Myself and two other buddies canoed the Bowron Lake canoe circuit from Sept 4-9.
On the (long) drive up, one buddy asked us what we wanted to accomplish during the trip, and top of the list for all three of us was catching a lake trout!
Isaac Lake is the best (and I think the only) lake in the chain for lake trout fishing, and it's a big lake, so we trolled for 2 of the 3 days that we spent traversing its length.
Day 2 on the lake produced only small rainbow and kokanee but on day 3 we got dialed in and we all got our lake trout.
Glen got 2, and Pat and I each got one. Fish were up to 7-8 pounds and were beautifully spotted char, quite unlike the salmonids and trout that we normally catch.
Nothing subtle about the terminal tackle... 3 oz of lead, a willow leaf and an Apex. I have no idea how deep we were fishing as it was all by guess and by golly, but we were waaaaay down there.
Issac Lake has a slot limit of 30-50 cm for trout/char and all of our fish, except Pat's, exceeded that so Pat's fish wound up in fish tacos that night. Approx 2 hours from cold clear water to frypan. It was delicious!
That's the Apex above the eye
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Topic: Isaac Lake (Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit), Sept 6 (Read 6196 times)