broski
Well-Known Member
As the article states, the pike decimated the lake...changed it entirely. As a young kid, I could catch trout, perch, and catfish from shore all day, every day, and did so with reckless abandon! You could catch them on worms, nightcrawlers, salmon eggs, powerbait, golf balls, license plates, cigar butts, tin foil, old knobs from 8-tracks and VCRs, pretty much anything!
When we moved back 9 years ago, it was hard to catch ANYTHING other than pike, the very occasional (stocked) trout, and the rare perch or crappy here and there.
While I'm not sure the goals for "LUNKER" LMB are possible in a lake at 7000' elevation that gets drained down 30' every summer and freezes 3' thick for 3-4 months a year are truly achievable, I do know the claims of 4-6# LMB so far are valid. I haven't caught one myself, but I've been on the lake in the ski channel and witnessed several pulled in that large. Only to immediately wish I could just set my wife and daughter adrift on the stupid tube for a couple hours, and take Ballast Boy to try our luck at a few of them in the shallows.
There is some seriously primo spring/summer habitat to be sure!
Stay tuned!
http://www.gjsentinel.com/outdoors/articles/lunker-lake
When we moved back 9 years ago, it was hard to catch ANYTHING other than pike, the very occasional (stocked) trout, and the rare perch or crappy here and there.
While I'm not sure the goals for "LUNKER" LMB are possible in a lake at 7000' elevation that gets drained down 30' every summer and freezes 3' thick for 3-4 months a year are truly achievable, I do know the claims of 4-6# LMB so far are valid. I haven't caught one myself, but I've been on the lake in the ski channel and witnessed several pulled in that large. Only to immediately wish I could just set my wife and daughter adrift on the stupid tube for a couple hours, and take Ballast Boy to try our luck at a few of them in the shallows.
There is some seriously primo spring/summer habitat to be sure!
Stay tuned!
http://www.gjsentinel.com/outdoors/articles/lunker-lake