These are my favorite bites and absolutely love when fish are that aggressive! I plan on fishing the Flaming Gorge soon which can often tend to be that way!

Yea I didn’t notice how aggressive they were when I was reeling away and saw the takes on video, one of my funnest trips to fort peck!

My next lake I will target the big ones at and hopefully figure out will be Flaming Gorge.

He is awesome! I make it a tradition to go every year.

Your welcome bud! Hope you’re coming to Colorado sooner then later! The fall fishing is absolutely off the hook!

Thanks man! It was unreal; biggest laker for me too bro. Never came close to a Lake Trout in Colorado like this. Even my 38.5inch Granby Laker was only 17lb

Thank you sir! It really was, sore hands and shoulders. :D

Thanks Martin! Nice to see a comment from you!

Thanks buddy

Thank you randy! I need to make it big Carp next!

Thanks Jersey, i really appreciate it!

Always a memorable time!

Thank you. I really appreciate you watching.

Glad you feel amazing!

Thanks Cody! Haha yea, it takes some planning since the drive is 9 hours! I am heading out with a good friend in August again.

The rod is a medium heavy 5foot 6inch Myriad Rod, the reel just a Daiwa Regal 3000

@@MountainStateAngler Why such a short rod?

A 1oz VMC jig head with a silver underspin. I put a Storm Largo shad 4inch in white swimbait. The depth we fished was 102 feet of water. On this day they were deep.

What line and rod?

@@bow-leggedfishing5883 5’6 medium-heavy Denali rod by Denali. I have 15lb braind to 12lb Fluor carbon. The reel is just a Daiwa reveos

@@MountainStateAngleris the shorter rod better at vertical jigging and hook sets from that position?

I did! I want to go back to my roots. Please email me your number bro I’m off Facebook! Email me at aj@coloradofisher.com

I think that applies heavily to mono and flouro. I always go full braid all the way to the hook! Never had a problem with line twist.

@@MountainStateAngler How long was the big one at the start of the video I don't think I heard a length. We just pulled up a 38" in BC the other weekend.

@@fishinthenorth surprisingly only 36inched but 24lbs. I caught a 38.5incher that was 17lbs at my local lake. Weird how lakers length to weight can be. In this video my fish was skinnier but way longer! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6eqma-ovZiclGg.html

@@MountainStateAngler The girth can be pretty crazy with these fish. The 38" just broke 20lbs. Congrats on the awesome catch

@@fishinthenorth nice job on all your catches too!

Yea I have to get better at doing many things in my videos. My apologies for missing on this if I did in this video. Details: Rod - 5’8 Line - 15lb straight braid Reel - Pflueger President or Daiwa Regal 3500 Lure - VMC 1/4oz or 1/2oz jig head with a 4inch paddle tail that is a shad by Storm 360 I’m pulling up lake maps and locating humps in 55 65 75 or 85 feet of water. I move around if I don’t see any after 10 min and so on and so forth. Where these fish are fully depends on the season. Ice of their shallow but near deep water fast so like a flat that goes into a slope, similar in fall then in spring later and summer you’re definitely mostly targeting then 45 to 85 feet of water. Hope this helps. I don’t really care for a thumbs down or up, I am not some TV show or full time fisherman. I work my ass off all week and make these videos for fun with some education and I love sharing. I appreciate the comment and will take notes to improve my videos when it comes to explaining I truly appreciate your detail response! Have a good one and I hope you get some good fishing!

@@MountainStateAngler This vid is from a year ago, and I made my post only two hours ago. That's... Uh......Fast. I am 62 years old and have never caught (or fished for) lake trout and it is on my bucket list this year. I have binge watched almost 65 vids in the last two weeks, and not a single one has told me the set up. They just say to use these jigs and go out and catch them. Now I have a better idea of what to be trying. Ido not have a very sophisticated fish finder, but should help. I like the idea of what attracts bait fish (I have a wild story about watching bait fish being ambushed by a three pound trout where the average trout was about 1.5 pounds and using a marshmallow for a bobber because I did not have a small enough bobber for the application, but that is another story). OK, so now I have a 6.5 foot 10 to 20 rated rod. I can use my steelhead bobber reel with 15 lb braid on it. Good so far. I was planning on using a standard 8.5 foot steelhead rod (Ugly Stick) but will take it along and keep it in reserve. still trying to decide what lure to use here in WA state. Not too much info on lake trout here except in Lake Chelan. We have one lake only 30 minutes from me that is said by our DFW to have lake trout in it, but it is shore access only. No really deep water next to shore. everything else is more than 100 miles away and I am having difficulty driving that long. I will figure this out but am thinking I will be trying some of the Gulp or Power bait products. So, just from your response, I changed the TD to a TU and...... oh, gosh, I subscribed. Sorry it took me slightly more than 2 hours to subscribe. Guess it worked out well in the end. Oh, and you might like it, I use a Fish Cat Panther as my boat. Not too fast with the 36 lb thrust electric on it, but it hits 4.5 mph (using GPS tracking) and I have been caught in a sudden storm with waves breaking over the boat and made it to shore safely. But your boat is nice, too....😁