I am taking some 14 - 15 year olds to Fish Lake this weekend. Looking for some pointers. It has been over 20 years since I have fished there - when I was 17.
We will be camping at the South end of the lake.
We will have two fishing boats. My boat will have downriggers. I have read a few posts. Wondering a good area to fish on the lake. We will be putting our boats in the South Marina.
Thanks!
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I'd hit the cheese hole. The kids will catch something.
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If the catching is slow every where else we have always done well almost straight across the lake form the lodge. Anchor up off the weed line by about 10 yds or so and cast to the weed line with small white jigs and catch a few perch. than cut them up for cut bait and you will be able to pick uo splake and rainbows on those same white jigs. Not big but you will get fish.
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August is the worst month of the year for mackinaw (in theory), so unless you want to put in some serious work don't plan on slaying them right now. The rainbows hit great in the summer up there, i find the best depth for them is anything between 20-40, sometimes deeper. They'll hit any kind of offering behind a pop gear. As warm as the water is the big fish will be deep, so drop the downriggers close to the bottom and fish with a pop gear and a minnow for them. In my experience mackinaw are for serious anglers, my family hates the trips when i'm trying to catch them so i usually end up switching to the ever present perch, rainbows and splake. The south weedline is great for perch, if you float out to about 40 feet and fish the bottom you can catch quite a few splake there as well. Good Luck, post a report when you get back.
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We had a blast! We caught over 300 perch, and around 50 trout. Not bad for 7 fishermen. The 14-15 year old boys loved the perch fishing. We would jig with a tube jig, and a small treble hook tipped with perch meat below the tube jig. Every minute you would pull out a perch. We had two boats and were throwing perch at eachother. We filleted over 100 perch friday night.
We caught most of the trout (rainbow or splake) on the downriggers, or leaded line poles. Most on a two inch needlefish. We only caught one fish on a popgear and a worm. All in all a great trip! The largest trout around 3 pounds.
Spent about 3 hours one evening trying to catch the elusive Mack. Trolled flatfish or jointed rapalas along the bottom. Caught the bottom a few times, but no Macks. They said the Mack fishing is really slow this time of year. I will be back next year a little earlier in the year.
Thanks for the pointers. A beautiful lake. I will be back next year with the family!
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Glad you got into them I wish they would jut pull the limit on perch up there all together. I love that lake, we use to go up there every year for family reunion on my wifes side of the family. To bad we do not do that any more.
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