Lake Trout in the Boundary Waters

Does anyone have any tips on fishing for Lake Trout in the BWCAW area. I’ve never been Lake Trout fishing before, but they say that they are there and I want to catch them. Any info. helps.

I was last there about 4 years ago, we caught several lake trout by trolling deep divers while paddling- usually they were on points and when the crankbait was digging bottom (i would guess 15-20 feet) we would catch some. The time was mid july. Not sure about earlier or later in the year. They are tasty and battle well, and I think spent much of the year in very deep water but we seemed to luck into them. Usually the crankbait was a deep fat rap, but I think it was the depth that was most important. Good luck.

ps- most of the ones we caught were in Quetico, but that is where we fished the most.

I have fished Lakers for 3 years in Canada. I have caught them on just about anything and everything in my tackle box. They are PIGS when they are feeding. If I had to choose a few baits to take along….

a. Smithwick Suspending Rogues -blue/chrome, black/chrome
b. 5 of Diamonds
C. Rapala Husky Jerks/other stickbaits in Clown Color

I’ve caught lakers off of points in about 15-20 feet of water in early June using deep running cranks. In August I found them in a DEEP hole (about 80′) and jigged spoons all through the water column and had great success.