Once overlooked, frowned upon, even cursed, the lake trout is coming into its own carving a place for cabin weary spring anglers. Lakers averaging 5 to 10lbs this spring off the 50 Point area filled the creels of boat anglers with catches ranging from 10 to 15 Lakers a day.
The largest laker that hit our net was a 19.5 lbs beauty landed on 6lbs test tackle!

Not known as a scrappy fighter on salmon gear but with scaled down equipment lake trout will provide excellent sport fishing.

Fishing deep 50' to 100' near bottom produced the most Lakers consistently. A slower troll around 2 to 2.4 MPH seemed to be more productive than the faster trolling speeds used for salmon
Anglers used sonar to mark the lake trout and used GPS to keep them on top of the schools. Fluorescent red and chartreuse Eppinger Flutterchuck out produced all other lures combined. A new plug, UKKO, in the chartreuse colours  also produced quite well!

The underwater camera clearly showed what we all thought for a long time. Lake Trout will follow a lure for miles! We changed the action of the lure by throttling up or using neutral to impart additional action to the lures. This sudden change in action triggered hits almost 90% of the time. A trick we picked up years ago fishing Lake Simcoe lakers. Some tricks never die!