Lake Trout Fishing Lures

Thursday, 03 May 2007

The late trout, which is a member of the Char family, can attain a life span of twenty years. It is known to grow up to 50 inches and even more and can reach a weight of over 100 pounds. Lake Trout starts reproducing in their seventh year. Many lake trout return to their same spawning waters every year.

The preferred water temperature of lake trout is 50 degrees. They go for the deeper waters during summertime and because of this, fishermen can only catch them quite successfully by deep trolling. But as the waters cool down during the fall season, artificial flies and lures may take in the lake trout as they swim toward shallower waters, usually near the shores.

Finding and catching a trophy fish can be an undaunting task so one rule is to utilize whatever method of angling there is to increase your chances for success. Many fishermen have experienced some of their best fishing actions with the use of spoon lures. Spoons are lures that have concave piece of metal that resembles a spoon. This lure is used mainly to attract fish by reflecting a glowing light and making slow, random movements. Spoons do give a rather attractive appearance to fishes, especially if they go at slow speed. When you think of fishing lake trout, better think of slow lures. Lake trout are very cold water fish, so they possess one of the slowest metabolic rates of all the species.

Likewise, keep in mind that you will work in deep water of about 100 feet or much deeper. So, your choice of color of lures should belong to the bottom half of the rainbow spectrum. There is very little light in deep waters and the only colors that can be sustained in these areas are blue, green and violet colors.

A silver-plated spoon lure will reflect a glow better in very low light. You might want to try the new Reaper glow-in-the-dark spoon lures. They were proven to be very prolific for many anglers.

The lack of light in great depths will require you to make the appropriate presentation which is by bouncing the bottom. This is an effective way of provoking the fish to strike. A heavy lead sinker will initiate the necessary contact. You might have to utilize a line rod of 30-pound wire that ends with the lead ball and plastic keel.

Troll along the contour of the bottom of the lake, allowing the ball to freely bounce. Be careful as some bottom has hang ups so it will have to take more effort to avoid the hang ups and keep constant contact on the bottom.

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