Yesterday morning we set out at 7:30 with a lovely couple from the Jackson Mi area, electrical panel builder and wife Lynette, two outdoor types who wanted to catch some fish. They spent the day before fishing Lac La Belle with little luck, not knowing the lake or where the “hot spots” are. Before we passed the Mendota lighthouse I pointed out a few likely spots for them to go back to when they fish the lake next time.
We went directly out to one of my “fishing holes” and trolled around for over an hour before scoring on our first fish. After that we had good activity by circling around and ended up with 10 nice lake trout in the range of 2.5 lbs up to 6.44 lbs. All very nice, good “eaters” with nice pink and orange color to the meat. Many of them had lots of may flies in the bellies as we caught some suspended around 50 to 100 feet and some on the bottom at 180 feet. We actually found a good “scum line” to fish around 5 to 6 miles out. We had one doubleheader and a triple, or at least close to it… We landed one as we brought in a second and hooked a third before the 2nd one was in…some high excitement for a while.
Surface water is warming to 58 degrees F.
Brian Helminen
