rickinil 2 Report post Posted June 3, 2017 wellp tomorrow I m headed north to my favorite lake for a week. hope to do ok , wanting to try some whitefish fishn just for some thing different,but I don't really care its just nice to get back to the country where I was born,. maybe I ll even run into t.bay to look over the old folino store an some of the town where I grew up.Hows boulivaerd lake these days?anyways its good to be going thnx for some tips on the whitefish ! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amia Calva 23 Report post Posted June 3, 2017 Good Luck! Let us know how it goes! Whitefish are super cool. I'm hoping to get into a few someday. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
borealjourneys 4 Report post Posted June 7, 2017 When you posted about whitefish earlier this year, I was also interested and looked around. Found this article: http://flyanglersonline.com/features/canada/can211.php Could be a good time to try this tactic. I was out a couple of days ago and there were lots of mayflies. Around 5:00 there were a few on the surface in the calm bays and fish were surfacing already sipping on them (could have been whitefish or trout). As the evening went on, there were more mayflies. From the above article, it sounds like they'll already be looking upward in the later afternoon waiting for them to emerge. If you're the first mayfly presentation, you're more likely to have luck than if you wait until there are lots and you are competing with the natural hatch. If you don't have fly gear, a casting bubble is a cheap alternative. Unfortunately, I had my young daughter with me and we had a few hours paddle to get back to our vehicle, so I didn't have time to try casting flies where they were feeding on them. We did try trolling a streamer with no luck but were probably trolling a bit fast for that type of presentation. Got that idea from this article: https://flyguys.net/fishing-information/still-water-fly-fishing/fishing-the-long-line-trolling-the-fly Good luck. Please post an update to let us know if you found any and what worked. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rickinil 2 Report post Posted August 15, 2017 well we made it up there had a great time killin the bass and northern eeyes not so much a few and only a couple of white fish but man the bass were big! and scrappy! a fun time for sure! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
