Just returned from our annual lake trout and grayling trip... Fished for lake trout at the outlet of a fair-sized lake with a red salmon run. Right now the smolts are making mad dashes for the ocean and being pinched by the rivers taking them there. Terns watch from above and lakers hide behind every rock. Loons, grebes and otters were seen doing their share of damage as well.

Using large streamers with a polar bear hair wing, a bit of flash, including dark blue over a wrapped pearlescent braid body worked extremely well. So well there was little fly swapping done as the lakers made themselves obvious and seldom turned down a reasonable presentation.

I will post a photo when I get them downloaded... Lake trout ran 18" or so on the low end and about 8 pounds for the heavier fish. Grayling ran to nearly 20" and we caught them in huge quantities in the 12-16" range, though tapes and counters were conspicuous in their absence...
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