Brook/Lake Trout Lures
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Hi folks. Does anyone have any good websites with good deals on spoons or spinners for Brook/Lake Trout fishing in Québec?
Thanks. Mike
Depending on the size of the Lakers or Brookies, a variety of spoons and spinners will do. A few sizes of minniow like lures can be very good.
If river fishing, a fly rod and streamers is excellent for Brookies.
Here is a pic of a Coaster (brook, in Canada, caught on a black wooly bugger.
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Paul
Hard to go wrong with Panther Martin. I generally think the spinners with some orange tend to work well.
I used mepps and had great luck. They are a lot of fun to catch and the streams that come into the lakes in Quebec will amaze you at how many fish they can hold despite their size. Good luck!
We did real well with rooster tail spinners in white,red, and pink with silver blades. Bigger ones for the lakers and smaller ones for bookies. Hard to beat a blue and silver or green and gold Cleo spoon for lakers. They cast like a bullet
No website ideas but when I go to Quebec every year I use Little cleos and Mepps for brookies with some orange on them, and you can't beat five of diamonds spoons for lake trout. See you on the tundra soon. Rory
Blue Fox lures! There're called Pixies! 2/5oz and the ones that worked best for me were the pink or chartrusce! They look like a little cleo but have a cut out in the center with different colors! Good Luck fishing!
Ok, are lakers and brookies, actual trout?
NO! members of the Char family and not trout.
More than one needs to know so have fun and do a shore lunch.
They may not be trout, but theyre both about the easiest to catch. Panther martins will kill the brookies all day long, borderline "non fair Chase"
Good luck and have fun. If you run out of Panther Martins, cigarette butts will work.
nitilures.com/pages/index.html Try these lures. I have had great sucess on rainbows, brooks and browns with these lures.
if you are taking flies and fly rod for brook trout....#12, 14 and 16 caddis flies. also same size mosquitoes and black gnats. for sub surface, prince nymphs and hares ears. also some parachute adams.
5 of diamonds, yellow, green, black or red/white daredevil. I used these and collapsible rod from Cabelas.....you'll catch a bunch of char, lake trout, pike.....
Little cleo, panther martin, and dare-devil.
Ditto Paul's black wooly-bugger, for those who use "real" fishing equipment. :-)
It's tough fly fishing up there as it is usually windy.....I did one trip not much luck....
Take a casting bubble and tie the 'bugger' on a leader behind it if you have to take spinning gear...
I hammered brooks and lakers in Quebec on streamers like Mickey Finns, Muddler Minnows, and on dries like Royal Wulff (lakers on dries too). Look for the big brooks on gravel beds and at the inlets/outlets of lakes as they are starting the spawn in September - assuming you're talking about fishing while on a caribou trip.
For lure fishing, any of the spoons and spinners listed above will work. IMO, spoons (wobblers) work better than spinners for the lakers.
Landed this 5 lb brook on a Mickey Finn a couple hours after shooting a B&C class caribou with a longbow. A good day. :-)
I am taking and assortment of Joe's Flies to Newfie...love my Joe's Flies!
GULP products work very well. Nose hook the 3" minnows. Pink rubber worms (berkley and eagle claw) are deadly too.
Big colorful spoons or plastics on a jig good for lakers. Never had the fun of catching brookies.
Your might try "RODSITE.COM"
2nd the Joe's Flies. They work great on brookies around here.
Some have a small trailing treble hook that catch those short-strikes. I usually file off the barbs to minimize damage to the fish.
Thanks for the great information. What size spoons for those 3-4 lb Brook Trout?
Can't say for spoons but 2" yellow and red streamers did it, so if I was spoon or wobbler fishing I'd fish 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inch spoons.
Fish a Mickey Finn or yellow Muddler Minnow fly, or Royal Coachman on your spinning rod, about 18" behind a split shot or two. Give it some rod action or swing it. You'll catch a lot of fish there.
AuGood bs8, These are not educated fish that we are going for so they are not real finicky. That being said, I use 1/3rd ounce Little cleos and have had great success on the brookies. Caught a 26 incher up there last year and had a reproduction made. He was to pretty to kill just to have mounted. Some orange on the spoon seems to work well. Also Mepp's spinners work great. Some brown fur on them seems to help. For Lakers it is hard to beat 5 of Diamonds spoons. Whatever you throw out there, hang on, you never know what you are going to catch up there. Remember it is their spawning time so the fish will be shallow, and easy to catch. Keep some to eat and throw back the rest. It would be easy to get greedy. Have seen the natives leave lakes with hundreds of brookies. Must have fed the whole town. Good luck. when are you going to be up there? See you on the tundra. Rory