Spray Lakes monster

[Pikecrazed]

Hey I was just there the other day lol
How did he taste

[catnthehat]

That's too cool, pull it out of the ice with your Pal's hook in its yap!!
great looking fish , hoe he tasted as good as your smile says it would!
Cat

[Alberta Bigbore]

Awesome!! Congrats!!

[FishermanFrank1976]

That's a very nice laker 4sure I have fished spray all my life mostly when the ice is gone from my boat. Last year I managed to get 5 lakers on 3 different trips the biggest being about 4lbs. On one of my trips last year a guy caught a 18lber so there are big ones. The lake has slowly got worse over the years. The food shortage what others are talking about is what I don't understand. In one evening last summer from my boat I caught over 40 whitefish in a manner of 2 hours with my flyrod using small caddis flys. So the bait fish are there. 10 years ago from my buddies boat we caught over 30 lakers in one day all around the 2lb mark. I still think the lakers are there but where? My fish finder always shows lots of fish but are they lakers? You have to remember that Spray is also a very long lake and the fish could be spread out anywhere Anyways great fish thx for the pic and happy fishing

[burbotman]

Originally Posted by FishermanFrank1976

That's a very nice laker 4sure I have fished spray all my life mostly when the ice is gone from my boat. Last year I managed to get 5 lakers on 3 different trips the biggest being about 4lbs. On one of my trips last year a guy caught a 18lber so there are big ones. The lake has slowly got worse over the years. The food shortage what others are talking about is what I don't understand. In one evening last summer from my boat I caught over 40 whitefish in a manner of 2 hours with my flyrod using small caddis flys. So the bait fish are there. 10 years ago from my buddies boat we caught over 30 lakers in one day all around the 2lb mark. I still think the lakers are there but where? My fish finder always shows lots of fish but are they lakers? You have to remember that Spray is also a very long lake and the fish could be spread out anywhere Anyways great fish thx for the pic and happy fishing

The issue is the shortage of suitable forage for the lakers to grow as stated previously. Whitefish forage will not grow the trout large. There is a gap in the forage base that makes it hard for fish to go from eating insects to whitefish (close enough to illustrate the point)

[petersenp]

I was in Spray Lakes this weekend and caught a huge lake trout ive never seen one this big come out of there, it was insane! They are down there and there are some monsters!

[huntsfurfish]

Wow thats a bigun.
Well done!

[Fishslayer99]

Originally Posted by petersenp

I was in Spray Lakes this weekend and caught a huge lake trout ive never seen one this big come out of there, it was insane! They are down there and there are some monsters!

Wow,

That is a beauty, and yea they are in there but few and far between. I love picture #2 you both have the same expression, but who is more surprised? Great catch!

[jwab]

Nice!! I always want to try that lake.