Casting for fall lake trout in the shallows
I finally made it onto another adventure to do one of my favourite things in the fall and that is casting for lake trout. I headed up to northern manitoba for 3.5 days of fishing. It was an abo****e grind casting for 8-11 hours a day with big lures for these fish but it paid off in the end. We boated 5 masters (35"+) on the trip and 20 lake trout total by the time the trip had come to an end.
Hope you all enjoy the footage! https://youtu.be/9R3YGwFG7G0 |
Good stuff. Looked like a great trip. Thanks for posting. Keep up the great vids.
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wow some beauts for sure Matt!!!! Got a text from Adam said I gotta stop chicken hunting and see your new vid!
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Very well done as usual Weav....
I’ve moved the trip I invited you on to next summer if your interested. You probably already know this but those lakers will be up in the same shallows the first two weeks of ice out in the spring. Osky |
Question Matt....you edited to show lakers but how was the bite for pike?
What were you tossing out for these lunkers? Must be some big gators lurking the depths there...... |
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of my days off from work guiding on cold lake this summer it was a blast meeting some really awesome people |
Another great video.I was suprised how shallow you were fishing.Never fished for lakers before and thought even at this time of year they would be 20 plus feet.Looks like ya had a good time inspite of the weather and landed some big fish.I also was jealous of how spacious your boat was.Every time you went to measure a fish it looked like you were in another boat!Thanks for posting and best of luck on your next adventure.
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Weaves..
I’m not sure your depth on the video I always target 10’ and under for reef top trout. Pike were mentioned, they tend to run a bit deeper in my experience at that time. I target a troll depth of 13’ off deeper edges or water 20 plus deep near boulders. The water being clearer in the fall flash is the key. I’ve never experienced the two species mingling so to speak even tho pike will eat smaller Lakers. I was on a lake years ago in summer and saw another guides boat pull in a trophy laker with the tail end of a pretty good size pike sticking out of its gullet. Turn about is fair play? Just my experiences, certainly not gospel. Osky |
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Man we got it good in this country!!!!! If it wasn't for guys like Matt showing us this I would have never got the thoughts a brewing.... |
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A few weeks ago I was on Flaming Gorge in NW Utah and had a very small laker maybe 15” long hooked behind a dipsy diver. Brought up to clear it the guy on the rod and another in the boat and I watched a terrific lake trout come up under it and clobber it. Didn’t hold on overly long I’m thinking the bright sun that morning pushed the big one off quickly. When the big one turned from the boat I saw the girth and it was a solid 50 plus pounder probably 48-49 inch fish. Then again that’s no biggy compared to what they are currently catching down there. When in your country clouds and barometer are your friend. Within 300 miles north of the border lakers like the first full moon of October to be on those reefs spawning. North of that a bit earlier. A ton of my clients have caught terrific lakers up in your country the first two weeks of ice out, where the walleyes are spawning. They are shallow and releaseable and many have had walleye tails showing in their gullets. I think they feast on those smaller males. I can’t give any tips to you Weavs.. your a dang good trout man. A thought tho you might keep a small notebook if you don’t already. Lake trout have a lot of little subtleties but their patterns are there and easy to overlook. With today’s wonderful boats and electronics and all it’s a much busier place at the helm than the years that JD, Whelen, myself and other guides worried only about wether the tiller handle was tight, clients were happy, green box was flashing, and somebody remembered the net. Osky |
I would add that in the fall on a nice Clearwater lake a run over those flats at night with a good light will tell you where the trout are. Come back the next morning and let the casting begin.
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Very nice video like always Weavster, some great trout fishing in that area and fall fishing is one of the best for lake trout.
I can remember my first fall trout fishing on a lake called Sydney lake in 1976. I can remember flying in from seeing the 76 Olympics in Montreal and taking off up north that august . It was late September and we located them in the shallows with a bit of a hump around 12 feet deep .The snow was coming down and I thought this was the coolest fishing there was and it was. To remember it is great, but I wish I would have kept some sort of a log book on which days exactly ,conditions etc and go back and read it all. I lost a whole pile of my fishing and hunting pictures when we hired a company to move us into our new place and 4 bins we figure are missing,I hope they were just misplaced by them. I say this looking at your videos and there was videos out back in those days, but i never thought about it or did others around me. Then again 45 years ago if someone told me I could call someone or find out all I needed to know on a little box in my pocket I would have thought he was nuts.Trying to fix them old boat motors the camp had would have been great to have you tube. No matter what tech comes out, being out there and doing it will never change .If you don't go out and do those fall trips it just doesn't happen and it's great to see the passion you have for it and doing a very great job at it. All the best always. JD |
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Starting to figure things out here one of my best lakers was caught in 9 feet of water first week of the season with the ice just off....we were going after eyes that were spawning or just finished....hmmmmm.... |
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Wow, great fish!
Congrats :happy0180: |
Beautiful fish, well done. Had no idea they would be that shallow
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Awesome trip. We used to go every spring to George Lake for Lakers and Smallmouth. Lakers are shallow in the spring too. Nothing this size, but still fun.
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