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Report from Northeast oligotrophic lakes...
Smallmouth fishing is starting to heat back up, possibly post-spawn already? Water was still only 63. But caught a few >16" SMB today, not sure if they were females but definitely a bigger class fish than I was catching last week. Stop and go crankbait retrieve seems to be the key for bigger fish. I'd be trolling around and only catching small ones, then as soon as I started casting and using a stop-go I'd hook the bigger fish.
Largemouth...yet to catch a single one this year. Out of the probably hundreds of smallmouth. By July though on my lake it will start to be the reverse.
Perch seem to be roaming around in very tight suspended schools in 20-35 fow and as soon as dawn breaks they bite anything that moves. I caught two 12"ers jigging but wind this morning made it hard to stay on top of the schools.
Lake Trout are getting harder and harder to find. I caught a 29"er last week in about 60-70 fow just trolling a crankbait with splitshot and 8lb fluoro. Might just finally start using lead core line.
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