February 26th, 2025

***Fishing Report***

Lake Trout - Lake trout fishing has gotten to be a little hit and miss and warm temps settle into our area. Anglers on the trout are reporting that they are seeing good numbers of trout with a handful of hook ups. Increasingly spoons and blade baits are accounting for the majority of trout caught. Key depths are on the shallow side 20-40 feet of water. Humps have been producing good numbers of trout. 

Stream Trout - Spake and rainbows were popular catches this last week. Splake have been a little more structure related than rainbows and are being found near points and flats in 20-40 feet of water. Rainbow trout on the other hand have not been very structure related. Rainbows are being found in 40-60 feet of water over deep mud flats. Anglers have been doing better with Splake with a dead minnow or minnow head on a small jigging spoon. Rainbows have been hitting waxies tipped on a small jigging or jigging spoon.

Eelpout - Eelpout are really starting to become a common catch for anglers looking for lakers. Dead bait laying on the bottom, on humps or near shallow flats, has been effective on eelpout. Anglers targeting eelpout have now been able to catch them all day, but generally do best during the low light periods and after dark. Bright glowing, heavy spoons and glowing tubes, both loaded with dead smelt of minnow chunks has been very effective on eelpout. 

Panfish - Panfishing was on the slow side last weekend. Two or three days of warm temps generally doesn’t move the activity needle for panfish. With a week of warm temps panfish will start responding. Anglers have been finding crappies and gills in 20-30 feet of water. Gills have been relating more to the bottom and hitting small jigs tipped with wax worms. Active crappies have been suspended off the bottom and have been more inclined to hit soft plastics and crappie minnows also suspended in the water column. Pink, purple and white colored jigs have been effective on crappies.