7 days...

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Originally Posted by LimpingLogan

Been back for a week and decided I would post a report from Dog Lake

Number of fish ended up being higher then last year and sizes were bigger BUT we did have a couple slow days and the days we were catching 50+ fish per guy the fish seemed really small. We caught less pike then last year.

The fish were scattered and un-predictable. We would spend hours looking for them...find them...catch one after another...then repeat the process the next day because the fish were not in the same spots as the day before. (I don't mind working to find them...I find that fun...but some days we had to work hard)

We had a couple 50 fish per guy days and a few 10 fish per day per guy days.

I think we had two 8lbers and a few 4-6 lbers and a decent amount of 2-3 lbers....which overall I thought wasn't bad for size.

The first day we tried all the spots that worked good last year but only caught a few fish...we had to adjust because the weather and season had the fish acting like it was later in the spring then usual....the camp manager suggested we fish deeper, which was an adjustment for us because we usually get them in 7-15ft of water that time of year.

Three of the six days we had a crazy May Fly hatch which did not help the fishing. May Fly's and larva were every where!

I had a 22" pike on and a complete MONSTER pike swam up, grabbed it, jumped out of the water with it and then let go if it...it was HUGE!

We had success jigging, trolling harnesses and casting perch rapalas at rocks and reefs.

Overall it was a good trip...we did better then last year so that is a good thing.

Nice report. And how did you go about finding them? Electronics?

"Nice report. And how did you go about finding them? Electronics?"

Yes we used electronics to find fish and scout for depths, reefs and humps.

We did a lot of trolling with harnesses so a lot of time we would just pick a general area that looked good and start trolling to help pin point them...after we got a few we might stop in that area and jig and/or cast perch rapallas....or troll through again.

Wind blown bays were our first targets...2nd was rocky points and third was submerged islands near deeper water.

One morning we searched for a couple hours and only had two fish in the boat...I casted a perch rapala near a rocky shore and picked up a nice 2lber. I tried it again and got a 3lber....in a matter of 30 min I landed two over 4lbs several 3lbers...and lost two giants all in the same spot with a perch rapala...that spot never produced the rest of the week.

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Good Report

What are oof the lake were you fishing in. What camp did you stay at?