the

lake trout would be in shallow and scattered throughout the lake . The trolling gear was setup with a 1/2 oz inline weight and spoons . The lake trout were quite

aggressive all weekend and seemed to be really favoring the gold/red cleo that my boat partner had tied on . I had a silver williams tied on that usually

works but not this weekend , the gold and red was the ticket !

Here are just a few of the fish we caught that weekend

 

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Out of the 4 days we are there we have at least one fish fry , a couple unlucky lake trout for the pan

 

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We were actually casting the shore for the lake trout as well , they were really up shallow , but this was my view for most of the weekend trolling along ( very relaxing )

 

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Here is a picture of our boats successful lure choices , 3" silver husky jerk , 3/4 oz darter with a fluke and the famous gold/red cleo

 

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Hope you enjoyed my little report and I hope to be back up there in a couple months , until then ...........

 

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Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Very cool! I just returned from a fly in trip out of White River for lakers and the gold/red cleo was also killer. FWIW that lure has traditionally been a killer for lake trout so I'm not surprised!

Many of our fish last week were already deep and a large number of them were caught on leadcore.

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