Looked like an awesome trip, great pics
Thanks for sharing
Fishing on Germany's largest lake
I had gone before and the main goal was the whitefish. In the back of my mind I was hoping for some type of trout. The whitefish was a bust. The commercial fishermen would just pound the snot out producing areas with nets. Having never caught a whitefish I had envisioned trolling with leadcore but they were deeper than I thought at about 60 ft. To get down to that range is 8 colours of leadcore and a heck of a lot of line out. You would hardly notice a hit of a 1 pound whitefish(they don't get much bigger there) or even snagging seaweed so you could fish very unproductively. When I got there I was overjoyed to hear that they have lakers, browns, brookies, and even char in this lake. I imagine the numbers would be low but still. I was trolling deep in the 40 ft range but only catching pike and little buggers at that. So I lowered a thermometer down to 40 ft, 60 ft, and the deepest spot in this area of the lake and all temps were within a few degrees of 60. They had a huge heat wave and surface temps got up to unheard of 85 degrees. I thought that my thermometer was broken so left it for a while but then checked it in the fridge. It was working perfectly. The section of the lake narrows and is kind of like a sausage in shape. The outflow has good current so my theory is that there is never any real stratification because the bottom water is always sucked out. Those species of fish I mentioned would be in the main lake and that was just a bit too far to row. It would of taken me 2 or 3 hours to get there and at the moment I have tennis elbow.Daner wrote:I was curious if we were going to see any Browns?
After all, I believe the Canadian version came from Germany, way back when 1800's?
Thank you for the report, nice to have some variety.
