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| Most Lake Trout are taken by trolling with
spoons or minnow-like plugs attached to wire-line
rigs or downriggers. They can also be taken by
bottom-fishing with whole or cut fish. Lake
trout require, cold, clear, well oxygenated
water, so they are found almost exclusively in
oligotropic lakes. In summer they often move to
depths of 50 to 100 feet, but in spring and fall
you can find them at depths of 20 feet or less.
They prefer water from 40 to 52 degree F.
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| In most waters such as Seneca
lake, lake trout rely heavily on small fish like
ciscoes, smelt, or sculpins. But in some lakes,
they feed almost exclusively on plankton,
insects, or crustaceans. |
Age & Growth
Lake trout are slow-growing and long-lived,
sometimes reaching an age of 40 years. In the far
North, it may take 15 years for a laker to reach
2 pounds.
World Record
1991 - 66 pounds, 8 ounces, caught in Great
Bear Lake, Northwest Territories. A 102- pound
lake trout was taken in a gillnet in Lake
Athabasca, Saskatchewan, in 1961.
Seneca Lake
Seneca Lake in the Upstate New York Finger
Lakes Region is world renown for its lake trout
fishery. There is no better eating fish than a
freshly caught lake trout.
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