Tofte Lake anyone?

[DEADhead]

Has anyone been fishing Tofte or any of the other small trout lakes in the area recently? I'll be around next week, and was just curious if the action had died down already.

[Surface Tension]

I haven't been there recently but have form experience can say the action doesn't slow down during summer but as always you can and do get periods throughout day when the bite is off. After all the trout are still there and summer is a time for all critters to grow and put on weight. You just have to change how you go about things.

First thing when fishing those trout in these lakes is to look at depth. Is the lake deep enough to have a dead layer of water, most have a deep hole somewhere. From experience you can waste a lot of time fishing in the dead zone but you can have hot action if your just above it. Your sounder if adjusted right it'll show that layer. From then on you'll either target suspended fish just above that layer or that bottom depth that layer correlates to. So say you have 35' of water and theres a layer at 25' down. I like Mepps or Panther Martins when the fish are on but found a crawler harness is hard to bet under most circumstances. When the trout turn off leave the suspended fish and move to 25' of water and target those trout. Slow down your presentation and get more into finesse fishing. I like a crawler with tandem hooks with just enough weight to get the crawler down. Make a slow .25 MPH drift or troll with an electric motor. Don't drag this rig, lift and hold, let the rod tip down as the boat moves. You should be in constant contact with your sinker. When you feeling the slightest nudge let it run. During this drift you should be paying close attention to the lake bottom. You looking for something out of the ordinary that'll hold trout, find those areas and mark them. Good luck.

[cashcrews]

Fished Tofte on Saturday 06/24. We typically run cowbells and crawler harnesses behind downriggers set between 10-30 feet down. We caught our limit on Saturday, however the action was slower than we've seen many times. Most of the fish were on the smaller side too.

Cashcrews

[DEADhead]

cashcrews did the trou have crawdads in their stomach? the rainbow I caught out of tofte last summer were full of them. I was thinking of fishing crawfish imitations.

thanks for the tip Frank; however I'll be shore fishing this trip. My wife still won't let me add a kayak to my arsenal

[DEADhead]

got back from my trip last night. Fished Tofte everyday and Glacier 2 about half the time. Only two decent days on the water, the rest of the week was slow. I would attribute that to the warm weather and early spring.

For most of the week, my wife did most of the catching, with a couple of nice rainbows and some brookies. The funny thing is that my wife and I were using the same setup and were fishing near the same spot when she was outfishing me. I didn't have much luck and kept changing tactics but to no avail. Finally on the last day of fishing, I went deep, targeted the thermocline, and hit it big and caught several nice rainbows in the 1.75# range. I also managed to catch a few brookies that morning as well. All in all, not a bad trip. It was slower than last year, but the fresh blueberries, strawberries and raspberries made up for it!