Another Go at Lake Trout

Doug and I decided to give lake trout fly fishing another go. The conditions were quite different and that made the fly fishing quite a bit more challenging. When we arrived a just 8 am, we had the lake to ourselves, it was 4C.  That in itself was surprising. Hmm, ... We motored to a nearby bay and set up similar to two days prior to today. I was focused on water temperature which was 54F. That made me smile. The lakers should still be in the shallows. The lake was glass and we could see thousands of caddis on the surface. The last time we were there, callibaetis were popping in the thousands too, but not today.

After about 15 minutes, I connected with a dandy laker. With the water being so clear we could see the laker during the entire tussle. Doug netted the beautifully coloured laker and it was heavy for the particular lake we were at. I caught it on a blob of all things, ... an apricot jelly slush blob. Well I was excited to get such a dandy laker first crack in the morning.

Well that was the only laker that we landed all day. I did get some grabs and missed a few others. To me today was more typical of the fly fishing for lakers. We did try a number of different strategies and depths. We did find lakers in 15 feet of water but we did not connect. Late in the morning, callibaetis spinners showed up on the lake in the 10s of thousands. It was amazing to watch their dance.

We could have trolled for lakers but we preferred not to. That may have been to our disadvantage.

Well after a while, we switched to pike fishing and caught several. Doug's matuka streamer got him several smaller pike.

The big blue sky was to our disadvantage. In the afternoon, convective clouds moved in and I connected with a few more lakers while it was cloudy but I did not land them.

Doug and I loved our day. It was quite different and that big blue sky was not to our advantage.